Materia Medica in a Multilingual Context: Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine and Its Latin Translation of Book II

For centuries, Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine was a crucial text used in medical studies across the Islamicate area as well as in Latin Europe. It was first translated from Arabic into Latin by Gerard of Cremona (d. 1187) and his students in Toledo. This article focuses on the second book of the Canon...

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Main Author: Veit, Raphaela (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Medieval encounters
Year: 2023, Volume: 29, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 196-221
Further subjects:B Canon of Medicine
B Avicenna
B Andrea Alpago
B Peter Kirsten
B Gerard of Cremona
B materia medica
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