Collection of medical texts by Luis Lobera de Ávila (Gaster Hebrew MS 1425)
Collection of medical texts by Luis Lobera de Ávila in Spanish (pure Castilian) transcribed in Hebrew characters.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Classmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 1425
- Alternative Identifier(s): Gaster 1425
- Language(s): Spanish in Hebrew characters
- Date of Creation: 17th century
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Format: Codex
- Material(s): Paper
- Extent: 219 ff. (iii+213+iii) Leaf height: 195 mm, width: 145 mm.
- Foliation:
Modern pencil foliation in Arabic numerals on the outer margin of side a of each folio. The folio between 190 and 191 is unnumbered.
- Collation:
22 quires of 8 leaves (folios 1-176); from folio 177 onwards the binding is too tight to establish the quires. Hebrew catchwords on side b of each folio.
- Condition:
Water damage, prominent on the first folio. Binding detaching.
- Layout:
Long line with 27 written lines.
- Script:Sephardi cursive script.Sephardi semi-cursive script is used for the beginning of each section of the text.
- Binding:
Modern black cloth binding.
- Origin: Produced in the 17th century.
- Provenance:
Handwritten label on spine reading in 3 lines in English: "1425 / L. Lovero D'Avila and other / Medical Treatises".
Front paste-down and folio ia: Handwritten in pencil content of codex.
Folio 1a: Handwritten in blue crayon number 1425.
Folio 1a: Handwritten in ink "No. 1425 / M.Gaster".
Folio 55b: Handwritten note in Greek.
Folio 213b: Handwritten in ink "M.Gaster".
- Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Description based on Alexander Samely's unpublished draft catalogue, revised and expanded by Stefania Silvestri and Renate Smithuis.
Revised and expanded by Zsófia Buda.
- Bibliography:Philip Alexander, "How Did the Rabbis Learn Hebrew?", Hebrew Study from Ezra to Ben-Yehuda, ed. William Horbury (Edinburgh: T & T Clark 1999), in p.84 n25."Medical texts", The Many Faces of the Rylands' Hebrew Manuscripts, digital exhibition at the John Rylands Library, 2022.
Section shown in images 36 to 42
- Title: Libro di anaṭomiyah
- Alternative Title(s): De anatomia; ליברו די אנאטומיאה
- Language(s): Spanish in Hebrew characters
- Author(s): Lobera de Ávila, Luis, 1480-1551
- Excerpts:Explicit: פין די לה אנאטומיאה
- Note(s):
The first book in the 1542 edition of Lobera de Ávila's Remedio (folios 1-11).
Beginning "די לאראשיון אין סומה בריוי די לה אורגאניקה אי מאראבילייוזה".
Running title on each page. The text includes in the margin the explanation of several words that are indicated by double superposed dots. The text focuses on anatomy, as indicated by the running titles and by the concluding sentence reading "פין די לה אנאטומיאה" [end of the anatomy].
There is an extra word in the title on folio 11b, that is not present in the Spanish edition. It is marked as dates are usually marked: "ק'ו'ר'פ'ו'".
Compare to 1542 printed edition of Remedio de cuerpos umanos.
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Classmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 1425
- Alternative Identifier(s): Gaster 1425
- Language(s): Spanish in Hebrew characters
- Date of Creation: 17th century
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Format: Codex
- Material(s): Paper
- Extent: 219 ff. (iii+213+iii) Leaf height: 195 mm, width: 145 mm.
- Foliation:
Modern pencil foliation in Arabic numerals on the outer margin of side a of each folio. The folio between 190 and 191 is unnumbered.
- Collation:
22 quires of 8 leaves (folios 1-176); from folio 177 onwards the binding is too tight to establish the quires. Hebrew catchwords on side b of each folio.
- Condition:
Water damage, prominent on the first folio. Binding detaching.
- Layout:
Long line with 27 written lines.
