Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum

Elias Ashmole

Translated by Elias Ashmole

88 chapters · about 9 h

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The opening

THE ORDINALL ALCHIMY.

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The words
Elias Ashmole's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 10 places
  • The library's binding and endpapers, read by the OCR as stray letters
  • A plate at the front of the volume, its engraving read by the OCR as stray letters
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • Printed ornaments and dividers, in 3 places
  • A speck or stray mark on the page read as its own line (20 blocks)
  • Running title over the first chapter ("Nortons OrdinaU.")
  • Marginal chapter mark beside the first line of the page (53 blocks)
  • Marginal chapter mark ("Chap. 2")
  • A marginal chapter mark read by the OCR as noise ("n t t t Ghaf* *")
  • A speck in the margin read as "Ml"
  • Marginal chapter mark ("Chap. 4,")
  • A speck on the page read as a letter (13 blocks)
  • Marginal chapter mark ("Chap.$,")
  • Marginal chapter mark ("Chap.y,")
  • A speck on the page read as "i"
  • Other material that isn't the author's, in 3 places
  • The drop capital C of "Calcination", read apart from its word and out of reading order
  • Closing line ("The end of the first Gate.")
  • The stanza number "1.", read out of reading order before the heading (2 blocks)
  • Closing line ("The end of the third Gate,")
  • The stanza number and drop capital read out of reading order ("-A", "1.", "&&t-")
  • Closing line ("The end of the Twelve Gates.")
  • Closing line ("FINIS.") (4 blocks)
  • Closing line (FINIS read as "1!&JS. JU:")
  • A speck in the margin read as a mark (32 blocks)
  • Specks at the line's end read as marks
  • A printed rule across the page read by the OCR as marks ("■ ■■■I !!■■ II I — ■ — — MM— ^— —")
  • The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
  • The library's shelf label (Countway Library of Medicine) and a blank end page