| On Asthma, Volume 2: Critical Editions of Hebrew and Latin Translations Contributor(s): Maimonides, Moses (Author), Bos, Gerrit (Editor), McVaugh, Michael R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0842526900 ISBN-13: 9780842526906 Publisher: Brigham Young University Press OUR PRICE: $132.95 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - Medical | Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine |
| Dewey: 616.238 |
| LCCN: 2008025452 |
| Series: Medical Works of Moses Maimonides |
| Physical Information: 2" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" (2.50 lbs) 798 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Maimonides, one of the most celebrated rabbis in the history of Judaism, was a prolific author of influential Arabic philosophical and medical treatises as well as two of the most important works on Jewish law. Presented here as a companion to the English translation and Arabic text of the first volume, On Asthma, Volume Two offers Gerrit Bos's critical editions of all three surviving medieval Hebrew translations of Maimonides' work: one allegedly prepared by the fourteenth-century physician Samuel Benveniste, who served Don Manuel, brother of King Pedro IV of Aragon; a second by Joshua Shatibi from J tiva (X tiva) between the years 1379 and 1390, for the referendary Fern n D az of Toledo at the court of King Juan II of Castile; and a third by an anonymous translator, perhaps in the thirteenth century. The volume also contains critical editions by Michael R. McVaugh of the two medieval Latin translations of Maimonides' treatise, one probably made by Giovanni da Capua at Rome c. 1300 and the other begun by Armengaud Blaise in Montpellier in 1294 but completed eight years later. It concludes with a section of addenda and corrigenda to the first volume. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bos, Gerrit: - Gerrit Bos is emeritus chair of the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne. |