DIMEV 590
As Holy Scripture maketh mention
Verses attached to a figure of a sphere in George Ripley’s Compound of
Alchemy — six stanzas rhyme royal
Author(s): George Ripley
Title(s): Compound of Alchemy
Subjects: alchemical poems
Versification: —
seven-line —
seven-line
Manuscript Witnesses:
2.Source: Cambridge UK, Trinity College O.2.16 (1120), Part I, f. 127
v
First Lines:As holy script maketh mencion
In þe wombe of a virgin
immacvlat…
Last Lines:…& to god both nyght & day
ffor grace & for thy
auctor praye
Note: Written on, around, and below a figure of a sphere.
Attributed Title: thys ffygure conteynyth all our secrettes both gret & small (f.
127v)
4.Source: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library Db.II.18
Editions: Laing, David.
Select Remains of the Ancient Popular and Romance Poetry of
Scotland.
Edinburgh: 1822; rev.
J.
Small
, Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1885; rev.
W. C.
Hazlitt
, “Early Popular Poetry of Scotland” , London: Reeves and
Turner, 1895.
5.Source: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library La.III.164 [olim Laing 164], pp. 109-111
First Lines:As holy scrypture makythe mension
in to þe wombe off a wyrgyn
immaculate
Chryste dessendyd for owr redemcion
fro his hye trone to be
incarnate…
Last Lines:…to his fyrste glory renyuyd with youthe
assendythe to be
intronyȝate in þe sowthe
Note: Copied 1510; four stanzas only, interspersed with English prose and some
Latin verses not translated (those for sun, moon, venus, mercury).
Editions: Laing, David.
Select Remains of the Ancient Popular and Romance Poetry of
Scotland.
Edinburgh: 1822; rev.
J.
Small
, Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1885; rev.
W. C.
Hazlitt
, “Early Popular Poetry of Scotland” , London: Reeves and
Turner, 1895.