Description of British Library, Add MS 18689: Perush mel᾿akhah ḳetanah (פרוש מלאכה קטנה)

Description of British Library, Add MS 18689: Perush mel᾿akhah ḳetanah (פרוש מלאכה קטנה) contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2020-09-30 2020-09-30 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 18689: Perush mel᾿akhah ḳetanah (פרוש מלאכה קטנה) are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, British Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about British Library Add MS 18689: Perush mel᾿akhah ḳetanah (פרוש מלאכה קטנה). This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Defective at the end. Tidemarks at head and foredge; area of soft/weak paper at foredge. Iron gall ink corrosion. Note in Sefardi cursive script on folio 1v. Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965. United Kingdom London British Library Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project Add MS 18689 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18689 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Medical treatises.

Hebrew Perush mel᾿akhah ḳetanah (פרוש מלאכה קטנה) 1r פרוש מלאכה קטנה 1r Perush mel᾿akhah ḳetanah 105r החלאים והמקרים 105r Ha-ḥala᾿im ṿeha-miḳrim

Paper

122 folios; 122 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 26 24; written lines: 26 24; Ruling by hard point, leaf by leaf on verso. Larger semi-cursive initials. Catchwords on every verso. Marginal notes and additions. Maniculae (e.g. folios 51v, 65r, 94v). Sefardi (North African?) semi-cursive script of the 15th century.

BM in-house. Spine: 'Ali Ben Retzvan Comment. In Galenum ex Versione Jeh. Aben Tibbon Hebr. Mus. Jure Emptionis 18,689.'

Between 1400 and 1499

Acquisition: Adolphus Asher (b. 1800, d. 1853), Berlin bookseller and dealer to the British Museum 1841-1853: purchased from him on 24 May 1857: inscribed (folios 1r, back flyleaf i[v]).