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Composite manuscript, nine parts (German, Latin): 1. (ff. 1-13 and 20-50) Medical recipes. - 2. (ff. 14-19) Medical recipes. - And other part(s), BPL 3284

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Title	Composite manuscript, nine parts (German, Latin)
Subtitle	1. (ff. 1-13 and 20-50) Medical recipes. - 2. (ff. 14-19) Medical recipes. - And other part(s), BPL 3284
Content	Part 1 contains: (ff. 1r-13v and 20r-50v) Medical recipes (German). Part 2 contains: (ff. 14r-19v) Medical recipes (German). Part 3 contains: (ff. 51r-54v) Medical recipes and remedies (Latin, German). Part 4 contains: (ff. 55r-64v) Medical recipes and remedies (German). Incomplete, starts in the middle of a sentence. - Also contains notes and added recipes in various (later) hands. Part 5 contains: (ff. 65r-66v) Medical recipes (German). - Also contains at the end a note in Yiddish (Hebrew script). Part 6 contains: (ff. 67r-70v) Medical recipes and remedies (German). Excerpt taken from a printed book (Strasbourg 1519). - Also contains extensive notes in Yiddish (Hebrew script). Part 7 contains: (ff. 71r-72v) Medical recipes and remedies (German). Part 8 contains: (ff. 73r-87v) Medical recipes and remedies (German). One quire with a main text, on the first and last leaves of the quire short texts and notes that were added later. Part 9 contains: (ff. 88r-149v) Probably Book 4 of Avicenna's Canon medicinae (German). - Also contains medical recipes. - (ff. 150r-153r) Alphabetical index (Latin); added later.
Creator/other	Ibn Sīnā, al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd Allāh (ca. 980-1037)
Shelfmark	BPL 3284
Subject (topical)	Reading culture artes (MMDC)
Subject (temporal)	Middle Ages 15th century 16th century
Note	Collation: Manuscript composed of many parts, probably copied in the 15th and 16th century. Some parts, especially parts 5 and 6, were probably bound together at an earlier stage. After all the parts were bound together, more notes and additions were made in several hands (in the 16th and 17th century?). - Part 7 (ff. 71-72) consists of two inserted leaves. - Part 8 (ff. 79-87) is one quire. - Part 9 (ff. 72-133) consists of five quires, numbered 1-5, probably in one hand, with one continuous text. The last quire contains additions in various hands with medical recipes and notes. Date: (part 2) Based on a simple decoration on f. 19r with the year 1519. - (part 6) Dating based on the colophon on f. 70r: "Getruckt zum Strasburg durch Johannem knoblauch nach der geburt Christi M.D.xix". Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Parchment cover, no boards; tacketed. Limp binding. - A parchment leaf of an unidentified manuscript (liturgical, 15th century) has been reused as a cover. - Parts 5 and 6 are bound together with paper strips. Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870 Description (Gumbert 2009): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3161419 Also described by MMDC.
Reference	Bouwman 2023 = A. Bouwman, Inventory of western medieval manuscripts held by Leiden University Libraries. Leiden 2023 Gumbert 2009 = J.P. Gumbert, Illustrated Inventory of Medieval Manuscripts. Vol. 2. Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek BPL (Hilversum 2009), MMDC = Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections
Language	German Latin Hebrew Yiddish
Country	Germany
Extent	electronic resource
Published/created	Parts 1, 8 and 9: German regions, 16th century - Parts 2 and 6: German regions, 16th century, 1519? - Parts 3 and 4: German regions, 15th century - Parts 5 and 7: German regions, 15th/16th century
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1838428
Published (digital)	Leiden University Libraries,