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Title: The Book Of Quinte Essence Or The Fifth Being (1889)
Edited from British Museum MS. Sloane 73 about 1460-70 A.D.

Author: Unknown

Editor: Frederick James Furnivall

Release Date: November 29, 2005 [EBook #17179]

Language: English

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The
Book of Quinte Essence

or
The Fifth Being;

That is to say,
Man's Heaven.

A tretice in englisch breuely drawe out of [th]e book of quintis
e{ess}encijs in latyn, [t