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Cyranides. Book 1 Leaf. The Cyranides is one of the works of the Hermetic corpus, the body of writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistos. Hermes Trismegistos was a Hellenistic incarnation of the ancient Egyptian Thoth, and the god of all magic, alchemy and astrology. Arabic Hermetic literature continues the Greek tradition; in Islam Hermes is the inventor of all arts and sciences, and master of astronomy, numbers, poisons, chemistry, medicine, &c. This manuscript contains a translation or adaptation from the Greek of part of Book 1 of the Cyranides. The Cyranides is divided into 24 chapters, one for each letter of the Greek alphabet. Under each letter are represented a plant, a bird, a stone and a sea animal, all of whose names begin with that letter. Their individual occult influences combine to produce a new composite effect.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism, Astrology, Occultism and esotericism, and Ritual magic and grimoires.

Occultism and esotericism
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- “occult”· in description
Ritual magic and grimoires
Controlled discovery queries from digital-bodleian matched “magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the description.
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- “Magic”· in description
Alchemy and Hermeticism
Controlled discovery queries from digital-bodleian matched “alchemy”, “Hermes Trismegistus”, and “hermetic”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the description and “hermetic” in the description.
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- “Hermes Trismegistus”· via Digital Bodleian — Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
- “hermetic”· via Digital Bodleian — Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
- “Alchemy”· in description
- “hermetic”· in description
Astrology
Controlled discovery queries from digital-bodleian matched “astrology”. Retained metadata contains “Astrology” in the description.
- “astrology”· via Digital Bodleian — Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
- “Astrology”· in description

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Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
Digital Bodleian digitized manuscript Digital Bodleian completeness: partial; 1 digitized image(s); Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Arab. d. 221	—	—	Arabic	—	Partial public reader	Digital Bodleian — Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (opens in a new tab) Digital Bodleian — Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (opens in a new tab) Digital Bodleian — Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (opens in a new tab)