The Dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd̲ : Arabic text, English translation, study, and glossaries

Author(s)

• Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣāʿid, 1073 or 4 or 5
• Kahl, Oliver

Bibliographic Information

The Dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd̲ : Arabic text, English translation, study, and glossaries

by Oliver Kahl

（Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, v. 70）

Brill, 2007

• : hardback

Other Title

اقراباذين

Uniform Title

Aqrābādhīn

Note

Bibliography: p. [307]-311

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book offers a critical Arabic edition, annotated English translation, introductory study, and two-way glossaries of the famous dispensatory composed around the middle of the 12th century CE by the Nestorian physician Ibn at-Tilmid. The dispensatory, recognized as a masterpiece already by mediaeval contemporaries, soon after its appearance became the pharmacological standard work in the hospitals and apothecs of Baghdad and the wider Arab East, replacing, after almost 300 years, the vademecum of Sabur ibn Sahl. The dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmid marks the apogee and the conclusion of centuries of medico-pharmacological development in the Arab world, and it is therefore absolutely essential for a critical understanding of mediaeval Arabic medicine and pharmacy in particular, and premodern science in general.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA81444059
• ISBN:
  • 9789004156203
  • 9004156208
• LCCN: 2006051862
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engara
• Original Language Code: ara
• Place of Publication: Leiden ; Boston
• Pages/Volumes: 349 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RS131.63
  • DC22 : 615/.11174927
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Pharmacopoeias -- Arab countries -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Dispensatories -- Arab countries -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Medicine, Arab -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA12639365