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Or 12294
- Record Id:
- 032-003432685
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- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 12294
- Title:
- Ḳanon by Avicenna (Book I)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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- [{ "id" : "032-003432685", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 12294: Ḳanon by Avicenna (Book I)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
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- 032-003432685
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 59 folios (i+59+i)
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12294 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Judeo-Arabic
- Scripts:
- Hebrew
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 1300-1499
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
Or 12294
Ḳanon by Avicenna (Book I)
Contents
Medical treatise.
Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
ff. 1r-59vTitle: קאנון (ספר א')Title: Ḳanon (Sefer 1)Incipit: אל פצל אל אול מן אל גמלהIncomplete at the end.
Colophon:Physical Description
Paper codex of the 14th-15th century.Form: codexMaterial: mixedSupport: Outermost and innermost bifolio of the quires is parchment. Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: a geometric motif comprising two circles and a triangle in its centre (e.g. ff. 16, 17).Extent: 59 folios (i+59+i)Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 175 mm.Dimensions (written): 185 × 135 mm.Foliation:Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.
Lacunae between ff. 21 and 22, between ff. 29 and 30, .
Collation
5 quires: i20 (ff. 1-20), ii2 (ff. 21-22), iii (ff. 23-35), iv18 (ff. 36+53), v6 (ff. 54-59).
Catchword on every verso.
Condition
Usage stains,liquid damage.
Some leaves have been fixed.
Collation is falling apart, f. 36 is loose.
F. 57: the parchment leaf has drastically shrunken.
Layout
Columns:2
Ruled lines: 34
Written lines: 34
Ruling in hard point is visible.
Section headings in larger, square script.
Hand(s)
Sefardi semi-cursive and square script of the 14th-15th century.
Binding
Post-1600.
History
Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th centuryProvenance and Acquisition
Black octogonal stamp with inscriptions in Arabic script on f. 2r.
Note in the lower margin of f. 1r.
Ff. 26r and 53v: ownerships inscriptions probably by the same person who added the note on f. 1r: זיה הספיר שלי הצעיר שלום פרידים(?) יצ"ו. The name of the owner is modified in the inscription on f. 53v. The same ownership inscription can be found in London, BL, Or 12291 (f. 93v), with the same modification.
Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 787; 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).Availability
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Surrogates
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12294 (digital images currently unavailable)
Bibliography
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