Anecdotes and Antidotes

Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah was a Syrian Arab physician of the 13th century who compiled a biographical encyclopedia of notable physicians, and scholars from the Greeks, Romans, Syriacs and Indians including Galen and Avicenna.

After graduating from Durham University with a degree in Modern Arabic Studies, Henrietta Sharp Cockrell worked as a specialist for Christie's Islamic Dept in London for several years. Now freelance, her consultancy work has included contributing to the Nasser D Khalili catalogue, Gems and Jewels of Mughal India, and assisting on the first volume of New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library where she devised the Sharp Scale for quantifying paper translucency. She also worked in Kuwait for UNESCO after the Iraqi invasion and is an occasional writer for The Art Newspaper.

- Introduction
- Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation
- Editorial Note
- Select Bibliography
- Chronology
- Map
- Anecdotes and Antidotes. A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians. A New Translation.
- Explanatory Notes
- Appendix 1: Weights and Measures
- Appendix 2: Gazetteer of Place-Names
- Appendix 3: Concordance of biographies with those in the full text
- Appendix 4: List of Sources used by Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah
- List of Illustrations and Diagrams