A Hebrew paraphrase of the Hippocratic oath (from a fifteenth-century manuscript).

works on philosophy, kabbala, and Talmud written in a fifteenth-century rabbinical Byzantine script. In cataloguing the microfilm copy of the manusclipt at the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem," I was able to identify one short piece as a Hebrew adaptation of Hippocrates' oath, apparently the first such text to come to light. The oath in its Hebrew version is found on page 212v of the manuscript under the heading Musar he-hasid Abukrat. It is immediately preceded by the following works (in Hebrew): Liber de Pomo attributed to Aristotle in Abraham ben Ijisdai's well-known translation (fols. 203`-207v); an ethical letter, also attributed to Aristotle in Judah al-Ijarizi's translation from the Arabic version by a certain Ali2 (fols. 209r-21Iv); and a prayer attributed to Socrates in the translation of Zerahia (fol. 212'). It may be noted that in our manuscript the names of the translators of the two latter works were omitted even though they appear in other medieval manuscripts of the same works. Our codex is briefly described in the catalogue of E. N. Adler's collection of manuscripts,3 but no mention is made of Hippocrates' oath. The same is true of the more detailed handwritten description attached to the manuscript. At least three scholars made use of our codex in their publications, and one of them, A. Marx, added a short description of the codex to one of his articles,4 but none of them made mention of our text.