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Or 10396

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Or 10396
Title:
Medical miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
173 folios (no flyleaves)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10396 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Italian
Yiddish
Scripts:
Hebrew
Latin
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Nicholas of Salerno, physician, fl 12th century
Nicholas of Salerno, physician, fl 12th century
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10396

Medical miscellany

Contents

A collection of medical works.

Language(s): Hebrew, yid, Italian

ff. 1r-55v
Author: ניקולאוס פריפוזיטוס Nicolaus, Salernitanus, active 12th century
Title: אנטידוטריום
Title: Antidotarium
Incipit: ברוך המגלה סודות לבריותיו: והקדים רפואה לחלית חסיו f. 1r
Explicit: f. 55v

Anonymous translation. This version is slightly different from the one in London, BL, Or 46.

With explanations in Hebrew and Yiddish.

F. 2r: הנה נתבקשתי מאנשים חכמים ללמדם בעניין הרפואות.

References

Dumas, Geneviève, Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge (Leiden: Brill, 2015), p. 213.
ff. 55v-82r
Title: סדר השמנים: מרשמים לעשית שמנים לרפואות
Title: Seder ha-shemanim: mirshamim la-ʿaśiyat shemanim li-refuʾot

Lists of medicinal oils, describing their uses, properties and preparation.

ff. 82r-83v
Title: שערי המים
Title: Shaʿare ha-mayim

Lists of medicinal waters and their uses.

ff. 83v-85r
Title: ארטריאטה
Title: Arṭriaṭah

Prescriptions for the throat and one prescription (an electuarium) for the stomach.

ff. 85r-88v
Title: שער הנשים
Title: Shaʿar ha-nashim

Sections on the diseases on women.

ff. 89r-109r
Title: חבורים ברפואה
Title: Ḥiburim be-refuʾah

List of drugs and prescriptions, with occasional explanations in Yiddish.

ff. 110r-111v
Title: חבור ברפואה
Title: Ḥibur be-refuʾah

An extract from De simplici medicina of Mattheus Platearius in a Hebrew version.

ff. 112r-167v
Title: חבורים ברפואה
Title: Ḥiburim be-refuʾah

Two glossaries of medical and pharmaceutical terms (ff. 112r-141r and 142r-167v). The terms in Italian (in Hebrew characters) being given first followed by explanations in Hebrew and very often by equivalents in Yiddish.

Deleted note at the end on f. 167v.

Colophon: תם ונשלם: שבח לאל עולם: סדר הרפואות בושם באלפא בית' ... מ"מ תשמר שידע מפעלם להושיע הצועקים בקושם: ממצוקתהם אשר נעלם ... השכר ליורים בתשלום גמולם: אז תכתב שחיי עד בעיר שלם ... יעמוד ליהודים לגאלם: אמן f. 167v

References

The Tabula Antidotarii of Armengaud Blaise and Its Hebrew Translation, ed. Michael McVaugh and Lola Ferre (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2000), p. 19.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 173 folios (no flyleaves)
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 114 mm.
Dimensions (written): 95 × 58 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink, always on the verso side, starting on f. 2v (= f. א).

Ff. 1v, 109v are blank.

Blank, unfoliated leaf after f. 119.

(Paper cutting attached to f. 1r, and paper slip containing the date of accession stuck onto the back inner cover are displayed as flyleaves in the digital surrogate.)

Collation

Catchword on the verso sides of the first half of the quires and on the very last leaf of the quire.

Condition

Usage stains, dirt, water damage, worm damage.

Binding is very damaged.

Layout

Columns:1

Section heading is larger, square characters.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi semi-cursive and square script of the 15th-16th century.

Decoration

Decorated initial word, in ink (f. 1r).

Additions:

Ff. 168r-173v: miscellaneous texts: f. 168r: recipes in Italian in Latin script; ff. 168v-169r: calculations; ff. 169v-170r: blank pages; ff. 170v-173v (in reverse order): notes about payments and calculations in Italian in Latin script, mentioning the years 1601-1603.

Binding

Leather binding on wooden boards; with remains of metal centre piece and corner pieces.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '676 רפואות ומרקחות'.

Accompanying Material

Paper cutting from the Schwager-Frankel catalogue, No. 3.

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Erasured ownership inscription(?) on f. 167v.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 676; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 9 September 1929.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10396 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Prager, Leonard and Brad Sabin Hill, "Yiddish manuscripts in the British Library"British Library Journal (1995): pp. 81-108, esp. pp. 83 and 91.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL