The oriental tradition of Paul of Aegina's Pragmateia / / by Peter E. Pormann.

The volume investigates how Paul of Aegina's medical handbook or pragmateia was transmitted and transformed through Syriac and Arabic translations, becoming one of the cornerstones of the Islamic medical tradition. It uses new manuscript evidence in order to explore the crucial impact of Paul&#...

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Superior document:Studies in ancient medicine, v. 29
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2004.
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Arabic
Greek
Series:Studies in Ancient Medicine 29.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 337 pages)
Notes:Some Arabic and Greek texts included.
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