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Title

Medical manual and prescriptions ... etc.

Authors

• Gentilis Fulginas, -1348
• Dinus, de Garbo, -1327
• Alberti, Bernardo
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Avigdor, Solomon ben Abraham, 1384-, translator

Call number

LJS 471
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959189263503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/830006897
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5918926 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3mp0g https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs471.html http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew, with one interlinear glossed word in Latin (f. 54r)

Origin

Date

circa 1350-1499

Place

Italy

Summary

Volume of 14th-century Latin medical works translated into Hebrew. The first work, a manual and numbered collection of prescriptions attributed to Gentilis Fulginas, professor of medicine at Perugia and Padua, comprises over half the volume. Smaller works follow: Sefer Tsirurgia, part of Florentine physician Dinus del Garbo's De emplastris et unguentis (followed by a numbered list of prescriptions in Fulginas's work and a list of the first 18 prescriptions in Sefer Tsirurgia); Mavo bi-melakhah, Abraham Avigdor's translation of Bernardo Alberti's Introductorium in practica pro provectis; and a small group of additional prescriptions titled Mafteaḥ ha-sodot. Prescriptions added by a later hand inside the original lower cover. Marginal section headings or numbers and occasional marginal notes.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from title supplied by cataloger for predominant work.
   
• 4. f.68v: [List of prescriptions 1-18 in Sefer Tsirurgia]
   
• 5. f.69r-84r: [Mavo bi-melakhah / Bernardo Alberti]
   
• 6. f.84v: [Mafteaḥ ha-sodot]
   
• 2. f.54r-65v: [Sefer Tsirurgia / Dinus de Garbo]
   
• 3. f.66r-68v: [List of Fulginas prescriptions]
   
• 1. f.1r-53v: [Medical manual and prescriptions / Gentilis Fulginas]
   

Extent

84 leaves : 220 x 150 (155 x 105) mm bound to 230 x 165 mm

Foliation

Parchment and paper, i (contemporary parchment wrapper) + 84 + i (contemporary parchment wrapper); [1-84], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Support

Parchment and paper

Binding

Modern library cloth; former parchment wrapper bound within modern binding.

Layout

Written in 32-30 long lines; lists at the end of the Avigdor translation of Alberti presented in 2 columns (f. 66r) and 3 columns (f. 66v-68v) of 35-36 lines.

Script

Written in Italian semi-cursive Hebrew script, with headings and marginal numbers in square Hebrew script.

Provenance

• Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), after 1887, ms. 441 (library stamps, f. 1r, inside former lower cover; labels on spine, inside upper cover).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (New York) as part of a collection of manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment, 27 Oct. 2004, lot 326, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Formerly owned by the Polish scholar and bibliophile S. J. Halberstam, ms. 406 (inside former upper cover, f. 1r, Ha no. on Montefiore labels).
   
• Placed on deposit at Jews' College (London) as part of the Montefiore Endowment, 1899.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• manuals (instructional materials)
• anthologies
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• translations (documents)
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--14th century
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• prescriptions

Keywords

• 14th century
• 15th century
• Paper
• Italy
• Italian
• Jewish
• Science -- Medicine

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Medical manual and prescriptions, f. 1r
• fol. 54r — Sefer Tsirurgia, f. 54r
• fol. 66r — List of Fulginas prescriptions, f. 69r
• fol. 68v — Partial list of Sefer Tsirurgia prescriptions, f. 68v
• fol. 69r — Mavo bi-melakhah, f. 69r
• fol. 84v — Mafteah ha-sodot, f. 84v