Medical Synonym Lists from Medieval Provence: Shem Tov ben Isaac of Tortosa: Sefer ha - Shimmush. Book 29: Part 1: Edition and Commentary of List 1 (Hebrew - Arabic - Romance/Latin)

Author:   Gerrit Bos ,  Martina Hussein ,  Guido Mensching ,  Frank Savelsberg
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   37
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9789004167643


Pages:   542
Publication Date:   26 April 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Medical Synonym Lists from Medieval Provence: Shem Tov ben Isaac of Tortosa: Sefer ha - Shimmush. Book 29: Part 1: Edition and Commentary of List 1 (Hebrew - Arabic - Romance/Latin)


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This critical edition and lexicological analysis of the first of the two glossaries of Book 29 of Shem Tov ben Isaac's Sefer ha-Shimmush contains more than 700 entries and offfers an extensive overview of the formation of medieval medical terminology in the romance (Old Occitan and in part Old Catalan) and Hebrew languages, as well as within the Arabic and Latin tradition.

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Author:   Gerrit Bos ,  Martina Hussein ,  Guido Mensching ,  Frank Savelsberg
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   37
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.098kg
ISBN:  

9789004167643


ISBN 10:   9004167641
Pages:   542
Publication Date:   26 April 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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INTRODUCTION 1. General overview and preliminaries 2. Medieval synonym lists in Hebrew characters 3. Shem Tov’s synonym lists in the Sefer ha-Shimmush 4. How Shem Tov’s synonym lists were compiled 5. The vernacular element 6. The edition and the commentary Bibliography Plates EDITION OF SEFER HA-SHIMMUSH, BOOK 28, SYNONYM LIST 1

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Gerrit Bos is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively on Arabic, Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew medical literature in the Middle Ages, including the critical edition and translation of Maimonides' medical works. Martina Hussein is an adult education lecturer and is currently completing a PhD on Arabic medical literature in the Middle Ages, including the critical edition and translation of Ibn al-Jazzar's Book of the Reliability of Simple Drugs. Guido Mensching is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has published extensively on Romance medical lexicology in the Middle Ages, including La sinonima delos nonbres delas medeçinas (Madrid: Arco Libros 1994) and on the syntax of the Romance languages. Frank Savelsberg is a research fellow in Romance Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin. His PhD thesis focuses on Spanish Golden Age poetry, and he is active in the field of the history of the Romance languages.

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