Sefer ko'aḥ ha-avanim = : On the virtue of the stones : Hebrew text and English translation : with a lexicological analysis of the romance terminology and source study / / Berakhyah Ben Natronai ha-Nakdan ; edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos and Julia Zwink.
The lore of the supposed magic and medical virtue of stones goes back to the Babylonians and peaks out in the lapidary literature of the Middle Ages. The famous work of Marbode of Rennes, which made lapidaries a very popular type of medieval scientific literature, was translated into numerous vernac...
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Superior document: | Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval, t. 40 |
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Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval ;
t. 40. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (197 pages) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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