Arabic-L:LING:Resources for medieval plant names

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Date: 25 Aug 2010
From: NEWMAN D.L. <daniel.newman at durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Resources for medieval plant names

Hello,
 
I have found the following useful:
 
Anawati, G. C. (1959): Tarikh al-saydala wa 'l-'aqaqir fi 'l-ahd al-qadim wa 'l-asr al-wasit. Drogues et Medicaments dans l'Antiquite et le Moyen-age, Cairo: Dar al-Maaref.
Ben Mrad, Ibrahim (1990): Ibn al-Baytar.Commentaire de la 'Materia Medica' de Dioscoride, Carthage: Beit al-Hikma.
Bedevian, Armenag K. (1936): Illustrated Polyglottic Dictionary of Plant Names, Cairo.
Issa Bey, Ahmed (1930): Dictionnaire des noms des plantes en latin, francais, anglais et arabe, Cairo.
Hamidullah, Muhammad (1973): Le Dictionnaire botanique d'Abu Hanifa al-Dinawari, Cairo: IFAO.
Dietrich, Albert (1991): Die Dioskurides-Erklarung des Ibn al-Baitar. Ein Beitrage zur arabische Pflanzensynonymyk des Mittelalters, Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1991.
Schmucker, W. (1969): Die pflanzliche und mineralishe Materia Medica im Firdaus al-Hikma des Tabari, (Bonner Orientalische Studien, Neue Serie, Bd 18), Bonn.
Von Sontheimer, J. (1842): Grosse Zusammenstellung ueber die Kraefte der bekannten einfachen Heil-und Nahrungsmittel von Abu Mohammed Abdallah Ben Ahmed aus Malaga bekannt unter dem Namen Ebn Baithar, Stuttgart: Hallberger'sche Verlagshandlung.
 
Best,
 
D. Newman

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