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Or 12252

Record Id:
032-003393238
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Or 12252
Title:
Medical miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
76 folios (ii+76+iv)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12252 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1200
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1200-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Legal Status:
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Names:
Asaph, fl 6th century
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Hippocrates, 0370?-0460?,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/287984736
Hippocrates, 0370?-0460?,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/287984736
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 12252

Medical miscellany

Contents

A collection of medical works.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-9v
Title: תרופות
Title: Terufot

The name Meʾir is marked as an acronym on f. 7r, which could be the name of the scribe.

ff. 10r-22r
Title: תרופות
Title: Terufot

F. 22r: ברוך ייי אלהים אלהי ישראל עושה גדולות לבדו שנתן מחכמתו לדויד בן יוסף ועזרו לפרסם מלשון יונית ללשון ישראלית

ff. 22r-47r
Author: אפוקרט Hippocrates
Title: אפוריסמי
Title:
Incipit: אלה דברי שבע פרשיות המשובחות הנקראות אפוריסמי שעשה איפוקרט

The Aphorisms are divided into four chapters; f. 42v: .

F. 22r: אלה הם טעמי חכמת הרפואה שהם יסוד חכמת כל הרופאים והם שבע פרשיות ויקרא אותם החכם איפוקרס אפומיסמי .

Marginal note on f. 32r referring to R. Shabtai as 'my teacher' is from the 15th-16th century; thus it is unlikely that R. Shabtai would be Shabtai Donolo (10th c.), "since the phrase "my teacher" etc. always refers... to one's own immediate teacher and not to a figure in the ditsant past (D. Goldstein's letter).

F. 47r: ברוך ייי אלהים ... אלהי ישראל עושה נפלאות לבדו שנתן מחכמתו לשבתי בן אברהם (לדויד בן יוסף) ועזרו לפרשם מלשון יונית בלשון ישראלית.

Colophon on f. 47r is probably not the colophon of this manuscript, but that of the manuscript from which the present manuscript was copied.

Colophon: גם כן ברוך ייי אלהי אברהם עבדו אני הכותב ... אברהם בן שבתי זלה"ה f. 47r
ff. 47v-48v
Author: אסף הרופא Asaph, ha-Rofe, active 6th century
Title: רפואות
Title: Refuʾot

F. 47v: אלה הם אותות המרפקות שפירש אסף מספרי חכמי הרופאים ומביני עומק דעת הרפואה

ff. 48v-76v
Author: אסף הרופא Asaph, ha-Rofe, active 6th century
Title: רפואות
Title: Refuʾot

F. 48v: זה ספר אסף אשר ... וידבר אסף עוד על תהלת בריית האדם

Incomplete.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 13th-14th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Yellowish Oriental paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark (e.g. ff. 7, 15).
Extent: 76 folios (ii+76+iv)
Dimensions (leaf): 221 × 142 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180/185 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Indeterminable due to tight binding, but signatures suggest that it was composed mostly of quires of 10 and 12 leaves.

Signatures in Hebrew characters on ff. 10r (quire 29), 22r (quire 30), 32r (quire 31), 42r (quire 32) and 54r (quire 33).

Catchword on every verso.

Several lacunae, e.g. after ff. 7v, 8v, 9v, 21v, 65v.

Condition

Water damage, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layout.

Occasional chapter numbers in the margins (ff. 57v, 58r, 62v, 66v, 68v, 71r).

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew square script of the 13th-14th century.

Additions:

Note in English by Moses Gaster in pencil on back flyleaf (i)r: 'This is probably the oldest Hebrew MS in existence. It belongs to the Xth cen. written ca 950-70 by no less a person than the famous Sabbetai Donolo and was then in the passession of his son Abraham. v. f. 22a David ben Josef 47b Abr. b. Shabetai (v. f. 32 Shabetai b. ...

Binding

BL in-house.

Title on spine: 'ס' אסף Brit. Lib. Oriental MS. 12252'.

History

Origin: 1200-1399 13th-14th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 744; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 3 December 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_12252 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    David Goldstein's letter abuot the manuscript in 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).

Funding of Cataloguing

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