Description of British Library, Add MS 21967: Medical work by Avicenna. contributor Ilana Tahan cataloger Agata Paluch The Polonsky Foundation British Library 2023-02-01 2023-02-01 These images and the content of British Library Add MS 21967: Medical work by Avicenna. 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 21967: Medical work by Avicenna.. 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. Usage stains. Pigment loss in ink at first coloured initial word. Large strips of leather lost on board leather. Also thickness losses at edges & corners of the board. 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 21967 http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_21967 https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts Medical work by Avicenna. Hebrew Medical work by Avicenna.

Parchment

 295 folios; 295 folios Columns: 2; ruled lines: 32; written lines: 32; Uniform layout. Complete hard-point ruling visible. Quires start with the fleshside. Hair side and flesh side of folios distinguishable. Large square initial words. Chapter titles are given in Latin in the margins. Marginal additions and notes. Italian semi-cursive script of the first half of the 15th century. Yeḥiel ben Yo᾿av of Bet El: inscribed with his name in the colophon, Rome, undated (folios 295r).

Post-1600. Dark brown leather. Spine: 'Ibn Sina. Kanun. Hebrew. Vol. I and II. Brit. Mus. Additional 21,967.'

Between 1400 and 1449

 Eliyahu ha-Rofe ben Shabtai Naftali Acquisition: Rev. A. Löwy: purchased by the British Museum from him on 25 April 1857: inscribed (f. [296v]).