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

Title

Medical and calendrical works, in Judeo-Persian.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 2455
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_2455
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Judeo-Persian

Origin

Summary

Medical and calendrical works, in Judeo-Persian.

Notes

• Slightly damp at edges.
   
• Tidemarks at some corners.
   
• Losses in first and last leaves, infilled.
   
• Stains and ink smears.
   

Extent

196 folios; 196 folios

Support

Paper

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Medical and Other Tracts. Judaeo-Persian. Brit. Mus. Oriental Ms. 2455.'

Layout

Columns: 1 2; ruled lines: 23; written lines: 23; Uniform layout. Blue paper in the middle part. Catchwords on every verso. Headings in larger square charactes.

Script

Persian semi-cursive script of the 19th century. Yehonatan ben Binyamin Rofeh: inscribed, folio 33r.

Provenance

• Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum on 24 June 1882 from Adolph Neubauer (b. 1831, d. 1907), a scholar, librarian and bibliographer: inscribed, folio [199v] (fse003v).
   

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. 1r — לוח
• fol. 1r — Luaḥ
• fol. 18r — תעביר נאמה
• fol. 18r — Ta῾avir na᾿mah
• fol. 34r — טב שפאאי
• fol. 34r — Ṭav Shifa᾿i
• fol. 137r — שיר
• fol. 137r — Shir
• fol. 140r — חבורים ברפואה
• fol. 140r — Ḥiburim bi-refu᾿ah