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Or 6501

Record Id:
032-003314091
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Or 6501
Title:
Avicenna's Kanon
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_6501 (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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Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Avicenna, Persian polymath, 980-1037,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121430876,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89770781
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 6501

Avicenna's Kanon

Contents

Medical writing.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-147v
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 אבן סינא, אלחסין בן עבדאללה
Title: Ḳanon
Title: קאנון

Book Three, followed by small parts of book Four, of the Canon of Avicenna in Hebrew translation of Natan ha-Me῾ati.

There is no division into chapters in this manuscript.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 15th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 147 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 420 × 255 mm.
Dimensions (written): 295 × 145 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of originally 8 leaves each, marked by signatures and catchwords at the end.

Condition

Ends extremely damaged by damp and mould, repaired and infilled before rebinding.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 44

Written lines: 44

Uniform layout.

Pricking and complete hard-point ruling visible.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Large initial words.

Running titles added by a later hand.

Additions and notes on margin largely by the main scribe.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (North African) semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Ibn Sina. Kanun. Hebrew. Vol. III. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6501.'

History

Origin: 15th century ; Spain

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the British Museum through Sassoon & Co. on 7 April 1903: inscribed, back flyleaf (i).

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_6501 (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. 1031.

Funding of Cataloguing

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