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

Title

Medical works.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Harley MS 5527
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5527
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Medical works.

Notes

• Tidemark at head.
   
• Usage stains.
   
• Paling ink.
   
• Lacuna after folio 10.
   
• Folio 1 is pasted on the fron inner cover; it contains a Latin description of the manuscript.
   

Extent

163 folios; 163 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

Post-1600. Vellum binding. Spine: 'Ars Medicin. Hippocratis Aphorismi. Hebraice. Mus. Brit. Lib. Harl. 5527.'

Layout

Columns: 1; ruled lines: 28; written lines: 28; Uniform layout. Some blank spaces left by the scribe, e.g. folio 33v. Larger initial words. Catchwords from folio to folio.

Script

Sefardi semi-cursive and Ashkenazi semi-cursive scripts of the 15th century.

Provenance

• Acquisition: The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts; inscribed as usual by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, '20 Februarij 1719/20' (folio 3r). Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d.1785), Duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
   

Related resources

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — מבוא למלאכת הרפואה
• fol. 2r — Mavo le-mal᾿akhat ha-refu᾿ah
• fol. 35r — האגור
• fol. 35r — Ha-igur
• fol. 44r — רפואות
• fol. 44r — Refu᾿ot