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Israeli, Isaac, c 832-c 932 (Arab Jewish physician and philosopher)

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Dates

  • Existence: 0832~-0932~- - 0932

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Liber de Definitionibus [incomplete], by Isaac Israeli ben Solomon

 Part
Identifier: MS 134/ff. 34v-36v
Contents A text beginning with 'Incipit liber Isaac de diffinitionibus' is included on the last folios, ff. 34v-36v, of this manuscript. The work on these folios seems to be a text on philosophy by a 9th-10th century Arabic physician and philosopher, Isaac Israeli ben Solomon, also known as Isaac Israeli the Elder. He is most famous as the father of medieval Jewish neoplatonism, but he wrote scientific treatises on medicine, as well as pyschology and logic. Of his philosophical and logical texts, his...
Dates: 14th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including two texts

Liber urinarum, by Isaac Judaeus, 1481

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Identifier: MS 169/ ff. 71r-83v
Contents Ff. 71-83 of MS 169 contain the Liber urinarum ('Book on urine') by Isaac Judaeus. Also known as Isaac Israeli Ben Solomon, Judaeus was a 9th-century Arab Jewish physician and philosopher. Among other works, Judaeus wrote several medical treatises, and his work (originally in Arabic) was translated into Hebrew and Latin. By the 13th century, some of his medical works, including the 'Liber urinarum', was part of the medical curriculum at prominent European...
Dates: 1481
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript containing six medical texts