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Or 46

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032-003313948
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Or 46
Title:
Collection of medical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
159 folios
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1475
End Date:
1491
Date Range:
1475-1491
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Joseph Schönblum
Nicolaus Praepositus, d 1478?,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/232520321
Nicolaus Praepositus, d 1478?,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/232520321
Yuhanna ibn Masuwaih, called 'Heben Messue', c 0777-0857
Yuhanna ibn Masuwaih, called 'Heben Messue', c 0777-0857
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Or 46

Collection of medical works

Contents

Medical works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-128v
Author: Ibn Māsawayh, Yūḥannā, -857 or 858 מאסויא, יחיא אבן ابن ماسويه، يوحنا
Title: Refu᾿ot
Title: רפואות

Two treatises based on Mesue the elder's works. The first treatise deals with 64 simple medicaments (imperfect at the beginning, folio 2r), and the second with compound medicaments (folio 52r).

The headings of the chapters do not entirely tally with the list given at the beginning of the manuscript.

Colophon: נשלם יום חמישי שני ימים לחדש מרחשון שנת רנ"ב ליצירה במדינת טירואיל. f. 128v
ff. 129r-159v
Author: Praepositus, Nicolaus ניקולאוס פריפזיטוס
Title: Antidotarium
Title: אנטידוטריום

In the Hebrew translation of Ya῾aḳov Ḳatan, with the translator's preface.

The work contains 104 entries, marked by a later hand in ordinary figures in the margin, ending on folio 148v. A number of additional paragraphs follow, the last being numbered 170. The medicaments are not arranged alphabetically in the present manuscript.

The recipes, etc., were written by later hands on folios 156v-159v. There are also here and there marginal additions in the body of the manuscript.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 159 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

159 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 12 leaves each, marked with pen-and-ink decorated catchwords at the end.

Condition

Slight tidemarks at edges.

Usage stains.

Slight burn-through of ink, haloing of large letters.

Dirt at ends.

Recently repaired and rebound.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 25

Written lines: 25

Uniform layout.

Leaf by leaf ruling visible.

Last line written ouside ruling.

Initials in square characters.

Catchwords on every verso.

Manicula, e.g. folio 75r.

Hand(s)

Two Sefardi semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Versions of Medical Works by Yuhanna Ibn Masawaih and Nicholas Praepositus. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 46.'

History

Origin: First part of the manuscript dated 5252 (1491). ; Spain (Teruel)

Provenance and Acquisition

Joseph Schönblum: purchased by the British Museum from him on 25 May 1867: 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=Or_46 (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. 1021.

Funding of Cataloguing

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