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Add MS 21967
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- Add MS 21967
- Title:
- Avicenna's Kanon (Books I-II)
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- 295 folios
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- Hebrew
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- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1449
- Date Range:
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Add MS 21967
Avicenna's Kanon (Books I-II)
Contents
Medical work by Avicenna.
Language(s): Hebrew
ff. 1r-295vTitle: ḲanonTitle: קאנוןBooks One and Two of the Canon of Avicenna in Hebrew translation of Zerahiah ben Isaac ben Shealtiel Gracian.
The work begins with the translator's preface. Book Two begins on folio 151r.
A number of notes (mostly in Hebrew, but partly also in Latin) are found in the margin, giving explanations of terms and passages, variant readings, etc.
3 decorated initial-word panels accompanied by foliate scrolls in the margins, in colours and gold. f. 1r, 4v, 151r
f. 1r Partial foliate border, in colours.
Unfinished partial foliate border. f. 163v
Colophon: ותשלם מלאכת הקדש אשר עשיתי אני יחיאל ח"י בכמ"ב יואב כת"ב מביתאל בזה הספר שהוא ראשון ושני מאבן סיני וכתבתיו והשלמתיו פה רומ' אליהו בא"ר יזי"י הרופא בכ"ר שבתי נבתוי"א וקבלתי כל שכירותי משלם ה' שזיכהו ולא תלין פעולת שכירי אתך עד בקר יזכהו להגות בו ובשאר ספרי הקדש הוא וזרע וזרעו אמן. f. 185rPhysical Description
Parchment codex of the 15th century.Form: codexMaterial: parchmentSupport:Extent: 295 foliosDimensions (leaf): 390 × 255 mm.Dimensions (written): 245 × 155 mm.Foliation:295 folios (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Collation
30 quires: i-xxix10 (folios 1-290), xxx6-1 (folios 291-295).
Catchwords and signatures in Hebrew characters at the end of quires.
Condition
Usage stains.
Pigment loss in ink at first coloured initial word.
Large strips of leather lost on board leather. Also thickness losses at edges & corners of the board.
Layout
Columns:2
Ruled lines: 32
Written lines: 32
Uniform layout.
Complete hard-point ruling visible.
Quires start with the fleshside.
Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.
Large square initial words.
Chapter titles are given in Latin in the margins.
Marginal additions and notes.
Hand(s)
Italian semi-cursive script of the first half of the 15th century. Yeḥiel ben Yo᾿av of Bet El: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Rome, undated (folios 295r).
Additions:Binding
Post-1600. Dark brown leather.
Spine: 'Ibn Sina. Kanun. Hebrew. Vol. I and II. Brit. Mus. Additional 21,967.'
History
Origin: 15th century ; Italy, Central (Rome)Provenance and Acquisition
Eliyahu ha-Rofe ben Shabtai Naftali: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Rome, undated (folio 295r).
1857-04-25
Rev. A. Löwy: purchased by the British Museum from him on 25 April 1857: inscribed (f. [296v]).
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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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_21967 (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. 1026.Funding of Cataloguing
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