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Add MS 27170

Record Id:
032-003313923
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Add MS 27170
Title:
Sefer refu᾿ot
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
156 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27170 (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
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27170

Sefer refu᾿ot

Contents

A collection of medical prescriptions taken from diverse sources.

Language(s): Hebrew

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

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 156 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 145/165 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of 6 to 8 leaves each.

Condition

Tidemarks.

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 28 40

Written lines: 28 40

Larger initial words.

Many marginal notes, marked with a simple pen-and-ink design.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century.

Additions:

Folio 154r: the names of the signs of zodiac and seven planets in Hebrew and Latin.

Folio 155v-156r: a list of books in a late Italian cursive script.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Sepher Rephuoth. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional 27,170.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Germany

Provenance and Acquisition

Giuseppe Almanzi (b. 1801, d. 1860), bibliophile; his manuscript no. 280: 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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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27170 (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. 1040.
    Justine Isserles, 'Bloodletting and medical astrology in Hebrew Manuscripts from medieval Western Europe' Journal for the history of Science and medicine 201, no. 1 (2017), pp. 2-41.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL