Medical and alchemical miscellany

Description

Title: Medical and alchemical miscellany
Published / Created: [ca. 1450-1475]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: 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
Description: In Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French.
Binding: contemporary limp vellum.
Provenance: Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 83 leaves : 200 mm x 150 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin
English, Middle (1100-1500)
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval England 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Alchemy
English literature
English poetry
English prose literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Medicine
Science
Subjects: Alchemy > Early works to 1800
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500
English prose literature > Middle English, 1100-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Medicine > Early works to 1800
Science > Early works to 1800
England > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Medical and Alchemical Miscellany (Takamiya MS 61). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.