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Three Judeo-Arabic Marginalia on New Materia Medica from the New World and China
Ist Teil von
ALEPH: historical studies in science and judaism, 2019-01, Vol.19 (1), p.137-156
Ort / Verlag
Jerusalem: Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
A manuscript recently acquired by the University of Pennsylvania contains a large
section of a treatise on materia medica, Arabic in Hebrew
characters, with many notes in the margins. One set of marginalia, all in the
same hand, displays passages culled from the writings of Da'ūd al-Anṭākī (d.
1599) and Ibn Sallūm (d. 1670), two important medical writers who were born in
Aleppo. Some of the passages are translations from Turkish into Judeo-Arabic.
The three selected for publication here describe new medical substances, unknown
to the ancients; one, China root, originating in the East; and the other two,
sassafras and quinaquina, from the Americas. These are among the first
descriptions of these substances in Arabic and seem to be the very first
accounts in Jewish sources.