ABSTRACT
Synonyma is a term used to describe medical works that provide synonyms in the same or different languages for the ingredients of medicines, the medical simples. Simon refers to a Synonyma Stephani frequently throughout his catalog of medical simples. And when one looks for the quotations from the Synonyma in the Clavis sanationis, one finds them in very similar words in the Breviarium. Let us now travel to the other end of the Mediterranean to look at the example of Stephen of Antioch's Breviarium. For a fuller account of Stephen's Breviarium, see Charles Burnett, "Simon of Genoa's use of the Breviarium of Stephen, the Disciple of Philosophy", in Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon, ed. The Breviarium turns out to be a list of 583 medical simples, arranged in three columns, with the Greek on the left side, the equivalent Arabic terms on the right, and the occasional Latin translations in the middle.
