Medical Synonym Lists from Medieval Provence: Shem Tov ben Isaac of Tortosa: Sefer ha - Shimmush. Book 29

Medical Synonym Lists from Medieval Provence: Shem Tov ben Isaac of Tortosa: Sefer ha - Shimmush. Book 29
Author: Gerrit Bos
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004181113

Medieval synonym literature is a comprehensive field, which, as a text genre, has not received due attention in philological scholarship until now. This volume contains the first critical edition of Book 29 of Shem Tov ben Isaac's Sefer ha-Shimmush and a lexicological analysis of the medico-botanical terms in the first of the two synonym lists of this book. The Sefer ha-Shimmush was compiled in Southern France in the middle of the thirteenth century. The list edited in this volume consists of Hebrew or Aramaic lemmas, which are glossed by Arabic, Latin and Romance (Old Occitan and, in part, Old Catalan) synonyms written in Hebrew characters. Containing over 700 entries, this edition is one of the most extensive glossaries of its kind. It gives scholars a wide overview of the formation of medieval medical terminology in the Romance languages and Hebrew, as well as within the Arabic and Latin traditions.

Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the Middle Ages

Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the Middle Ages
Author: Gerrit Bos
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2023
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9004534423

In Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the Middle Ages, Volume 6 Gerrit Bos offers more terms not featuring in existing dictionaries as addition to his Concise Dictionary of Novel Medical and General Hebrew Terminology from the Middle Ages.

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

Medical Glossaries in the Hebrew Tradition: Shem Tov Ben Isaac, Sefer Almansur
Author: Gerrit Bos
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2017-08-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9004352031

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.

Medical Synonym Lists from Medieval Provence

Medical Synonym Lists from Medieval Provence
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Release: 2011
Genre: Arabic language
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"This is the first volume of a three volume publication dedicated to the commented critical edition of the two synonym lists that appear in book twenty-nine of the Sefer ha-Shimmush by Shem Tov ben Isaac de Tortosa. The Sefer ha-Shimmush is itself a translation of the Kitāb at-taṣrīf li-man ʻajiza an at-taʼlīf (The Arrangement of Medical Knowledge for One Who Is Not Able to Compile a Book for Himself) by the Andalusian physician Abū l-Qāsim Ḫalaf ibn ʻAbbās az-Zahrāwī, known in the Western world as Abulcasis. Shem Tov omitted the original Arabic, Syrian, Persian, and Ibero-Romance indices in his translation and substituted them instead with the two lists that are issued here. The first list, which is edited in this volume, starts with the Hebrew or Aramaic term, followed by the Arabic synonym, and then - in about seventy per cent of the entries - by the vernacular term, which is usually Old Occitan, and/or by a Latin synonym."--Pt. 1, p. [1]-2.

A Key to Locked Doors

A Key to Locked Doors
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2024-08-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004705880

Gerrit Bos (Ph.D. 1989) is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively in the fields of Jewish studies, Islamic studies, and medieval science and medicine in Arabic and Hebrew texts. In July 2023, he celebrated his 75th birthday. On this occasion, his colleagues and students presented him with a Festschrift containing over twenty original papers. They deal with various topics belonging to his wider fields of interest ranging from the Ancient Orient, Jewish and Islamic theology and philosophy, medicine and natural sciences in medieval Islamicate and European countries, to Romance philology and linguistics.

Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology

Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology
Author: Guido Mensching
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2023-10-23
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3110302276

This manual provides a detailed presentation of the various Romance languages as they appear in texts written by Jews, mostly using the Hebrew alphabet. It gives a comprehensive overview of the Jews and the Romance languages in the Middle Ages (part I), as well as after the expulsions (part II). These sections are dedicated to Judaeo-Romance texts and linguistic traditions mainly from Italy, northern and southern France (French and Occitan), and the Iberian Peninsula (Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese). The Judaeo-Spanish varieties of the 20th and 21st centuries are discussed in a separate section (part III), due to the fact that Judaeo-Spanish can be considered an independent language. This section includes detailed descriptions of its phonetics/phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax.

The Regimen sanitatis of “Avenzoar”

The Regimen sanitatis of “Avenzoar”
Author: Michael R. McVaugh
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2019-07-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900440645X

The authors publish a previously unedited Regimen of Health attributed to Avenzoar (Ibn Zuhr), translated at Montpellier in 1299 in a collaboration between a Jewish philosopher and a Christian surgeon, the former translating the original Arabic into their shared Occitan vernacular, the latter translating that into Latin. They use manuscript evidence to argue that the text was produced in two stages, first a quite literal version, then a revision improved in style and in language adapted to contemporary European medicine. Such collaborative translations are well known, but the revelation of the inner workings of the translation process in this case is exceptional. A separate Hebrew translation by the philosopher (also edited here) gives independent evidence of the lost Arabic original.

The Semantic Web

The Semantic Web
Author: Harald Sack
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2016-10-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319476025

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Satellite Events of the 13th European Conference on the Semantic Web, ESWC 2016, held in Heraklion, Greece, in May/June 2016. The volume contains 16 full papers and 38 poster and demonstration papers, carefully selected from 12 workshops focusing on specific research issues related to the Semantic Web.

ReOrienting Histories of Medicine

ReOrienting Histories of Medicine
Author: Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-01-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472512499

It is rarely appreciated how much of the history of Eurasian medicine in the premodern period hinges on cross-cultural interactions and knowledge transmissions. Using manuscripts found in key Eurasian nodes of the medieval world – Dunhuang, Kucha, the Cairo Genizah and Tabriz – the book analyses a number of case-studies of Eurasian medical encounters, giving a voice to places, languages, people and narratives which were once prominent but have gone silent. This is an important book for those interested in the history of medicine and the transmissions of knowledge that have taken place over the course of global history.

Marwān ibn Janāḥ, On the nomenclature of medicinal drugs (Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ) (2 vols)

Marwān ibn Janāḥ, On the nomenclature of medicinal drugs (Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ) (2 vols)
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1358
Release: 2020-07-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004413340

The present volume contains an Arabic glossary of names of drugs and other medical terms, written by the Jewish scholar Ibn Janāḥ (11th century). It is edited here for the first time by Gerrit Bos and Fabian Käs. Maylin Lübke and Guido Mensching focus on the Ibero-Romance phytonyms of the Talkhīṣ.