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

Estimate: $500–$700
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author

(MEDICINE)

printer

L’Institut Français

Place

Cairo

Publication

1940

Description

FIRST EDITION. Arabic text with French translation and commentary by Max Meyerhof. Two plates

references

EJ, Vol. XI, col. 779, no. 4; not in Friedenwald

summary

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

pp. (4), 76, 258, 70, (4). Uncut and unopened. Original printed wrappers. 4to

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