Verse and Transmutation (History of Science and Medicine Library) by Anke Timmermann
English | Nov. 1, 2013 | ISBN: 9004254846 | 390 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.