Alfonso-Goldfarb Ana Maria, Jubran Safa Abou Chahla
Pontifícia Universidade Católica, São Paulo, Brazil.
Ambix. 2008 Jul;55(2):99-121. doi: 10.1179/174582308X255426.
The Jabirian Corpus refers to the K. Thahirat Al-'Iskandar, "The Book of the Treasure of Alexander" (hereafter BTA), as one of several forgeries suggesting that alchemical secrets were hidden in inscriptions in various places. The book was neglected until 1926, when Julius Ruska discussed it in his work on the Emerald Tablet, placing the BTA within the literature related to the development of Arabic alchemy. His preliminary study became an essential reference and encouraged many scholars to work on the BTA in the following decades. Some years ago, we completed the first translation of the BTA into a Western language. The work was based on the acephalous Escorial manuscript, which we identified as a fourteenth-century copy of the BTA. This manuscript is peculiar, as part of it is encoded. After finishing our translation, we started to establish the text of the BTA. At present, the text is in process of fixation--to be followed by textual criticism--and has been the main focus of a thorough study of ours on medieval hermeticism and alchemy. A sample of the work currently in progress is presented in this paper: an analysis of the variations between different manuscripts along with a study and English translation of its alchemical chapter.
贾比尔文集将K. 萨希拉特·伊斯坎达尔所著的《亚历山大宝藏之书》（以下简称BTA）视为几篇伪造文献之一，这些文献暗示炼金术的秘密藏于各地的铭文中。这本书一直无人问津，直到1926年，尤利乌斯·鲁斯卡在其关于《翠玉录》的著作中对其进行了讨论，将BTA归入与阿拉伯炼金术发展相关的文献之中。他的初步研究成为了重要的参考文献，并在接下来的几十年里激励了许多学者研究BTA。几年前，我们完成了BTA的首个西文译本。这项工作基于无头的埃斯科里亚尔手稿，我们将其认定为BTA的14世纪抄本。这份手稿很特别，因为其中一部分是加密的。完成翻译后，我们开始着手确定BTA的文本。目前，文本正在确定过程中——随后将进行文本考证——并且一直是我们对中世纪神秘主义和炼金术进行深入研究的主要焦点。本文展示了当前正在进行的这项工作的一个样本：对不同手稿之间差异的分析以及对其炼金术章节的研究与英文翻译。
