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Or 16085

Record Id:
032-003440797
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Or 16085
Title:
Prescriptions and cures.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
121 folios (i+121)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1467
End Date:
1599
Date Range:
1467-1599
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Leo X, Pope, 1475-1521
Leo X, Pope, 1475-1521
Montefiore, Moses, Baronet
Montefiore, Moses, Baronet
Philippo Visconti
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 16085

Prescriptions and cures.

Contents

A compilation of medical prescriptions and recipes.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-106v
Title: רפואות
Title: Refuʿot

Ff. 1r-12v: index to 487 medical prescriptions.

Ff. 16r-66r: the original compilation of 270 medical prescriptions; ff. 66r-106v: further entries (nos. 271-487) are added in contemporary or later hands.

Ff. 54r-54v: the names of several physicians are mentioned: Joel, the physician of Pope Leo X (1210-1276): ...זהו הסדר אשר נהג הרופא מ"ה יואל רופא מהפיפאור ליאון; Maestro Anquino, known as Isaac, the physician of the Duke of Bourgogne: מש' אנקינו ששמו ר' יצחק רופא מהדוכוס אביראנייא בעת התעסקו ברפואת הקונטי מארמנייאקה ... ; Binjamin, the physician who treated Philippo Visconti, the Duke of Milan: כאמר בנימן הרופא פרש ... ... רופא מהדוכוס ממילינה יר"ה בהתעסקו לרפאת מס' פיליפו ויסקונטו ; and Jacob Richetta, who treated Duke Ercole I d'Este: מש' יעקב מריקיטה זצ"ל על הרוב עשה המשקה והמרחץ הכל יחד עם דבש אכן בעד הדוכוס אירקולי אדון מפיררה. Just like in this manuscript, in the Cambridge manuscript the part about the physicians is followed by a `polemic' on the `Greek potion'. In the Vatican manuscript it is on ff. 151v–153r.

Ff. 55r-55v: a 'polemic' on the 'Greek potion' by a physician called Isaac: הויכוח אשר עשה הר' יצחק הרופא ז"ל קיים סגולת המשקה היוני....

Marginal note on f. 59r: ומנוסה ע"י ר' יצחק הקרדובה יזיי"א.

Ff. 66r-106v: further entries. The names of several physicians and healers are mentioned here as well, among others: Stella, sister-in-law of Menahem of Lugo: מפי מנחם מלוגו מפי מרת סטילה גיסתו (f. 96v); Anna wife of the physician Jacob Ashkenazi: ע"פ מרת אנה אשת כמ"ר יעקב אשכנזי הרופא (f. 97v); Malka, the wife of one of the later scribes: מרת מלכה אשתי (f. 102v).

Ff. 69r-73r: recipes in Latin (nos. 287-307).

Ff. 100r-102r: treatise on practical kabbalah: שלוש מעלות שנתנו לאדם הראשון.

Colophon:
Filiation: Vatican BV Vat.ebr.376; Cambridge, UL Add. 529.

References

On the treatment of Ercole, who was injured in battle in 1467, by a Jewish physician named Giacobbe, cf. A. Frizzi, Memorie per la storia di Ferrara, iv (1809), p. 62.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 15th-16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; watermark: cardinal's hat? (e.g. ff. 8, 10, 74, 79); and two parchment leaves at the beginning and at the end.
Extent: 121 folios (i+121)
Dimensions (leaf): 143 × 109 mm.
Dimensions (written): 90 × 55 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

9 quires: i16-1 (ff. 1-15)+ 1 parchment folio, ii12 (ff. 16-27), iii16 (ff. 28-43), iv16 (ff. 44-59), v14 (ff. 60-73), vi16 (ff. 74-89), vii6-3 (ff. 90-92), viii22-1 (ff. 93-115), ix14-3 (ff. 114-120 + blank leaves) + 1 parchment leaf (f. 121). Originally quire i was 16 leaves plus a parchment folio, but its first paper leaf has been cut off; quire ix was 14 leaves plus a parchment folio, but now its first three folios are cut off.

Catchword at the end of quire ii (f. 27v).

Condition

Usage stains.

Collation is falling apart.

Layout

Columns:1 2

Original compilation has uniform layout: wide margins, section headings are in larger characters, entry numbers in right margin.

Numerous maniculae.

Hand(s)

Italian and Ashkenazi Hebrew semi-cursive scripts and Latin script of the 15th-16th century.

Decoration

Additions:

Front flyleaf (i)r (parchment): Hebrew inscription; f. 121v (parchment): inscription in Latin script.

Binding

Red leather binding. Boxed.

Label on spine: 'Montefiore Library MS. 442 - Ha No. 369.'

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1467-1599 15th-16th century (not before 1467) Italy?

Provenance and Acquisition

Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885): belonged to his library; see black oval stamp from Ramsgate, on ff. 1r and 121v.

Acquired in 2004 from the Montefiore Endowment via Sotheby's.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel, H. Hirschfeld, Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew MSS. of the Montefiore Library (London 1904), and the sales' catalogue Sotheby's Important Hebrew manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment: New York October 27 & 28, 2004 (New York: Sotheby's, 2004).

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Surrogates

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Bibliography

    Hirschfeld, Hartwig, Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew MSS. of the Montefiore Library (London 1904), pp. 132-133.
    Sotheby's Important Hebrew manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment: New York October 27 & 28, 2004 (New York: Sotheby's, 2004), p. 387, lot 327.
    Hebrew manuscripts in the Vatican Library: catalogue / compiled by the staff of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem ; edited by Benjamin Richler ; palaeographical and codicological descriptions Malachi Beit-Arié in collaboration with Nurit Pasternak (Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca apostolica Vaticana, 2008), pp. 318-319.

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