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Collection of medical recipes, folk remedies, charms, and spells, including a Hebrew translation of John of Parma's medical treatise, Practicella. Diagrams and notes added by later hands at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1v-3v).
Support: paper; Extent: 114 leaves : 227 x 165 (162 x 85) mm. bound to 235 x 170 mm; Foliation: Paper, 114; 1³ 2-9¹² 10³; catchwords on last versos of gatherings 2, 4, and 7 (f. 15v, 39v, 75v); foliation in Hebrew numerals in ink, 1-107 (beginning on f. 4), upper left recto; [1-114], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.
Written in 26-28 long lines.
Written in Italian cursive Hebrew script, in the hand of Abraham ben Meshullam of Sant'Angelo.
Small diagrams and/or tables (f. 1v, 2v, 63r, 89r, 102v, 105v).
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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Siena
Written in Siena (f. 10r, 18v) in 1533 (f. 10r, 18v, 90r).
Contemporary (16th-century) morocco, gilt- and blind-tooled strapwork.
Hebrew, with occasional notes in Italian (f. 22r, 24v, 26v, 27v, 82v, 83v)
Formerly owned by Italian philologist, poet, and biblical exegete Samuel David Luzzatto.
Acquired by the Polish scholar and bibliophile S. J. Halberstam from the estate of Samuel David Luzzatto, ms. 19 (Halberstam number on Montefiore label on spine and inside upper cover).
Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, England), after 1887, ms. 358 (label inside upper cover, Montefiore MS. 358; library stamps, f. 3r, 114v).
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 430, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
Siena
Written in Siena (f. 10r, 18v) in 1533 (f. 10r, 18v, 90r).
Hebrew, with occasional notes in Italian (f. 22r, 24v, 26v, 27v, 82v, 83v)
Formerly owned by Italian philologist, poet, and biblical exegete Samuel David Luzzatto.
Acquired by the Polish scholar and bibliophile S. J. Halberstam from the estate of Samuel David Luzzatto, ms. 19
Sold as part of Halberstam's library to Judith Montefiore College
Placed on deposit at Jews' College
Sold at auction at Sotheby's
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.
Collection of medical recipes, folk remedies, charms, and spells, including a Hebrew translation of John of Parma's medical treatise, Practicella. Diagrams and notes added by later hands at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1v-3v).
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in Italian cursive Hebrew script, in the hand of Abraham ben Meshullam of Sant'Angelo.
Small diagrams and/or tables (f. 1v, 2v, 63r, 89r, 102v, 105v).
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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