# Nicholas the monk

- id: nicholas-the-monk
- dates: fl. 951-961, Cordoba
- roles: reviser, scholar

A Greek monk sent from Constantinople after the caliph of Cordoba admitted that nobody in al-Andalus could read the illustrated Dioscorides the emperor had sent. He worked with the city's physicians to pin the Greek plant names to real Andalusian drugs, and died early in al-Hakam II's reign.

## Crossings

- c. 951–962: De Materia Medica into Arabic (reviser) [attested]

## Sources

- Ibn Juljul (987). Tabaqat al-atibba wa-l-hukama.