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Moureau, Sébastien, "«Azoc id est mercurius»: les glossaires manuscrits alchimiques", dins: Paravicini Bagliani, Agostino - Pirovano, Luigi - Santos-Paz, José C. (eds.), Marginal Intelligences: Glossae as Places of Creativity and Differences (4th-16th c.), Florència, SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo (Micrologus, 34), 2026, pp. 235-276.

Resum

Among the instruments available to medieval scholars for engaging with alchemical treatises, the glossary remains a relatively overlooked tool. Nevertheless, numerous alchemical manuscripts are supplemented with such apparatuses. This article presents the first comprehensive study devoted to manuscript alchemical glossaries. Based on a corpus of 76 glossaries identified in 52 manuscripts - primarily dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries - this research presents a synthesis of the features of these tools, accompanied by reflections on their authorship, intended purposes, functions, and methods of compilation. An analytical inventory of the listed alchemical glossaries is appended to the article.

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