Armengaud Blaise or Blaise (d. 1312), a nephew of the celebrated medieval medical and theological figure Arnau de Vilanova (d.1311), is becoming better known, thanks in large part to the documentation preserved in the Archivo de la Corona de Aragon. Armengaud became a practicing physician and went to Barcelona at the end of 1303 to serve the king and queen. He later became physician to Pope Clement V at Avignon. He helped turn Latin into at least five works from the earlier tradition of Greco-Arabic scientific learning and also wrote at least two original medical compositions. The second of these, called the “Tabula Antidotarii,” is a summary list of a number of common compound medicines together with their properties, arranged in tabular form. This book provides a study of Armengaud and the Latin “Tabula Antidotarii”, Estori ha-Parhi, and the Hebrew translation of the “Tabula” with the Latin and Hebrew texts. It also includes the English, Latin, and Hebrew texts of the “Tabula”, facsimile pages, and the translator’s introduction.
Price: $45.00
Pages: 218
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: The American Philosophical Society Press
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Publication Date:
January 1, 2000
Trim Size: 10.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9780871699060
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
MEDICAL / History
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Lola Ferre is a Full Professor in the Department of Semitic Studies at the University of Granada. She has devoted her academic career to the study of Hebrew medical texts from South Europe written during the Middle Ages in both Muslim and Christian environments. Her publications include “Tabula Antidotari” of Armengaud Blaise and its Hebrew Translation (2000) and Isaac Israeli's The Definition of Fever and Its Essence (2023)
Michael McVaugh is a Professor Emeritus within the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the growth of medical and surgical learning in the Middle Ages and the medicalization of European society. A Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and recipient of the 2010 Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, his publications include "Tabula Antidotarii" of Armengaud Blaise and its Hebrew Translation (2000) and Transmitting a Text Through Three Languages: The Future History of Galen's Peri Anomalous Dyskrasias (2014).
