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Subject(s)

• Medicine, Medieval—Terminology [Browse]
• Medicine, Arab [Browse]
• Arabic language—Medical Arabic [Browse]
• Hebrew language, Medieval—Glossaries, vocabularies, etc [Browse]
• Arabic language—Transliteration into Hebrew [Browse]
• Latin language, Medieval and modern—Transliteration into Hebrew [Browse]
• Shem Tov ben Isaak of Tortosa—Sefer Almansur [Browse]

Related name

• Bos, Gerrit, 1948- [Browse]
• Mensching, Guido [Browse]
• Zwink, Julia [Browse]

Related work(s)

Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925? Kitāb al-Manṣūrī. [Browse]

Series

• Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 72. [More in this series]
• Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval ; 72

Contains

• Shem Tov ben Isaak, of Tortosa, active 13th century. Sefer Almansur. [Browse]
• Shem Tov ben Isaak, of Tortosa, active 13th century. Sefer Almansur. English. [Browse]

Summary note

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.

Notes

Includes indexes.

Source of description

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Language note

Text in English and Hebrew, with some footnotes containing Arabic terms.

Contents

• Intro
• ‎Contents
• ‎Preface
• ‎Sigla and Abbreviations
• ‎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 Almansur
• ‎Preliminary Note
• ‎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.

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Other title(s)

• Sefer Almansur.
• ספר אלמנצור.

ISBN

90-04-35203-1

LCCN

2017029224

OCLC

990778150

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004352032

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