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Title

Medical and magical compendium

Authors

• John, of Parma, 13th cent

Other related names

• Abraham ben Meshullam, of Sant'Angelo, scribe
• Luzzatto, Samuel David, 1800-1865, former owner
• Halberstam, S. J. 1832-1900, former owner
• Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), former owner

Call number

LJS 470
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9959102523503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/828632200
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5910252

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Hebrew, with occasional notes in Italian (f. 22r, 24v, 26v, 27v, 82v, 83v)

Origin

Date

1533

Place

Siena

Summary

Collection of medical recipes, folk remedies, charms, and spells, including a Hebrew translation of John of Parma's medical treatise, Practicella. Diagrams and notes added by later hands at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1v-3v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

114 leaves : 227 x 165 (162 x 85) mm. bound to 235 x 170 mm

Foliation

Paper, 114; 1³ 2-9¹² 10³; catchwords on last versos of gatherings 2, 4, and 7 (f. 15v, 39v, 75v); foliation in Hebrew numerals in ink, 1-107 (beginning on f. 4), upper left recto; [1-114], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (16th-century) morocco, gilt- and blind-tooled strapwork.

Layout

Written in 26-28 long lines.

Decoration

Small diagrams and/or tables (f. 1v, 2v, 63r, 89r, 102v, 105v).

Script

Written in Italian cursive Hebrew script, in the hand of Abraham ben Meshullam of Sant'Angelo.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Italian philologist, poet, and biblical exegete Samuel David Luzzatto.
   
• Acquired by the Polish scholar and bibliophile S. J. Halberstam from the estate of Samuel David Luzzatto, ms. 19 (Halberstam number on Montefiore label on spine and inside upper cover).
   
• Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), after 1887, ms. 358 (label inside upper cover, Montefiore MS. 358; library stamps, f. 3r, 114v).
   
• 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 430, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
   

Subjects topical

• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Jewish magic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Tables (documents)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Document
• Tables
• Diagrams
• Science -- Medicine
• Paper
• Italy
• Jewish
• Magic

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1v — Diagram, f. 1v
• fol. 2v — Table, f. 2v
• fol. 2v — Diagram, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Stamp, f. 3r
• fol. 22r — Stamp, f. 22r
• fol. 63r — Table, f. 63r
• fol. 89r — Table, f. 89r
• fol. 102v — Diagram, f. 102v
• fol. 105v — Table, f. 105v
• fol. 114v — Stamp, f. 114v