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Pseudo-Democrito, Scritti alchemici: con il commentario di Sinesio , edizione critica del testo greco, trad. e commento di Matteo Martelli, pref. di Tiziano Dorandi (Textes et Travaux de Chrysopoeia, 12). Paris: SÉHA – Milano: Archè, 2011. 523 pp. ISBN 978-88-7252-319-3.

Pseudo-Democrito, Scritti alchemici: con il commentario di Sinesio , edizione critica del testo... According to ancient sources, Democritus wrote four books about tinctures. Of this enormous work, which in fact should be attributed to a pseudo-Democritus, only scraps remain, scattered among the alchemical Corpus handed down to us by the Byzantine tradition, in addition to a commentary by an alchemist named Synesius. Until now, these texts were only available through M. Berthelot and C.E. Ruelle’s Collection des Anciens Alchimistes Grecs (= CAAG , Paris, 3 vol., 1887–1888). Martelli’s new edition is thus most welcome. Martelli’s volume opens with a large three-chapter introduction (pp. 3–172). The first chapter deals with both Byzantine and Syriac manuscript traditions. Martelli first goes through the main Greek text witnesses: Marc. gr . 299 (= M ), Paris. gr . 2325 (= B ), Paris. gr . 2275 (= C ), Paris. gr . 2327 (= A ), Laur. gr . 86,16 (= L ) and Vatic. gr . 1174 (= V ). Martelli takes as a starting point the tradition of the texts that he has reedited, but he widens his scope by including some extraneous pieces that offer interesting variants (lists of alchemical symbols, lexicons, Stephanus’ ninth lesson); he also takes a very close look http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nuncius Brill

Pseudo-Democrito, Scritti alchemici: con il commentario di Sinesio , edizione critica del testo greco, trad. e commento di Matteo Martelli, pref. di Tiziano Dorandi (Textes et Travaux de Chrysopoeia, 12). Paris: SÉHA – Milano: Archè, 2011. 523 pp. ISBN 978-88-7252-319-3.

Mertens, Michèle
Nuncius , Volume 29 (1): 231 – Jan 1, 2014
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According to ancient sources, Democritus wrote four books about tinctures. Of this enormous work, which in fact should be attributed to a pseudo-Democritus, only scraps remain, scattered among the alchemical Corpus handed down to us by the Byzantine tradition, in addition to a commentary by an alchemist named Synesius. Until now, these texts were only available through M. Berthelot and C.E. Ruelle’s Collection des Anciens Alchimistes Grecs (= CAAG , Paris, 3 vol., 1887–1888). Martelli’s new edition is thus most welcome. Martelli’s volume opens with a large three-chapter introduction (pp. 3–172). The first chapter deals with both Byzantine and Syriac manuscript traditions. Martelli first goes through the main Greek text witnesses: Marc. gr . 299 (= M ), Paris. gr . 2325 (= B ), Paris. gr . 2275 (= C ), Paris. gr . 2327 (= A ), Laur. gr . 86,16 (= L ) and Vatic. gr . 1174 (= V ). Martelli takes as a starting point the tradition of the texts that he has reedited, but he widens his scope by including some extraneous pieces that offer interesting variants (lists of alchemical symbols, lexicons, Stephanus’ ninth lesson); he also takes a very close look

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