The book of quinte essence or the fifth being
Subtitle: that is to say, man's heaven
By: A tretice in Englisch breuely drawe out of ♭e book of quintis essencijs in Latyn, ♭at Hermys ♭e prophete and kyng of Egipt, after ♭e flood of Noe fadir of philosophris, hadde by reuelacioun of an aungil of God to him sende. Ed. from the Sloane ms. 73, about 1460-70 A. D., by Frederick J. Furnivall, M. A. <Revised, 1889.>
Contributors: Hermes, Trismegistus
Series: Early English Text Society. Original series, no.16
Publisher: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.
Published: 1889
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
Work titles: The book of quinte essence
Notes: "The tract appears to be ... about alcohol or spirits of wine; how to make it ... and what wonders it will work."--pref.

"Notes on the chemistry of the text, by C. H. Gill": p. 27-28.