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Sefer ko'ah ha-avanim : On the virtue of the stones : Hebrew text and English translation : with a lexicological analysis of the romance terminology and source study / Berakhyah Ben Natronai ha-Nakdan ; edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos and Julia Zwink.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berechiah ben Natronai, ha-Nakdan, active 12th century-13th century.
- Series:
- Etudes sur le judaisme medieval ; t. 40.
- Etudes sur le judaisme medieval, 0169-815X ; t. 40
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gems--Folklore.
- Gems.
- Medicine, Medieval--Folklore.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Magic.
- Lapidaries (Medieval literature).
- Berechiah ben Natronai, ha-Nakdan, 12th/13th cent. Sefer Ko'ah ha-avanim.
- Berechiah ben Natronai.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- On the virtue of the stones
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The lore of the supposed magic and medical virtue of stones goes back to the Babylonians and peaks out in the lapidary literature of the Middle Ages. The famous work of Marbode of Rennes, which made lapidaries a very popular type of medieval scientific literature, was translated into numerous vernacular languages. The Jewish tradition, missing a particular lapidary literature of its own, absorbed non-Jewish works like that of Marbode. Several Anglo-Norman Marbode translations could be identified as the main source of the present edited Hebrew lapidary Ko’aḥ ha-Avanim, written by Berakhyah Ben Natronai ha-Nakdan around 1300. The edition is accompanied by an English translation, a source study, and a linguistic analysis of the Romance, mostly Anglo-Norman, terms featuring within the text in Hebrew spelling.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / G. Bos
- Introduction / G. Bos
- Text And Translation / G. Bos
- Supplement A: Comparative Table / G. Bos
- Supplement B:The Ko’aḥ ha-Avanim In Its French Context: Romance And Latin Terms And Sources / G. Bos
- Alphabetical Glossaries / G. Bos
- Bibliography And Abbreviations / G. Bos
- Subject Index Of English And Foreign Terms / G. Bos
- Plates / G. Bos.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-03910-9
- 9786613039101
- 90-04-18597-6
- 90-04-18310-8
- OCLC:
- 813316794
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004183100.i-187 DOI
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