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Add MS 16389

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032-003313822
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Add MS 16389
Title:
Collection of works on medicine
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
147 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Names:
Arnaldus de Villa Nova, c 1240-1311
Arnaldus de Villa Nova, c 1240-1311
Matsliaḥ ben Avraham ha-Rofe
Solo, Gerardus de, d 1360?,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/22494859
Solo, Gerardus de, d 1360?,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/22494859
Thomas Rodd the younger
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 16389

Collection of works on medicine

Contents

Medical works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-10v
Author: Arnaldus, de Villanova ארנלדוס מוילהנובה
Title: Megilah
Title: מגלה

In the Hebrew translation of Avraham Avigdor.

A short tract on purgatives, in eight chapters.

ff. 11v-137v
Author: Solo, Gerardus de גררדוס דה סולו
Title: Perush al-mansuri
Title: פרוש אלמנצורי

In the Hebrew translation of Avraham Avigdor.

Commentary on the Book 9 of Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī's Kitāb al-Manṣūrī , a large treatise on diseases and their cures, in 95 chapters.

Colophon: תם ת"ל והודאה לשמו אמן. ותוכל עבודת גירלדו דסולי על התשיעי' מאלמנזור ע"י אברהם בכמ"ר משולם זצ"ל פה מונטי [פוסקו] בשנת רנ"ו ליעקב שמחה ה' למען רחמיו יזכני להמציא שם טוב וריוח והצלחה ברפואה ועם ספרי' אחרי' עם זה הספר ואהיה בכל דרכי ודרכי ה' משכיל וה' אלהי עמי וידריכני בדרך טובה אמ' אמ' סלה ועד. f. 137v
ff. 138r-139v
Title: Ḥibur bi-refu᾿ah
Title: חבור ברפואה

A brief (and incomplete) work on medicine.

ff. 140r-146v
Author: Solo, Gerardus de גררדוס דה סולו
Title: Mavo ha-ne῾arim
Title: מבוא הנערים

In the Hebrew translation of Avraham Avigdor (finished in 1379 in Montpellier). The work, a tract on fever, is divided into 6 chapters.

Filiation: Cf. the contents of Add MS 27170.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th to 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 147 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

147 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 10 leaves each.

Condition

Tidemarks at head throughout.

Usage stains.

Occasionally paling ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 24 31

Written lines: 24 31

Uniform layout.

Large initial words.

Additions and notes on margin.

Maniculae, e.g. folios 93v, 130r.

Catchwords on every page.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive scripts of the 15th to 16th century.

ff. 100r-147v
due to a different but contemporary hand.

Additions:

Folio 1r: a Latin note.

Binding

Post-1600. Brown leather, blind tooled.

Spine: 'Tractatus Medici. Hebr. Mus. Brit. Jure Empt. 16,389 Plut.'

History

Origin: 15th-16th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Matsliaḥ ben Avraham ha-Rofe: inscribed, folio 147v.

1846-11-30

Purchased by the British Museum through Thomas Rodd the younger (b. 1796, d. 1849) on 30 November 1846: inscribed, back flyleaf (i)v.

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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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. 1036.

Funding of Cataloguing

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