ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī's Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts: Edition, translation and study of a fluid tradition 9783110550368, 9783110549867

ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī's Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts: Edition, translation and study of a fluid tradition 9783110550368, 9783110549867

The ‘Science of properties’ represents a large and fascinating part of Arabic technical literature. The book of ʿĪsā ibn

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Abū ‘Uthmān ibn Baḥr al-Jāḥiẓ. The Book of Misers: A Translation of al-Bukhalā’

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The Syriac Tradition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: A Critical Edition and English Translation 9781463234843

A long-awaited and essential tool for the study of one of the earliest texts of the Christian Apocrypha and an important

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The Syriac Tradition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: A Critical Edition and English Translation 9781463234843

A long-awaited and essential tool for the study of one of the earliest texts of the Christian Apocrypha and an important

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The Useful Knots Book

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The Summa Perfectionis of Pseudo-Geber: A Critical Edition, Translation and Study 9789004094642, 9004094644

Alchemy was a subject of no small controversy in the Middle Ages. To some scholastics, alchemy seemed to arrogate the po

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The Legend of King Asoka: A Study and Translation of the Asokavadana [Course Book ed.] 9781400857098

An English translation of the Asokavadana text, the Sanskrit version of the legend of King Asoka, first written in the s

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The Early Karaite Tradition of Hebrew Grammatical Thought: Including a Critical Edition, Translation and Analysis of the Diqduq of ʼAbū Yaʻqūb Yūsuf Ibn Nūḥ on the Hagiographa 9004119337, 9789004119338

A large section from a hitherto unknown Hebrew grammatical text, written in the tenth century by the Karaite scholar ’Ab

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Gunpowder Technology in the Fifteenth Century: A Study, Edition and Translation of the "Firework Book" (Royal Armouries Research Series, 3) [Translation ed.] 1783277319, 9781783277315

The first full edition and English translation of the RA I.34 Firework Book. Produced from the early fifteenth century

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The Syriac Tradition of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: A Critical Edition and English Translation 1463205848, 9781463205843

A long-awaited and essential tool for the study of one of the earliest texts of the Christian Apocrypha and an important

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