Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Medical writing.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 6501
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6501
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Medical writing.

Notes

• Ends extremely damaged by damp and mould, repaired and infilled before rebinding.
   

Extent

147 folios; 147 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Ibn Sina. Kanun. Hebrew. Vol. III. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6501.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 44; written lines: 44; Uniform layout. Pricking and complete hard-point ruling visible. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. Large initial words. Running titles added by a later hand. Additions and notes on margin largely by the main scribe.

Script

Sefardi (North African) semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum through Sassoon & Co. on 07 April 1903: inscribed, folio [148v] (fse001v).
   

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of British Library Or 6501: Medical writing. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Or 6501: Medical writing.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode