Book ID: 100592
Corriente Cordoba, Frederico, Mohamed Tilmatine and Joaquin Bustamente (eds.)
Abu I-hayr al-Isbili: Kitabu Umdati t-tabib fi ma'rifati nnabat likulli labib / Libro base del medico para el conocimiento da la Botanica por todo experto. Vol. 3. 2010. (Fuentes Arabico - Hispanas, Vol. 34). 1062 p. gr8vo. - Bound in 2 volumes. - In Catalans.
This third volume concludes the editing and translation of Kitabu...It gives an account of the literature, along with comprehensive indexes,so as to make the work an effective tool for botanists, lexicographersand historians. The first block is ordered by the binominal nomenclature of botanical and zoological species, and by chemical formulas in the case of minerals. The second block of indexes isordered by terms transcribed from the Arabic script, which has also been divided according to the three traditional kingdoms of nature.It is complemented with indexes of proper names, an index of common names, professions and human groups, and another with the proper namesof the stars and signs of the Zodiac. The volume ends with an index ofplaces names, the works cited in the text and a further two indexes ofconcepts, one medical and pharmaceutical, and a commercial, industrialand technological lexicon.