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Title A glimpse into the medical practice among Jews around 1500 : Latin-German pharmaceutical glossaries in Hebrew characters extant in Ms Leiden universiteitsbibliotheek, Cod. Or. 4732/1 (SCAL 15), fols. 1a-17b / edited by Gerrit Bos, Klaus-Dietrich Fischer
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021

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Summary "With A Glimpse into Medical Practice among Jews around 1500: Latin-German Pharmaceutical Glossaries in Hebrew Characters Extant in Ms Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Cod. Or. 4732/1 (SCAL 15), Fols. 1a-17b, Gerrit Bos and Klaus-Dietrich Fischer present an edition of two unique medieval lists of medico-botanical terms in Latin and German, written in Hebrew characters. Jewish physicians probably used these kinds of lists for the acquisition of pharmaceuticals they needed for the preparation of medicines. The edition with a total of 568 entries features transcriptions from the Hebrew, tables and indexes of the analysed terms in a regularized form, and a facsimile of the Leiden manuscript. Many of the German plant names featuing in the edition are not listed in the otherwise monumental reference work Wörterbuch der deutschen Pflanzennamen (Dictionary of German Plant Names) by the German botanist Heinrich Marzell. This testifies to the value of these glossaries for further research. It is also useful to see which Latin forms were in current use at the time of creation of the edition"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Jews -- Medicine -- History
Jews -- Medical care -- History
Jews -- Health and hygiene -- History
Jews -- Health and hygiene.
Jews -- Medical care.
Jews -- Medicine.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Bos, Gerrit, 1948- editor.
Fischer, Klaus-Dietrich, editor
LC no. 2021001659
ISBN 9004459383
9789004459380