Ripley reviv'd, or, An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works : Containing the plainest and most excellent discoveries of the most hidden secrets of the ancient philosophers, that were ever yet published / written by Eireneus Philalethes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philalethes, Eirenaeus.

Contributor:

Cooper, William.

Starkey, George, 1627-1665.

Vaughan, Thomas, 1621-1666.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ripley, George, -1490?.

Ripley, George.

Alchemy--Early works to 1800.

Alchemy.

Physical Description:

18], 47 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 389 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 10 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 28 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 25 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by T. Ratcliff and N. Thompson, for W. Cooper, 1678.

Contents:

An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's epistle to King Edward IV. 1677

An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's preface. 1677

An exposition upon the first six gates of Sir George Ripley's compound of alchymie. 1677

Experiments for the preparation of the sophick mercury

A breviary of alchemy; or, A commentary upon Sir George Ripley's recapitulation. 1678.

An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's vision.

Porta prima. De calcinatione philosophical.

Notes:

Includes: "An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's epistle to King Edward IV", with separate title page dated 1677 and separate pagination; "An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's preface" and "An exposition upon the first six gates of Sir George Ripley's compound of alchymie" have separate title pages dated 1677 and continuous pagination; "An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's vision" has separate pagination and title page dated 1677; "Experiments for the preparation of the sophick mercury" has separate undated title page and separate pagination; "A breviary of alchemy; or a commentary upon Sir George Ripley's recapitulation" has a separate title page dated 1678 and separate pagination.

Edited by William Cooper.

With an additional engraved title page.

Attributed to George Starkey in Wing; however, Halkett & Laing and the DNB (in an entry under Starkey) assert that an unidentified author with the last name of Childe, and neither George Starkey nor Thomas Vaughan, wrote this work and others under the name of Eirenaeus Philalethes.

The final work in this volume, "Porta prima, De calcinatione philosophica ([2] p. at end)," is described by the editor on p. [538] as a chapter from the Fons chymeae philosophiae that had been omitted in the Latin ed. of three treatises by Eirenaeus Philalethes previously issued by the publisher Mart. Birrius.

Cited in:

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S5286.

ESTC R825

Duveen, D.I. Alchemica et chemica, p. 470-471.

Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.), V,126

OCLC:

5724983