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Or 3659

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Or 3659
Title:
Em ha-melekh
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
10 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
1400-1499
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Joseph Schlesinger
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 3659

Em ha-melekh

Contents

A treatise on alchemy.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-10v
Title: Em ha-melekh
Title: אם המלך

An anonymous Hebrew translation of a Arabic treatise on alchemy by Abu Falah of Saragossa, written for the instruction of Ibn Mas'ud of Seville.

See also [Patai_1995] , chapter 7.

Physical Description

Paper and parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support: Paper and parchment.
Extent: 10 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150 × 85 mm.
Foliation:

10 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 4 at the end).

Collation

Fragments of 2 quires.

Condition

Imperfect at the end and also within the text.

Usage stains.

Slight worming.

Bound together with Or 3660.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 30

Written lines: 30

Uniform layout.

Notes and variant readings in the margin.

Larger initials.

Leaf catchwords.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Em Ham-Melekh, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Mss. 3659. 3660.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Spain (Saragossa?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Jos[eph] Schlesinger: purchased by the British Museum from him on 02 March 1889: inscribed, folio (fse003v).

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=Or_3659 (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. 1104.

Bibliography

    [Patai_1995] Raphael Patai. 'The Jewish Alchemists : A History and Source Book / Raphael Patai.'Princeton, NJ; Chichester: Princeton University Press 1995 printing, 1995.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL