University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1649
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1440
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1649
- Title:
- Kāmil al-sināʻah al-tibbīyah ... etc..
- Majūsī, ʻAlī ibn al-ʻAbbās, active 10th century-11th century
- Scribe:
- Abū al-Ḥasan Sa'ad
- Place:
- Catania
- Date:
- [circa 1443-1452]
- Language:
- Judeo-Arabic, with a brief work in Hebrew (f. 25r-39v); notes in Samaritan (f. 1v-7v, 21r-22v, 3 bifolia laid in after f. 22v, marginal notes as on f. 281v), Arabic (f. 1r, marginal notes on Samaritan bifolia), and Latin letters (f. 20v, 25v, 238r, 239v)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 307 leaves : paper ; 156-196 x 105-140 mm bound to 212 x 175 mm +
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Origin: One section written in Catania, Sicily, in 1443 (f. 17v; determined from a chronogram by Tzvi Langermann); predominant text includes a date of 1452 (f. 169v; suggested from a chronogram by Les Enluminures).
Title for manuscript from title for predominant work supplied by cataloger.
Binding: Modern library cloth, 20th century; one board of 19th-century binding inside modern flyleaves at front of volume, with colored, patterned paper pastedown.
Foliation: Paper, ii (20th-century library cloth and card) + early board + ii (19th-century paper) + 307 + i (20th-century library cloth); 1²⁶ 2²⁰ 3-4¹⁴ 5²⁴ 6-7¹⁴ 8²⁰ 9¹⁴ 10¹⁵ 11-14¹⁴ 15²⁰ 16-19¹⁴ (Les Enluminures); [1-22, i-vi (bifolia laid in), 23-38, 40-245, 245-307]; modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto; foliation with Hebrew characters in ink, upper left recto (f. 40r-278r...
Layout: Predominant work written in 27 long lines, with headings in a larger script (f. 40r-307v).
Script: Written in Sephardic semi-cursive script with headings in square script (Les Enluminures), partly in the hand of Abū al-Ḥasan Sa'ad ben Hibat Alla ben al-Ḥasan the physician (f. 17v).
Watermarks: Pirie's Old Style, 19th-century Samaritan bifolia (f. 21-22, 3 bifolia laid in); unidentified bell watermark on some leaves (Les Enluminures).
Decoration: Manicules (f. 130r, 246r, 271r); some text in red ink and decorative borders in red and black ink in 19th-century Samaritan notes (f. 1v-7v); title page for a small notebook with decorative ink border, dated 1810 (f. 14v).
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2014. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9963001003503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3vt1gv2c/manifest
- Holding Institution:
