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Canon medicinae (MS M.693).

Accession number
MS M.693
Object title
Canon medicinae (MS M.693).
Created
Italy, possibly Bologna, Venice, or Padua, ca. 1300.
Binding
19th-century brown morocco over heavy boards.
Credit line
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
Century
Classification