Abstract The Jabirian Corpus refers to the K. Thahīrat 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.

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通过阿拉伯赫尔墨斯主义聆听物质的低语：亚历山大宝藏之书的新研究

摘要 Jabirian Corpus 提到 K. Thahīrat Al-'Iskandar，“亚历山大的宝藏之书”（以下简称 BTA），作为表明炼金术秘密隐藏在不同地方的铭文中的几个赝品之一。这本书一直被忽视，直到 1926 年，朱利叶斯·鲁斯卡 (Julius Ruska) 在他关于翡翠石板的工作中讨论了它，将 BTA 置于与阿拉伯炼金术发展相关的文献中。他的初步研究成为必不可少的参考，并鼓励许多学者在接下来的几十年里致力于 BTA 的研究。几年前，我们完成了第一次将 BTA 翻译成西方语言。该作品基于埃斯科里亚尔手稿，我们将其确定为 BTA 的 14 世纪副本。这份手稿很特别，因为它的一部分是经过编码的。完成我们的翻译后，我们开始制定 BTA 的文本。目前，该文本正在固定过程中——随后是文本批评——并且一直是我们对中世纪密封主义和炼金术进行彻底研究的主要焦点。本文介绍了当前正在进行的工作示例：分析不同手稿之间的差异，以及对其炼金术章节的研究和英文翻译。