Tabula Smaragdina: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der hermetischen Literatur, Julius Ruska's 1926 study from Carl Winter, traces the Emerald Tablet's textual history within hermetic and alchemical literature through Ruska's own philological work on its transmission from Arabic sources into Latin Europe. Its strength is that direct source tracing. Its limit is its age, nearly a century old: later scholarship has extended and in places revised Ruska's account, so a reader wanting the current state of the question should pair it with more recent work.
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Julius Ruska's Tabula Smaragdina, Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der hermetischen Literatur, published by Carl Winter in 1926, the top tier reflecting Ruska's own direct philological work tracing the Emerald Tablet's transmission from Arabic sources into Latin Europe, notwithstanding its age, nearly a century old, so a reader wanting the current state of the question should pair it with more recent scholarship that has extended and in places revised Ruska's account. NotesScholarly study of the textual history of the Emerald Tablet within hermetic literature, Carl Winter, 1926.
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AuthorJulius Ruska
PublisherCarl Winter
Publication Year1926
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