The boke of secretes of Albertus Magnus of the vertues of herbes, stones, and certayne beasts : also, a boke of the same author, of the maruaylous thinges of the world, and of certaine effectes caused of certaine beastes.
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- The boke of secretes of Albertus Magnus of the vertues of herbes, stones, and certayne beasts : also, a boke of the same author, of the maruaylous thinges of the world, and of certaine effectes caused of certaine beastes.
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- [S.l. :: J. King],
- M. D. LX [1560]
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- Subject terms
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Early works to 1800.
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"The boke of secretes of Albertus Magnus of the vertues of herbes, stones, and certayne beasts : also, a boke of the same author, of the maruaylous thinges of the world, and of certaine effectes caused of certaine beastes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15531.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- ❧ To the reader.
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part
- ❧ The fyrste boke of the vertues of certayne Herbes.
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¶ Here beginneth the second boke of the vertues of certayne stones.
- ☞ If thou wilt knowe whyther thy wyfe is chaste, or no.
- ¶ If thou wilt prouoke sorowe, feare, terrible fantasyes, & debate.
- ¶ If thou wilt burne any mans handes without fyre.
- ¶ If thou wilt kyndle the mynd of any man too ioyes, and make hys wytte sharpe.
- ¶ If thou wilt that seething wa¦ter come furth anone, after thou hast put in thy hand.
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¶ If thou wilt pluck of y
e skynne of thyne, or an other mans hande. - ¶ If thou wilt make a fyre con∣tinually vnable to be quē∣shed or put out.
- ¶ If thou wilte ouercome thy enemyes.
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¶ If thou wilt eschew all peri
and all terrible thinges, & haue a stronge harte. - ¶ If thou desire to optayne any thing from any man.
- ¶ If thou wilt ouercome beastes and interprete, or expounde all dreames and prophe cye of thynges to come.
- ¶ If thou wilt haue good vnder standing of thynges that may be felte, and that thou maye not be made dronked.
- ¶ If thou wilt ouercom thy ene∣myes, and slee debate.
- ¶ If thou wilt foreiudge, or coniecture of thynges to come.
- ¶ If thou wilt pacifie tempestes and go ouer fluddes.
- ¶ If thou wilt kendle fyre.
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¶ If thou wilt that y
e Sunne ap¦peare of bloudy colour. - ¶ If thou wilt make sething wa¦ter too be colde, whiche standeth vpon the fyre.
- ¶ If thou wilt eschewe il∣lusions and fantasies & ouercome all causes or matters.
- ¶ If thou wilt be acceptable, and pleasaunte.
- ¶ If thou wilte be victorious a∣gaynst thy aduersaries.
- ¶ If thou wilt know before any thyng to come.
- ¶ If thou wilt haue fauour and honour.
- ¶ If thou wilt dryue away fan∣tasies and folishnes.
- ¶ If thou wilt iudge the opyni∣ons and thoughtes of others.
- ¶ If thou wilt haue victory and amitie.
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¶ If thou wilt that a man slea∣pyng tel to y
• what he hath done. - ¶ If thou woulde optayne anye thinge of any man.
- ¶ If thou woulde make, that ne∣ther dogges, nor hunters maye hurt any beast, which they hūte.
- ☞ If thou wilt burne any mās hande without fyre.
- ¶ If thou wilt cure melancoly, or a feuer quartaine, in any mā.
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¶ If thou wolde make any m
witte sharpe and quicke, and aug¦mente hys ryches, and also pro∣phecy thynges to come. - ¶ If thou wilt make a rayne bowe to appeare.
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¶ If y
• wilt make a stone, whych maye neuer be made hote. - ¶ If thou wilt knowe whether thy wyfe lyeth with anye other marryed man, or no.
- ¶ If thou wilte ouercome thy enemyes.
- ¶ If thou wilt ingēder loue be∣twene any two.
- ¶ If thou wilt make a mā sure.
- ¶ If thou wilt that straungers walke sure and safe.
- ¶ If thou wilt be saued from di∣uers chaūces and pestilēt bittes.
- ¶ If thou wilt make peace.
- ¶ If thou wilt cure a vyrgyn.
- ¶ Thou shalte fynde many other lyke thynges: in the boke of Mi∣nes, of Aaron and Euar.
- ❧ Explicit.
- ¶ The thyrde boke of Albertus Magnus, of the vertues of certayn beastes.
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¶ Here beginneth the boke of y
e meruayles of the world, set forth by Albertus Magnus.