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Recipes Ascribed to the Scribe and Prophet Ezra in the Byzantine and Syriac Tradition
No full textStudy of the medical and alchemical material ascribed to the prophet Ezra in the Byzantine and Syriac traditions
Introduction
No full textIntroduction to the main phases of Byzantine pharmacology and its relationship with the Talmudic sources
The Alchemical Art of Dyeing: The Fourfold Division of Alchemy and the Enochian Tradition
No full textWhat is Graeco-Egyptian alchemy? Which kinds of techniques and craft practices does it encompass? And what were its goals? The paper addresses these questions by investigating the earliest Greek alchemical texts preserved both in Byzantine and in Syriac manuscripts. Already during the first centuries AD, in the Graeco-Roman Egypt it is possible to recognize some disagreement over the definition of alchemy and its expected outcomes. On the one hand, ps.-Democritus’s four books and the Leiden and Stockholm papyri support a fourfold division of alchemy including processes for making gold, silver, and precious stones (glass working included), and for dyeing wool purple. On the other hand, Isis’s treatise focuses only on the making of precious metals, which is identified with the main goal of alchemy during the late Byzantine tradition. In the process that led to such a simplification of the technical background of alchemy Zosimus’s work seems to represent an important turning point. In fact the author inherited the above mentioned polarity and discussed different ideas of alchemy in a key text (here edited and translated into English for the first time) on the revelation of alchemy based on the Enochian myth of the fallen angels
Hathor’s Alchemy: The Ancient Roots of the Hermetic Art
Full text linkRecensione al volume di Alison M. Roberts, Hathor’s Alchemy: The Ancient Roots of the Hermetic Art (2019
Salvatore Ritrovato, Donatella Marchi (a cura di), Pianeta Volponi. Saggi, interventi, testimonianze, Pesaro, Metauro edizioni, 2007
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Gian Paolo Giudicetti e Costantino Maeder (a cura di), La poesia della Svizzera italiana, L’ora d’oro, Poschiavo, 2014.
No full textGaleno grammatico sui nomi stranieri e il digamma: un passo inedito dal IX libro del trattato Sui medicamenti semplici
No full textA recently new discovered passage from Galen’s On Simple Drugs, book ix, is here for the first time edited and commented. The passage, handed down in the ms. Urb. Gr. 67, discusses the different names of the Armenian earth and preserves some interesting remarks on the use of ancient digamma. In addition, a close analysis of both the indirect and the Oriental tradition confirms the attribution of the passage to Gale
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