IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB625659473

A Greek Alchemical Epigram in Its Middle Byzantine Context (2020)

Roberts, Alexandre M. (Author)

Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Volume: 83
Issue: 1
Pages: 1-36

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

This article examines the dedicatory epigram of the earliest and most important witness to the Greek alchemical corpus, the tenth-century manuscript donated by Cardinal Bessarion to the Republic of Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana MS gr. 299, as a window onto the cultural coordinates of the manuscript's middle Byzantine readers. Scrutiny of the epigram's meter, language, literary conventions, and the handwriting of the scribe who copied it into the manuscript point to a tenth-century date not only for the manuscript but also for the epigram itself and make it possible to situate the epigram, and with it the alchemical manuscript that contains it, within the mainstream of middle Byzantine elite culture.

...More

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB625659473/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Alexandre M. Roberts; (2022)
Byzantine Engagement with Islamicate Alchemy (/isis/citation/CBB396204226/)

Article Telelis, Ioannis; (2005)
Historical-Climatological Information from the Time of the Byzantine Empire (4th--15th Centuries AD) (/isis/citation/CBB000931775/)

Article ALEXANDRE M. ROBERTS; (2019)
Framing a Middle Byzantine Alchemical Codex (/isis/citation/CBB541633192/)

Article Katsiampoura, Gianna; (2008)
Transmutation of Matter in Byzantium: The Case of Michael Psellos, the Alchemist (/isis/citation/CBB001032869/)

Article Richter, Tonio Sebastian; (2009)
What Kind of Alchemy is Attested by Tenth-Century Coptic Manuscripts? (/isis/citation/CBB000952878/)

Book Bydén, Börje; (2003)
Theodore Metochites' Stoicheiôsis astronomikè and the Study of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in Early Palaiologan Byzantium (/isis/citation/CBB000530196/)

Article Theisen, Wilfred; (1999)
John Dastin's Alchemical Vision (/isis/citation/CBB000110649/)

Book Maxwell-Stuart, P.G.; (2005)
The Occult in Mediaeval Europe, 500--1500: A Documentary History (/isis/citation/CBB000610238/)

Article Clark, John R.; (2006)
Anonymous on Alchemy, Aristotle, and Creation: An Unedited Thirteenth-Century Text (/isis/citation/CBB001020529/)

Article Kahn, Didier; (2011)
Alchemical Poetry in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: A Preliminary Survey and Synthesis. Part II---Synthesis (/isis/citation/CBB001034739/)

Book Calvet, Antoine; (2011)
Les oeuvres alchimiques attribuées à Arnaud de Villeneuve: Grand oeuvre, médecine et prophétie au Moyen-Âge (/isis/citation/CBB001210552/)

Article Masayo Watanabe; (2020)
Ǧābir b. Ḥayyān as a Touchstone of Arabic Sciences in the 8th Century (/isis/citation/CBB182155835/)

Book Timmermann, Anke; (2013)
Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies) (/isis/citation/CBB001213988/)

Article Han, Jishao; (2007)
A New Inquiry into the Taoist Text Thirty-six Methods for Bringing Solids into Aqueous Solution (/isis/citation/CBB000933496/)

Book Mavroudi, Maria V.; (2002)
A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation: The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and Its Arabic Sources (/isis/citation/CBB000201891/)

Chapter Matteo Martelli; (2016)
Greco-Egyptian and Byzantine Alchemy (/isis/citation/CBB071555892/)

Thesis Ghionea, Angela Catalina; (2013)
Recurring Thought Patterns and Resurfacing Alchemical Symbols in European, Hellenistic, Arabic, and Byzantine Alchemy from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (/isis/citation/CBB001567522/)

Book Matteo Martelli; (2019)
L’alchimista antico. Dall’Egitto greco-romano a Bisanzio (/isis/citation/CBB920592519/)

Book Clark, Patricia Ann; (2011)
A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition: Text, Translation, and Commentary (/isis/citation/CBB001250493/)

Book Beretta, Marco; (2009)
The Alchemy of Glass: Counterfeit, Imitation and Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking (/isis/citation/CBB000952756/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}