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The Textual Traditions of Isaac Israeli's Book on Fevers in Arabic, Latin, Hebrew, and Spanish

Isaac Israeli's Book on Fevers enjoyed a considerable reputation in the Middle Ages. As a result it was translated into several languages. The textual tradition of the Old Spanish translation poses a problem. It corresponds neither to the Arabic nor to the Latin text. Most scholars conjecture that its Vorlage was one of the Hebrew translations. Our main aim here is to examine this possibility by comparing a sample of paragraphs from the different versions. Because Constantine the African, in his Latin translation, and the anonymous Spanish translator of the Book on Fevers both interfered with the text quite freely, we will ask whether the Hebrew translations are literal or not.