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Originally published in hardback in 2019 as Volume 134/2.2 in the series Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik, Section 1, The Near and Middle East.
Cover illustration: Physician with two patients, illustrating the Arabic translation of Dioscorides’ treatise on medicinal substances. Copied in Baghdad, 1224 (Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler, S1986.97).
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Names: Savage-Smith, Emilie, editor. | Swain, Simon, editor. | Gelder, G. J. H. van, editor. | Sánchez Rojo, Ignacio Javier, editor.
Title: A literary history of medicine : the 'Uyūn al-anbā' fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbā', of Ibn Abīuṣaybi’ah / edited and translated by Emilie Savage-Smith, Simon Swain, Geert Jan Van Gelder ; with Ignacio Sánchez [and four others].
Other titles: ‘Uyūn al-anbā’ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbā’
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]- | Series: Handbook of Oriental studies. Section One, Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 134/1 | Includes index. | Contents: volume 1. Essays | Mainly in English; includes Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Arabic text.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019040086 | ISBN 9789004410312 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004410558 (v.1 ; hardback) | ISBN 9789004410541 (v.2-1 ; hardback) | ISBN 9789004417830 (v. 2-2 ; hardback) | ISBN 9789004410534 (v. 3-1 ; hardback) | ISBN 9789004410527 (v. 3-2 ; hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Physicians–Arab countries–Biography. | Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʻah, Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim, -1269 or 1270. | Physicians–Biography. | Medicine, Arab. | Medicine, Medieval. | Medicine, Greek and Roman. | Medicine–History.
Classification: LCC R144.A1 L58 2020 | DDC 610.9–dc23
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