Canon medicinae
Accession number:
MS M.693
Title:
Canon medicinae
Created:
Italy, possibly Bologna, Venice, or Padua, ca. 1300.
Binding:
19th-century brown morocco over heavy boards.
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1916.
Description:
157 leaves (2 columns, 34 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 265 x 213 mm
Provenance:
Part of a lot of manuscripts purchased in 1916 by Francis Willey Kelsey (1858-1927) on behalf of J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) through the agency of Dr. David L. Askren, an American missionary and physician residing in the Fayyūm, Egypt.
Notes:
Ms. medical treatises; written and illuminated in Italy, perhaps in Bologna, Venice, or Padua, ca. 1300.
Text: books I-III.
Decoration: ornamental panels of acanthus foliage throughout, some inhabited; burnished gold bars.
Script:
small rabbinical script
Language:
Hebrew
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