[Medical miscellany]

Contributor:

Assemani, Antonio (former owner); Sarti, Emiliano, 19th century (former owner); Amari, Michele, 1806-1889 (former owner)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1425

Description:

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.

Language:

Hebrew

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.

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/ljs492.html

Subject:

Medicine, Medieval; Urine -- Analysis -- Early works to 1800; Urine -- Analysis

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions); Manuscripts, Hebrew; Manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

8 leaves : parchment; 293 x 207 (205 x 120) mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Hebrew.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 492

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)