Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Meḳitse nirdamim

Authors

• Alguadez, Meir ben Solomon, fl. 1390-1410

Other related names

• Joseph, ha-Kohen, 1496-1578, translator
• Rabbinovicz, Raphael Nathan Nata, 1835-1888, former owner
• Halberstam, S. J. 1832-1900, former owner
• Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), former owner

Call number

LJS 468
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959058103503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/828029528
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5905810

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew and Latin

Origin

Date

after 1546

Place

Italy

Summary

Collection of prescriptions from the 14th-century physician Meir ben Solomon Alguadez and one of his students, originally written in Spanish, in the Hebrew translation of Joseph ha-Kohen completed in 1546, also with Latin translations.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

109 leaves : 212 x 146 (131 x 80) mm. bound to 220 x 167 mm

Foliation

Paper, 109; [1-3, 5-110], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on many leaves, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern buckram.

Layout

Written in 26-27 long lines; frame-ruled in lead on versos only; prickings visible on most pages.

Decoration

Occasional elaborate manicules (f. 16v, 19r, 47r, 49v, 52v in text, 67r, 71v, 81v, 89v, 90v, 102v); small decorations in ink dots above headings (for example, f. 8r, 9r, 9v).

Script

Hebrew written in Sephardic semi-cursive; Latin written in humanistic cursive.

Provenance

• Early ownership inscriptions: Abraham Nizza and Judah Trabot of Nizza (Nice, f. 1r); Israel Jeremiah, Kislev 5369 (1608-1609, f. 8r); brother of David Jona (f. 2r).
   
• Sold at auction as part of Raphael Nathan Nata Rabbinovicz's collection, Munich, March 1882, lot 36.
   
• Formerly owned by Polish scholar and bibliophile S. J. Halberstam (ms. 407, Montefiore label inside upper cover).
   
• Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), after 1887, ms. 444 (label inside upper cover, Montefiore MS. 444; stamps, f. 8r, 105v).
   
• Placed on deposit at Jews' College (London) as part of the Montefiore Endowment, 1899.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (New York) as part of a collection of manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment, 27 Oct. 2004, lot 329, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• 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

• Codices
• Prescriptions
• Translations
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--16th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Science -- Medicine
• Italy
• Jewish
• Paper

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