Medical texts in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew (Gaster Hebrew MS 2005)
Medical texts in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew, arranged in alphabetical order. Incomplete.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Classmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 2005
- Alternative Identifier(s): Gaster 2005
- Language(s): Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew
- Date of Creation: 18th or 19th century
- Format: Codex
- Material(s): Paper
- Extent: 105 ff. (ix+105+vii) Leaf height: 135 mm, width: 95 mm. Written height: 100-105 mm, width: 70 mm.
- Foliation:
Foliation in Arabic numerals in the top outer corner of each leaf.
Ealier inconsistent modern pencil foliation in Arabic numerals at the lower outer corner of side a of each folio. Hebrew foliation at top outer corner on both sides of folios 1-16 starting with folio ב, thus the manuscript is incomplete at the beginning.
Folio 105 is also foliated as first back flyleaf, but that should be ignored.
Hebrew foliation in ink by the scribe shows that at least one leaf is missing from the beginning (folio 1 = folio ב).
- Collation:
Collation is hard to determine due to tight binding. Hebrew catchwords on both sides of each folio.
- Condition:
Usage stains, fire damage (folio 15), slight worm damage. Slight iron gall ink corrosion.
Several fingerprints e.g. on folios 36r and 49r.
- Layout:
Long line with 16 written lines and between 17 and 18 ruled lines. Lemmata in larger characters, occupying 2 lines. Pencil drawn margins and dry-stylus ruling.
- Script:Oriental semi-cursive script.Oriental square script for headings and intial words.
- Decoration: Text in double pencil frame.
- Additions:
Note in English on folio 99b: "These things which makes enters in making ointments" [sic!].
- Binding:
Brown leather binding with blind tooling. Marks of leather ties near fore-edge of both boards.
- Origin:
Produced in the 18th or 19th century.
- Provenance:
Handwritten label on left board reading in 2 lines in English: "Arabic-Hebrew Ms. / Medical 2005".
Ownership inscription on endleaf ib by Saul Jacob [...]: "Zealously belongs to Saul Jacob ... 25th May ...". The same hand added the note on folio 99b.
Ownership inscription by Mr Hakham H. on folio 52b.
- 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- Data Source(s): Description based on Alexander Samely's unpublished draft catalogue, revised and expanded by Stefania Silvestri, Peter Pormann and Nienke Valk.
Revised and enhanced by Zsófia Buda.
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Classmark: Gaster Hebrew MS 2005
- Alternative Identifier(s): Gaster 2005
- Language(s): Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew
- Date of Creation: 18th or 19th century
- Format: Codex
- Material(s): Paper
- Extent: 105 ff. (ix+105+vii) Leaf height: 135 mm, width: 95 mm. Written height: 100-105 mm, width: 70 mm.
- Foliation:
Foliation in Arabic numerals in the top outer corner of each leaf.
Ealier inconsistent modern pencil foliation in Arabic numerals at the lower outer corner of side a of each folio. Hebrew foliation at top outer corner on both sides of folios 1-16 starting with folio ב, thus the manuscript is incomplete at the beginning.
Folio 105 is also foliated as first back flyleaf, but that should be ignored.
Hebrew foliation in ink by the scribe shows that at least one leaf is missing from the beginning (folio 1 = folio ב).
- Collation:
Collation is hard to determine due to tight binding. Hebrew catchwords on both sides of each folio.
- Condition:
Usage stains, fire damage (folio 15), slight worm damage. Slight iron gall ink corrosion.
Several fingerprints e.g. on folios 36r and 49r.
- Layout:
Long line with 16 written lines and between 17 and 18 ruled lines. Lemmata in larger characters, occupying 2 lines. Pencil drawn margins and dry-stylus ruling.
- Script:Oriental semi-cursive script.Oriental square script for headings and intial words.
- Decoration: Text in double pencil frame.
- Additions:
Note in English on folio 99b: "These things which makes enters in making ointments" [sic!].
- Binding:
Brown leather binding with blind tooling. Marks of leather ties near fore-edge of both boards.
- Origin:
Produced in the 18th or 19th century.
- Provenance:
Handwritten label on left board reading in 2 lines in English: "Arabic-Hebrew Ms. / Medical 2005".
Ownership inscription on endleaf ib by Saul Jacob [...]: "Zealously belongs to Saul Jacob ... 25th May ...". The same hand added the note on folio 99b.
Ownership inscription by Mr Hakham H. on folio 52b.
- 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, Peter Pormann and Nienke Valk.
Revised and enhanced by Zsófia Buda.
- Title: Medical dictionary
- Language(s): Judeo-Arabic
- Note(s):
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Incomplete at the beginning and the end, the first entry being on the ear (אד̇ן) and the last on mixing food (תכ̇לט אלאכל).
Folio 1a: "עלאג̇ אד̇ן"; folio 79a, line 6: "תכ̇לט אלאכל אלסמך נייא אללבן יוולד ג̇רדאס ופלאג̇".
Running titles.
- Title: Recipe collection
- Language(s): Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew
- Note(s):
Starts as follows: "חליב אלג̇מל צ̇פת חליב אלג̇מל ארבעין יום בל תדריג̇. אוול יום רבע ת̇אני יום רבע ונץ [?] ת̇אלת̇ יום נץ וקיי ".
Folio 80b, lines 14-16: "מעאלג̇את אזהרה לרופא שלא ליתן לחולה שום מרקחת בין בדבש בין בסוכ̇ר שלא יחזור החולי לחולי אחר. "
