[Medical miscellany].
- Publication:
- [Spain], [between 1425 and 1475]
- Format/Description:
- Manuscript
8 leaves : parchment ; 293 x 207 (205 x 120) mm - Online:
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3vk78Digital facsimile for download (OPenn)
https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs492.html - 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
- Web link:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page