Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara Herbal in Padua

by Sarah Rozalja Kyle

Book Overview

This book is the first study to consider the extraordinary manuscript now known as the Carrara Herbal (British Library, Egerton 2020) within the complex network of medical, artistic and intellectual traditions from which it emerged. The manuscript contains an illustrated, vernacular copy of the thirteenth-century pharmacopeia by Ibn Sarābī, an Arabic-speaking Christian physician working in al-Andalus known in the West as Serapion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367879840
• ISBN13: 9780367879846
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"