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Or 2674

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032-003314039
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Or 2674
Title:
Collection of medical and calendrical works
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
147 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2674 (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:
Elisha ha-Rofe
Moses Wilhelm Shapira
Shabtai ben Yeḥiel of Rome
אלישע הרופא
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 2674

Collection of medical and calendrical works

Contents

Medical and calendrical works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-101v
Title: Mafteaḥ ha-refu᾿ah
Title: מפתח הרפואה

A collection of medical prescriptions. Much incomplete.

Filiation: Cf. Ms Munich 275b.
Author: Elisha ha-Rofe אלישע הרופא
ff. 102r-113r
Title: Ma᾿amarim ῾al refu᾿ah
Title: מאמרים על רפואה

Notes, in a systematic order and mostly in the form of question and answer, on surgery and anatomy.

ff. 114v-115v
Title: Luḥot ṿe-῾inyene teḳufot
Title: לוחות ועניני תקופות
ff. 116r-118r
Title: Ma᾿amarim ῾al refu᾿ah
Title: מאמרים על רפואה

Comments on Sefer keritot of Bruno de Lungoburgo.

ff. 118v-122v
Title: Luḥot ṿe-῾inyene teḳufot
Title: לוחות ועניני תקופות

A diagram of four concentric circles with explanation; and a series of tables of teḳufot.

f. 118v a diagram, in colors.

ff. 123r-131v
Title: Ma᾿amarim ῾al refu᾿ah
Title: מאמרים על רפואה

A series of notes on מורסא and its treatment.

ff. 131v-147v
Title: Luḥot ṿe-῾inyene teḳufot
Title: לוחות ועניני תקופות

Calendar tables accompanied with some additional calendar notes and lists.

Physical Description

Paper and parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: mixed
Support: Paper and parchment.
Extent: 147 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 150/135 × 85/70 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of 8 leaves each.

Condition

Tidemarks at all edges throughout.

Foxing.

Usage stains.

Worming at end.

Ink partly pale.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 15 30

Written lines: 15 30

Uniform layout.

Visible hard-point and in the latter part ink ruling.

Larger square titles and initial words (in red ink between folios 98-147).

Marginal notes.

Catchwords on every verso in the earlier part (folios 1-97).

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 15th century. Shabtai ben Yeḥiel of Rome: a part of his name is given at the beginning of each section between folios 119v-122r.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Mafte'ach Ha-Refu'ah. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 2674.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Wilhelm Shapira (b. 1830, d. 1884), antiquities dealer of Jerusalem: purchased by the British Museum from him on 10 October 1883: 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_2674 (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. 1039.

Funding of Cataloguing

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