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Theatrum chemicum Britannicum

containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language

Also known as Theatrum chemicum britannicum : containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language. Faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon; Theatrvm chemicvm britannicvm

by Elias Ashmole, Isaac Newton & Henry Carrington Bolton

  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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A collection of works by various writers, compiled by Ashmole. Partly in verse. Title page in red and black. The frontispiece is engraved and signed "T. Cross sculp:"; most of the illustrations are signed: Ro: Vaughan. sculp:. The last four leaves contain a table of contents and glossary. LC copy imperfect: lacking frontispiece. LC copy has bookplate of Henry Carrington Bolton. No more published. Title vignette. Contains the Ordinall of alchemie by Thomas Norton, the Compound of alchemie by George Ripley, the Chanon's yeoman's tale by Chaucer, Sir Edward kelley's Worke, Doctor John Dee's Testament, Secreta secretorum by John Lydgate, and other works. LAC scc 2018-08-21 LC Review of LAC Completed/Not Approved 2018-08-23 LAC scc 2018-09-04 LAC Review Completed 2018-09-04

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

  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda, e-rara, harvard, library-of-congress, and openlibrary matched “Alchemy”, “alchemy”, and “Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the subject metadata and “Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)” in the subject metadata.

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    • “Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)”· via e-rara — Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)
    • “alchemy”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • “alchemy”· via Library of Congress
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    • “Alchemy”· in subject

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containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language

Harvard LibraryCloud bibliographic record

1 online resource ([16], 486, [10] pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (1)) : illustrations, portrait

MDCLII [1652]Printed by J. Grismond for Nath. Brooke, at the Angel in CornhillEnglish—Catalog record

containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language

e-rara digitized rare-book edition

[6] Bl., 486 S., [4] Bl. : Ill. ; 19 cm; faithfully collected into on volume, with annotations thereon by Elias Ashmole ...; Nur dieser Teil erschienen; Nur online vorhanden

1652Printed by J. Grismond for Nath. Brooke; printed by J. Grismond for Nath. Brooke; Printed by J. Grismond for Nath: Brooke ..English—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Colenda collection: Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
  • e-rara rights metadata: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/; PDM 1.0
  • e-rara source-system record identifier: 006708204
  • Open Library reports 4 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9923748263503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, E.F. Smith Collection, QD25 .A78 1652
  • Provenance: Huggins, Carol, Rev. (bookplate); Musgrave, James, d. 1778 (bookplate); Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 (former owner)
  • Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0
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