Ibn al-Baytar's Compendium of Simples
Compendio de simples de Ibn al-Baytar
- Date
- c. 1240 · confidence medium
- Place
- Damascus, Syria
- Credited to
- Ibn al-Baytar (born in Benalmádena, Málaga)
- People
- 👤 Ibn al-Baitar1197–1248
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Pharmacopoeia of some 1,400 plant, animal and mineral substances, with more than 300 not found in Dioscorides, based on his own observations as a travelling botanist. It remained a reference work of pharmacology until the 19th century.
He was chief herbalist to the Ayyubid sultan al-Kamil in Cairo and died in Damascus in 1248.
What it led to
- Ottoman pharmacopoeias
- medical botany
- 19th-century French translations