The images published are from the almost complete manuscript of the Mushaf as-suwar, one of the oldest available manuscripts of perhaps the first Greek alchemist, which contains a collection of 13 book written by Zosimos of Panaoplois as a dialogue between the teacher Zosimos and this student Theoso[...]
The translation presented here of the "Mushaf as-suwar" ("The Book of Pictures") into English is its first translation into a European language. It is the result of careful and repeated distillation work over a period of twenty years, encouraged by Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz. The text is a dialogue [...]
Zosimos´ Den nye historie er et usædvanligt skrift fra middelalderen. Det skildrer på græsk Romerrigets historie fra 3. indtil det første tiår af 5. årh. som en tid præget af kriser, nederlag og opløsning, og forfatterens forklaring på den katastrofale udvikling er, at de kristne kejsere [...]