10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «XYLOBALSAMUM»
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xylobalsamum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
xylobalsamum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Masada: The Latin and Greek documents
Pliny's description of the varieties of the balsam plant and the manufacture of
balsam gives a context to the two cryptic references to xylobalsamum in the
Masada papyri: "There is a market even for the twigs too; within five years of the
conquest ...
Yigael Yadin, Ḥevrah la-ḥaḳirat Erets-Yiśraʼel ṿe-ʻatiḳoteha, Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim, 1989
2
Jahn's Biblical archaeology, tr
The sap, extracted from the body of the tree or shrub, is called the opobalsamum ;
the juice of the balsam fruit is denominated car- pobalsamum, and the liquid,
extracted from the branches when cut off, the xylobalsamum. §. 75. The Palm ...
3
Lectures on the Materia Medica Etc. Published from the ...
It ssmay be dropt on sugar; taken in a soft egg; or dissolved in the yolk of an egg,
and mixed with any liquid, As for the Carpobalsamum and Xylobalsamum ; as
their virtues depend on the balsam they contain, if genuine and fresh, so when ...
4
The Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature
Carpobalsamum is said to have been made by the expression of the fruit when in
maturity, and xylobalsamum, by the expression or decoction of the small new
twigs, which are of a reddish colour. But the ancients probably employed both the
...
5
A Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
... the wood of the balsam- tree, and therefore analogous to the xylobalsamum of
the ancients. Carpobalsamum was probably only the fruit of one of these species.
Opobal- samum, or juice of the balsam, is generally described as the finest kind ...
6
Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature
Carpobalsamum is said to have been made by the expression of the fruit when in
maturity, and xylobalsamum, by the expression or di-coction of the small new
twigs, which are of a reddish colour. But the ancients probably employed both the
...
7
An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
... the wood (or driedtwigs) of the balmof Gilead tree.(L.– Gk.)'The Indians doe
callit Xilo, andwe do call the sameBalsamo;' Frampton, tr.of Monardes, fol. 7, back
. Evidently an error, astheword occurs in Pliny. Spelt xylobalsamum in Holland, tr.
8
The gardeners dictionary
... the xylobalsamum. The great value set upon this drug in the East remounts to
very early ages. "We know from Scripture, that the Ish- maelites, or Arabian
carriers and mer- ehants, trafficking with Indian commodities to Egypt, brought
with ...
9
A cyclopædia of biblical literature, ed. by J. Kitto
Carpobalsamum is said to have been made by the expression of the fruit when in
maturity, and xylobalsamum, by the expression or decoction of the small new
twigs, which are of a reddish colour. But the ancients probably employed both the
...
10
Lectures on the Materia Medica: Containing the Natural ...
It may be dropt on sugar; taken in a soft egg; or dissolved in the yolk of an egg,
and mixed with any liquid, As for the Carpobalsamum and Xylobalsamum ; as
their virtues depend on the balsam they contain, if genuine and fresh, so when
they ...
Charles Alston, J. Bell ((Edimburgo)), John Hope, 1770
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... הזול ביותר היה 'עצת האפרסמון' )Xylobalsamum( שנאספה במהלך גיזום הצמח, ובתקופה הרומית היא למעשה הכניסה את מירב הרווח לאוצר השלטון )Pliny, 1989, XII 118(. «Kr8 - ישראלי פטריוטי, May 14»
