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Medical glossaries in the Hebrew tradition : Shem Tov ben Isaac, Sefer Almansur : with a supplement on the Romance and Latin terminology / by Gerrit Bos, Guido Mensching, Julia Zwink.
- Title
- Medical glossaries in the Hebrew tradition : Shem Tov ben Isaac, Sefer Almansur : with a supplement on the Romance and Latin terminology / by Gerrit Bos, Guido Mensching, Julia Zwink.
- Author
- Shem Tov ben Isaak, of Tortosa, active 13th century
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- xi, 118 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The Sefer Almansur contains a pharmacopeia of about 250 medicinal ingredients with their Arabic names (in Hebrew characters), their Romance (Old Occitan) and occasionally Hebrew equivalents. The pharmacopeia, which describes the properties and therapeutical uses of simple drugs featured at the end of Book Three of the Sefer Almansur. This work was translated into Hebrew from the Arabic Kitāb al-Manṣūrī (written by al-Rāzī) by Shem Tov ben Isaac of Tortosa, who worked in Marseille in the 13th century. Gerrit Bos, Guido Mensching and Julia Zwink supply a critical edition of the Hebrew text, an English translation and an analysis of the Romance and Latin terminology in Hebrew transcription. The authors show the pharmaceutical terminological innovation of Hebrew and of the vernacular, and give us proof of the important role of medieval Jews in preserving and transferring medical knowledge."--
- Series Statement
- Études sur le judaïsme médiéval, 0169-815X ; tome LXXII
- Uniform Title
- Études sur le judaïsme médiéval t. 72.
- Alternative Title
- Sefer Almansur.
- Subject
- Shem Tov ben Isaak, of Tortosa, active 13th century
- Medicine > Dictionaries > Hebrew
- Jews > Medicine
- Medicine, Medieval > Terminology
- Medicine, Arab
- Hebrew language, Medieval > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Arabic language > Transliteration into Hebrew
- Latin language, Medieval and modern > Transliteration into Hebrew
- History, Medieval
- Genre/Form
- Terminology
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Language (note)
- Text in Hebrew with English translation on facing pages, some footnotes contain Arabic terms; Introduction in English.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction. 1. Multilingual Medical Glossaries in Hebrew Characters ; 2. Shem Tov Ben Isaac of Tortosa ; 3. Shem Tov’s Translation of the List of Medicinal Ingredients ; 4. Romance and Latin Terms -- Hebrew Text and English Translation -- Supplement: Romance and Latin Terms in the Sefer al-Manṣuri -- Indexes. Terms in Hebrew Characters (Hebrew, Arabic, Romance, and Latin) ; English ; Romance and Latin (as Interpreted from the Hebrew Forms) ; Non-Identified (Romance or Latin?) Terms.
- ISBN
- 9789004352025
- 9004352023
- LCCN
- ^^2017028041
- OCLC
- 989755201
- SCSB-12306340
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library