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Enrichment of the medical vocabulary in the Greek-speaking medieval communities of southern Italy the lexica of plant names

The anonymous Greek medical lexicon of synonymous words in Holkham gr. 112 (olim 289) is edited and examined for the first time in this paper. The Holkham gr. 112 (olim 289) belongs to the Holkham collection of Greek manuscripts at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The lexica of plant names in the Hol...

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Main Author: Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros
Corporate Author: İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Instanbul Istanbul Research Institute 2018, February 2018
Subjects:
Byzantium
Italy
Greek World
Plants, Medicinal
Literature, Medieval
Vocabulary
Manuscripts, Medical As Topic
Materia Medica
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Collection: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The anonymous Greek medical lexicon of synonymous words in Holkham gr. 112 (olim 289) is edited and examined for the first time in this paper. The Holkham gr. 112 (olim 289) belongs to the Holkham collection of Greek manuscripts at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The lexica of plant names in the Holkham manuscript belongs to the category of works that preserve synonymous words for materia medica, mainly plants in Greek-speaking medieval communities of Byzantine rule in southern Italy
Item Description:Chapter 9 of the book: Life is short, art Long : the art of healing in Byzantium, new perspectives / Brigitte Pitarakis and Gülru Tanman, editors. Istanbul : Istanbul Research Institute, February 2018
Physical Description:1 PDF file (pages 155-184) illustration

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