Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (critical Editions and Studies)

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Tables, Diagrams and Figures
	Tables
	Diagrams
	Figures
Abbreviations
Naming Conventions
Introduction
	1. Defining a Corpus:penalty -@M The Scope of Historical Materials Considered
	2. Writing History Through the Lives of Texts: An Alternative Approach
	3. Reading this Book: A Brief Guide
CRITICAL STUDIES
Chapter One. Introduction to a Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry
	1. Alchemical Poetry in Late Medieval England
	2. The Corpus Around the \"Verses upon the Elixir\"
		2.1. The \"Verses upon the Elixir\"
		2.2. Texts Associated with the \"Verses upon the Elixir\"
Chapter Two. The Corpus around the \"Verses upon the Elixir\": Origins, Patterns and Peculiarities
	1. The Corpus Around the \"Verses upon the Elixir\" in Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts
	2. Textual Variation and Corpus Connections
		2.1. Structural Adaptation
		2.2. Text Variation in Poetry
		2.3. Interphraseology
	3. Interpreting Scribal Variations
	4. Coda: Copyists and Collectors in the Corpus Around the \"Verses upon the Elixir\"
Chapter Three. Authorship, Authority and Alchemical Verse
	1. Medieval Authorship and {Alchemica}
	2. Attributing the \"Verses upon the Elixir\"
	3. Translations: Language, Genre and Authority
		3.1. \"Richard Carpenter\'s Work\": \"Alumen de Hispania\" in English Verse
		3.2. \"Terra Terrae Philosophicae\": The \"Verses upon the Elixir\" in Neo-Latin Prose
Chapter Four. The Ripley Scrolls: Alchemical Poetry, Images and Authority
	1. Poems and Pretty Pictures: Introduction to the Ripley Scrolls
	2. Illuminated Scrolls vs. Plain Codices: The Copyist\'s Dilemma
	3. Named Authorities, the Ripley Scrolls and the Corpus Around the \"Verses upon the Elixir\"
Chapter Five. Alchemical Poetry and Academia: Manuscripts as Chronicles of Scholarly Enquiry
	1. Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.56 and the Libraries of Sixteenth-Century Cambridge
	2. The Margins of Knowledge: Books and Commonplacing in Tudor England
	3. Alchemy Annotated
		3.1. Conversations in the Margins: Marginalia in Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.56
		3.2. Reading Annotations as Historical Records
Chapter Six. Alchemical Verse and the Organisation of Knowledge
	1. The Sloane Notebooks: Medicine and the Corpus Around the \"Verses upon the Elixir\"
		1.1. Introduction to the Notebook Series
		1.2. The Compiler
	2. Notebooks as Virtual Libraries
		2.1. Medica
		2.2. Alchemica
		2.3. Contemporary Libraries as a Source of Notebook Knowledge
		2.4. Libraries and Laboratory Knowledge
	3. The Organisation of Thought in the Notebook Series
		3.1. The Order of Medicine
		3.2. The Arrangement of Alchemical Information
Concluding Thoughts
EDITIONS
Preface to the Editions
	1. Abbreviations Used in the Critical Apparatus
	2. Notes on the Stemmata
Poems
	1. \"Verses upon the Elixir\"
		NIMEV 3249
		1.1. \"Verses upon the Elixir\": Version A
		1.2. \"Verses upon the Elixir\": Version B
	2. \"Boast of Mercury\"
		NIMEV 1276
		2.1. \"Boast of Mercury\": Version A
		2.2. \"Boast of Mercury\": Version B
	3. \"Mystery of Alchemists\"
		NIMEV 4017
		3.1. \"Mystery of Alchemists\"
	4. \"Liber Patris Sapientiae\"
		NIMEV 1150.3
		4.1. \"Liber Patris Sapientiae\"
	5. \"Exposition\"
		NIMEV 2666
		5.1. \"Exposition\"
	6. \"Wind and Water\"
		NIMEV 3257
		6.1. \"Wind and Water\": Version A
		6.2. \"Wind and Water\": Version B
	7. \"Richard Carpenter\'s Work\"
		NIMEV 2656; 3255.7 (\"Father Phoebus\"); 1558/1438 (\"God Angel\")
		7.1. \"Richard Carpenter\'s Work\": \"Spain\"
		7.2. \"Richard Carpenter\'s Work\": \"Titan Magnesia\"
		7.3. \"Richard Carpenter\'s Work\": \"God Angel\"
		7.4. \"Richard Carpenter\'s Work\": \"Sun\"
		7.5. \"Richard Carpenter\'s Work\": \"Father Phoebus\"
	8. \"Short Work\"
		NIMEV 3721
		8.1. \"Short Work\": Version A
		8.2. \"Short Work\": Version B
		8.3. \"Short Work\": Version C
	9. Texts from the Ripley Scroll
		NIMEV 2688.7 (\"On the ground\"); 1561.7 (\"In the sea\"); 1364.5 (\"I shall you tell\")
		9.1. \"On the ground\"
		9.2. \"In the sea\"
		9.3. \"I shall you tell\"
	10. \"Trinity\"
		NIMEV 1558.5
		10.1. \"Trinity\"
Prose Texts
	1. \"Alumen de Hispania\"
		Relation to the \"Verses upon the Elixir\"
		Date
		Author
		Title
		Edition
		Manuscripts Latin
		Manuscripts English
		Fragments
		Not Seen
		Printed Versions
		1.1. \"Alumen de Hispania\"
	2. \"Lead\"
		Relation to the \"Verses upon the Elixir\"
		Date
		Author
		Title
		Manuscripts
		2.1. \"Lead\"
	3. \"Thomas Hend\"
		Relation to the \"Verses upon the Elixir\"
		Date
		Author
		Title
		Edition
		Manuscripts
		3.1. \"Thomas Hend\"
	4. \"Terra Terrae Philosophicae\"
		Relation to the \"Verses upon the Elixir\"
		Date
		Author
		Title
		Edition
		Manuscripts Latin
		Manuscript English
		Manuscript French
		Not Seen (all Latin)
		Printed Versions
		4.1. \"Terra Terrae Philosophicae\"
Bibliography
	1. List of Manuscripts
	2. Handlist of Manuscript Witnesses
		Abbreviations
		Subscripts
		Amsterdam, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
		Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria
		Boston, MA, Massachusetts Historical Society
		Bristol, Clifton College
		Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
		Cambridge, King\'s College
		Cambridge, St John\'s College
		Cambridge, Trinity College
		Cambridge, University Library
		Chartres, Bibliotheque de la Ville
		Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek
		Dublin, Trinity College
		Edinburgh, Royal College of Physicians
		Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
		Glasgow, University Library
		Jerusalem, Jewish National and University Library
		Kassel, Landesbibliothek
		London, British Library
		London, Lambeth Palace, Sion College
		London, Lincoln\'s Inn
		London, Wellcome Institute
		Manchester, Rylands Library
		New Haven, CT, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
		Oxford, Bodleian Library
		Oxford, Corpus Christi College
		Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale
		Petworth, Petworth House
		Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania
		Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Library
		San Marino, CA, Huntington Library
		Santa Monica, CA, Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
		Vienna, –sterreichische Nationalbibliothek
	3. Secondary Literature
		3.1. Bibliographies, Catalogues and Dictionaries
		3.2. Primary Sources
		3.3. Works Cited & Literature
Index