Meshullam Ben Jonah

Physician and translator of the thirteenth century. It appears that he lived in southern France. He occupied himself with medicine merely as a study, and seems never to have practised. At the desire of a friend named Ḥafeẓ or Shalem, Meshullam translated into Hebrew the medical work "Kitab al-Taẓrif," by Zahrawi. The translator's preface begins with a Hebrew poem in honor of Ḥafiẓ.

Bibliography:

  * Steinschneider, Hebr. Uebers. p. 745;
  * Neubauer, Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS. No. 2120.



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