Ragep, F. Jamil (Editor)
Ghafiqi, bu Ja`far Ahmad ibn Muhammad (Author)
Gacek, Adam (Editor)
Miller, Pamela (Editor)
Ragep, F. Jamil (Editor)
Wallis, Faith (Editor)
McGill-Queen's University Press
McGill University, Osler Library
Publication date: 2014
Language: English
Physical Details: x + 736 pp.; ill.
The manuscript in question is exceptional: a 13th-century illustrated copy of the treatise on materia medica by a physician and scholar from al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia), Ab Ja far al-Gh fiq (d. ca. 1165 CE).The Osler manuscript has 468 primary entries for mainly herbal, but also mineral and animal, drugs. It also includes around 2200 secondary entries that provide synonyms in a staggering assortment of languages, including Greek, Sanskrit, Syriac, Persian, Berber, Old Spanish, Latin, Coptic, and Armenian, reflecting the international character of medicine and pharmacy at the time. Complementing the facsimile edition are six essays by eminent scholars who deal with the physical features and history of the manuscript, the philological complexity of the text, Gh fiq 's sources, the Andalusian as well as the larger global context of the herbal, and the illustrations accompanying the text
...MoreReview Emilie Savage-Smith (2016) Review of "The Herbal of al-Ghafiqi: A Facsimile Edition with Critical Essays". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 157-158).
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