Gerrit Bos is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively on Arabic, Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew medical literature in the Middle Ages, including the critical edition and translation of Maimonides' medical works.Martina Hussein is an adult education lecturer and is currently completing a PhD on Arabic medical literature in the Middle Ages, including the critical edition and translation of Ibn al-Jazzar's Book of the Reliability of Simple Drugs.Guido Mensching is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has published extensively on Romance medical lexicology in the Middle Ages, including La sinonima delos nonbres delas medeçinas (Madrid: Arco Libros 1994) and on the syntax of the Romance languages.Frank Savelsberg is a research fellow in Romance Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin. His PhD thesis focuses on Spanish Golden Age poetry, and he is active in the field of the history of the Romance languages.

• INTRODUCTION1. General overview and preliminaries2. Medieval synonym lists in Hebrew characters3. Shem Tov’s synonym lists in the Sefer ha-Shimmush4. How Shem Tov’s synonym lists were compiled5. The vernacular element6. The edition and the commentaryBibliographyPlatesEDITION OF SEFER HA-SHIMMUSH, BOOK 28, SYNONYM LIST 1

Gerrit Bos is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively on Arabic, Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew medical literature in the Middle Ages, including the critical edition and translation of Maimonides' medical works.Martina Hussein is an adult education lecturer and is currently completing a PhD on Arabic medical literature in the Middle Ages, including the critical edition and translation of Ibn al-Jazzar's Book of the Reliability of Simple Drugs.Guido Mensching is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has published extensively on Romance medical lexicology in the Middle Ages, including La sinonima delos nonbres delas medeçinas (Madrid: Arco Libros 1994) and on the syntax of the Romance languages.Frank Savelsberg is a research fellow in Romance Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin. His PhD thesis focuses on Spanish Golden Age poetry, and he is active in the field of the history of the Romance languages.

• INTRODUCTION1. General overview and preliminaries2. Medieval synonym lists in Hebrew characters3. Shem Tov’s synonym lists in the Sefer ha-Shimmush4. How Shem Tov’s synonym lists were compiled5. The vernacular element6. The edition and the commentaryBibliographyPlatesEDITION OF SEFER HA-SHIMMUSH, BOOK 28, SYNONYM LIST 1

Gerrit Bos is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. He has published extensively on Arabic, Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew medical literature in the Middle Ages, including the critical edition and translation of Maimonides' medical works.Martina Hussein is an adult education lecturer and is currently completing a PhD on Arabic medical literature in the Middle Ages, including the critical edition and translation of Ibn al-Jazzar's Book of the Reliability of Simple Drugs.Guido Mensching is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has published extensively on Romance medical lexicology in the Middle Ages, including La sinonima delos nonbres delas medeçinas (Madrid: Arco Libros 1994) and on the syntax of the Romance languages.Frank Savelsberg is a research fellow in Romance Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin. His PhD thesis focuses on Spanish Golden Age poetry, and he is active in the field of the history of the Romance languages.

• INTRODUCTION1. General overview and preliminaries2. Medieval synonym lists in Hebrew characters3. Shem Tov’s synonym lists in the Sefer ha-Shimmush4. How Shem Tov’s synonym lists were compiled5. The vernacular element6. The edition and the commentaryBibliographyPlatesEDITION OF SEFER HA-SHIMMUSH, BOOK 28, SYNONYM LIST 1