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nom8611 (22 / November / 2024)

Shéshet Benvenist (Barcelona, c. 1131 – 1209)

Creació de la fitxa: 2023-10-20
Darrera modificació: 2023-12-01
Categoria social i professional
batlle - escriptor - familiar/domèstic - físic - funcionari reial - jueu - metge - traductor
Activitat professional
Privada - Privada i rei
Tipus de formació
Oberta
Àrea d'activitat
Territoris: Catalunya (Principat)
Localitats: Barcelona
Comentaris
Sheshet ben Isaac ben Joseph Benvenist (o Benveniste), anomenat Perfet de Pratis. Metge, escriptor, nassí, traductor, administrador, conseller i diplomàtic al servei dels comtes de Barcelona i reis d'Aragó. Oriünd de Narbona, residí la major de la seva vida a Barcelona. L'obra Séfer Ša'ašu'im (Llibre d'ensenyaments delectables), escrita a Barcelona vers 1390 per Yosef ben Meir ibn Sabarra (fl. s. XII-2), fou dedicada pel seu autor al metge i funcionari dels primers reis del casal de Barcelona. Autor d'un tractat de ginecologia (Maguen ha-rosh) i d'altres escrits.
Bibliografia
Eljarrat (1989), El Maguen ha-rosh: tratado de ...
Eljarrat (1991), "Sheshed Benveniste (1131-1209) ..."
Cardoner i Planas (1973), Història de la medicina a la ..., pp. 38 i 55
Cardoner i Planas - Danon Bretos (1985), Metges jueus catalans, s.v. 'Sheshet Benvenist'
Enllaços
GEC
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The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).