Tagging Alchemic texts. Issues in Corpora and Analysis

Alchemy is one of those Middle Ages branches of the Arab ‘ilm who are not still well known by scholars. This is because of its inner difficulty, caused both by the subject itself and by the typology of the text. I would like to give in this article a short introduction about this discipline and about its most known Arab author, Ǧābir Ibn Ḥayyān (whose authorship, and even existence, is notoriously doubtful); then we will move on to an insight on the actual corpus and its peculiarities and finally a short presentation of the project on the corpus (relating to the Thesaurus Linguae Arabicae project) will be given to the reader.