<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Medical and alchemical miscellany</dc:title><dc:date>[ca. 1450-1475]</dc:date><dc:language>lat</dc:language><dc:language>enm</dc:language><dc:language>frm</dc:language><dc:description>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</dc:description><dc:description>In Latin, Middle English, and Anglo-Norman French.</dc:description><dc:description>Binding: contemporary limp vellum.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>