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

Title

Sefer ha-seder ha-ḳaṭan ... etc.

Authors

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

Other related names

• Halberstam, S. J. 1832-1900, former owner
• Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), former owner

Call number

LJS 469
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954524983503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/781287233
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5452498 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs469.html https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3dp91

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Date

circa 1490

Place

Italy

Summary

Copies of letters of the Finzi family (f. 1r-12v), including reference to Abraham Cohen or Abraham Arie ben Benjamin Portaleone, possibly also known as Abraham ben David Portaleone, a famous physician of Mantua; homiletical comments on the Biblical story of Joseph (f. 13r-14v); and an anonymous translation from Arabic into Hebrew of an abridgment of Avicenna's Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (Canon), which begins with a list of human limbs and their qualities and proceeds to the middle of the third chapter (f. 15r-19v).

Notes

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

Extent

21 leaves : 140 x 108 (f. 1r-14v: 115 x 85 mm; f. 15r-19v: 88 x 58 mm) mm bound to 150 x 113 mm

Foliation

Paper, 21; [1-21]; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century marbled boards with cloth spine.

Layout

Written in 28 (f. 1r-14v) and 20 (f. 15r-19v) long lines.

Script

Written in Italian Ashkenazi semi-cursive script, by at least 2 hands (f. 1r-14v, 15r-19v).

Provenance

• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's as part of a collection of manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment, 27 Oct. 2004, lot 350, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), Ms. 468 (label inside upper cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Jewish scholar and collector S. J. Halberstam, no. 404 (number inscribed in ink, verso of front flyleaf, verso of second flyleaf after manuscript, and label on spine).
   

Subjects topical

• Joseph--(Son of Jacob)
• Portaleone, Abraham ben David,--1542-1612
• Finzi family
• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Arab
• Jews--Italy--History--15th century
• Medicine, Medieval

Genres

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

Keywords

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

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