Article ID: CBB556197374

The Judeo-Arabic list of medicinal measures and weights of MS Munich, Cod. hebr. 275 (2022)

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Premodern medical, and especially pharmaceutical, texts abound with names of weights and measures indicating the dosage of drugs and the correct quantities of ingredients of recipes. The fact that these units differed from country to country led to the compilation of metrological lists already in antiquity. Via translations from the Greek, these initiated the emergence of an Arabic literary genre of such lists that were often attached to the great medical handbooks. The miscellany Munich Cod. hebr. 275 contains two pages listing 93 Arabic and Arabicized names of medicinal weights and measures in Hebrew characters, edited and analyzed for the first time in the present paper. Because of characteristic differences from the preserved lists, an exact Arabic archetype could not be ascertained. A few Romance equivalents also show that our text, simply entitled al-Awzān wa-l-akyāl ("weights and measures"), does not represent a mere transcription of an Arabic list.

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Authors & Contributors
Nutton, Vivian
Sela, Shlomo
Adhami, Siamak
Arnaldus de Villanova
Bos, Gerrit
Caballero-Navas, Carmen
Journals
Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Galenos: Rivista di Filologia dei Testi Medici Antichi
Historia Mathematica
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Social History of Medicine
Publishers
Archè
Éditions de la Merci
Kegan Paul
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)
Concepts
Translations
Primary literature (historical sources)
Medicine
Jewish civilization and culture
Manuscripts
Transmission of texts
People
Arnaldus de Villanova
Galen
Maimonides
Ibn Ezra, Abraham Ben Meir
Adelard of Bath
Aristotle
Time Periods
Medieval
13th century
14th century
Early modern
Places
Persia (Iran)
Europe
France
Aragon (Spain)
Catalonia (Spain)
Middle and Near East
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