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Or 10514

Record Id:
032-003409228
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Or 10514
Title:
Medical miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
218 folios (ii+218)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10514 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1400-1699
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Yuhanna ibn Masuwaih, called 'Heben Messue', c 0777-0857
Yuhanna ibn Masuwaih, called 'Heben Messue', c 0777-0857
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10514

Medical miscellany

Contents

A collection of medical works.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 15th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 218 folios (ii+218)
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

17 quires: i14 (blank leaves + ff. 1-12), ii14 (ff. 13-26), iii-v16 (ff. 27-42, 43-58, 59-74), vi14-1 (ff. 75-87), vii14 (ff. 88-101), viii12 (ff. 102-113), ix14 (ff. 114-127), x16 (ff. 128-143), xi12 (ff. 144-155), xii16 (ff. 156-171), xiii10 (ff. 172-181), xiv8 (ff. 182-189), xv12 (ff. 190-201), xvi8 (ff. 202-209), xvii6+1 (ff. 210-216).

Additions:

Ff. 217r-218v: medical recipes by a different, Oriental hand.

Binding

Brown leather binding. Boxed.

M. Gaster's label on spine: '451 ג' ספרי רפואה'.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1400-1699 15th-17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 451; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 24 July 1928.

I

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-113v
Title: חבור ברפואה
Title: Ḥibur ha-refuʾah
Incipit: ואמנם המשיג ממנו משיג כחוץ וממנו משיג בפנים
Explicit: הבתור הוא על מספר הצמחים מהסדמיים כש... או כרכומיים

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: crown with a star and a cresent above it (e.g. ff. 7, 9).
Extent: 113 folios (ff. 1-113)
Dimensions (leaf): 196 × 141 mm.
Dimensions (written): 143 × 88 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

See quires i-viii.

Catchwords on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, collation is cracked, f. 1 is almost entirely detached.

Water damage.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layou.

Text in gilded frame.

Marginal notes.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 17th-18th century.

History

Origin: 1600-1799 17th-18th century

Provenance

II

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 114r-171v
Author: מסאויה, יחיא אבן Ibn Māsawayh, Yūḥannā, -857 or 858
Title: חבור ברפואה
Title: Ḥibur ha-refuʾah
Incipit: האל לבדו מרפא החליים והוצא בנדיבותו הרפואה מזכר הפסד

Translation of the Grabadin medicinarum particularium. The same translation can be found in Paris, NbF MS hebr. 1131 (F 15094).

Colophon:

References

Steinschneider, M. Die Hebräischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters (Berlin, 1893), p. 721.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: posthorn (e.g. ff. 161).
Extent: 58 folios (ff. 114-171)
Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchword on every verso.

See quires ix-xii.

Condition

Liquid damage, usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger, often square characters.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

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

Decoration

Additions:

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century

Provenance

III

Contents

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 172r-216v
Author: מאסויה, יחיא אבן Ibn Māsawayh, Yūḥannā, -857 or 858
Title: מהעצה והטעמים והתנאים של רפואות המשלשלות הפשוטות והמורכבות
Title: meha-ʻetsah ṿeha-ṭevaʻim ṿeha-tenaʾim shel ha-refuʾot ha-meshalshelot ha-peshuṭot ṿeha-murkavot
Incipit: הטבע מה שיותן לו או בכמות או...

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: posthorn (e.g. ff. 184, 203).
Extent: 45 folios (ff. 172-216)
Dimensions (leaf): 196 × 140 mm.
Dimensions (written): 135 × 90 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

See quires xiii-xvii.

Last word on the verso is repeated on the following recto.

Condition

Liquid damage, iron gall ink corrosion, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 32

Written lines: 32

Uniform layout.

Section headings are in larger characters.

Ruling is visible.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th-16th century.

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century

Additional Information

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

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