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"The 'Science of properties' represents a large and fascinating part of Arabic technical literature. The book of Isa Ibn Ali's (9th cent.) 'On the useful properties of animal parts' was the first of such compositions in Arabic. His author was a Syriac physician, disciple of Hunayn ibn Ishaq, who worked at the Abbasid court during the 'floruit' of the translation movement. For the composition of his book, as a multilingual scholar, he collected many different antique and late antique sources. The structure of the text itself-a collection of recipes that favoured a fluid transmission-becomes here the key to a new formal analysis that oriented the editorial solutions as well. The 'Book on the useful properties of animal parts' is a new tile that the Arabic tradition offers to the larger mosaic representing the transfer of technical knowledge in pre-modern times. This text is an important passage in that process of acquisition and original elaboration of knowledge that characterized the early Abbasid period."

Zoology, Medical --- Science, Ancient. --- Diet --- Manuscripts, Arabic --- Materia medica, Animal --- Zoology, Economic --- Manuscrits arabes --- Produits animaux en thérapeutique --- Sciences antiques. --- Zoologie --- Early works to 1800. --- Translations. --- Ouvrages avant 1800. --- Ouvrages prélinnéens. --- ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī, active 9th century. --- Science, Ancient --- Medicine, Arab --- Anatomy --- Medicine, Arabic --- Animal Structures --- Human Body --- Materia Medica --- Zoologie médicale --- Sciences anciennes. --- Alimentation --- Matière médicale animale --- Zoologie économique --- Médecine arabe. --- Anatomie. --- anatomy. --- therapeutic use --- Traductions. --- ʻĪsá ibn ʻAlī, --- Arab countries --- Translations --- Produits animaux en thérapeutique --- Ouvrages prélinnéens.

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Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. As learning and teaching tools, manuscripts become primary witnesses for reconstructing and studying didactic and research activities and methodologies from elementary levels to the most advanced.The present volume investigates the relation between manuscripts and educational practices focusing on four particular research topics: educational settings: teachers, students and their manuscripts; organising knowledge: syllabi; exegetical practices: annotations; modifying tradition: adaptations.The volume offers a number of case studies stretching across geophysical boundaries from Western Europe to South-East Asia, with a time span ranging from the second millennium BCE to the twentieth century CE.

LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Manuscript studies. --- educational practices.