| Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms, Hebrew Translation by Nathan Ha-Meʾati Contributor(s): Bos, Gerrit (Author) |
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ISBN: 900442816X ISBN-13: 9789004428164 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: Hebrew Published: March 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical - History | Asia - General - History | Middle East - General |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.20 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The original Arabic text of Maimonides' major medical work, Medical Aphorisms, was critically edited and translated into English by Gerrit Bos in the years 2004-2017, and published in earlier volumes of the book series The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides. The present work is a new critical edition of the medieval Hebrew translation by Nathan ha-Meʾati, who was active as a translator of scientific texts in Rome in the late thirteenth century, where his colleague Zeraḥyah Ḥen had completed a translation of the same Maimonidean text in 1277, only a few years earlier. Nathan aimed to provide the general reader with a translation that was easier to understand than Zeraḥyah's translation. The present critical edition of Nathan's translation is primarily based on MS Paris, BN, h b. 1174, and not on MS Paris, BN, h b. 1173, used by Suessmann Muntner for his edition in 1959, as this copy suffers from many mistakes and corruptions. |