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DescriptionSerpiente alquimica.jpg
Español: Simbolo alquímico
English: Ouroboros drawing from a late medieval Byzantine Greek alchemical manuscript.
Date
1478; uploaded 04/10/07
Source
Fol. 279 of Codex Parisinus graecus 2327, a copy (made by Theodoros Pelecanos (Pelekanos) of Corfu in Khandak, Iraklio, Crete in 1478) of a lost manuscript of an early medieval tract which was attributed to Synosius (Synesius) of Cyrene (d. 412).
The text of the tract is attributed to Stephanus of Alexandria (7th century).
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uroboro
Featuring an ouroboros, a snake or dragon biting its own tail, a digital representation of a copy of a 1478 drawing by Theodoros Pelecanos of an alchemical tract attributed to Synesius.
De Ouroboros in een Grieks manuscript uit 1478.
Ouroboros (Schlange der Ewigkeit), Zeichnung, Codex Parisinus graecus 2327, 1478
Ouroboros, dragon se mordant la queue, symbole d'éternité et de "l'Anima mundi". Enluminure d'un manuscrit alchimique grec byzantin tardif. Copié par Théodoros Pelecanos en 1478, traité de Synésios de Cyrène ou Etienne d'Alexandrie (Ve ou VIIe s.).