De la pestilence à la fragrance. L'origine de l'ambre gris selon les auteurs arabes

• Published in: Bulletin d’études orientales
• Main Author: Buquet, Thierry
• Other Authors: Centre Michel de Boüard - Centre de recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales (CRAHAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO), MIN AFF ETRANG-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: ambergris; amber; whale; sperm‑whale; odors; history of zoology; Arabic zoology; cachalot; ambre; baleine; ambre gris; odeurs; histoire de la zoologie; zoologie arabe; hisphilso; hist; Baleine; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/beo.4692; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01303794/file/BEO-2015_Buquet_ambre-gris.pdf; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01303794

International audience 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...