Statement

When the Byzantine emperor sent the caliph a rare Greek manuscript on pharmacology, he also sent a monk to translate it from Greek into Latin (De Materia Medica), and it came to Hasdai to put the Latin into Arabic.

References

1. p. 167

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   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

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