The book of the crown (Kitāb al-Iklīl) of pseudo-Rhazes

Kahl, Oliver

The book of the crown (Kitāb al-Iklīl) of pseudo-Rhazes - Leiden : Brill, 2023

Oliver Kahl, Ph.D. (1993), University of Manchester, is Research Fellow at the Department of Semitic Studies, University of Marburg, Germany.

Oliver Kahl and Henrietta Sharp Cockrell present a facsimile edition of a newly discovered medieval medical text attributed to the famous physician Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʼ al-Rāzī (Rhazes, d. 925 CE). This unique Arabic manuscript comprises a work in the health regimen genre titled "Book of the Crown" (Kitāb al-Iklīl). Copied in 1220 CE and bound parallel to the text (flip-bound), it is highly unusual, both in terms of physical appearance and topical choices. The edition is accompanied by an annotated English translation en regard, a detailed introduction including a codicological study, and bilingual indices.

978-90-04-54402-4

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