Ripley reviv'd: or, an exposition upon Sir George Ripley's hermetico-poetical works. Containing the plainest and most excellent discoveries of the most hidden secrets of the ancient philosophers, that were ever yet published / Written by Eirenaeus Philalethes.

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London : Printed by T. Ratcliff and N. Thompson, for W. Cooper, 1678.

Physical description

539 unnumbered pages : add. engr. title page ; (8vo)

Notes

Various pagings
Each treatise has special t.p
Edited by W. Cooper
Copy 1 Note: Blank leaf at end of sig. Cc wanting. The first tract 'An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's Epistle' was printed in 'Chymical, medicinal, and chyrurgical addresses', 1655 (q.v.) and seems definitely to have been written by Starkey (see Wilkinson (1973), p. 235-244)

Contents

An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's epistle to King Edward IV. 1677.--An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's preface. 1677.--An exposition upon the first six gates of Sir George Ripley's compound of alchemie. 1677.--Experiments for the preparation of the sophick mercury.--A breviary of alchemy; or, A commentary upon Sir George Ripley's recapitulation. 1678.--An exposition upon Sir George Ripley's vision.--Porta prima. De calcinatione philosophica [a chapter from Fona chymeæ philosophiæ, omitted in the Birrius ed.] (2 p. at end)

References note

Wing S5286 (includes S5271 and S5274-76)
Ferguson ii.193 (q.v. for contents)
ESTC R825
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S5286

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