IL MIRABOLANO NEL LIBER DE SIMPLICI MEDICINE INFLUENZE DELLA FARMACOPEA INDIANA NELLA SCUOLA DI SALERNO
MYROBALAN IN THE LIBER DE SIMPLICI MEDICINE INFLUENCES OF THE INDIAN PHARMACOPOEIA IN THE SCHOOL OF SALERNO

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this contribution is to provide the initial evidence of an indirect link, that between the Indian medicine and pharmacopoeia, on one side, and, on the other, literary production of the Salerno School, perhaps the largest center of study and medical practice in the medieval West during the XI–XIII centuries. In particular, the presence of myrobalan, a plant widely used in the Indian medical tradition, is identified and examined within the Liber de simplici medicine, also known as Circa Instans, a compilation of the Salerno School dating back to the mid-twelfth century, and in short time spread throughout western Europe. The Italian translation and Latin transcription of the entry De myrobalanisin the Liber de simplici medicine accompany the text.

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