Oxford. Bodleian Library, MS. Arab. d.221
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- Bodleian Library MS. Arab. d.221
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- Language
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- Arabic
- Title
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- Cyranides. Book 1
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- Hermès Trismégiste (auteur prétendu)
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- Author
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- Hermes Trismegistus
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- HERMES Trismegistus
- Hermès
- HERMÈS TRISMÉGISTE
- Hermès Trismégiste
- Hermes Trismegistus (auteur prétendu)
- Hermetis Trisinegisti
- Hermes
- Hermès Trismégiste (auteur prétendu)
- Ps-Hermès
- Trimegistus
- Mercurius Trismegistus
- Hermus medicus
- Trismegistus
- Hermes Trismegistus.
- Hermes, Trismegistus, ca. 2./4. Jh.
- Ps.-Hermes Trismegistus
- Ps.-Hermes
- Hermes Trismegistus > , co-autor
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- Description
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- The Cyranides is one of the works of the Hermetic corpus, the body
of writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistos. Hermes Trismegistos
was a Hellenistic incarnation of the ancient Egyptian Thoth, and
the god of all magic, alchemy and astrology. Arabic Hermetic
literature continues the Greek tradition; in Islam Hermes is the
inventor of all arts and sciences, and master of astronomy,
numbers, poisons, chemistry, medicine, &c. This manuscript
contains a translation or adaptation from the Greek of part of Book
1 of the Cyranides. The Cyranides is divided into 24 chapters, one
for each letter of the Greek alphabet. Under each letter are
represented a plant, a bird, a stone and a sea animal, all of whose
names begin with that letter. Their individual occult influences
combine to produce a new composite effect.
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- The Cyranides is one of the works of the Hermetic corpus, the body
of writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistos. Hermes Trismegistos
was a Hellenistic incarnation of the ancient Egyptian Thoth, and
the god of all magic, alchemy and astrology. Arabic Hermetic
literature continues the Greek tradition; in Islam Hermes is the
inventor of all arts and sciences, and master of astronomy,
numbers, poisons, chemistry, medicine, &c. This manuscript
contains a translation or adaptation from the Greek of part of Book
1 of the Cyranides. The Cyranides is divided into 24 chapters, one
for each letter of the Greek alphabet. Under each letter are
represented a plant, a bird, a stone and a sea animal, all of whose
names begin with that letter. Their individual occult influences
combine to produce a new composite effect.
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