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I looked at the Catalogue of the Microfilmed Manuscripts at Hebrew
UNiversity's National Library. They show seven manuscripts of the book,
the earliest two being mid-late fourteenth century.' In Hebrew the work is
known as 'MeReshit Ha-Rosh.' One of the MSS is discussed in A. Neubauer,
Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford 1886),
the number is Oxford - Bodleian Library MS Mich. Add. 22. Thaty should be
a start. The Nathan Family, to hich the cpoyist, may have been a part, was
a distinguished Provencal rabbinic family.
Jeffrey Woolf
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, V. Kerry Inman wrote:
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> > I know that he translated IBN WAFID`s book named THE BOOK OF THE PILLOW or
> > in Arabic EL-KITAB AL-WISAD. Ibn Wafid was a 12th century phisician fro al
> > Andalus.
> >
> > The book of Ibn Wafid was translated into the Hebrew Lenguage by the
> > mentioned Judah ben Solomon Nathan and named by him MERA`ASHOT HA-ROSH.
> >
> > This bring me to ask again for any biblio/biographicalinformation either
> > about JUDAH BAN SOLOMON or about his book.
> >
> > Your sincerely,
> > Uriel
> >
>
> --This person is so obscure that I could not even find anything in our Mideast
> Seminar room about him.Roger Allen (author, INTRODUCTION TO ARABIC
> LITERATURE) also had no recollection of encountering either the Arab physician
> or the translator.
>
> Sorry.
>
> V. K. Inman
>
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