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Verse and transmutation : a corpus of Middle English alchemical poetry (critical editions and studies)
- Title
- Verse and transmutation : a corpus of Middle English alchemical poetry (critical editions and studies) / by Anke Timmermann.
- Author
- Timmermann, Anke.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
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- Description
- xiv, 374 pages; 25 cm
- 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, "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.
- Series Statement
- History of Science and Medicine Library ; volume 42
- Uniform Title
- History of science and medicine library ; v. 42.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-369) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-3654
- ISBN
- 9789004254848
- 9004254846
- 9789004254831 (canceled/invalid)
- 9004254838 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013027820
- OCLC
- 854857954
- Author
- Timmermann, Anke.
- Title
- Verse and transmutation : a corpus of Middle English alchemical poetry (critical editions and studies) / by Anke Timmermann.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- History of Science and Medicine Library ; volume 42History of science and medicine library ; v. 42.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-369) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Timmermann, Anke. Verse and transmutation. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013 (OCoLC)889293064
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-3654