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Add MS 27562

Record Id:
032-003313937
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Add MS 27562
Title:
Collection of medical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
57 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_27562 (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:
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Names:
Avicenna, Persian polymath, 980-1037,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121430876,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89770781
Samuel Schönblum
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, physician and translator, 809?-873,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19690624
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, physician and translator, 809?-873,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19690624
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 27562

Collection of medical works

Contents

A collection of medical works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-24v
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 אבן סינא, אלחסין בן עבדאללה
Title: Urjuzah
Title: ארג'וזה

In the Hebrew translation of Ḥayim Yisra᾿el ha-Rofe. Imperfect at the end.

ff. 25r-57v
Author: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, 809-873 חנין בן אסחאק حنين بن اسحاق
Title: Sefer ha-mavo
Title: ספר המבוא
Filiation: Cf. Harley MS 5527.

The divisions of the work are indicated by special headings.

Folios 55v-57v are occupied with medicinal and other notes in different hands, and there is also (folios 56v-57v) a list of five works which were at some point apparently bound together with the present volume.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 57 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155/160 × 95/90 mm.
Foliation:

57 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleavesat the beginning and 3 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each.

Condition

Repaired and infilled before rebinding.

Damp entry at corner towards back.

Lacunae after folio 24 and 30.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 25 29

Written lines: 25 29

Uniform layout.

Larger initial words.

Additions and notes on margin by the main scribe and later hands.

Catchwords from folio to folio.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Ibn Sina. Urjuzah, Etc. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional MS. 27562.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

1866-12-08

Samuel Schönblum of Vienna: purchased from him by the British Museum on 08 December 1866: 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_27562 (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. 1032.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL