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Title

Sefer ha-Ḳanon ... etc.

Authors

• Avicenna, 980-1037

Other related names

• Danūkh, Saʻīd, former owner
• Sassoon, David Solomon, 1880-1942, former owner

Call number

LJS 299
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958651873503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/820274356
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5865187

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Predominant work in Hebrew (p. 19-234), with shorter works in Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Date

ca. 1400-1525

Place

Yemen

Summary

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.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript supplied by cataloger from title for predominant work.
   

Extent

147 leaves : 210 x 153 (142 x 100) mm. bound to 220 x 160 mm

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.

Support

Paper

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).

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.

Provenance

• 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.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Arab
• Medicine, Medieval

Genres

• Codices
• Annotations
• Commentaries
• Encyclopedias
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--15th century
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Encyclopedia
• 15th century
• 16th century
• Yemen
• Annotated
• Commentary
• Science -- Medicine
• Jewish
• Paper

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Table of contents

• 1 — Brief medical passages or fragments in Judeo-Arabic, p. 1
• 15 — Sayings of Galen in Hebrew and Arabic, p. 15
• 17 — Refu?at (Prescriptions) in Judeo-Arabic, p. 17
• 19 — Sefer ha-K?anon, p. 19
• 235 — Commentary on Galen in Judeo-Arabic, p. 235