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Biblissima authority file: https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q149762
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Data Source: Jonas
Data Source: Wellcome Collection - Online Collections
Anonymous, Ymage de vie, plus miscellaneous alchemical receipts
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1. ff. 1r-60r Anonymous Ymage de vie
f. 1r Cy commence le liure appelle ymage de vie trait des secrez des philosophes sur la fleur dalkemie. Cest assauoir sur le elixir de la grantmedecine des philosophes ... f. 60r Et aussi tu trouueras toute la commixtion vraye par la table en la figure que dessus est escripte. deo gratias.
This alchemical text is medical in nature, and its purpose is to assist in producing the elixir for long life. See Geneviève Dumas, 'Ymage de vie: un vade mecum pour realiser la 'perfection des imparfaiz' (in forthcoming vol. ed. Nicholas Weill-Parot and Catherine Verna)
ff. 60v-62r blank.
2. ff. 62v-65v Figures of alchemical apparatus.
3. ff. 66r-72v 'Du premier levain', and other receipts and processes, by a different hand.
f. 68r Cy commence la preparation ... f. 72v ... finis laus Deo.
f. 73r-v blank.
ff. 74r-77v Similar receipts, etc., in Latin by another hand. A transcript [19th cent.] of the beginning of the first work (12 ll.) is inserted.
Dumas, Geneviève. 'Ymage de vie: un vade mecum pour realiser la 'perfection des imparfaiz' (in forthcoming vol. ed. Nicholas Weill-Parot and Catherine Verna)
Pereira, Michela. The Alchemical Corpus attributed to Ramon Lull (London: The Warburg Institute, 1989), p. 89.
Pereira, Michela. 'Alchemy and the Use of Vernacular Languages in the Late Middle Ages', Speculum 74 (1999), p. 343 n. 37.
Singer, D. W. Catalogue of Latin and Vernacular Manuscripts in Great Britain and Ireland Dating before the Sixteenth Century (Brussels: Maurice Lamertin, 1928-1931), no. 276.
Taavitsainen, Irma. 'Science', A Companion to Chaucer ed. Peter Brown (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), p. 392.
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