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Or 12291

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Or 12291
Title:
Ḳanon by Avicenna (Book III)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
93 folios (i+93+i)
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Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1400-1599
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
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
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Or 12291

Ḳanon by Avicenna (Book III)

Contents

Medical treatise.

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 1r-93r
Author: אבן סינא, אלחסין בן עבדאללה Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: קאנון (ספר ג’, קטע)
Title: Ḳanon (Sefer 3, ḳeṭaʿ)

In M. Gaster's handnotes: 'Medical work, evidently not Avicenna's Canon'.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: hand with star on top (e.g. f. 34, 62).
Extent: 93 folios (i+93+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 177 mm.
Dimensions (written): 205/210 × 130/135 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Indeterminable.

Last word of the verso is repeated on the subsequent recto.

Condition

Usage stains, foxing, tears, water damage.

Collation is falling apart.

Numerous leaves had been fixed, some loss of text.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 35

Written lines: 34 35

Ruling in hard point is visible.

With some marginal notes.

Maniculae (e.g. ff. 14v, 45v )

Hand(s)

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

Ff. 74-75 and 84-85 are written in by a different hand, smaller characters.

Binding

Post-1600.

History

Origin: 1400-1599 15th-16th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription on f. 93v: תנו רבנן לעולם יכתוב אדם שמו על ספרו שמא יאבו(!) אדם אחד מין השוק ויאמר שלי עז על כן כתבתי שמי על ספרי הצעיר שלום... - the name at the end of the inscription is modified by a later hand. The same ownership inscription can be found in London, BL, Or 12294 (ff. 26r, 53v), with the same modification.

Black octogonal stamp with inscriptions in Arabic script on ff. 16r, 19r, 34r.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 786; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 10 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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