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

Title

Medical work of Avicenna.

Funders

• The Polonsky Foundation

Call number

Or 6891
(London, United Kingdom, British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6891
• https://www.bl.uk/hebrew-manuscripts

Publisher

British Library

Language

Hebrew

Origin

Summary

Medical work of Avicenna.

Notes

• Incomplete at the beginning .
   
• Slight damp entry at ends; some tidemarks and mould-spotting.
   

Extent

186 folios; 186 folios

Support

Parchment

Binding

BM in-house. Spine: 'Ibn Sina. Kanun. Hebrew. Vol. III. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6891.'

Layout

Columns: 2; ruled lines: 29; written lines: 29; Uniform layout. Complete hard-point ruling (also for marginalia) visible. Hair side and flesh side of folios hardly distinguishable. Larger initial words. Additions and notes in the margins. Running titles. Last word of a folio repeated at the beginning of the next.

Script

Sefardi semi-cursive script of the 15th to 16th century.

Provenance

• Mosheh
   
• Efrayim Daṿid Yonah
   
• Eliyah Sagri
   
• Yosef Pughesi
   
• Yitsḥaḳ Yosef Cingoli
   
• Acquisition: Purchased by the British Museum through Sassoon & Co. on 07 April 1903: inscribed, folio [187v] (fse001v).
   

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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