Fragments of Alchemy from a Cairene Synagogue: Context, Codicology, and Contents of the Alchemical Corpus of the Cairo Genizah.

IF 0.3 3区哲学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Ambix Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI:10.1080/00026980.2024.2343517

Gabriele Ferrario

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Abstract

This article presents the results of a survey and a first assessment of the corpus of alchemical manuscripts retrieved from the Cairo Genizah, a storage room mainly intended for sacred writings that is attached to the Ben Ezra synagogue of Old Cairo. The alchemical manuscripts are described in their codicological and palaeographic features; their content is analysed in the context of the medieval production of alchemical texts in the surrounding Islamic world. The alchemical corpus of the Genizah represents a unique and widely unstudied source for our understanding of the relationship between Jews and alchemy in the medieval Mediterranean World.

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来自开罗犹太教堂的炼金术片段：开罗 Genizah 炼金术语料库的背景、编纂学和内容。

本文介绍了对从开罗 Genizah（一个主要用于存放圣书的储藏室，附属于老开罗的 Ben Ezra 犹太教堂）取回的炼金术手稿进行调查和首次评估的结果。对炼金术手稿的编纂学和古文字学特征进行了描述，并结合周边伊斯兰世界中世纪炼金术文本的制作背景对其内容进行了分析。Genizah 的炼金术手稿是我们了解中世纪地中海世界犹太人与炼金术之间关系的一个独特且广泛未研究的资料来源。

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Ambix HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE-

CiteScore

0.80

自引率

60.00%

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审稿时长

3 months

期刊介绍： Ambix is an internationally recognised, peer-reviewed quarterly journal devoted to publishing high-quality, original research and book reviews in the intellectual, social and cultural history of alchemy and chemistry. It publishes studies, discussions, and primary sources relevant to the historical experience of all areas related to alchemy and chemistry covering all periods (ancient to modern) and geographical regions. Ambix publishes individual papers, focused thematic sections and larger special issues (either single or double and usually guest-edited). Topics covered by Ambix include, but are not limited to, interactions between alchemy and chemistry and other disciplines; chemical medicine and pharmacy; molecular sciences; practices allied to material, instrumental, institutional and visual cultures; environmental chemistry; the chemical industry; the appearance of alchemy and chemistry within popular culture; biographical and historiographical studies; and the study of issues related to gender, race, and colonial experience within the context of chemistry.