Langermann Langermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 10633629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Langermann Langermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Langermann |
| FAMILY NAME | Langermann |
| SIGNATURE | LANGERMANN L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Three Judeo-Arabic Marginalia on New Materia Medica from the New World and China
A manuscript recently acquired by the University of Pennsylvania contains a large section of a treatise on materia medica, Arabic in Hebrew characters, with many notes in the margins. One set of marginalia, all in the same hand, displays passages culled from the writings of Daʾūd al-Anṭākī (d. 1599) and Ibn Sallūm (d. 1670), two important medical writers who were born in Aleppo. Some of the passages are translations from Turkish into Judeo-Arabic…
Fragments of Commentaries on Aristotle's Physics from the David Kaufmann Genizah Collection, by Ibn Daud and Others (?)
A Fragment of a Composition on Physics by Abraham Ibn Daud in Judeo-Arabic
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From My NotebooksOn Tajriba/Nissayon (“Experience”): Texts in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Arabic Y. Tzvi Langermann (bio) Preface A research project that I undertook some time ago, and which came to fruition in a paper entitled “Maimonides’ Repudiation of Astrology,” led me to investigate the concept of tajriba or “repeated experience.”1 In the medieval debate over astrology, tajriba is a key concept. Astrologers claim that the experience accumulat…
An Alchemical Treatise Attributed to Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
A manuscript at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America contains the first five chapters of a ten-chapter Hebrew treatise on alchemy. Although Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (1591–1655) is named as the author, the treatise’s intimate connection with Arabic sources, especially the later Islamic alchemy associated with the work of Aydamar al-Jildakī, raise serious doubts about the attribution. The argument is made that even though Delmedigo could inde…
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Materia Medica et Magica from Animals, including a Long, Unknown Passage from al-Masʿūdī Y. Tzvi Langermann (bio) MS St Petersburg, Russian State Library Hebrew-Arabic I 2239 (IMHM F 55683, twenty-five folia) is a fragment of a longer work on the medical and magical uses of animals and their bodily parts. The language is Arabic, but the text is copied in Hebrew characters. There are no signs at all that the author was Jewish; this work thus appea…
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Materia Medica et Magica from Animals, including a Long, Unknown Passage from al-Masʿūdī Y. Tzvi Langermann (bio) MS St Petersburg, Russian State Library Hebrew-Arabic I 2239 (IMHM F 55683, twenty-five folia) is a fragment of a longer work on the medical and magical uses of animals and their bodily parts. The language is Arabic, but the text is copied in Hebrew characters. There are no signs at all that the author was Jewish; this work thus appea…
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An Alchemical Treatise Attributed to Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
A manuscript at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America contains the first five chapters of a ten-chapter Hebrew treatise on alchemy. Although Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (1591–1655) is named as the author, the treatise’s intimate connection with Arabic sources, especially the later Islamic alchemy associated with the work of Aydamar al-Jildakī, raise serious doubts about the attribution. The argument is made that even though Delmedigo could inde…
From My Notebooks
From My NotebooksOn Tajriba/Nissayon (“Experience”): Texts in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Arabic Y. Tzvi Langermann (bio) Preface A research project that I undertook some time ago, and which came to fruition in a paper entitled “Maimonides’ Repudiation of Astrology,” led me to investigate the concept of tajriba or “repeated experience.”1 In the medieval debate over astrology, tajriba is a key concept. Astrologers claim that the experience accumulat…
Fragments of Commentaries on Aristotle's Physics from the David Kaufmann Genizah Collection, by Ibn Daud and Others (?)
A Fragment of a Composition on Physics by Abraham Ibn Daud in Judeo-Arabic
Three Judeo-Arabic Marginalia on New Materia Medica from the New World and China
A manuscript recently acquired by the University of Pennsylvania contains a large section of a treatise on materia medica, Arabic in Hebrew characters, with many notes in the margins. One set of marginalia, all in the same hand, displays passages culled from the writings of Daʾūd al-Anṭākī (d. 1599) and Ibn Sallūm (d. 1670), two important medical writers who were born in Aleppo. Some of the passages are translations from Turkish into Judeo-Arabic…
Philosophy (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Arabic (5 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (5 works) · Classics (4 works) · Hebrew (4 works)