De la pestilence à la fragrance. L’origine de l’ambre gris selon les auteurs arabes
The origin of ambergris, an intestinal pathologic secretion of the sperm-whale, used in perfumes and medieval pharmacology, had been long debated among Arab scholars. The paper exposes the various hypotheses related to this origin, and its textual transmission during medieval times. These traditions...
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| author | Thierry Buquet |
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| description | The origin of ambergris, an intestinal pathologic secretion of the sperm-whale, used in perfumes and medieval pharmacology, had been long debated among Arab scholars. The paper exposes the various hypotheses related to this origin, and its textual transmission during medieval times. These traditions show a good example of complex relations between good and bad odors, connected to the different colors of ambergris (black, grey, white) and to its animal (whale or fish-dung), mineral or vegetal origin. |
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| spelling | fthcommons:oai:hcommons.org/hc:11703 2025-01-17T00:58:04+00:00 De la pestilence à la fragrance. L’origine de l’ambre gris selon les auteurs arabes Thierry Buquet 2016 https://doi.org/10.17613/M6CW5D French fre OpenEdition http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6CW5D 1108176:Science:topical 958235:History:topical 1020301:Middle Ages:topical 2016 fthcommons https://doi.org/10.17613/M6CW5D 2024-10-22T01:07:09Z The origin of ambergris, an intestinal pathologic secretion of the sperm-whale, used in perfumes and medieval pharmacology, had been long debated among Arab scholars. The paper exposes the various hypotheses related to this origin, and its textual transmission during medieval times. These traditions show a good example of complex relations between good and bad odors, connected to the different colors of ambergris (black, grey, white) and to its animal (whale or fish-dung), mineral or vegetal origin. Other/Unknown Material Sperm whale Humanities Commons CORE Deposits |
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| title | De la pestilence à la fragrance. L’origine de l’ambre gris selon les auteurs arabes |
| title_full | De la pestilence à la fragrance. L’origine de l’ambre gris selon les auteurs arabes |
| title_fullStr | De la pestilence à la fragrance. L’origine de l’ambre gris selon les auteurs arabes |
| title_full_unstemmed | De la pestilence à la fragrance. L’origine de l’ambre gris selon les auteurs arabes |
| title_short | De la pestilence à la fragrance. L’origine de l’ambre gris selon les auteurs arabes |
| title_sort | de la pestilence à la fragrance. l’origine de l’ambre gris selon les auteurs arabes |
| topic | 1108176:Science:topical 958235:History:topical 1020301:Middle Ages:topical |
| topic_facet | 1108176:Science:topical 958235:History:topical 1020301:Middle Ages:topical |
| url | https://doi.org/10.17613/M6CW5D |