- Script:Sephardi cursive script.Sephardi semi-cursive script is used for the beginning of each section of the text.
- Binding:
Modern black cloth binding.
- Origin: Produced in the 17th century.
- Provenance:
Handwritten label on spine reading in 3 lines in English: "1425 / L. Lovero D'Avila and other / Medical Treatises".
Front paste-down and folio ia: Handwritten in pencil content of codex.
Folio 1a: Handwritten in blue crayon number 1425.
Folio 1a: Handwritten in ink "No. 1425 / M.Gaster".
Folio 55b: Handwritten note in Greek.
Folio 213b: Handwritten in ink "M.Gaster".
- Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Description based on Alexander Samely's unpublished draft catalogue, revised and expanded by Stefania Silvestri and Renate Smithuis.
Revised and expanded by Zsófia Buda.
- Bibliography:Philip Alexander, "How Did the Rabbis Learn Hebrew?", Hebrew Study from Ezra to Ben-Yehuda, ed. William Horbury (Edinburgh: T & T Clark 1999), in p.84 n25."Medical texts", The Many Faces of the Rylands' Hebrew Manuscripts, digital exhibition at the John Rylands Library, 2022.
- Title: Vergel de sanidad que por otro nombre se llamaua Banquete de caualleros
- Language(s): Spanish in Hebrew characters
- Author(s): Lobera de Ávila, Luis, 1480-1551
- Note(s):
Part of Lobera de Ávila's Vergel de sanidad, compare to 1542 printed edition (from folios 74r): "Capitulo. XLV. de las almendras y de su conplexion y prouechos e daños".
Incomplete at the beginning, includes the end of chapter 44 and chapters 45-72.
Running title on each page. The text is divided in chapters, introduced by the word "קאפי׳", abbreviation for capitulo, followed by a number and by the indication of the focus of the chapter (e.g. almendras - almond [אלמינדראש]; azucar - sugar [אשוקאר]; rabanos - radishes [ראואנוש]; cardo - cardoon [קארדו]; canela - cinnamon [קאנילה]).
- Title: Libro di anaṭomiyah
- Alternative Title(s): De anatomia; ליברו די אנאטומיאה
- Language(s): Spanish in Hebrew characters
- Author(s): Lobera de Ávila, Luis, 1480-1551
- Excerpts:Explicit: פין די לה אנאטומיאה
- Note(s):
The first book in the 1542 edition of Lobera de Ávila's Remedio (folios 1-11).
Beginning "די לאראשיון אין סומה בריוי די לה אורגאניקה אי מאראבילייוזה".
Running title on each page. The text includes in the margin the explanation of several words that are indicated by double superposed dots. The text focuses on anatomy, as indicated by the running titles and by the concluding sentence reading "פין די לה אנאטומיאה" [end of the anatomy].
There is an extra word in the title on folio 11b, that is not present in the Spanish edition. It is marked as dates are usually marked: "ק'ו'ר'פ'ו'".
Compare to 1542 printed edition of Remedio de cuerpos umanos.
- Title: Remedio de ḳuorpos umanos y silṿa de esperiensas en medisinah ḳon oṭros ḳozas uṭilisimas
- Alternative Title(s): רימידייו די קואירפוש אומאנוש אי שילוא די אישפיריינסאש אין מידישינה קון אוטראש קוזאש אוטילישימאש; Remedio de cuerpos humanos y silva de experiencias y otras cosas utilísimas
- Language(s): Spanish in Hebrew characters
- Author(s): Lobera de Ávila, Luis, 1480-1551
- Note(s):
Running title on both sides of each folio. Running title at the beginning on folio 15a: "ליברו די שילוה די אישפירינסיאש"
Different sections of text identified through use of larger square characters.
Incomplete at the end (see last catchword on folio 213b), ends at the heading "די לה שטירילידאד אי דיפיקולטאד" (De la sterilidad y difficultad).
Compare to 1542 printed edition (folios 13r-155r).
