63:). That puts a lower bound on when Serapion the Younger wrote. It is therefore supposed he wrote in the 12th century. It remains possible he wrote in the 13th century because there is no record of the full book anywhere until the late 13th century. On the basis of his name he might have been a Christian because "Serapion" and its Arabic equivalents "Sarafyun" and "Sarabi" is a Greek name. But since the identity of this Serapion is completely unknown, his name Serapion can be a
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112:. There is also a manuscript of it in a Latin-to-Italian translation dated 1390-1404 which contains many colour illustrations of plants, and which historians have named the "Carrara Herbal". Medievally the work was sometimes coupled with the works of the elder Serapion, as they were often supposed to have been the same person. After the
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217:, by Luisa Fernanda Aguirre de Cárcer, year 1995, in two volumes. Volume II has the medieval Arabic text of Ibn Wafid, and Volume I translates it into modern Spanish. In volume I in numerous footnotes the editor mentions content correspondences between Ibn Wafid and Serapion the Younger.
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