Image: Serpiente alquimica

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Description: Ouroboros drawing from a late medieval Byzantine Greek alchemical manuscript.
Title: Serpiente alquimica
Credit: Fol. 196 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). cf. scan of entire page here.
Author: anonymous medieval illuminator; uploader Carlos adanero
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