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Ragep, F. Jamil - Wallis, Faith - Miller, Pamela - Gacek, Adam (eds.), The Herbal of al-Ghāfiqī: A Facsmile Edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, with Critical Essays, Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014, x + 175 + 284a + 284b pp.
- Resum
- "Herbals" - collections describing plants used for medicinal purposes - were among the ancient and medieval world's most valued scientific texts, synthesizing a vast treasury of medical learning to facilitate scientific edification for scholar, bibliophiles, or practical consultation by physicians. Abū Jaʻfar al-Ghāfiqī (d. ca. 1165 CE) lived in the Arab-Islamic zone of the southern Iberian peninsula called al-Andalus, a land of many cultures, religions, and languages. His Herbal (Kitāb fī l-adwiya al-mufrada) reflects the diverse milieu in which he lived, drawing from ancient Greek sources like Dioscorides and Galen as well as over thirty other works from India as well as the Hellenistic and Islamic worlds. The manuscript reproduced in this edition was purchased in 1912 by Sir William Osler and is now housed in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University. It has entries for herbal, mineral, and animal-derived drugs, illustrated by almost 400 coloured, hand-drawn images of plants and animals. A glossary of over 2,000 secondary entries provides synonyms in Greek, Sanskrit, Syriac, Persian, Berber, Old Spanish, Latin, Coptic, and Armenian, reflecting the international character of medicine and pharmacy at the time. Essays by eminent scholars discuss the physical features and history of the manuscript, the philological complexity of the text, al-Ghāfiqī's sources, the Andalusian and larger global contexts of the Herbal, and the illustrations accompanying the text. A remarkable document, The Herbal of al-Ghafiqi will be a cherished addition to the library of anyone interested in the history of pharmacological science or in the history of the Islamic world.
Contents:
* Introduction / Faith Wallis
* Al-Ghāfiqī's prologue to the Herbal (Kitāb fī l-adwiya al-mufrada): an English translation / F. Jamil Ragep
* The palaeographical and codicological features of the Osler manuscript in the context of the manuscript transmission of al-Ghāfiqī's Herbal / Adam Gacek
* The text and its philological character / Oliver Kahl
* The historical, scientific, and literary contexts of al-Ghāfiqī's Herbal / Cristina Álvarez Millán · 51-71
* The sources of al-Ghāfiqī's Herbal: a methodological note / Leigh Chipman
* Al-Ghāfiqī's Kitāb fī l-adwiya al-mufrada, Dioscorides' De materia medica, and Mediterranean herbal traditions / Alain Touwaide
* The illustrated Herbal of al-Ghāfiqī: an art-historical introduction / Jaclynne J. Kerner
* Osler Library MS 7508: a facsimile
- Matèries
- Medicina - Farmacologia
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