This is the first medical book – an Arabic work on medicine, pharmacology, and therapeutics – translated by a Jew (Abraham of Tortosa, fl. 13th century). “Simples” are the foundations (plant, animal, or mineral) upon which compounded preparations are formulated. Excerpt from Abraham of Tortosa's translation of Ibn Serapion's Liber Aggregatus in Medicinis Simplicibus [Compilation on Simple Medicines], showing the illuminated initials
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