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Art and Alchemy: The Mystery of Transformation
No full textRecensione monografia e catalogo su arte e alchimi
La Conoscenza del Fare. Ingegneria, arte e scienza nel De la Pirotechnia di Vannoccio Biringuccio
No full textRecensione di monografia su storia della tecnica tra Medioevo e Rinasciment
Judaism of southern Italy in the Mediterranean context. New contributions
No full textReport on the International AISG conference on Judaism in the Southern Italian context (Siracusa, 2005
Il Libro degli allumi e dei sali: status quaestionis e prospettive di studio
No full textThis article deals with a book of medieval arabic alchemy commonly known as
Liber de aluminibus et salibus (The Book of Alums and Salts). The article provides
the status quaestionis about this work, presents an analysis of the existing studies
about it (mostly those by Steele, Ruska and Patai) and gives an updated survey of
the problems related to the arabic, latin and hebrew manuscripts containing this
text. Attention is given to the debate about the book’s authorship, its sources and
the linguistic issues emerging from the different extant copies. Eventually, some
guidelines for possible future studies on this subject are drawn
Pseudo-Democrito. Scritti alchemici con il commentario di Sinesio
No full textRecensione di una monografia sugli scritti alchemici attribuiti allo Pseudo-Democrit
An Arabic dictionary of technical alchemical terms: MS Sprenger 1908 of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (fols. 3r-6r)
No full textThe Arabic MS Sprenger 1908 (Staatsbibliothek, Berlin) is a handbook of medieval alchemy. Among the works it preserves, we can find the only extant witness to the Arabic original of the well-known Liber de aluminibus et salibus. In this paper, I focus on a detailed alchemical dictionary preserved in this manuscript (fols. 3r-6r) whose explicit aim is to clarify the meaning of the secret language used by the alchemists to conceal the names of substances and operations. Other versions of the same alchemical lexicon are found in Syriac and karsuni in MSS Oriental 1593 and Egerton 709, both preserved in the British Library. After describing these manuscripts, I analyse the contents of this dictionary, its structure, its different versions, and the features of the alchemical language that it attests to, providing some examples to show how this kind of dictionary is still a useful tool for the contemporary researcher
Medicine in Medieval Egypt: Creating Online Access to the Medical Corpus of the Cairo Genizah
No full textCatalogue and online display of more than 2,000 Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic and Hebrew medical manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah Collection
Al-Kimiya. Notes on Arabic Alchemy
No full textThe article traces a general survey of the origins, the sources, the main theories and authors and the influence of alchemy in the Arabo-Islamic worl
Maimonides' Book on Poisons and the Protection Against Lethal Drugs
No full textThis chapter addresses the genesis, sources, structure, contents, and fortune of the toxicological Book on Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs (also referred to here as On Poisons) by the famous Jewish intellectual and physician Moses Maimonides (d. 1204). The discussion is placed in the context of Maimonides' medical contributions and the medical and toxicological knowledge of the Islamic world. The transmission of the work in its Arabic original, and Hebrew and Latin translations, is analyzed, and a survey of modern scholarship on this work is provided
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