ouroboros

by Lazur - uploaded on November 7, 2025, 12:33 am

A reimagination of an ancient ouroboros depicted in a 1478 drawing in an alchemical tract.

Original was drawn by an anonymous medieval illuminator.

Fol. 279 of Codex Parisinus graecus 2327, a copy (made by Theodoros Pelecanos (Pelekanos) of Corfu in Khandak, Iraklio, Crete in 1478) of a lost manuscript of an early medieval tract which was attributed to Synosius (Synesius) of Cyrene (d. 412).

So it's a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy. Something derivative with a mythical origin.