[Leaves from a materia medica manuscript].
[טקסט אתנובוטני ותרופתי].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Language:

Hebrew

Judeo-Arabic

Subjects (All):

Materia medica--Adaptations.

Materia medica.

Materia medica--Early works to 1800.

Pharmacognosy--Texts.

Pharmacognosy.

Materia medica, Animal.

Materia medica, Vegetable.

Jews--Egypt--16th century--History--Sources.

Jews.

Jews--Africa, North--16th century--History--Sources.

Genre:

adaptations (literary works)

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Refa'eli Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 16 (August 17, 2020) lot 318.

Physical Description:

2 leaves : paper ; 202 x 138 (165 x 116) mm.

Place of Publication:

[Egypt?], [between 1500 and 1599]

[מצרים?], [1500-1599]

Language Note:

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.

Summary:

This is a manuscript of an ethnobotanic medical text; two leaves, and a small piece of a third leaf remain (all surviving as binding waste). The text provides short medicinal properties of plants (with many plant names in Judeo-Arabic); for example, Acacia's ophthalmological properties (f. 1v), and pharmacological derivatives of frogs (or small amphibians; f2v). Original foliation remains (כ, [כא], כב; upper left recto) perhaps indicating that this is an adaptation of a larger work, likely for Jewish use; possibly a Jewish adaptation of material from De materia medica by Dioscorides.

Notes:

Ms. leaves.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in 37 lines; catchwords written in-line; marginalia in later hand (f. 2v).

Script: Written in a Maghrebi cursive script of the 16th century; entry titles written slightly larger.

Origin: Written in Egypt or perhaps the Mediterranean areas of the Maghreb

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 573.

OCLC:

1336604783