Medical synonym lists from medieval Provence. Part 1 : Shem Tov ben Isaak of Tortosa : Sefer ha-Shimmush, Book 29 : Edition and commentary of list 1 (Hebrew-Arabic-Romance/Latin) (Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéval, 37)

Contains lists of terms in Hebrew, Aramaic and Provencal, with their equivalents in Arabic, Latin and Provencal transliterated into Hebrew; commentary in English Notes: These supplementary lists were appended by Shem Tov ben Isaak of Tortosa to his Sefer ha-Shimush, a translation into Hebrew of Tasrif li-man 'ajiza 'an al-ta'lif by Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn 'Abbas al-Zahrawi Part 1: INTRODUCTION 1. General overview and preliminaries 2. Medieval synonym lists in Hebrew characters 3. Shem Tov?s synonym lists in the Sefer ha-Shimmush 4. How Shem Tov?s synonym lists were compiled 5. The vernacular element 6. The edition and the commentary Bibliography Plates. Medieval synonym literature is a comprehensive field, which, as a text genre, has not received due attention in philological scholarship until now. This volume contains the first critical edition of Book 29 of Shem Tov ben Isaac's Sefer ha-Shimmush and a lexicological analysis of the medico-botanical terms in the first of the two synonym lists of this book. The Sefer ha-Shimmush was compiled in Southern France in the middle of the thirteenth century. The list edited in this volume consists of Hebrew or Aramaic lemmas, which are glossed by Arabic, Latin and Romance (Old Occitan and, in? read morepart, Old Catalan) synonyms written in Hebrew characters. Containing over 700 entries, this edition is one of the most extensive glossaries of its kind. It gives scholars a wide overview of the formation of medieval medical terminology in the Romance languages and Hebrew, as well as within the Arabic and Latin traditions.