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Towards a Data-Driven History of Lexicography: Two Alchemical Dictionaries in TEI-XML

Sarah Lang

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Martin Ruland’s Lexicon Alchemiae, in its 1612 edition, and Sommerhoff’s German-Latin dictionary (1701) in TEI-XML format provide valuable resources for understanding the cryptic language of alchemy, characterized by its use of codenames, or Decknamen. Alchemical terminology, often allegorical and poetic, arose as a shared vocabulary for laboratory practices before the advent of modern analytical chemistry. Lacking precise measurements, chymists relied on these terms to describe sensory experiences and chemical processes, forming a language that, while obscure to outsiders, enabled communication within their community. Together, the two dictionaries contain some 20,000 entries in Latin and German.

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History of scholarship and learning. The humanities Language and Literature

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Sarah Lang

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Lang, S. (2025). Towards a Data-Driven History of Lexicography: Two Alchemical Dictionaries in TEI-XML. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.303

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Tahun Terbit: 2025
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DOI: 10.5334/johd.303
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