(MAIMONIDES). Sarh Asma al-’Uqqar/L’Explication des noms de drogues [Explication of Names of Drugs]

AUCTION 22 | Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art Including Holy Land Maps, Illustrated Books, Photography and Graphic Art from The Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Conn

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Lot 132

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(MAIMONIDES). Sarh Asma al-’Uqqar/L’Explication des noms de drogues [Explication of Names of Drugs]

FIRST EDITION. Arabic text with French translation and commentary by Max Meyerhof. Two plates pp. (4), 76, 258, 70, (4). Uncut and unopened. Original printed wrappers. 4to EJ, Vol. XI, col. 779, no. 4; not in Friedenwald

Cairo: L’Institut Français 1940

Est: $500 - $700

This manuscript was found in the Library of Aya Sofya, Istanbul, in 1932. A pharmacology, in which Maimonides lists in alphabetical order about 350 remedies, mainly derived from plants. The Arabic names are often followed by parallel terms in Castillian, Persian, Greek and Syrian. See Natalia Berger, Jews and Medicine (1995), p. 52