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Autore |
Timmermann Anke |
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Titolo |
Verse and transmutation : a corpus of Middle English alchemical poetry (critical editions and studies) / / by Anke Timmermann |
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Brill, 2013 |
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Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (390 p.) |
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Collana |
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History of Science and Medicine Library, , 1872-0684 ; ; Volume 42 |
Medieval and Early Modern Science ; ; Volume 21 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Alchemy |
Manuscripts, English (Middle) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Introduction -- Introduction to a Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry -- The Corpus around the “Verses upon the Elixir”: Origins, Patterns and Peculiarities -- Authorship, Authority and Alchemical Verse -- The Ripley Scrolls: Alchemical Poetry, Images and Authority -- Alchemical Poetry and Academia: Manuscripts as Chronicles of Scholarly Enquiry -- Alchemical Verse and the Organisation of Knowledge -- Concluding Thoughts -- Preface to the Editions -- Poems -- Prose Texts -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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-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, as anonyma and in attribution to famous authors, and in private and institutional, medical and academic book collections. Together, they offer novel |
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