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Title The book of quinte essence or the fifth being : that is to say man's heaven, a tretice in Englisch brevely drawe out of the book of quintis eessencijs in Latyn, that Hermys the prophete and kyng of Egipt, after the flood of Noe fadir of philosophris, hadde by revelacioun of an aungil of God to him sende / edited from British Museum MS. Sloane 73, about 1460-70 A.D. by Frederick J. Furnivall.

Publication Info. London ; Toronto : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1965.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PR1119 .A2 no.16 1965    Available  ---
Description viii, 31 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Original series - Early English Text Society ; no.16
Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; 16.
Note "The tract appears to be ... about alcohol or spirits of wine ; how to make it ... and what wonders it will work."
Reprint of rev. ed. published in 1889.
Subject Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Fiction.
Added Author Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910.
Hermes, Trismegistus.
British Library. Manuscript. Sloane 73, fol. 10.
Added Title Book of quinte essence. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90657518