[Four leaves from Book Four of the Hebrew translation of Avicenna's Qānūn fī al-ṭibb].
[ארבעה דפים מספר רביעי של אבן סינא, קאנון הגדול].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Avicenna, 980-1037.

Contributor:

ha-Me'ati, Nathan, active 13th century, translator.

Colker, Marvin L., former owner.

המעטי, נתן בן אליעזר.

Language:

Arabic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Encyclopedias--11th century--Texts.

Medicine.

Jews--Spain--14th century--History--Sources.

Jews.

Jews--Africa, North--14th century--History--Sources.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, European.

encyclopedias.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Marvin L. Colker, cataloger of manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin and professor of classics at the University of Virgina (former call number MLC 031); purchased by Colker from B. Hoffman, London, in 1987-8 (Christie's).

Sold by Christie's London, Online auction 21173 (November 28, 2022) as part of the collection of Marvin L. Colker.

Physical Description:

4 leaves + 3 fragments : paper ; 280 × 205 mm ; (fragment 1 : 280 × 60mm ; fragment 2 : 280 × 105mm ; fragment 3 : 90 × 60mm)

Place of Publication:

[Spain?], [1350?-1399?].

[ספרד?], [1350?-1399?].

Language Note:

Hebrew, translated from the original Arabic.

Summary:

These are leaves surviving from a manuscript of the Hebrew translation of Avicenna's Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (translated by Nathan ben Eliezer ha-Me'ati of Cento); surviving in the text is עונות טובות (from Book 4, ch. 53; f. 1v) מאמר העילופיית הלחיית (from Book 4, ch. 61; f. 2r). Item worn, with considerable loss to text; item probably survived inside a binding.

Notes:

Ms. leaves.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in 31 lines (surviving column length from f. 1v); textblock ruled in drypoint; titles aligned into columns.

Script: Written in a Sephardic-Iberian semicursive script; titles written in a Sephardic square script.

Origin: Written in Spain or possibly North Africa, probably during the second half of the 14th century.

Corrections in a 16th century Sephardic cursive hand (margins and inside lines).

Related Collections:

A codex manuscript of the Hebrew translation of Qānūn fī al-ṭibb is UPenn LJS 299, in a 15th century Yemenite manuscript.

Cited as:

Four leaves from Book Four of the Hebrew translation of Avicenna's Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 642). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1379815421

Access Restriction:

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