Gerrit Bos

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.

Michael R. McVaugh

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