Details

Subjects:

Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Prescriptions.
Translations (documents)
Manuscripts, Hebrew.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Hebrew and Latin.

Summary:

Collection of prescriptions from the 14th-century physician Meir ben Solomon Alguadez and one of his students, originally written in Spanish, in the Hebrew translation of Joseph ha-Kohen completed in 1546, also with Latin translations.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, 109; [1-3, 5-110], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on many leaves, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 26-27 long lines; frame-ruled in lead on versos only; prickings visible on most pages.
Script: Hebrew written in Sephardic semi-cursive; Latin written in humanistic cursive.
Decoration: Occasional elaborate manicules (f. 16v, 19r, 47r, 49v, 52v in text, 67r, 71v, 81v, 89v, 90v, 102v); small decorations in ink dots above headings (for example, f. 8r, 9r, 9v).
Binding: Modern buckram.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 16th century.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Early ownership inscriptions: Abraham Nizza and Judah Trabot of Nizza (Nice, f. 1r); Israel Jeremiah, Kislev 5369 (1608-1609, f. 8r); brother of David Jona (f. 2r).
Sold at auction as part of Raphael Nathan Nata Rabbinovicz's collection, Munich, March 1882, lot 36.
Formerly owned by Polish scholar and bibliophile S. J. Halberstam (ms. 407, Montefiore label inside upper cover).
Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), after 1887, ms. 444 (label inside upper cover, Montefiore MS. 444; stamps, f. 8r, 105v).
Placed on deposit at Jews' College (London) as part of the Montefiore Endowment, 1899.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's (New York) as part of a collection of manuscripts from the Montefiore Endowment, 27 Oct. 2004, lot 329, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.

Cited in:

Described in Magazin für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums 10 (1883), p. 166-169.
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 94 (LJS 468).

Cited as:

LJS 468

Contributor:

Joseph, ha-Kohen, 1496-1578, translator.
Rabbinovicz, Raphael Nathan Nata, 1835-1888, former owner.
Halberstam, S. J. (Solomon Joachim), 1832-1900, former owner.
Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

828029529

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page