University of Pennsylvania, LJS 299

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS610

Shelfmark:

LJS 299

Title:

Sefer ha-Ḳanon ... etc..

Author:

Avicenna, 980-1037

Avicenna WIKIDATA

Place:

Yemen

Yemen TGN

Date:

[1400-1525?]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Predominant work in Hebrew (p. 19-234), with shorter works in Judeo-Arabic

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 147 leaves : paper ; 210 x 153 (142 x 100) mm bound to 220 x 160 mm

Former Owner(s):

Sassoon, David Solomon, 1880-1942

David Solomon Sassoon WIKIDATA

Danūkh, Saʻīd

Saʻīd Danūkh WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Contemporary (15th-century) or very early morocco, blind-stamped, over pasteboards; remnants of 2 pairs of leather loops (lower cover) and toggles (upper cover).
Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Yemen in the 15th century, with additional works and glosses added in the 15th or early 16th century.
Title for manuscript supplied by cataloger from title for predominant work.
Layout: Predominant work written in 27 long lines (p. 19-234); Judeo-Arabic works written in 29-32 long lines.
Collation: Paper, i + 147 + i; 1⁴ 2-5⁸ 6⁶ 7-15⁸ 16⁴ 17-19⁸ 20⁸(-3); [1-294], modern pagination in pencil, usually lower center.
Script: Predominant work written in 15th-century Yemeni semi-cursive Hebrew script with rubrics in square script (p. 19-234); Judeo-Arabic works written in a second 15th- or early 16th-century Yemeni semi-cursive Hebrew script in the hand of Saʻīd Danookh, with marginal notes by other hands as well.
Formerly owned by David Solomon Sassoon (Ms. 428, labels on spine and inside upper cover).
Appeared in Sam Fogg's cat. 16 (1995), no. 83; sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Apr. 1999.
Formerly owned by Saʻīd Danookh (signed glosses, p. 15-16).
Sold as part of the Sassoon collection at auction at Sotheby's, 21 Jun. 1994, lot 54.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2015.

Keyword:

annotations

codices (bound manuscripts)

commentaries

treatises

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Hebrew

encyclopedias

Medicine, Arab

Galen

Medicine

Medicine, Medieval

Early works to 1800

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958651873503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3rv0d16r/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania