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Or 2455

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032-003313991
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Or 2455
Title:
Collection of medical and calendrical works, in Judeo-Persian
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
196 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2455 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Persian
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1807
End Date:
1807
Date Range:
1807
Calendar:
Hebrew
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Adolph Neubauer
Hai ben Sherira, Gaon, 0939-1038,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000010908435X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/63993515
Muzaffar ben Muḥammad al-Husaini ash-Shifai
Yehonatan ben Binyamin Rofeh
מטפר בן מחמד בן אלחסיני אלשפאאי
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Or 2455

Collection of medical and calendrical works, in Judeo-Persian

Contents

Medical and calendrical works, in Judeo-Persian.

Language(s): Judaeo-Persian

ff. 1r-17v
Title: Luaḥ
Title: לוח

A calendar in Persian, in Hebrew characters, showing Biblical lections for Sabbaths and other occasions; imperfect at the beginning. The calendar concludes with a table (folios 17v-18r).

ff. 18r-33v
Title: Ta῾avir na᾿mah
Title: תעביר נאמה
Author: Hai, ben Sherira (attributed to him) האי בן שרירא גאון (מיוחס לו)

A Hebrew version of Pitaron ḥalomot ascribed to Hai Gaon.

Colophon: תמאם שוד אין תעביר נאמה פתרון חלומות דר רוז סה טבת כ' א"ם נאמה טבת בדסת חקיר פקיד זליל יהונתן בן כ"א א' בנימין רופה בן [...] א' אברהם רופה [...] שנת התקסז ס"ט. f. 33r
ff. 34r-136v
Title: Ṭav Shifa᾿i
Title: טב שפאאי

A treatise in Persian, in Hebrew characters, on compound medicaments.

Author: Muzaffar ben Muḥammad al-Husaini ash-Shifai מטפר בן מחמד בן אלחסיני אלשפאאי
ff. 137r-139v
Title: Shir
Title: שיר

A medical poem in Persian, in Hebrew characters, written in slanting form in two columns, with a line between columns. The poem is followed by some other pieces (folios 138v-139v).

ff. 140r-196v
Title: Ḥiburim bi-refu᾿ah
Title: חבורים ברפואה

Five medical treatises and additional medical notes in Judeo-Persian.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the early 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 196 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 80 mm.
Foliation:

196 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each.

Condition

Slightly damp at edges.

Tidemarks at some corners.

Losses in first and last leaves, infilled.

Stains and ink smears.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Ruled lines: 23

Written lines: 23

Uniform layout.

Blue paper in the middle part.

Catchwords on every verso.

Headings in larger square charactes.

Hand(s)

Persian semi-cursive script of the 19th century. Yehonatan ben Binyamin Rofeh: inscribed, folio 33r.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Medical and Other Tracts. Judaeo-Persian. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 2455.'

History

Origin: 1807 Iran?

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the British Museum on 24 June 1882 from Adolph Neubauer (b. 1831, d. 1907), a scholar, librarian and bibliographer: 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_2455 (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. 1096.

Funding of Cataloguing

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