ISBN:
9789004254848
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 374 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
History of science and medicine library 42
Series Statement:
Medieval and early modern science 21
Series Statement:
History of science and medicine library
Series Statement:
History of science and medicine library / Medieval and early modern science
Parallel Title:
Print version Verse and Transmutation
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Timmermann, Anke Verse and transmutation
DDC:
540.1/12
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Anthologie
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Electronic books
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Anthologie
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Hochschulschrift
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Mittelenglisch
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Lyrik
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Alchemie
Abstract:
Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers' stone through critical editions and studies on their histories in early modern manuscripts, literature and libraries
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables, Diagrams and Figures; Tables; Diagrams; Figures; Abbreviations; Naming Conventions; Introduction; 1. Defining a Corpus:penalty -M The Scope of Historical Materials Considered; 2. Writing History Through the Lives of Texts: An Alternative Approach; 3. Reading this Book: A Brief Guide; CRITICAL STUDIES; Chapter One. Introduction to a Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry; 1. Alchemical Poetry in Late Medieval England; 2. The Corpus Around the ""Verses upon the Elixir""; 2.1. The ""Verses upon the Elixir""
Description / Table of Contents:
2.2. Texts Associated with the ""Verses upon the Elixir""Chapter Two. The Corpus around the ""Verses upon the Elixir"": Origins, Patterns and Peculiarities; 1. The Corpus Around the ""Verses upon the Elixir"" in Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts; 2. Textual Variation and Corpus Connections; 2.1. Structural Adaptation; 2.2. Text Variation in Poetry; 2.3. Interphraseology; 3. Interpreting Scribal Variations; 4. Coda: Copyists and Collectors in the Corpus Around the ""Verses upon the Elixir""; Chapter Three. Authorship, Authority and Alchemical Verse; 1. Medieval Authorship and {Alchemica}
Description / Table of Contents:
2. Attributing the ""Verses upon the Elixir""3. Translations: Language, Genre and Authority; 3.1. ""Richard Carpenter's Work"": ""Alumen de Hispania"" in English Verse; 3.2. ""Terra Terrae Philosophicae"": The ""Verses upon the Elixir"" in Neo-Latin Prose; Chapter Four. The Ripley Scrolls: Alchemical Poetry, Images and Authority; 1. Poems and Pretty Pictures: Introduction to the Ripley Scrolls; 2. Illuminated Scrolls vs. Plain Codices: The Copyist's Dilemma; 3. Named Authorities, the Ripley Scrolls and the Corpus Around the ""Verses upon the Elixir""
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Five. Alchemical Poetry and Academia: Manuscripts as Chronicles of Scholarly Enquiry1. Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.56 and the Libraries of Sixteenth-Century Cambridge; 2. The Margins of Knowledge: Books and Commonplacing in Tudor England; 3. Alchemy Annotated; 3.1. Conversations in the Margins: Marginalia in Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.56; 3.2. Reading Annotations as Historical Records; Chapter Six. Alchemical Verse and the Organisation of Knowledge; 1. The Sloane Notebooks: Medicine and the Corpus Around the ""Verses upon the Elixir""
Description / Table of Contents:
1.1. Introduction to the Notebook Series1.2. The Compiler; 2. Notebooks as Virtual Libraries; 2.1. Medica; 2.2. Alchemica; 2.3. Contemporary Libraries as a Source of Notebook Knowledge; 2.4. Libraries and Laboratory Knowledge; 3. The Organisation of Thought in the Notebook Series; 3.1. The Order of Medicine; 3.2. The Arrangement of Alchemical Information; Concluding Thoughts; EDITIONS; Preface to the Editions; 1. Abbreviations Used in the Critical Apparatus; 2. Notes on the Stemmata; Poems; 1. ""Verses upon the Elixir""; NIMEV 3249; 1.1. ""Verses upon the Elixir"": Version A
Description / Table of Contents:
1.2. ""Verses upon the Elixir"": Version B
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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English
URL:
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http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
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