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Add MS 27023

Record Id:
032-003313880
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Add MS 27023
Title:
Medical treatise
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
62 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1500
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1500-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Giuseppe Almanzi
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27023

Medical treatise

Contents

Medical writings.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-156v
Title: Sefer refu᾿ot
Title: ספר רפואות

A collection of medical prescriptions taken from diverse sources. Incomplete at the beginning.

Folios 38r-43r contain a table of contents of the preceding section.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th to 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 62 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 195 × 130 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Leaves on separate guards.

Condition

Tidemarks and mould stains in bottom third, with loss of text.

Fading ink.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32 38

Written lines: 32 38

Uniform layout.

Sections marked in the margins.

Hand(s)

Italian cursive script of the 16th to 17th century.

Additions:

Folios 1, 2 and 62v contain prescriptions in Italian.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Medical Recipes. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,023.'

History

Origin: 16th-17th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 129: 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 dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: 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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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27023 (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. 1041.

Funding of Cataloguing

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