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Galina, Moses ben Elijah

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Greek scholar and translator; lived at Candia in the fifteenth century. His best known work is "Toledot Adam" (Constantinople, 1515), a treatise on chiromancy and physiognomy, drawn chiefly from 'Ali ibn 'Abbas' "Kamil al-Ṣina'ah" and the pseudo-Aristotelian "Secretum." Galina's work was abridged and published later with a Judæo-German translation as "Ḥokmat ha-Yad. The author's name is erroneously given as Elijah ben Moses Galina. Still, Joseph ibn Kaspi, in his "Ṭirat Kesef," quotes a work entitled "Dibre Ḥakamim," a treatise on the properties of stones, as by "Elijah ben Moses Galina." Moses Galina translated from Arabic into Hebrew: (1) An astronomical treatise by Omar ibn Mohammed Meṣuman, "Sefer Mezuḳḳaḳ"; (2) an astrological treatise, "Mishpaṭ ha-Mabbaṭim"; (3) "Sefer ha-Goralot," a treatise on geomancy, bearingthe author's name as Moses Galiano, identified by Steinschneider with Moses Galina.

Bibliography:
  • Steinschneider, Hebr. Uebers. pp. 253, 578, 595, 965;
  • idem, Hebr. Bibl. 19:59-61.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Galina, Moses ben Elijah'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​g/galina-moses-ben-elijah.html. 1901.
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