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Verse and transmutation : a corpus of Middle English alchemical poetry (critical editions and studies) / by Anke Timmermann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Timmermann, Anke.
- Series:
- History of science and medicine library ; v. 42.
- History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; v. 21.
- History of Science and Medicine Library, 1872-0684 ; Volume 42
- Medieval and Early Modern Science ; Volume 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alchemy--Sources.
- Alchemy.
- Manuscripts, English (Middle).
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (390 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Brill 2013
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 insights into the role of alchemy and poetry in late medieval and early modern England.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789004254831
- 9004254838
- OCLC:
- 861199935
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004254831 DOI
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