I spent a few hours hunting for “anchiton”, following You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. From De Goeje, I got to Israel Levi’s article about “Historia de Preliis”, in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. He mentions and partially transcribes a few manuscripts.
I finally found anchiton in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (Italy, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., 14th Century) f.17v, left column, 4-5 lines above the capital D (it is split on two lines as anchi-ton). It also occurs on the previous line as “ansichiton”, and somebody added a small “si” above “anchiton”. One more line above (7th above D) there’s “portas”.
Here is a transcription of the passage based on Levi’s:
Tunc continuo deprecatus est deum Alexander impensius exaudivitque eius deprecationes. Et precepit deus duobus montibus quibus est vocabulum promunctorium boreum, et adjuncti sunt ad invicem usque cubitos XII. Et statim construxit portas heneas et circumfudit eas ansichiton [Levi: antichiton] quod a ferro non corrumpitur nec ab igne solvitur. Talis enim est natura anchiton quod ferrum confranget in comminationem ignemque ut aqua extinguit. Et nullus prevalet ad eos intrare nec illi ullo modo exinde exire.
Machine Translation (I checked it and it’s OK). [Alexander has just seen how scary Eastern people are] Then Alexander at once earnestly prayed to God, and God heard his prayer. And God commanded two mountains, which are called the Northern Promontories, and they drew together until they were only twelve cubits apart. And immediately he constructed bronze gates and coated them with ansichiton [Levi: antichiton], which cannot be corroded by iron nor melted by fire. For such is the nature of anchiton, that it shatters iron as if by pressure and quenches fire as water does. And no one is able to enter through them, nor can those within in any way come out.
Several more manuscripts are listed on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. It would be interesting to check more of them…
I finally found anchiton in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (Italy, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., 14th Century) f.17v, left column, 4-5 lines above the capital D (it is split on two lines as anchi-ton). It also occurs on the previous line as “ansichiton”, and somebody added a small “si” above “anchiton”. One more line above (7th above D) there’s “portas”.
Here is a transcription of the passage based on Levi’s:
Tunc continuo deprecatus est deum Alexander impensius exaudivitque eius deprecationes. Et precepit deus duobus montibus quibus est vocabulum promunctorium boreum, et adjuncti sunt ad invicem usque cubitos XII. Et statim construxit portas heneas et circumfudit eas ansichiton [Levi: antichiton] quod a ferro non corrumpitur nec ab igne solvitur. Talis enim est natura anchiton quod ferrum confranget in comminationem ignemque ut aqua extinguit. Et nullus prevalet ad eos intrare nec illi ullo modo exinde exire.
Machine Translation (I checked it and it’s OK). [Alexander has just seen how scary Eastern people are] Then Alexander at once earnestly prayed to God, and God heard his prayer. And God commanded two mountains, which are called the Northern Promontories, and they drew together until they were only twelve cubits apart. And immediately he constructed bronze gates and coated them with ansichiton [Levi: antichiton], which cannot be corroded by iron nor melted by fire. For such is the nature of anchiton, that it shatters iron as if by pressure and quenches fire as water does. And no one is able to enter through them, nor can those within in any way come out.
Several more manuscripts are listed on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. It would be interesting to check more of them…
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