Author
Avicenna, 980-1037.
Publication Date
1400
Publication Place
[Yemen], [1400-1525?] -
Subject
Galen., Medicine--Early works to 1800., Medicine., Medicine, Arab., Medicine, Medieval.
Type
Document
Language
ara,heb,jrb
Digital
No
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
147 leaves : paper ; 210 x 153 (142 x 100) mm bound to 220 x 160 mm
Library
Penn Libraries
Library Asset ID
820266403
Record ID
9958651873503681
Library Location
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Date
1400
Notes
Ms. codex., Title for manuscript supplied by cataloger from title for predominant work., Collation: Paper, i + 147 + i; 1⁴ 2-5⁸ 6⁶ 7-15⁸ 16⁴ 17-19⁸ 20⁸(-3); [1-294], modern pagination in pencil, usually lower center., Layout: Predominant work written in 27 long lines (p. 19-234); Judeo-Arabic works written in 29-32 long lines., Script: Predominant work written in 15th-century Yemeni semi-cursive Hebrew script with rubrics in square script (p. 19-234); Judeo-Arabic works written in a second 15th- or early 16th-century Yemeni semi-cursive Hebrew script in the hand of Saʻīd Danookh, with marginal notes by other hands as well., Binding: Contemporary (15th-century) or very early morocco, blind-stamped, over pasteboards; remnants of 2 pairs of leather loops (lower cover) and toggles (upper cover)., Origin: Written in Yemen in the 15th century, with additional works and glosses added in the 15th or early 16th century. | Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative. | Predominant work in Hebrew (p. 19-234), with shorter works in Judeo-Arabic. | Formerly owned by Saʻīd Danookh (signed glosses, p. 15-16)., Formerly owned by David Solomon Sassoon (Ms. 428, labels on spine and inside upper cover)., Sold as part of the Sassoon collection at auction at Sotheby's, 21 Jun. 1994, lot 54., Appeared in Sam Fogg's cat. 16 (1995), no. 83; sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Apr. 1999., Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
Sample Text
Hebrew translation of Avicenna's medical encyclopedia; its division into 4 books is customary for Hebrew translations, but it also has unusual additional sections on drugs, the liver and intestines, and heart diseases. Short medical works in Judeo-Arabic precede Avicenna's work, and a Judeo-Arabic commentary on Galen follows it; these were written by Saʻīd Danūkh, who also wrote marginal notes alongside the Avicenna.
Atıf Şekli
UPenn LJS 299.
Atıf Yapılan
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 81-82 (LJS 299).
Tür
codices (bound manuscripts), annotations, commentaries, encyclopedias, treatises, Manuscripts, Hebrew., Manuscripts, Renaissance.
