A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in Bodleian Library, Arabic Mansucripts on Medicine and Related Topics

Zusatztext This monumental volume will certainly be a major reference work for a long time to come ... Professor Savage-Smith has done the scholarly world a huge service. Klappentext The Arabic manuscript collection now in the Bodleian Library includes some of the oldest and most important scientific and medical medieval manuscripts preserved today. Emilie Savage-Smith describes 377 medical manuscripts representing 242 different treatises, including Arabic medical treatises written between the ninth and seventeenth centuries. Zusammenfassung The Arabic manuscript collection now in the Bodleian Library includes some of the oldest and most important scientific and medical medieval manuscripts preserved today. Emilie Savage-Smith describes 377 medical manuscripts representing 242 different treatises, including Arabic medical treatises written between the ninth and seventeenth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Catalogue 1: Translations of Earlier Sources 2: General Medical Manuals 3: Medical Poetry 4: Medical Monographs 5: Therapeutics 6: Dietetics and Regimen 7: Pharmaceutics 8: Prophetic Medicine 9: Plague Tracts 10: Magical-Astrological Medicine 11: Modern Medical Drawings Appendix I: Concordance of Manuscripts Appendix II: Concordance by Author Appendix III: Concordance of Date Manuscripts

Relazione

Savage-Smithâs superb catalogue of the Arabic medical manuscripts at the Bodleian library will be an indispensable research tool for generations of scholars interested in the history of Medieval Arabic medicine and philosophy. Kamran I. Karimullah, BiOr no. LXXI 3/4

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Emilie Savage-Smith, FBA Savage-Smith
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.10.2011
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Commercio librario, biblioteconomia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze umane, tematiche generali; Saggistica > Enciclopedie, opere di consultazione
• EAN: 9780199513581
• ISBN: 978-0-19-951358-1
• Numero di pagine: 880
• Serie: Arabic Mansucripts on Medicine and Related Topics > Vol.1; Arabic Mansucripts on Medicine and Related Topics > 1
• Categorie: REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, Arabic, Reference works, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Library & Information Sciences, Bibliographies, catalogues, Library and information sciences / Museology