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Or 10847

Record Id:
032-003409952
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Or 10847
Title:
Medical miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
9 folios (ii+9+iii)
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_10847 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
1800-1899
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
Ibn al-Akfānī al-Anṣārī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, c 1286-1348
Ibn al-Akfānī al-Anṣārī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, c 1286-1348
Saʿid b. Abi Hayr b. Isa
אבו נצר אבן אלכ’יר אלמסיחי
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10847

Medical miscellany

Contents

A collection of two medical works.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-8v
Author: אנצארי, מחמד אבן אבראהים al Anṣārī (Ibn al-Akfānī), Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, approximately 1286-1348 or 1349
Title: נהאיה אלקצד פי צנאעה אלפצ
Title: Nihayat al-Qasd fi Sina’at al-Fasd

On bloodletting.

Colophon:

References

Brockelman, Carl, History of the Arabic Written Tradition, vol. 2 (Weimar: Emil Felber, 1898; Leiden: Brill, 2016), p. 147.
ff. 8v-9v
Author: אבו נצר אבן אלכ’יר אלמסיחי Saʿid b. Abi Hayr b. Isa
Title: כתאב אלאקתצ’אב עלי טריק אלמסאלה ואלגואה פי אלטב
Title: Kitab al-’Iqtidab ʿala tariq al-Masʾalah wal-Jawab fi al-Tibb

Incomplete at the end.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 19th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, tre-lune watermark with countermark 'PB' (e.g. front flyleaf (ii) and f. 6).
Extent: 9 folios (ii+9+iii)
Dimensions (leaf): 228 × 162 mm.
Dimensions (written): 212 × 144 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

A single quire of 14-3 leaves.

Catchword on every page.

Condition

Usage stains, scribbles in pencil, ink stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Text in full border.

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew cursive script of the 19th century.

Additions:

Front flyleaf (ii)r and back flyleaf (ii)v: scribbles, pen trials, calculations.

Binding

Post-1600, light blue cloth binding.

History

Origin: 1800-1899 19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 794; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 12 March 1930.

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_10847 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Vajda, George, 'Sur Quelques Textes Médicaux Arabes En Transmission Juive' Arabica 6 (1959), p. 310.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL