Moses ben Elijah Galina ( Hebrew: משה בן אליהו גלינו, romanized: Moshe ben Eliyahu Galino; fl. 15th century) [note 1] was a Jewish pseudoscientific writer and translator from Candia.
He is best known for his work Toledot Adam, published in Constantinople in 1515, on chiromancy and physiognomy. [1] The work draws primarily from 'Ali ibn 'Abbas' Kamil al-Ṣina'ah and the pseudo-Aristotelian treatise Secretum. It was later condensed and released with a translation into Yiddish under the title Ḥokhmat ha-yad.
Galina published several translations from Arabic into Hebrew, including Sefer mezuḳḳaḳ, an astronomical treatise by Omar ibn Mohammed Meṣuman; Mishpaṭ ha-mabbaṭim, an astrological treatise; and Sefer ha-goralot, a treatise on geomancy. [2]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain: Deutsch, Gotthard; Seligsohn, M. (1903).
"Galina, Moses ben Elijah". In
Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.).
The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 554–555.
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Moses ben Elijah Galina ( Hebrew: משה בן אליהו גלינו, romanized: Moshe ben Eliyahu Galino; fl. 15th century) [note 1] was a Jewish pseudoscientific writer and translator from Candia.
He is best known for his work Toledot Adam, published in Constantinople in 1515, on chiromancy and physiognomy. [1] The work draws primarily from 'Ali ibn 'Abbas' Kamil al-Ṣina'ah and the pseudo-Aristotelian treatise Secretum. It was later condensed and released with a translation into Yiddish under the title Ḥokhmat ha-yad.
Galina published several translations from Arabic into Hebrew, including Sefer mezuḳḳaḳ, an astronomical treatise by Omar ibn Mohammed Meṣuman; Mishpaṭ ha-mabbaṭim, an astrological treatise; and Sefer ha-goralot, a treatise on geomancy. [2]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain: Deutsch, Gotthard; Seligsohn, M. (1903).
"Galina, Moses ben Elijah". In
Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.).
The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 554–555.
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cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link)