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Author Kyle, Sarah Rozalja, author.

Title Medicine and humanism in late Medieval Italy : the Carrara herbal, in Padua / Sarah R. Kyle
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean
Medicine in the medieval Mediterranean
Contents Introduction: Medicine and Metaphor at the Carrara Court -- 1. The Carrara Herbal and the Traditions of Illustrated Books of Materia Medica -- 2. The Healthy Pleasures of Reading the Carrara Herbal -- 3. The 'Physician Prince' and his Book -- 4. Portraits of the Carrara -- 5. Physiognomy in Late Medieval Padua -- 6. Embodiments of Virtue in Francesco Novello's Library -- Conclusion -- Appendix: List of the 61 Manuscripts from Francesco Zago's Inventory, 1404
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Sarah R. Kyle is an associate professor of Humanities at the University of Central Oklahoma, USA
Print version record
SUBJECT Ibn Serapion Liber de simplici medicina. Italian
Carrara Herbal
Subject Medicine, Medieval -- Italy
Medicine, Arab -- Italy
Humanism -- Italy -- History
Medicine -- History.
Medicine, Medieval.
Humanism.
History of Medicine
Manuscripts, Medical as Topic
History, Medieval
Humanism
history of medicine.
humanism.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy.
MEDICAL -- History.
HISTORY / General
Medicine
Humanism
Medicine, Arab
Medicine, Medieval
History.
SUBJECT Italy
Subject Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351997799
1351997793
9781351997782
1351997785
9781351997775
1351997777
9781315276915
1315276917
Other Titles Carrara herbal