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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Main Author: Thierry Buquet
Language:French
Published: OpenEdition 2016
Subjects:
1108176:Science:topical
958235:History:topical
1020301:Middle Ages:topical
Sperm whale
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17613/M6CW5D
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spelling fthcommons:oai:hcommons.org/hc:11703 2024-06-23T07:56:58+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 2024-06-11T00:16:06Z 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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De la pestilence à la fragrance. L’origine de l’ambre gris selon les auteurs arabes
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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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title 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_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
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