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Maimonides’ On the Regimen of Health was composed at an unknown date at the request of al-Malik al-Afḍal Nūr al-Dīn Alī, Saladin’s eldest son who complained of constipation, indigestion, and depression. The treatise must have enjoyed great popularity in Jewish circles, as it was translated three times into Hebrew as far as we know; by Moses ben Samuel ibn Tibbon in the year 1244, by an anonymous translator, and by Zeraḥyah ben Isaac ben She’altiel Ḥen who was active as a translator in Rome between 1277 and 1291. The present edition by Gerrit Bos contains the original Arabic text, the medieval Hebrew translations and the Latin translations, the latter edited by Michael McVaugh.
Price: $137.00
Pages: 540
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
29 May 2019
ISBN: 9789004394056
Format: Hardcover
"These two volumes are part of an exemplary ongoing series, directed by Gerrit Bos, of editions and translations of the medical works of probably the most thoroughly studied (and generally well known) medieval Jew: Maimonides (1138–1204), aka Moses ben Maimun or Abū ‘Imrān Mūsā ibn ‘Ubayd Allāh ibn Maymūn... All of this gives ample reason for gratitude to Bos and his collaborators for seeing this extended project through with such meticulous scholarship." - Maud Kozodoy, in: Speculum 96 (April 2021)
Gerrit Bos (Ph.D. 1989) is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. He has widely published in the fields of Jewish studies, Islamic studies, and medieval science and medicine in Arabic and Hebrew texts.
Michael McVaugh (Ph.D. 1965) is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at the history department of the University of North Carolina. He has been a general editor of the Arnaldi de Villanova Opera Medica Omnia since 1975.