Berakhyah Ben Natronai ha-Nakdan : Sefer ko'aḥ ha-avanim (On the virtue of the stones) ; Hebrew text and English translation ; with lexicological analysis of the romance terminology and source study /
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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés Hebrew |
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Leiden :
Brill,
2010.
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Series: | Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ;
v. 40. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |