YA'ISH, BARUCH BEN ISAAC IBN
- YA'ISH, BARUCH BEN ISAAC IBN
- YA'ISH, BARUCH BEN ISAAC IBN (15th century),
philosopher and translator. Probably born in Spain, Ibn Ya'ish lived and
died in Italy. He had a good knowledge of Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic. Ibn
Ya'ish wrote a Hebrew commentary in ten chapters on Avicenna's De
Medicamentibus Cordialibus ("On Cardiac Remedies") entitled
Be'ur la-Sammim ha-Libbiyyim, in which he quotes Aristotle
and Averroes (Bodl, Ms. Mich., Add. 16).
He translated Aristotle's Metaphysics into Hebrew from the
Latin at the request of Samuel Ẓarphati, under the title Mah
she-Aḥar ha-Teva (Bodl. Mich., 421). In the introduction to his
translation Ibn Ya'ish explains that he based his translation on the
Latin, rather than the Arabic, because the Arabic was confused. It also
seems that Ibn Ya'ish had a role in producing a Hebrew translation of an
anonymous Latin commentary on Aristotle's Ethics. A
commentary on the Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, and Job, which
is called Mekor Barukh (Constantinople, 1576), and which
bears the name Baruch ibn Ya'ish, was written by Ibn Ya'ish's
great-grandson and namesake.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Steinschneider, Cat Bod, 774, no. 4508; Steinschneider, Uebersetzungen,
157–8, 218, 485, 701; Michael, Or, 626.
(Hirsch Jacob Zimmels)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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