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Medical and alchemical miscellany
Title
Medical and alchemical miscellany.
Created
[England], [ca. 1450-1475]
Physical Description
83 l. : paper ; 200 x 150 mm
Language
Latin; English, Middle (1100-1500); French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
Notes
Binding: contemporary limp vellum.
In Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French.
Provenance
Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript, on paper, in several cursive hands, containing a variety of alchemical, medical, and other "scientific" texts in Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French. Contents include two Middle English poems, one on the four temperments, and the other the alchemical Secrets of the philosophers, attributed to George Ripley. Other contents include a dialogue between Dives and Lazarus; a copy of the Computus manualis; verious medical and alchemical recipes and formulae; and a treatise on snakeskin.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 23, 2013
References
A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Medical and Alchemical Miscellany (Takamiya MS 61). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Medical and Alchemical Miscellany (Takamiya MS 61). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - 15th century.
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