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The book of quinte essence or the fifth being

that is to say, man's heaven

Also known as The Book of Quinte Essence or the Fifth Being; That Is to Say, Man's Heaven

by Frederick James Furnivall, Trismegistus Hermes, Frederick James 1825-1910 Furnivall & Royal College of Surgeons of England

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  • 19th century
  • Languages: ANG, English, ENM
  • Content type: Primary source
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Notes on the chemistry of the text / by C.H. Gill (p. [26]-27) This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England The Royal College of Surgeons of England

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism, Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.

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  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the subject metadata.

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  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Mysticism”.

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that is to say, man's heaven

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1889London, Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.; Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.; Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.English—Public

The book of quinte essence or the fifth being, that is to say, man's heaven

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1866London : Published for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner; Published for the Early English Text Society, by N. TrübnerENM—Public

that is to say, man's heaven : a tretice in Englisch breuely drawe out of Þe book of quintis essencijs in Latyn, Þat Hermys Þe prophete and kyng of Egipt, after Þe flood of Noe fadir of philosophris, hadde by reuelacioun of an aungil of God to him sende

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1866London, Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.; Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.ANG, ENM—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Boston College Libraries
  • Contributing institution: PIMS - University of Toronto
  • Contributing institution: Royal College of Surgeons of England
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries
  • Digitization sponsor: Jisc and Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: University of Toronto
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: toronto
  • Open Library reports 4 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe20.toronto.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe7.boston.archive.org
  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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