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A Greek Alchemical Epigram in Its Middle Byzantine Context
- Author(s):
- Alexandre Roberts (see profile)
- Date:
- 2021
- Group(s):
- Alchemy, Byzantine Studies, Classical Tradition, Early Medieval, Late Antiquity
- Subject(s):
- Middle Ages, Science, History, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine literature
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Greek paleography, Marcianus graecus 299, 6th to 10th century, History of science, Byzantine history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/vp4n-e669
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. Date:
- May 2021
- Journal:
- Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
- Volume:
- 83 (vol. for 2020)
- Page Range:
- 1 - 36
- ISSN:
- 0075-4390
- Status:
- Scheduled
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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