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Miscellany (Grammar/Dictamen, Alchemy, Medicine)

by ab Insulis Alanus, Bernard de Gordon, Richard de Bury, de Aragonia Guillelmus, de Rupescissa Johannes, Lemovicensis Johannes, John of Burgoyne, de Aquilegia Laurentius, Ramon Llull, Thomas Merke, medical writer Richard the Englishman & John Sawtry

  • First published:
  • 15th century
  • Language: Latin
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Miscellany (Grammar/Dictamen, Alchemy, Medicine) MS 172 was produced in England between approximately 1425 and 1450. This miscellany includes texts on grammar, alchemy, and medicine.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism.

  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from digital-bodleian matched “alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the title, “Alchemy” in the description, and “Alchemy” in the edition title.

    • “alchemy”· via Digital Bodleian — Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
    • “Alchemy”· in title
    • “Alchemy”· in description
    • “Alchemy”· in edition title

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Digital Bodleian completeness: complete; 664 digitized image(s); ff. iv + 324 + ii.; Shelfmark: St John's College MS 172

Between 1425 and 1450—Latin—Public reader

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  • Bodleian shelfmark: St John's College MS 172
  • Collection: Western Medieval Manuscripts
  • Holding institution: St John's College, University of Oxford
  • Place of origin: England
  • Record origin: Ralph Hanna, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of St John's College, Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
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