Book Description

"This is the first volume of a three volume publication dedicated to the commented critical edition of the two synonym lists that appear in book twenty-nine of the Sefer ha-Shimmush by Shem Tov ben Isaac de Tortosa. The Sefer ha-Shimmush is itself a translation of the Kitāb at-taṣrīf li-man ʻajiza an at-taʼlīf (The Arrangement of Medical Knowledge for One Who Is Not Able to Compile a Book for Himself) by the Andalusian physician Abū l-Qāsim Ḫalaf ibn ʻAbbās az-Zahrāwī, known in the Western world as Abulcasis. Shem Tov omitted the original Arabic, Syrian, Persian, and Ibero-Romance indices in his translation and substituted them instead with the two lists that are issued here. The first list, which is edited in this volume, starts with the Hebrew or Aramaic term, followed by the Arabic synonym, and then - in about seventy per cent of the entries - by the vernacular term, which is usually Old Occitan, and/or by a Latin synonym."--Pt. 1, p. [1]-2.