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    The Book Of Quinte Essence Or The Fifth Being (1889) Edited from British Museum MS. Sloane 73 about 1460-70 A.D.
    The Book Of Quinte Essence Or The Fifth Being (1889) Edited from British Museum MS. Sloane 73 about 1460-70 A.D.
    The Book Of Quinte Essence Or The Fifth Being (1889) Edited from British Museum MS. Sloane 73 about 1460-70 A.D.
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    The Book Of Quinte Essence Or The Fifth Being (1889) Edited from British Museum MS. Sloane 73 about 1460-70 A.D.

    By Trismegistus Hermes and Frederick James Furnivall

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    The Book Of Quinte Essence Or The Fifth Being (1889) Edited from British Museum MS. Sloane 73 about 1460-70 A.D.

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      The Book Of Quinte Essence Or The Fifth Being (1889) Edited from British Museum MS. Sloane 73 about 1460-70 A.D. - Trismegistus Hermes

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      Title: The Book Of Quinte Essence Or The Fifth Being (1889)

      Edited from British Museum MS. Sloane 73 about 1460-70 A.D.

      Author: Unknown

      Editor: Frederick James Furnivall

      Release Date: November 29, 2005 [EBook #17179]

      Language: English

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      The

      Book of Quinte Essence

      or

      The Fifth Being;

      That is to say,

      Man’s Heaven.

      A tretice in englisch breuely drawe out of þe book of quintis

      ee

      ssencijs in latyn, þat hermys þe prophete and

      kyng of Egipt, after þe flood of Noe

      fadir of philosophris, hadde by

      reuelacioun of an aungil

      of god to him

      sende.

      Edited from

      British Museum MS. Sloane 73

      about 1460-70 A.D.

      by

      FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL

      Published for

      THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY

      by the

      OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

      LONDON · NEW YORK · TORONTO

      Original Series, No. 16

      REPRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY RICHARD CLAY

      (THE CHAUCER PRESS) LTD., BUNGAY, SUFFOLK

      The odd account of the origin of this Treatise—in its first lines—caught my eye as I was turning over the leaves of the Sloane Manuscript which contains it. I resolved to print it as a specimen of the curious fancies our forefathers believed in (as I suppose) in Natural Science, to go alongside of the equally curious notions they put faith in in matters religious. And this I determined on with no idea of scoffing, or pride in modern wisdom; for I believe that as great fallacies now prevail in both the great branches of knowledge and feeling mentioned, as ever were held by man. Because once held by other men, and specially by older Englishmen, these fancies and notions have, or should have, an interest for all of us; and in this belief, one of them is presented here.

      The loss of my sweet, bright, only child, Eena, and other distress, have prevented my getting up any cram on the subject of Quintessence to form a regular Preface. The (translated?) original of the text is attributed to Hermes—Trismegistus, or the thrice great Interpreter, so called as having three parts of the Philosophy of the whole world ¹ —to whom were credited more works than he wrote. The tract appears to be a great fuss about Alcohol or Spirits of Wine; how to make it, and get more or less tipsy on it, and what wonders it will work, from making old men young, and dying men well, to killing lice.

      The reading of the proof with the MS. was done by Mr. Edmund Brock, the Society’s most careful and able helper. To Mr. Cockayne I am indebted for the identification of some names of plants, &c.; and to Mr. Gill of University College, London, for some Notes on the Chemistry of the treatise, made at the request of my friend Mr. Moreshwar Atmaram. ² The Sloane MS. I judge to be about, but after, a.d. ³ The later copy (Harleian MS. 853, fol. 66) seems late 16th century or early 17th,³ and has been only collated for a few passages which require elucidation. The pause marks of the MS. and text require to be disregarded occasionally in reading.

      Egham, 16th May, 1866.

      P.S. The short side-notes in inverted commas on and after p. 16 (save ‘5 Me’ and the like) are by a later hand in the MS. The ‘Spheres’ on p. 26, and the ‘Contents,’ p. vii-viii, are now added.—F. 1889.

      1. The Mirror of Alchimy, composed by the thrice-famous and learned Fryer, Roger Bachon, 1597.

      2. Mr. M.A. Tarkhad has been for many years Vice-Principal of the Rajkumar College, for the sons of the native Chiefs of Rajkote.—1889.

      3. Mr. E.A. Bond of the British Museum has kindly looked at the MSS., and puts the Sloane at 1460-70

      a.d.

      , and the Harleian at about 1600.

      CONTENTS.

      BOOK I.

      BOOK II.

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