03511nam 2200733 450 991079604490332120230809224946.090-04-35203-110.1163/9789004352032(CKB)3710000001444487(MiAaPQ)EBC5024341(OCoLC)990778150(nllekb)BRILL9789004352032(EXLCZ)99371000000144448720170620d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMedical 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 ZwinkLeiden ;Boston :Brill.c2017.1 online resource (130 pages)Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval ;72Includes indexes.90-04-35202-3 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.Études sur le judaïsme médiéval72.Medicine, MedievalTerminologyMedicine, ArabArabic languageMedical ArabicHebrew language, MedievalGlossaries, vocabularies, etcArabic languageTransliteration into HebrewLatin language, Medieval and modernTransliteration into HebrewPharmacopoeias as TopicMedicine, ArabicTerminology as TopicHistory, MedievalTerminology.Medicine, MedievalMedicine, Arab.Arabic languageMedical Arabic.Hebrew language, MedievalArabic languageLatin language, Medieval and modernPharmacopoeias as Topic.Medicine, Arabic.Terminology as Topic.History, Medieval.610.1/4Shem Tov ben Isaakof Tortosa,active 13th century.1549694Bos Gerrit1948-321815Mensching Guido168984Zwink Julia1510588Shem Tov ben Isaakof Tortosa,active 13th century.1549694Shem Tov ben Isaakof Tortosa,active 13th century.1549694Rāzī Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā865?-925?330614NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910796044903321Medical glossaries in the Hebrew tradition3807940UNINA