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Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah / by Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar.
- Lev, Efraim
- Date
- 2008
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Physical description
x, 619 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [581]-598) and indexes.
Contents
Introduction -- Practical materia medica and its sources -- The identification of materia medica in the Genizah and method of presenting the data -- Prescriptions, lists, letters and their analysis -- Inventory of practical materia medica of the Genizah people, its analysis, and comparisons with the theoretical inventory -- Materia medica: detailed items -- Materia medica: concise items -- Epilogue.
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores2448
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9789004161207
- 9004161201