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Arundel Or 26

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032-003312234
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Arundel Or 26
Title:
Tsedat ha-derakhim by Ibn al-Jazzār
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
168 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Names:
Ibn al-Jazzār, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm, c 0878-0980
Ibn al-Jazzār, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm, c 0878-0980
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Arundel Or 26

Tsedat ha-derakhim by Ibn al-Jazzār

Contents

A medical treatise.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-168v
Title: Tsedat ha-derakhim
Title: צדת הדרכים
Author: Ibn al-Jazzār ג'זאר, אחמד בן אבראהים אבן

In the Hebrew translation of Moses ibn Tibbon.

Following the preface is a table of contents of the seven articles into which the work is divided, each of these main portions consists of a number of sections, but the last three articles are missing entirely.

The first article begins on folio 5r; second, folio 40r; third, folio 72r; fourth, folio 120r.

Incomplete at the end.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 168 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

168 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

11 quires:14, ii16, iii12, iv-vi16, vii14, viii-xi16.

Condition

Lacunae after folios 14 and 30.

Water and mould damage.

First page is hardly legible.

Several leaves have been amended.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 21

Written lines: 21

Larger semi-cursive initial-words.

Some marginal notes in Latin and Hebrew.

The last word a folio repeated at the beginning of the next.

Signatures in Hebrew characters in the upper margin of the first leaf of the quires (visible on folios 30r, 59r, 75r, 91r, 105r).

Maniculae, e.g. on folios 33r, 35r, 99r; floral motifs in the outer margins to mark the beginning of new paragraphs.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Zedath Darkim Hebraice Brit. Mus. Bibl. Arundel. Cod. Orient. 26. Plut. CCXVLL.C.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Spain?

Provenance and Acquisition

The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.', f. 2r; its book-plate, back pastedown).

Purchased by the British Museum from theRoyal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.

1831

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

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Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 1024.

Funding of Cataloguing

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