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Title

Sefer ha-Ḳanon ... etc.

Authors

• Avicenna, 980-1037
• Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Ibn Tibon, Mosheh, active 13th century, translator
• Hirschel, Solomon, 1761-1842, former owner
• Jews' College (London, England), former owner
• Bet din tsedeḳ London ṿeha-medinah (Great Britain), former owner

Call number

LJS 311
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954104743503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773128284
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5410474 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs311.html https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ck89

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Italy

Summary

Books 1-3 and the beginning of Book 4 of Avicenna's 11th-century comprehensive medical work, translated into Hebrew from Arabic. At the end of the volume is Maimonides's 12th-century treatise on poisons, a much shorter work, which is also lacking the end of the text and was also translated from Hebrew to Arabic, by Mosheh Ibn Tibon. Marginal notes in Hebrew, with at least one in Italian (f. 44v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 2. f.118r-131v: [Maʼamar ha-nikhbad (incomplete) / Moses Maimonides]
   
• 1. f.1r-117v: [Sefer ha-Ḳanon (incomplete) / Avicenna]
   

Extent

131 leaves : 195 x 126 (126 x 95) mm bound to 204 x 148 mm

Collation

Paper, iii (modern) + i (early) + 131 + ii (modern); 1¹²(-1) 2-8¹² 9¹⁴ 10¹² 11¹⁰; gatherings 1-9 signed with the first through ninth letters of the Hebrew alphabet, lower left corner last verso; [1-131], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on last verso of each gathering, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern calf

Layout

Written in 26-27 long lines.

Decoration

Occasional manicules (f. 18r, 23r, 26r, 27v, 38r, 112v, 122v, 125v).

Script

Written in Italian semi-cursive Hebrew script.

Provenance

• Formerly held in the library of Jews' College (London; stamp, early flyleaf), no. 118 (inscription).
   
• Formerly owned by Solomon Hirschel, first Chief Rabbi of London.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
   
• Formerly held in the library of the Bet din tsedeḳ London ṿeha-medinah (Ashkenazi rabbinical court, London), no. 139 (spine).
   
• Sold at auction at Christie, Manson & Woods as part of the collection of the Bet din tsedeḳ London ṿeha-medinah, 23 Jun. 1999, lot 15, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• treatises
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--15th century
• codices (bound manuscripts)

Keywords

• 15th century
• Treatise
• Science -- Medicine
• Paper
• Italy
• Italian

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Sefer ha-K?anon, f. 1r
• fol. 118r — Ma?amar ha-nikhbad, f. 118r

Decorations

• fol. 18r — Manicule, f. 18r
• fol. 18v — Manicule, f. 18v
• fol. 22v — Manicule, f. 22v
• fol. 23r — Manicule, f. 23r
• fol. 23v — Manicule, f. 23v
• fol. 24v — Manicule, f. 24v
• fol. 25r — Manicule, f. 25r
• fol. 26r — Manicule, f. 26r
• fol. 27v — Manicule, f. 27v
• fol. 38r — Manicule, f. 38r
• fol. 49v — Manicule, f. 49v
• fol. 112v — Manicule, f. 112v
• fol. 122v — Manicule, f. 122v
• fol. 125v — Manicule, f. 125v