Liber de Gradibus Simplicium
Israeli, Isaac, approximately 832-approximately 932
Manuscripts (document genre)
Judaica
Excerpts
Ibn al-Jazzar, -980
Israeli, Isaac, approximately 832-approximately 932
Ibn al-Jazzar, -980
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DigID0002791
De Urinis
Israeli, Isaac, approximately 832-approximately 932
Manuscripts (document genre)
Judaica
Excerpts
Urine
This manuscript version of Isaac Israeli’s treatise on urine is part of a larger compilation of texts which was probably used by a German medical student (the binding is typical of German craftsmanship and materials). The lack of embellishment or illumination, as well as the small hand and margins, suggest that this codex was meant for use by a student.
<p>The text of <em>De Urinis</em> begins just under the circle and the words ‘S[an]ta maria’: “In the name of Christ begins the book of urine translated by Constantine the African into the Latin language from the Arabic …”</p>
Israeli, Isaac, approximately 832-approximately 932
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DigID0002788
Kitab al-Maliki
Israeli, Isaac, approximately 832-approximately 932
Manuscripts (document genre)
Judaica
Excerpts
This work is also attributed to Haly Abbas. Also included in this volume are Constantine the African’s <em>De Stomacho (On Diseases of the Stomach)</em> and Marbode’s <em>De Lapidibus (On Stones)</em>. This volume is bound in a vellum leaf of manuscript, probably a 16th-century hand.
Israeli, Isaac, approximately 832-approximately 932
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DigID0002797
Opera Omnia Ysaac
Israeli, Isaac, approximately 832-approximately 932
Collected Works
Title pages
Woodcuts (prints)
This first printed edition of the collected works of Isaac Israeli includes the tract on fevers. The title-page woodcut depicts an impossible meeting of Isaac with his eleventh century commentators Constantine the African and Ibn Abi al-Rijal.
Israeli, Isaac, approximately 832-approximately 932
curavit ea imprimi Bartholomeus Trot in officina Johannis de Platea
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DigID0002708
De Febribus
Israeli, Isaac, approximately 832-approximately 932
Manuscripts (document genre)
Figure initials
Isaac Israeli was born in Egypt and studied widely in natural history, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. He settled in Kairwan, Tunisia, where he served as court physician to the caliph and wrote several esteemed medical and philosphical works in Arabic. Many of the medical treatises, including On Fevers, were translated into Latin by the Benedictine monk Constantine the African in the 11th century. Thereafter, the authorship of Israeli’s medical works was attributed to Constantine; their true origin was not discovered until the middle of the 16th century.This illuminated initial probably depicts Israeli teaching or lecturing.
<p>This manuscript tract on the treatment of fever was written in Montpellier, France, in the middle of the thirteenth century. The manuscript is one of the oldest in the Countway Library and also the first item acquired for the Hyams Collection.</p>
Israeli, Isaac, approximately 832-approximately 932
1250, circa
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