Immanuel Löw, Die Flora der Juden

Vienna and Leipzig, 1924–34, four volumes in five: the standard reference on plants in Jewish literature, in German, with Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic and Greek on every page. This is a test reading edition: machine transcription and English translation of a few pages, made to see what current tools can do.

• PistaciaTerebinth, mastic, pistachio · Bd. I pp. 191–200 · the whole entry
• OleaOlive · Bd. II p. 289 · one page
• CitrusThe etrog · Bd. III p. 287 · one page

Tables of contents

• Contents, Bd. I, first halfKryptogamae, Acanthaceae – Composaceae (1926)
• Contents, Bd. I, second halfKryptogamae, Acanthaceae – Composaceae (1926), second half
• Contents, Bd. IIIridaceae – Papilionaceae (1924)
• Contents, Bd. IIIPedaliaceae – Zygophyllaceae (1924)
• Contents, Bd. IVSummary, addenda, corrections, indexes, abbreviations (1934)

What this is, and what it is not

• The transcription and the translation are machine output (Claude Opus 5.5). One page (Bd. I p. 194) was checked by hand; its Syriac words are not yet verified.
• Abbreviations are expanded from Löw's own list in Bd. IV pp. 731–740 where possible (table).
• Each page links to the scan: please check it before citing anything.
• Code, data, method and costs: github.com/EzraBrand/low-flora.