HERB - Arabic medical manuscripts catalog

[Jenne Heise]

This may be of interest to some people. Though it doesn't have images of
or translations of all the texts, it does have good background material:

from the Scout Report:
> 3.  Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine
>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/arabichome.html
>
>This recently announced site highlights the National Library of
>Medicine's (NLM) collection of Islamic medical manuscripts, "one of
>the three greatest in the world," with over 330 texts, including some
>with no other known copy in existence. The illustrated, online
>catalog includes essays on the featured texts accompanied by
>thumbnail images, physical descriptions, provenance, and additional
>resources. Also on-site are an introduction to Medieval Islam and
>bibliographies. Throughout the site, selected terms are linked to
>their definitions in the glossary. The texts will be posted in three
>installments. The first, now online, deals with medical
>encyclopedias. Subsequent additions will cover pharmaceuticals,
>plague tracts, veterinary medicine, and general hygiene; with as many
>as 300 illustrations in the final catalog. While especially useful
>for students and researchers in the history of medicine and science,
>the site will also appeal to general users interested in these topics
>as well as the history of Islamic and European culture. [MD]



Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
   "My hands are small I know, but they're not yours, they are my own"

============================================================================
Go to http://lists.ansteorra.org/lists.html to perform mailing list tasks.