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Add MS 11668

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Add MS 11668
Title:
Avicenna's Kanon (Book III)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
309 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_11668 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
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
Barukh
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Add MS 11668

Avicenna's Kanon (Book III)

Contents

Medical work.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-309v
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037 אבן סינא, אלחסין בן עבדאללה
Title: Ḳanon
Title: קאנון

Book Three of the Canon of Avicenna in Hebrew translation of Natan ha-Me῾ati.

The work is preceded by a table of contents and six rhymed lines, each consisting of two hemistichs.

Numerous initial-word panels with pen-flourishing, in red and mauve.

Partial foliate borders, in red, green and mauve. f. 2r, 2v, 3r, 3v, 4r, 4v, 5r, 5v, 6r, 6v, 8r, 8v

f. 40v a decorated catchword, in red.

Physical Description

Parchment codex of the 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 309 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 340 × 250 mm.
Dimensions (written): 255 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

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

Collation

Quires of mostly 8 leaves each, originally marked by catchwords at the end (cut away in binding).

Condition

Dirt entry at head.

Various usage stains, including liquid spills.

Old losses infilled before rebinding.

Layout

Columns:2

Ruled lines: 39

Written lines: 39

Uniform layout.

Pricking and hard-point ruling visible.

Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable.

Larger square initial words, decorated thourghout.

Additions in margins in Sefardi semi-cursive script.

A number of pages are palimpsest, the underlying text being Latin, e.g. folio 24, 71, 73, 125, 148.

Folio to folio catchwords cut away in binding.

Hand(s)

Italian semi-cursive script of the 14th century. Barukh: his name marked off in red ink on folio 43v.

Additions:

Folio 1r: several notes and scribblings, partly illegible.

Folio 1v: a table of content of the 22 chapters and sections of the book, in an Oriental cursive script of probably the 17th century.

Binding

Post-1600. Thick brown leather, blind tooled. Boxed.

Spine: 'Avicenna. Canon. Bk. III. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Additional Ms. 11668.'

History

Origin: 14th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Folio 2r: a Latin inscription, partly illegible, with the initials C.J.

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_11668 (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. 1029.

Funding of Cataloguing

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