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nom8659 (22 / November / 2024)

Mahir Caravida (fl. Besalú, s. XIV-1)

Creació de la fitxa: 2023-11-02
Darrera modificació: 2023-11-02
Categoria social i professional
cirurgià - jueu - metge
Activitat professional
Privada
Tipus de formació
Oberta
Àrea d'activitat
Territoris: Catalunya (Principat)
Localitats: Besalú
Comentaris
Metge (cirurgià) jueu de Besalú. El 1336 Pere III el Cerimoniós (1319 – 1387) manà al jutge ordinari de Girona, Bernat de Reixac, que designés dos cirurgians per examinar de medicina a Mahir Caravida, que ja es titulava expert en medicina (Grau, 1972).
Bibliografia
Grau Monserrat (1972), "Metges jueus a Besalú ...", p. 29, 31
Cardoner i Planas - Danon Bretos (1985), Metges jueus catalans, s.v. 'Mair Caravida'

Gemma Escribà Bonastre

What are the images?

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).