Patris Sapientiae, an alchemical poem — in quatrains
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Note: For a similar but shorter poem cf.
2121.
Title(s): Patris Sapientiae
Subjects: alchemy
Versification: —
four-line —
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Bibliographic Ghosts: New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library Osborn fa.16
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Ashmole 1445 (SC 7630), Part V, ff. 8
v-14
First Lines:Thou that this boke beginneth to reade
keepe well thy Counsell the
better to speede…
Last Lines:…And if thou than not fynde in this booke nether sone nor
mone
Then goe and seeke further as other fooles haue done
Note: 120 stanzas; at the end: ‘finis’.
Attributed Title: Pater sapientiae (f. 8v)
2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Ashmole 1490 (SC 7010), ff. 336-342
v
First Lines:He that in this bocke beginneth to read
Kepe well thine owne
Councelle, the bettar shalt thou spead…
Last Lines:…And if your dannot find bt this bock neither sonn nor mon
Then
goe farder and seke thee forth as other fooles have don
Note: 120 stanzas; at the end: ‘Explicit Liber patris sapientiae
/ 1599 Rescriptum per Simonem Forman’.
Attributed Title: Pater Sapientiae (f. 336)