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Or 10807
Title:
Mafteaḥ ha-refuʾah by Elishaʿ ha-Yeṿani
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
44 folios (i+44+i)
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Languages:
Greek, Modern
Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Ladino
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
Era:
CE
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Names:
Avicenna, Persian polymath, 980-1037,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121430876,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/89770781
Elishaʿ ha-Yeṿani
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Moses ben Nahman, 1194-1271
Naḥmanides, 1195?-1270?,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000398217402,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/219072992
אלישע היווני
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Or 10807

Mafteaḥ ha-refuʾah by Elishaʿ ha-Yeṿani

Contents

Medical treatise containing foods and their medical qualities.

Language(s): Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Greek, Ladino

ff. 1r-44v
Author: אלישע היווני Elishaʿ ha-Yeṿani
Title: מפתח הרפואה (חלק ב שער ט)
Title: Mafteaḥ ha-refuʾah (Ḥeleḳ 2 Shaʿar 9)

The names of the foods are arranged alphabetically, with an Arabic, Greek, and another foreign language "loaz" (perhaps Spanish) translations (all in Hebrew characters), and with their medical qualities.

Mentions, among others, Moshe ben Nahman (Nahmanides) (e.g. ff. 22v, 28v); בעל הדכירא .. מחמד אל זבדא ("the author of the Dekhira […] Mahmad al-Zbeda") (e.g. ff. 6r, 9v); Avicenna (e.g. ff. 23r, 24r). F. 24v: בספרי הלועזים מצאתי מקדוניס

Lacunae after ff. 13, 14, 20.

Incomplete at the beginning and at the end.

References

On Elisha, see: Wust, E., 'Elisha the Greek: A Physician and Philosopher at the Beginning of the Ottoman Period', Peamim 41 (1989), pp. 49-57 (Hebrew).

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: anchor? in circle with a star on top (e.g. ff. 14, 18, 22).
Extent: 44 folios (i+44+i)
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 160 × 110 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink.

F. 8v is blank.

Collation

Indeterminable (side-sewn?).

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Water damage, usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 20

Written lines: 18 20

Ruling is visible (with mastara?, see f. 8r)

Section headings are in larger characters.

Hand(s)

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

Binding

Post-1600.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'שמות הסמים 952'.

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 952; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 20 October 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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