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Verse and transmutation: a corpus of Middle English alchemical poetry' identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century. These were circulated and received in association with each other until the mid-sevente...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Timmermann, Anke (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Colección:History of science and medicine library ; v. 42.
History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; v. 21.
Temas:
Alchemy > Sources.
Manuscripts, English (Middle)
Alchimie > Sources.
Manuscrits anglais (moyen anglais)
History of science.
Mathematics and science.
Science: general issues.
SCIENCE > Chemistry > General.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
Alchemy
literature.
history.
medieval and early science.
Sources
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Introduction to a corpus of Middle English alchemical poetry
  • 2. The corpus around the 'verses upon the Elixir' : origins, patterns and peculiarities
  • 3. Authorship, authority and alchemical verse
  • 4. The Ripley Scrolls : alchemical poetry, images and authority
  • 5. Alchemical poetry and academia : manuscripts as chronicles of scholarly enquiry
  • 6. Alchemical verse and the organization of knowledge
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Editions: preface to the editions
  • Poems
  • Prose texts.
  • Introduction
  • 1. Defining a Corpus: The Scope of Historical Materials Considered
  • 2. Writing History Through the Lives of Texts: An Alternative Approach
  • 3. Reading this Book: A Brief Guide
  • Critical Studies
  • 1. Introduction to a Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry
  • 1. Alchemical Poetry in Late Medieval England
  • 2. The Corpus Around the "Verses upon the Elixir"
  • 2.1. The "Verses upon the Elixir"
  • 2.2. Texts Associated with the "Verses upon the Elixir"
  • 2.2.1. Physical Relations: "Boast of Mercury", "Mystery of Alchemists" and "Liber Patris Sapientiae"
  • 2.2.2. Close Bonds: "Exposition" and "Wind and Water"
  • 2.2.3. Intertextual Connections: "Richard Carpenter's Work"
  • 2.2.4. Peripheral Corporality: "Short Work" and "Trinity"
  • 2.2.5. Additional Poems from the Ripley Scrolls: "On the ground", "In the sea", "I shall you tell"
  • 2.2.6. Added Ingredients: "Lead", "Thomas Hend" and "Terra Terrae Philosophicae."
  • Contents note continued: 2. The Corpus around the "Verses upon the Elixir": Origins, Patterns and Peculiarities
  • 1. The Corpus Around the "Verses upon the Elixir" in Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts
  • 2. Textual Variation and Corpus Connections
  • 2.1. Structural Adaptation
  • 2.2. Text Variation in Poetry
  • 2.3. Interphraseology
  • 3. Interpreting Scribal Variations
  • 4. Coda: Copyists and Collectors in the Corpus Around the "Verses upon the Elixir"
  • 3. Authorship, Authority and Alchemical Verse
  • 1. Medieval Authorship and Alchemica
  • 2. Attributing the "Verses upom the Elixir"
  • 3. Translations: Language, Genre and Authority
  • 3.1."Richard Carpenter's Work": "Alumen de Hispania" in English Verse
  • 3.2."Terra Terrae Philosophicae": The "Verses upon the Elixir" in Neo-Latin Prose
  • 4. The Ripley Scrolls: Alchemical Poetry, Images and Authority
  • 1. Poems and Pretty Pictures: Introduction to the Ripley Scrolls
  • 2. Illuminated Scrolls vs. Plain Codices: The Copyist's Dilemma.
  • Contents note continued: 3. Named Authorities, the Ripley Scrolls and the Corpus Around the "Verses upon the Elixir"
  • 5. Alchemical Poetry and Academia: Manuscripts as Chronicles of Scholarly Enquiry
  • 1. Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.56 and the Libraries of Sixteenth-Century Cambridge
  • 2. The Margins of Knowledge: Books and Commonplacing in Tudor England
  • 3. Alchemy Annotated
  • 3.1. Conversations in the Margins: Marginalia in Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.56
  • 3.2. Reading Annotations as Historical Records
  • 6. Alchemical Verse and the Organisation of Knowledge
  • 1. The Sloane Notebooks: Medicine and the Corpus Around the "Verses upon the Elixir"
  • 1.1. Introduction to the Notebook Series
  • 1.2. The Compiler
  • 2. Notebooks as Virtual Libraries
  • 2.1. Medica
  • 2.2. Alchemica
  • 2.3. Contemporary Libraries as a Source of Notebook Knowledge
  • 2.4. Libraries and Laboratory Knowledge
  • 3. The Organisation of Thought in the Notebook Series
  • 3.1. The Order of Medicine.
  • Contents note continued: 3.2. The Arrangement of Alchemical Information
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • Editions
  • Preface to the Editions
  • 1. Abbreviations Used in the Critical Apparatus
  • 2. Notes on the Stemmata
  • Poems
  • 1."Verses upon the Elixir"
  • 2."Boast of Mercury"
  • 3.* "Mystery of Alchemists" (excerpts)1
  • 4."Liber Patris Sapientiae" (excerpts)
  • 5."Exposition"
  • 6."Wind and Water"
  • 7."Richard Carpenter's Work"
  • 7.1."Spain"
  • 7.2."Titan Magnesia"
  • 7.3."God Angel"
  • 7.4."Sun"
  • 7.5."Father Phoebus"
  • 8."Short Work"
  • 9. Texts from the Ripley Scrolls
  • * "On the ground"
  • * "In the sea"
  • * "I shall you tell"
  • 10."Trinity"
  • 1 Texts marked with an asterisk (*) are reproduced in diplomatic edition
  • Prose Texts
  • 1.* "Alumen de Hispania"
  • 2."Lead"
  • 3."Thomas Hend"
  • 4.* "Terra Terrae Philosophicae"
  • Bibliography
  • 1. List of Manuscripts
  • 2. Handlist of Manuscript Witnesses
  • 3. Secondary Literature.

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