Medical Synonym Lists from Medieval Provence ─ Shem Tov ben Isaak of Tortosa, Sefer ha-Shimmush Book 29: Edition and Commentary of List 1

This critical edition and lexicological analysis of the first of the two glossaries of Book 29 of Shem Tov ben Isaac's Sefer ha-Shimmush contains more than 700 entries and offfers an extensive overview of the formation of medieval medical terminology in the romance (Old Occitan and in part Old Catalan) and Hebrew languages, as well as within the Arabic and Latin tradition.

Gerrit Bos is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively on Arabic, Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew medical literature in the Middle Ages, including the critical edition and translation of Maimonides' medical works.Martina Hussein is an adult education lecturer and is currently completing a PhD on Arabic medical literature in the Middle Ages, including the critical edition and translation of Ibn al-Jazzar's Book of the Reliability of Simple Drugs.Guido Mensching is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the Freie Universitat Berlin. He has published extensively on Romance medical lexicology in the Middle Ages, including La sinonima delos nonbres delas medecinas (Madrid: Arco Libros 1994) and on the syntax of the Romance languages.Frank Savelsberg is a research fellow in Romance Linguistics at the Freie Universitat Berlin. His PhD thesis focuses on Spanish Golden Age poetry, and he is active in the field of the history of the Romance languages.