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[Medical miscellany].

Publication:
[Spain], [between 1425 and 1475]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
8 leaves : parchment ; 293 x 207 (205 x 120) mm
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Medicine, Medieval.
Urine -- Analysis -- Early works to 1800.
Urine -- Analysis.
Form/Genre:
Fragments (object portions)
Manuscripts, Hebrew.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Hebrew.
Summary:
Gathering from a medical miscellany in Hebrew, containing chapters 14 to 18, covering the diagnosis and treatment of fevers, headaches, and stomach ailments, with some focus on the testing of urine.
Notes:
Ms. gathering.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Written in 29 long lines, with the first line of text above the line; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in Sephardic cursive script, with the incipit of each chapter in square book script.
Origin: Written in Spain in the mid-15th century.
Local notes:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
Penn Provenance:
Ownership inscription or attribution: Le medecina d' Renisio de Gio. Antonio Cos[...]azi (f. 1r).
Formerly owned by Antonio Assemani, Emiliano Sarti, and Michele Amari.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 8 Jul. 2008, lot 16, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
Cited as:
LJS 492
Contributor:
Assemani, Antonio, former owner.
Sarti, Emiliano, 19th century, former owner.
Amari, Michele, 1806-1889, former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
OCLC:
793018465