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

Name:

Ashmole, Elias, 1617-1692; Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1652

Language:

English

Provenance:

Huggins, Carol, Rev. (bookplate); Musgrave, James, d. 1778 (bookplate); Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 (former owner)

Publisher:

Printed by J. Grismond for Nath: Brooke ..

Subject:

Alchemy -- Early works to 1800; Alchemy

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 486 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations; 19 cm (4to)

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Signatures: A-3S⁴.; No more published.; Page numbers 281-288 are misnumbered 285-292.; T.p. in red and black.; Woodcuts: initials, head- and tail-pieces.; Table of contents: The ordinall of alchemie / Thomas Norton -- The compound of alchemie / George Ripley -- Pater sapientiae -- Hermes' bird -- Chanon's Yeoman's tale / Geoffry Chaucer -- Dastin's Dreame / Iohn Dastin -- Pearce (the Black Monke) upon the elixir -- Richard Carpenter's Worke -- Hunting the greene lyon / Abraham Andrewes -- Breviary of Naturall Philosophy / Tho. Charnock -- Aenigmaes / Thomas Charnock -- Bloomefields Blossomes / William Bloomefield -- Sir Edward Kelley's Worke -- Sir Edward Kelley to G.S. Gent. -- Doctor John Dee's Testament -- Thomas Robinson of the philosophers stone -- Experience and philosophy -- The magistery / W.B. -- Anonymi, or, Severall workes of unknowne authors -- John Gower upon the philosophers stone -- George Ripleys Vision -- Verses belonging to Ripley's Scrowle -- Mystery of Alchemists -- Preface to The Medulla / Geo. Ripley -- A short worke / George Ripley -- Secreta Secretorum / John Lydgate -- Hermit's tale -- Description of the stone -- The standing of the glasse, &c. -- Aenigma philosophicum / W. Redman -- Fragments.; Includes index.; Errata on 3R4 and verso of 3S4.; Sir Isaac Newton's copy containing his annotations and corrections in margins; with James Musgrave's "Philosophemur" bookplate. For a description of this copy cf. Harrison.; The 3S gathering has been misbound between leaves 3R3 and 3R4.; Imperfect: 1 leaf of plates wanting.; Numerous booksellers' descriptions laid in.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, E.F. Smith Collection, QD25 .A78 1652

Collection:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)