Ibn Baklarish's Book of Simples In English&Arabic, The Arcadian Library, Oxford
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Ibn Baklarish's Book of Simples In English & Arabic, edit by Charles Burnett. The Arcadian Library in association With Oxford University Press. Ibn Baklarish's Book of Simples : Medical Remedies between Three Faiths in Twelth-Century Spain DESCRIPTION : -It is 163+ 52(Arabic old manuscript photos) pages. colourful book. Glossy paper . - In English & Arabic. heavy volume. 1740 gram. Ibn Baklarish's Book of Simples ; -This book focuses on the most important manuscript of a medical work written in Arabic by an early twelfth-century Jewish physician in Spain. Ibn Baklarish's work, called the Kitab al-Musta ini in honour of its dedicatee, al-Musta in bi-llah Abu Ja'far Ahmad (ruler of Saragossa 1085-IIIO), sets out in tabular form the properties and uses, and alternative names in several languages, of over 700 medicinal substances, drawing on a wide range of Greek and Arabic authorities and on local knowledge. The recently acquired manuscript belonging to the Arcadian library, written in 1130 A.D., is the earliest surviving witness to the text, and provides unique information about the state of medicine in medieval Spain at the time. The book, introduced and edited by Charles Burnett, contains eight papers by an international team of experts on the history of scholarship on the Kitab al-Musta ini, the Arabic text of the work in the Arcadian Library manuscript, the abundant Latin and Romance synonyms and glosses (which attest to the Iberian readership of the text), the Syriac synonyms (which attest to Ibn Baklarish's use of sources from the Middle East), the use of animal parts as medicines, the Jewish culture of Ibn Baklarish, other significant manuscripts of the text, and the text's relationship to other medical texts in tabular format. The Arcadian manuscript gives a snapshot, as it were, of the intercultural dialogue that was taking placing in medieval Spain, where Muslims, Jews and Christians were all involved in studying and disseminating medical knowledge. TABLE OF CONTENTS: -The Contributors:6 - Preface by Charles Burnett:7 Ibn Baklarish's Kitab al-Musta ini: the historical context to the discovery of a new manuscript by Ana Labarta:15 - The manuscript transmission of the Kitab al-Musta ini and the contributions of the Arcadian Library manuscript ... • by Joëlle Ricordel:27 -Towards the study of the Romance languages in the Kitab al-Musta ini by Juan Carlos Villaverde Amieva:43 - The Leiden manuscript of the Kitab al-Musta ini by Jan Just Witkam:75 - The Syriac words in the Kitab al-Musta in in the Arcadian Library manuscript .... by Geoffrey Khan:95 Ibn Biklarish-Isra'ili by David J. Wasserstein:105 - Ibn Baklarish in the Arabic tradition of synonymatic texts and tabular presentations ..by Emilie Savage-Smith:113 - The zoological-medicinal material in the Arcadian Library manuscript by Anna Contadini:133 -Bibliography: 153 - Index:161 - Plates: the Arcadian Library manuscript:165
