Collection ID: 0047 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Medical work by Avicenna.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Add MS 21967
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_21967
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Medical work by Avicenna.

Notes

• 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.
   

Extent

295 folios; 295 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

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

Layout

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.

Script

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).

Provenance

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

Related resources

• Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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