- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450-1475]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 61
- Image Count:
- 189
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- 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:
- Binding: contemporary limp vellum. and From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
- Subject (Topic):
- 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., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Science--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Medical and alchemical miscellany.
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