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Medicine and humanism in late Medieval Italy : the Carrara herbal, in Padua / by Sarah R. Kyle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kyle, Sarah R., author.
- Series:
- Medicine in the medieval Mediterranean
- Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Medieval--Italy.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Medicine, Arab--Italy.
- Medicine, Arab.
- Humanism--Italy--History.
- Humanism.
- History of Medicine.
- History, Medieval.
- History.
- Italy.
- Medical Subjects:
- History of Medicine.
- History, Medieval.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 243 pages, 10 color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Carrara herbal
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
- Summary:
- "The Carrara Herbal is an exceptional illustrated book of materia medica (therapeutic substances drawn from plants, animals and minerals). It is exceptional in both its illustrations and its content, making it of interest to historians of art and medicine alike. The Herbal contains a translation into Paduan dialect of a Latin version of the mid-thirteenth-century Arabic pharmacopeia, Kitab al-Adwiya al-mufrada (The Book of Simple Medicines), written by Ibn Sarabi, a Christian physician working in al-Andalus and known in the Latin West as Serapion the Younger."--Introduction.
- Contents:
- 1 The Carrara Herbal and the traditions of illustrated books of materia medica 23
- 2 The healthy pleasures of reading the Carrara Herbal 67
- 3 The 'physician prince' and his book 88
- 4 Portraits of the Carrara 116
- 5 Physiognomy in late medieval Padua 149
- 6 Embodiments of virtue in Francesco Novello's library 169.
- Notes:
- "The Carrara Herbal is an exceptional illustrated book of materia medica (therapeutic substances drawn from plants, animals and minerals). It is exceptional in both its illustrations and its content, making it of interest to historians of art and medicine alike. The Herbal contains a translation into Paduan dialect of a Latin version of the mid-thirteenth-century Arabic pharmacopeia, Kitab al-Adwiya al-mufrada (The Book of Simple Medicines), written by Ibn Sarabi, a Christian physician working in al-Andalus and known in the Latin West as Serapion the Younger."--Introduction.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Electronic version: Kyle, Sarah Rozalja. Medicine and humanism in late Medieval Italy.
- ISBN:
- 9781472446527
- 1472446526
- OCLC:
- 957581318
- Publisher Number:
- 99969973760
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