« Qui accipit quod debet et miscet sicut debet, procedit inde quod debet procedere. » Les recettes alchimiques médiévales arabes et arabo-latines (IXe-XIIIe siècles)

Moureau, Sébastien
(2023) The Recipe from XIIth to XVIIth Centuries. Europe, Islam and Far East — ISBN: [978-88-9290-262-6], p. 149–167, published

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In Arabic and Arab-Latin alchemical texts (ninth to thirteenth centuries), the recipe is ever-present. This literary form, which can be seen as a series of information presented with the aim of reproducing a process, even if this is not always the intention of the authors, has been surprisingly little studied in a synthetic way. In this article, I offer different possible definitions of the alchemical recipe, and identify its main characteristics. I also propose four classifications that can serve as working tools to better understand and classify alchemical recipes: according to the stated purpose, according to the mode of expression, according to the author’s expertise and according to the degree of reproducibility.
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Moureau, S. (2023). « Qui accipit quod debet et miscet sicut debet, procedit inde quod debet procedere. » Les recettes alchimiques médiévales arabes et arabo-latines (IXe-XIIIe siècles). In Laurioux, Bruno; Paravicini Bagliani, Agostino (ed.), The Recipe from XIIth to XVIIth Centuries. Europe, Islam and Far East (p. p. 149–167). Sismel – Edizioni del Galluzzo. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/267265