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Add MS 15455
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- Shushan ha-refu᾿ah by Bernard de Gordon
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 15455
Shushan ha-refu᾿ah by Bernard de Gordon
Contents
Medical work.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-210vTitle: Shushan ha-refu᾿ahTitle: שושן הרפואהYeḳutiel ben Solomon's Hebrew translation of Bernard de Gordon's 'Lilium Medicinae.' The work opens (folio 9r-10r) with a list of chapters, without noting the division to parts. In some instances, wrong numbers have been given to the chapters in the manuscript.
Physical Description
Parchment and paper codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: mixedSupport: Parchment and paper.Extent: 210 foliosDimensions (leaf): 250 × 190 mm.Dimensions (written): 185 × 130 mm.Foliation:210 folios (+ 3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Collation
21 quires of originally 10, 8 and 12 leaves each, with parchment used for the two outer and the two inner leaves of a quire in the earlier part, and for the outer leaves only in the latter part.
Condition
Losses to damp and mould in parchment and paper, infilled before rebinding.
Tidemarks and mould spotting.
Paling ink.
Layout
Columns:1
Ruled lines: 31
Written lines: 31
Uniform layout.
Hard-point ruling visible.
Hair side and flesh side of parchment folios distinguishable.
Large square initial words.
Additions and notes on margin largely by the main scribe.
Maniculae, e.g. folios 152v-153v, 155r, 156v, 157r.
Hand(s)
Byzantine semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century.
Additions:Folios 1-4 are parchment leaves of the 12th century, containing a portion of Homily IV of St. Chrysostom on Isaiah 6:1.
Folio 5 is a paper flyleaf of the 17th to 18th century (partly folded), and contains a short piece in Hebrew dealing with the plague, followed by two pieces in Turkish (in Hebrew characters) on the same subject.
Folios 6-8: notes and scribblings, partly illegible. Shelomoh Martin, perhaps a former owner, mentioned in two entries in connection with money transactions.
Folios 1v-3v and 6r-8v, margins: a Hebrew-Turkish vocabulary, apparently of the 17th century.
Binding
BM in-house.
Spine: 'Shushan ha-Re'Phu'ah. Jekuthiel Ben Solomon's Versions of Lilium Medicinae. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 15,455.'
History
Origin: 15th century ; Turkey (Ottoman Empire)Provenance and Acquisition
Jeuda Bensaltiel of Co[n]stantina: inscribed, folio 6r.
Segnor Hakham Kohen: inscribed, folio 210r.
1845-03-08
Purchased by the British Museum through Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853, on 08 March 1845: inscribed, folio 210v.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_15455 (digital images currently unavailable)
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. 1037.Funding of Cataloguing
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