Gentilis Fulginas, -1348; Dinus, de Garbo, -1327; Alberti, Bernardo
Timespan:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1350
Description:
Volume of 14th-century Latin medical works translated into Hebrew. The first work, a manual and numbered collection of prescriptions attributed to Gentilis Fulginas, professor of medicine at Perugia and Padua, comprises over half the volume. Smaller works follow: Sefer Tsirurgia, part of Florentine physician Dinus del Garbo's De emplastris et unguentis (followed by a numbered list of prescriptions in Fulginas's work and a list of the first 18 prescriptions in Sefer Tsirurgia); Mavo bi-melakhah, Abraham Avigdor's translation of Bernardo Alberti's Introductorium in practica pro provectis; and a small group of additional prescriptions titled Mafteaḥ ha-sodot. Prescriptions added by a later hand inside the original lower cover. Marginal section headings or numbers and occasional marginal notes.
Language:
Hebrew
Provenance:
Formerly owned by the Polish scholar and bibliophile S. J. Halberstam, ms. 406 (inside former upper cover, f. 1r, Ha no. on Montefiore labels).; Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), after 1887, ms. 441 (library stamps, f. 1r, inside former lower cover; labels on spine, inside upper cover).; 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 326, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.
Relation:
The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs471.html; Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000475
84 leaves : parchment and paper; 220 x 150 (155 x 105) mm bound to 230 x 165 mm
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Ms. codex.; Title for manuscript from title supplied by cataloger for predominant work.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-53v: [Medical manual and prescriptions / Gentilis Fulginas]; Table of contents: 2. f.54r-65v: [Sefer Tsirurgia / Dinus de Garbo]; Table of contents: 3. f.66r-68v: [List of Fulginas prescriptions]; Table of contents: 4. f.68v: [List of prescriptions 1-18 in Sefer Tsirurgia]; Table of contents: 5. f.69r-84r: [Mavo bi-melakhah / Bernardo Alberti]; Table of contents: 6. f.84v: [Mafteaḥ ha-sodot]; Foliation: Parchment and paper, i (contemporary parchment wrapper) + 84 + i (contemporary parchment wrapper); [1-84], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.; Layout: Written in 32-30 long lines; lists at the end of the Avigdor translation of Alberti presented in 2 columns (f. 66r) and 3 columns (f. 66v-68v) of 35-36 lines.; Script: Written in Italian semi-cursive Hebrew script, with headings and marginal numbers in square Hebrew script.; Binding: Modern library cloth; former parchment wrapper bound within modern binding.; Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 14th or the 15th century.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Hebrew, with one interlinear glossed word in Latin (f. 54r).
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 471
Collection:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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