Medical Glossaries in the Hebrew Tradition: Shem Tov Ben Isaac, Sefer Almansur

With a Supplement on the Romance and Latin Terminology
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35202-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 72, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval

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 Kitab al-Mansuri (written by al-Razi) 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bos, Gerrit

Mensching, Guido

Zwink, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 al-Man?uri

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

Über Autor(innen)

Gerrit Bos is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively on Arabic, Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew medical literature in the Middle Ages, including the critical edition and translation of Maimonides’ medical works and three volumes on novel Hebrew medical terminology.

Guido Mensching, Ph.D. (1992), University of Cologne, habil. (1997), is Professor of Romance linguistics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. He has published extensively on Romance medical terminology with a special focus on Judeo-Romance texts and on synonym literature, as well as on the syntax of Romance languages. He is also a specialist in Sardinian.

Julia Zwink, Ph.D. (2016), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, is research fellow in Romance linguistics at the University of Göttingen. Her Ph.D. thesis is an edition and analysis of an Old French treatise on fever written in Hebrew characters. In her publications, she focusses mainly on medieval Romance medical texts.