Faraj ben Salim

Faraj ben Salim

Faraj ben-Sālim (Arabic,فرج بن سالم ), Moses Farachi of Dirgent ["Dirgent" is probably a further corrupted version of "Agrigento" 's ancient Arabic names ("Karkint" and "Gergent").] , Ferrarius, Franchinus was a Sicilian-Jewish physician and translator; flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century. He was engaged by Charles IV, Duke of Anjou as translator of medical works from Arabic into Latin. In this capacity he rendered a great service to medicine by making in 1279 a Latin translation of Razi's medical encyclopedia, "Al-Hawi" (later printed in 1486, under the title "Continens", with a glossary by the translator). The translation is followed, between the same covers, by "De Ex-positionibus Vocabulorum seu Synonimorum Simplicis Medicinæ", which Steinschneider supposes to form a part of the "Continens". As a token of his esteem for the translator, Charles of Anjou ordered that on the original copy of the manuscript of the "Continens" (MS. "Bibliothèque Nationale", Paris, No. 6912) the portrait of Faraj should be drawnbeside his own by Friar Giovanni of Monte Cassino, the greatest illuminator of his time.

Faraj also translated De Medicinis Expertis, attributed to Galen and included in the printings of his works by the Giuntas (Venice, 1565: x. 103-109) [http://web2.bium.univ-paris5.fr/livanc/?cote=00042x10&p=210&do=page] and René Chartier (Paris, 1679: x. 561-570) [http://web2.bium.univ-paris5.fr/livanc/?cote=00013x10&p=563&do=page] ; and Tacuini Ægritudinum ("Tables of Disease", Arabic: "Taqwim al-Abdan"), by Ibn Jazla, published at Strasburg, 1532 [http://www.abocamuseum.it/uk/bibliothecaantiqua/Book_View.asp?Id_Book=627] . Steinschneider believes that to Faraj should also be ascribed the Latin translation of Masarjawaih's treatise on surgery (MS. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, No. 7131), said to have been made by a certain Ferrarius.

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* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=41&letter=F Jewish Encyclopedia]

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