Paper delivered by Matteo Martelli at the Gotha Manuscripts Workshop Alchemy in the Islamicate World.
September 28-29, 2018, Gotha Research Library
The AlchemEast project is devoted to the study of alchemical theory and practice as it appeared and developed in distinct, albeit contiguous (both chronologically and geographically) areas: Graeco-Roman Egypt, Byzantium, and the Near East, from Ancient Babylonian times to the early Islamic Period.