du Tànrean, Taurusy the second sign of the Zodiac

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9. araMame. The Arabs, especially in Spain, cultivated medicine and natural science. They had also preserved many of the works of Aristotle and introduced them to the West. Avicenna in the eleventh century and Averroes in the twelfth were two of their most famous physidans and philosophers. Orthodox practitioners, however, distrusted Arabian medicine.

17. à son haut de cuir, the dative of the sign by which récognition is effected. See Eve § 150.