The book of quinte essence or the fifth being
Subtitle: that is to say, man's heaven. A tretice in Englisch breuely drawe out of þ þook of quintis eessencijs in Latyn, þat Hermys þe prophete and kyng of Egipt, after þe flood of Noe fadir of philosophris, hadde by reuelacioun of an aungil of God to him sende.
By: Edited from British Museum MS. Sloane 73, about 1460-70 A.D., by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Contributors: Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910, ed.; Hermes, Trismegistus.; British Museum.
Series: Early English Text Society. Original series -- no. 16
Publisher: Published for the early English Text Society, by the Oxford University Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Work titles: The book of quinte essence.
Notes: Reprint of rev. ed. published 1889.

"The tract appears to be ... about alcohol or spirits of wine; how to make it ... and what wonders it will work."