Gerrit Bos

The Night-Shift Ending

Fabian Käs

Michael R. McVaugh

The compendium entitled Zād al-musāfir by Ibn al-Jazzār (tenth century) is one of the most influential handbooks in the history of western medicine. The present volume includes critical editions of the Arabic original, its Latin translation, and three Hebrew versions.

Books I and II: Diseases of the Head and the Face

Ibn al-Jazzār’s Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-ḥāḍir. Provisions for the Traveller and Nourishment for the Sedentary

Joseph Shatzmiller

The volume presents Avenzoar’s Regimen of Health (from twelfth-century Spain) in its medieval Latin and Hebrew translations from Arabic, together with an English version, and demonstrates in detail how the translation team—one Jew, one Christian—negotiated its collaborative result.

Stages in the Production of a Medieval Translation

The Regimen sanitatis of “Avenzoar”

Klaus-Dietrich Fischer

With A Glimpse into Medical Practice among Jews around 1500: Latin-German Pharmaceutical Glossaries in Hebrew Characters extant in Ms Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Cod. Or. 4732/1 (SCAL 15), fols. 1a–17b, Gerrit Bos and Klaus-Dietrich Fischer present an edition of two unique medieval lists of medico-botanical terms in German and Latin, written in Hebrew characters.

Latin-German Pharmaceutical Glossaries in Hebrew Characters extant in Ms Leiden Universiteitsbibliotheek, Cod. Or. 4732/1 (SCAL 15), fols. 1a–17b

A Glimpse into Medical Practice among Jews around 1500

With Maimonides’ On the Regimen of Health Gerrit Bos offers a new critical edition and translation of the original Arabic text, the medieval Hebrew translations and the Latin translations, the latter edited by Michael McVaugh.

A New Parallel Arabic-English Translation

Maimonides, On the Regimen of Health

Martina Hussein

Shem Tov ben Isaak (of Tortosa)

This critical edition and lexicological analysis of the first of the two glossaries of Book 29 of Shem Tov ben Isaac's Sefer ha-Shimmush contains more than 700 entries and offfers an extensive overview of the formation of medieval medical terminology in the romance (Old Occitan and in part Old Catalan) and Hebrew languages, as well as within the Arabic and Latin tradition.

Part1: Edition and Commentary of List 1 (Hebrew - Arabic - Romance/Latin)

Medical Synonym Lists from Medieval Provence: Shem Tov Ben Isaac of Tortosa: Sefer Ha - Shimmush. Book 29

Julia Zwink

Combining the edition of a Hebrew lapidary, written around 1300 in Normandy, with a source study and a linguistic analysis of the Anglo-Norman terms featuring within the Hebrew text, this volume illustrates the prolific scientific interchange between Orient and Occident.

With a Lexicological Analysis of the Romance Terminology and Source Study

Berakhyah Ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, Sefer Ko’aḥ ha-Avanim (On the Virtue of the Stones). Hebrew Text and English Translation

Y. Tzvi Langermann

Galen most important books were mediated through "summaries" which not only shortened, but also revised Galenic teachings. This book presents the first editions, translations, and studies of the remaining summaries to On Critical Days.

Editions and Translations of the Two Versions of the JAWĀMIʿ, with an Introduction and Notes

The Alexandrian Summaries of Galen’s On Critical Days

In The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides Gerrit Bos offers new English translations of three major and six minor medical treatises by Maimonides (1138–1204), based on the original Arabic texts and collected in one volume for the first time.

The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides: New English Translations based on the Critical Editions of the Arabic Manuscripts

Guido Mensching

The authors present a critical edition of the Hebrew pharmacopeia Sefer Almansur (13th c., written by Shem Tov ben Isaac in Marseille), its English translation and an analysis of the Romance (Old Occitan) medical terms, which are included in the Hebrew text.

With a Supplement on the Romance and Latin Terminology

Medical Glossaries in the Hebrew Tradition: Shem Tov Ben Isaac, Sefer Almansur

The new critical edition of Maimonides’ Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms by Gerrit Bos is the first with an English translation based on the Arabic text. It also contains three medieval Hebrew translations.

A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation, with Critical Editions of the Medieval Hebrew Translations

Maimonides, Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms Volume 2

Maimonides, Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms Volume 1

Oliver Kahl

This book offers an Arabic edition, English translation, study and glossaries of ʿUbaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšūʿ’s (d. c. 1060 CE) important work on apparent death; an appendix moreover provides the Arabic and Hebrew recensions of ʿUbaidallāh’s lost Greek Vorlage.

The Kitāb Taḥrīm dafn al-aḥyāʾ, Arabic Edition and English Translation with a Hebrew Supplement by Gerrit Bos

ʿUbaidallāh Ibn Buḫtīšūʿ on Apparent Death

As an important addition to the critical editions of the original Arabic text and medieval Hebrew translations of Maimonides’ Medical Aphorisms, Gerrit Bos offers an Arabic-Hebrew-English glossary of 5,600 technical terms and materia medica along with Hebrew indexes.

Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms: Glossary & Indexes

The present work is the first critical edition of the medieval Hebrew translation of Moses Maimonides' Medical Aphorisms by R. Zeraḥyah ben Isaac ben Sheʾaltiel Ḥen.

Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms, Hebrew Translation by R. Zeraḥyah ben Isaac ben Sheʾaltiel Ḥen

The present work is a new critical edition of the medieval Hebrew translation of Moses Maimonides' Medical Aphorisms by Nathan ha-Meʾat.

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

This volume is part of a wider project aiming at mapping the technical medical terminology as it features in medieval Hebrew medical works, especially those terms that do not feature in the current dictionaries at all, or insufficiently.

Gerrit Bos

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