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Try checking on Judah b. Solomn Nathan in the Encyclopedia Judaica, in
Gallia Judaica b. Henri Gross. I'll see if I xan track him down in the
Hebrew literature on Provene.
Jeffrey Woolf
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, John Briggs wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> 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.
> >
>
> I think the physician must be Ibn Wafid al-Lakhmi (of Toledo) - Latin name:
> Abenguefit.He seems to be 11th century rather than 12th (born 997, died
> c.1074).His two books seem to be Kitab al-Wisad, which seems to be about
> sleep in medicine (although he is also supposed to have written on
> balneotherapy), and a treatise on materia medica: al-kitab fi al-adwiya
> al-mufrada.He seems to be mostly written up in the history of medicine -
> and in Spanish!
>
> John Briggs
>
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