Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms, Hebrew Translation by Nathan Ha-Meʾati

By Gerrit Bos

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900442816X
• ISBN13: 9789004428164
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"