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Medical tract, in five parts

Title	Medical tract, in five parts
Author	Ben Outhwaite
Subject	Medicine, Medieval
Type	Document
Language	ara,heb,ita,itk
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Pages Count	527
Physical Dimensions	261 ff. Leaf height: 270 mm, width: 220 mm.
Library:	Cambridge Digital Library
Record ID	MS-DD-00010-00068
Library Location	Cambridge University Library — MS Dd.10.68
Date	Fifteenth century-1500-1400
Notes	This beautifully-illuminated work is a medical tract, in five parts, dealing mainly with medicine and pharmacology, but with excurses on astronomy (astrology) and divination. The handwriting is Italian, of the 15th century. Joseph b. Isaac is the first author cited (on f. 2r) and a later note on the fly-leaf attributes the whole work to him. It appears to be a composite work, however, put together from a variety of sources but on the same general subject. A single scribe produced the manuscript, by the name of Solomon (many times throughout the manuscript, when the letters שלמה appear close together at the start of lines, they are marked with rows of dots), although other hands have left annotations in the margin and additions in the text. There are frequent illuminated headings, borders and miniatures (the latter on ff. 2r, 7v, 37v, 104r, 211r, 223r and 234r). Dr Solomon Schiller-Szinessy, in his description of this manuscript, concludes: 'Not forgetting that the MS. has plenty of superstitious reminiscences in it, it is on the whole very valuable & well worth the perusal of a professional man'.
Bibliyografya	Reif, Stefan C., Hebrew manuscripts at Cambridge University Library: a description and introduction, University of Cambridge oriental publications vol. 52 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) ISBN: 052158339X.Gottlieb, Sivan, "A Figura of the Soul: Visualizing the Three Faculties of the Soul in a Hebrew Manuscript", The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 33(1) 38-81 (2025).
Cilt	Rebound in red Niger in 1949, incorporating the original Pragi binding.
Durum	Slightly creased and lightly stained in places; some margins cropped, with loss of headings. Some leaves missing.
Format	Codex
Önceki Sahibi	Thomason, George, d. 1666
Mizanpaj	2 columns; 35 lines; ruled.
Materyal	Parchment
Not(lar)	f. 1r: Folio 1r is blank except for a pen test, מנסה הקולמוס אם ילך.
Menşei Yeri	Italy
Köken (Provenance)	Originally part of the Pragi Collection; purchased from George Thomason and presented in 1647 by the House of Commons.
Yazı Tipi	Italian
Yüzyıl 1	1400s C.E.
Yüzyıl 2	1500s C.E.
Oluşturma Tarihi (Bağlantı Türü)	keyword search
Tarih Aralığı	[1400 TO 1500]
Oluşturma Türü	creation
Yıl (Bitiş)	1500
Yıl (Başlangıç)	1400
Görüntü Hakları (Görüntüleme)	Cambridge University Library
Görüntü Hakları (İndirme)	Images made available for download are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Dil Kodu 1	heb
Dil Kodu 2	ita
Dil Kodu 3	ara
Dil 1	Hebrew
Dil 2	Italian
Dil 3	Arabic
Metadata Hakları	This metadata is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported License.
Küçük Resim Yönü	portrait
Filigran Beyanı	Cambridge University Library (CC BY-NC 4.0)

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Medical tract, in five parts

Author Ben Outhwaite

Subject Medicine, Medieval

Type Document

Language ara,heb,ita,itk

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Pages Count 527

Physical Dimensions 261 ff. Leaf height: 270 mm, width: 220 mm.

Library Cambridge Digital Library

Record ID MS-DD-00010-00068

Library Location Cambridge University Library — MS Dd.10.68

Date Fifteenth century-1500-1400

Notes This beautifully-illuminated work is a medical tract, in five parts, dealing mainly with medicine and pharmacology, but with excurses on astronomy (astrology) and divination. The handwriting is Italian, of the 15th century. Joseph b. Isaac is the first author cited (on f. 2r) and a later note on the fly-leaf attributes the whole work to him. It appears to be a composite work, however, put together from a variety of sources but on the same general subject. A single scribe produced the manuscript, by the name of Solomon (many times throughout the manuscript, when the letters שלמה appear close together at the start of lines, they are marked with rows of dots), although other hands have left annotations in the margin and additions in the text. There are frequent illuminated headings, borders and miniatures (the latter on ff. 2r, 7v, 37v, 104r, 211r, 223r and 234r). Dr Solomon Schiller-Szinessy, in his description of this manuscript, concludes: 'Not forgetting that the MS. has plenty of superstitious reminiscences in it, it is on the whole very valuable & well worth the perusal of a professional man'.

Bibliyografya Reif, Stefan C., Hebrew manuscripts at Cambridge University Library: a description and introduction, University of Cambridge oriental publications vol. 52 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) ISBN: 052158339X.Gottlieb, Sivan, "A Figura of the Soul: Visualizing the Three Faculties of the Soul in a Hebrew Manuscript", The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 33(1) 38-81 (2025).

Cilt Rebound in red Niger in 1949, incorporating the original Pragi binding.

Durum Slightly creased and lightly stained in places; some margins cropped, with loss of headings. Some leaves missing.

Format Codex

Önceki Sahibi Thomason, George, d. 1666

Mizanpaj 2 columns; 35 lines; ruled.

Materyal Parchment

Not(lar) f. 1r: Folio 1r is blank except for a pen test, מנסה הקולמוס אם ילך.

Menşei Yeri Italy

Köken (Provenance) Originally part of the Pragi Collection; purchased from George Thomason and presented in 1647 by the House of Commons.

Yazı Tipi Italian

Yüzyıl 1 1400s C.E.

Yüzyıl 2 1500s C.E.

Oluşturma Tarihi (Bağlantı Türü) keyword search

Tarih Aralığı [1400 TO 1500]

Oluşturma Türü creation

Yıl (Bitiş) 1500

Yıl (Başlangıç) 1400

Görüntü Hakları (Görüntüleme) Cambridge University Library

Görüntü Hakları (İndirme) Images made available for download are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Dil Kodu 1 heb

Dil Kodu 2 ita

Dil Kodu 3 ara

Dil 1 Hebrew

Dil 2 Italian

Dil 3 Arabic

Metadata Hakları This metadata is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported License.

Küçük Resim Yönü portrait

Filigran Beyanı Cambridge University Library (CC BY-NC 4.0)