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Verse and transmutation : a corpus of Middle English alchemical poetry (critical editions and studies) /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2013.
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| Colección: | History of science and medicine library ;
v. 42. History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; v. 21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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-seventeenth century, when a number of them appeared in Elias Ashmole's 'Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum'. These editions are the first to make this previously unidentified corpus available to researchers. The accompanying studies discover the complex histories of these "alchemica", in plain and illuminated manuscripts, "asanonyma" and in attribution to famous authors, and in private and institutional, medical and academic book collections. Together, they offer novel insights into the role of alchemy and poetry in late medieval and early modern England. Also part of series Medieval and Early Modern Science |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 374 pages) : illustrations, 1 facsimile |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781299989047 1299989047 9789004254831 9004254838 |
| ISSN: | 1872-0684 ; |