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Pauca numero et utilibus plurima: Maimonides’ Treatise on Poisons and its Graeco-Arabic Sources
No full textThis study presents the Treatise on Poisons and the Protection Against
Lethal Drugs written by Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon, 1138-1204).
The author is concerned with toxicology, pharmacology, and medicine
and relies not only on the knowledge of both Greek and Arabic medical
sources but also on his experience as a practicing doctor
Le De anima alchimique du pseudo-Avicenne by Sébastien Moureau
Get PDFAbstract: Adapted and expanded from Moureau’s doctoral thesis defended in 2010 at the Université Catholique de Louvain, this monograph extends over two substantial volumes for a total of more than 1,400 pages thoroughly annotated in more than 3,500 footnotes. Numbers apart, Moureau’s praiseworthy effort aims to contribute to the study of the alchemical works of pseudoAvicenna by presenting the first critical edition of an extensive, very complex, and deeply influential treatise, the De anima, and its first annotated French translation. Moureau’s book rigorously achieves this and offers much more.Résumé : Adaptée et développée à partir de la thèse de doctorat que Moureau a soutenue en 2010 à l’Université catholique de Louvain, cette monographie s’étend sur deux volumes substantiels totalisant plus de 1 400 pages, minutieusement annotées dans plus de 3 500 notes de bas de page. Au‑delà de ces chiffres, le travail remarquable de Moureau entend contribuer à l’étude des œuvres alchimiques du pseudo‑Avicenne en procurant la première édition critique d’un vaste traité, complexe et profondément influent, le De anima, ainsi que sa première traduction annotée en langue française. L’ouvrage de Moureau accomplit cela avec rigueur et offre encore bien davantage
Alchemy in the Cairo Genizah: the Nachlass of an untidy Jewish alchemist
Get PDFAmong the hundreds of thousands of fragments of mediaeval manuscripts found in the genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue of al-Fusṭāṭ (Old Cairo), a noteworthy corpus of alchemical material preserves alchemical recipes and theoretical works that have the potential to shed light on the oft-debated question of the involvement of Jews in alchemy during the Middle Ages. After an assessment of the status quaestionis, this article offers an introduction to the corpus and to its codicological, palaeographic and linguistic features, and focusses on a discreet number of fragments that were composed by the same alchemist/copyist. The first Judaeo-Arabic edition, Arabic transcription and English translation of a selection of passages from these fragments is presented, together with discussion of their contents. While the first of the fragments is a collection of practical alchemical recipes, the second fragment preserves the Judaeo-Arabic version of a work by the famous alchemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān that was previously considered lost
Fragments of Alchemy from a Cairene Synagogue: Context, Codicology, and Contents of the Alchemical Corpus of the Cairo Genizah
Get PDF: This article presents the results of a survey and a first assessment of the corpus of alchemical manuscripts retrieved from the Cairo Genizah, a storage room mainly intended for sacred writings that is attached to the Ben Ezra synagogue of Old Cairo. The alchemical manuscripts are described in their codicological and palaeographic features; their content is analysed in the context of the medieval production of alchemical texts in the surrounding Islamic world. The alchemical corpus of the Genizah represents a unique and widely unstudied source for our understanding of the relationship between Jews and alchemy in the medieval Mediterranean World
The Book on Alums and Salts of Pseudo-Rāzī. The Arabic and Hebrew traditions
Get PDFOn Alums and Salts, sometimes attributed to the Persian polymath al-Razi, is one of the most influential treatises in the European alchemical tradition. This Arabic alchemical work, produced in twelfth-century al-Andalus, gained wide fame in its Latin translations, and is also represented by a unique and fascinating Hebrew manuscript that includes practical commentary added by its anonymous Jewish compiler. Gabriele Ferrario’s new edition presents both the Arabic and the Hebrew texts, each with a full translation into English. Together, the two editions of On Alums and Salts tell the story of the active acquisition of chemical knowledge, of lexical creativity and ingenuity, and of scientific engagement that crossed chronological, linguistic, cultural,
and religious boundaries
Plants on Maimonides’ Bookshelf: T-S Ar.41.41
No full textReport on the discovery of a manuscript fragment of Nicholas of Damascus' De Plantis that was owned by the medieval Jewish polymath Moses Maimonides
Graeco-Arabic medicine in Jewish attire: An early Judaeo-Arabic version of Qusṭā ibn Lūqā’s On Numbness from the Cairo Genizah
No full textA Judaeo-Arabic version of Qusṭā ibn Lūqā’s On Numbness found
among the manuscript fragments of the Cairo Genizah is edited and translated
here for the first time ; a comparison with the only extant complete Arabic
manuscript of the treatise identifies textual variants and provides materials
for the reconstruction of the missing portions of the severely damaged text.
The very existence of this fragment and its contents are discussed in relation
to the cultural context of the Jewish communities living in the Medieval Islamicate
world and the vivid exchange of scientific and medical ideas between
Muslims, Jews, and Christians during the Middle Ages. After more than 100
years following their re-discovery, Genizah fragments still hold the promise
of future discoveries, within particular in the understudied fields of natural
philosophy and medicine
Between al-Rāzī and the Pseudo-Rāzī: Classifying Matter and Composing an Alchemical Handbook
Get PDFThis contribution focuses on two Arabic alchemical treatises that circulated under the name of the 10th century philosopher, physician, and alchemist Muḥammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzī: the genuine Book of Secrets (Kitāb al-Asrār) and the spurious Book on Alums and Salts. The two treatises are discussed in the context of al-Rāzī’s genuine and spurious production and of their reception among Western scholars. By examining the contents and structural features of these two treatises, this work seeks to shed light on the relationship between perceived authority, structure, and laboratory practice in medieval alchemy
Alchemy in the Jewish Context
No full textThe chapter traces the history of the involvement of Medieval Jews with alchemical theory and practic
Note on a Steelyard Balance in an Arabic Manuscript in Hebrew Characters from Yemen
No full textThe articles presents a rare occurrence of a treatise and illumination of a steelyard balance preserved in a Judaeo-Arabic miscellaneous manuscrip
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