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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 : faithfully collected into one volume, with annotations thereon

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

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, internet-archive, library-of-congress, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical 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· via Library of Congress
    • Alchemy· via Open Library

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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 CornhillEnglishCatalog record

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

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

[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

1652London : Printed by J. Grismond for Nath: Brooke, at the angel in Cornhill; Printed by J. Grismond for Nath. Brooke; printed by J. Grismond for Nath. Brooke; Printed by J. Grismond for Nath: Brooke ..; Printed by J. Grismond for Nath: Brooke ...EnglishNo ebook

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  • Colenda collection: Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Contributing institution: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School
  • 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.
  • e-rara rights metadata: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/; PDM 1.0
  • e-rara source-system record identifier: 006708204
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; medicalheritagelibrary
  • 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
  • Scanner: scribe3.boston.archive.org
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