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 |
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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 |
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.