3. f. 12
On preparing the Philosopher’s Stone, ascribed in Cambridge UK, Trinity College O.2.16 (1120)
to Richard Carpenter (cf.
Thorndike (1934)
XThorndike, Lynn.
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Science
4. New York: Columbia UP, 1934
, 4.351-3) — generally
forty-eight couplets, but numerous variants