Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy

Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy
Author: Sarah R. Kyle
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-08-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351997793

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"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.