Description of British Library, Add MS 18969: Ya᾿ir nativ (יאיר נתיב) 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 18969: Ya᾿ir nativ (יאיר נתיב) 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 18969: Ya᾿ir nativ (יאיר נתיב). 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. Inclomplete at the beginning. Lacuna after folio 167. Slight worming. Slight tidemarks in part. Fading ink. 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 18969 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_18969 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Medical works. Hebrew Ya᾿ir nativ (יאיר נתיב) Ibn al-Gazzar, Aḥmad ibn Ibrahim, 932-1009 (ג'זאר, אחמד בן אבראהים אבן) 1r יאיר נתיב 1r Ya᾿ir nativ 159v ספר המעלות 159v Sefer ha-ma῾alot

Parchment

 171 folios; 171 folios Columns: 1; ruled lines: 25; written lines: 25; Uniform layout. Pricking and hard-point ruling visible. Hair side and flesh side of folios hardly distinguishable. Larger initial words. Additions and notes in the margins, partly cut in trimming. Last word of a folio repeated at the beginning of the next. Gilt edges. Ashkenazi (French?) semi-cursive script of the 14th century.

Post-1600. Dark brown leather. Spine: 'Constantinus Africanus. Viaticum. Hebrew. Mus. Brit. Jure Emptionis. 18,969.'

Between 1300 and 1399

Unknown Leyzer Dernam Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum through Asher & Co. on 12 June 1852: inscribed, folio [172v] (fse001v).