Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	line_n	page_n	read_v	9,933	5	9.6901	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60662	Medicina practica, or, Practical physick shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : to which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon and George Ripley : all translated out of the best Latin editions into English ... : together with a singular comment upon the first book of Hermes, the most ancient of philosophers : the whole compleated in three books / by William Salmon ...	Salmon, William, 1644-1713.; Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent.; Jābir ibn Ḥayyān.; Artephius. Liber secretus artis occultae. English.; Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418. Figures hierogliphiques. English.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Speculum alchemiae. English.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Radix mundi. English.; Ripley, George, d. 1490? Medulla alchimiae. English.	1692 (1692)	Wing S434; ESTC R183203	439,154	1,009

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certum_fw-la quid_fw-la de_fw-la lapide_fw-la philosophorum_fw-la agnoscerem_fw-la &_o quasi_fw-la totum_fw-la mundum_fw-la ambiens_fw-la deceptores_fw-la falsos_fw-la inveni_fw-la &_o non_fw-la philosophos_fw-la semper_fw-la tamen_fw-la student_n &_o multipliciter_fw-la dubitans_fw-la veritatem_fw-la inveni_fw-la ii_o sed_fw-la cum_fw-la materiam_fw-la agnoscerem_fw-la ducenties_fw-la erravi_fw-la antequam_fw-la veram_fw-la materiam_fw-la operationem_fw-la &_o practicam_fw-la invenissem_fw-la iii_o primò_fw-la materiae_fw-la operationes_fw-la &_o putrefactionis_fw-la novem_fw-la mensibus_fw-la coepi_fw-la &_o nihil_fw-la inveni_fw-la etiam_fw-la in_o balneo_fw-la mariae_fw-la per_fw-la tempus_fw-la aliquod_fw-la posui_fw-la &_o similiter_fw-la erravi_fw-la enimverò_fw-la in_o calcinationis_fw-la igne_fw-la tribus_fw-la mensibus_fw-la posui_fw-la &_o malè_fw-la operatus_fw-la sum_fw-la iv._o omnia_fw-la distillationum_fw-la &_o sublimationum_fw-la genera_fw-la prout_fw-la dicunt_fw-la 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