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Add MS 27018

Record Id:
032-003313879
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Add MS 27018
Title:
Collection of medical treatises
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
22 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27018 (digital images currently unavailable)
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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:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
Hippocrates, 0370?-0460?,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/287984736
Hippocrates, 0370?-0460?,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/287984736
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27018

Collection of medical treatises

Contents

A collection of medical treatises.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-22v
Title: Ḳovets
Title: קובץ
ff. 2r-14r
Title: Agur
Title: אגור

In anonymous redaction, in alphabethical order.

Author: Hippocrates היפוקרטס
ff. 14v-15v
Title: Midot Ipokrat
Title: מידות אפוקרט

A brief treatise on the criteria of approaching death and recovery.

Author: Hippocrates (attributed to him) היפוקרטס (מיוחס לו)
ff. 16r-18r
Title: Otot ha-dafeḳ
Title: אותות הדפק
Incipit: אלמדך להשכיל באותות בדפק מספר אסף. f. 16r
ff. 18v-22v
Title: ῾Ets ḥayim
Title: עץ חיים

On the constitution of the body.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 22 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 6 and 8 leaves each.

Condition

Edge losses, now infilled.

Tidemarks.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Initial words in larger characters.

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

Hand(s)

Oriental semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Additions:

Latin inscriptions, folio 1r-1v.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Sepher Agur. Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,018.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 288: his library including 322 medieval Hebrew manuscripts were purchased en bloc by the British Museum in October 1865 for £1,000 through Asher & Co., Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum: 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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27018 (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. 1020.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL