Netherlands, Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Or. 4719

Medical treatises
Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 220 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: not available
Detailed Description
  • Hand Description:
    Spanish hand.
History
  • Origin Date: 14th cent.
  • Origin Place: not available
  • Israel National Library: Online catalogue of manuscripts [Link]
  • Albert van der Heide , Hebrew Manuscripts of Leiden University Library, Leiden (1977)
  • Carsten Schliwski , "Averroes’ Medical Work in Hebrew: Translation and Compilation", in: Raphaela Veit & Carsten Schliwski (ed.), Averroes as a Physician – Intellectual and Social Contexts of Medicine in Al-Andalus (forthcoming)
  • Moritz Steinschneider , Catalogus Codicum Hebraeorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, Leiden (1858) , 311-341
  • Moritz Steinschneider , Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher, Berlin (1893) , 677, 699
Content
Ibn Zuhr Kitāb al-Taysir 1r - 30v
Synonyms 31v - 32v
Maimonides The Aphorisms of Maimonides 37v - 61r
Averroes Commentary on Avicenna’s Cantica 61v - 77v
  • Note:
    For details cf. C. Schliwski, Averroes' Medical Work in Hebrew. Translation and Compilation, in: R. Veit/C. Schliwski (eds.), (forthcoming).
Ibn Ridwan Medical treatise 78r - 92v
al-Razi Aphorisms of Rhazes 93r - 94v
al-Razi Book of Decisions 94v - 99r
Hippocrates Aphorisms 99v - 135r
Hippocrates Introduction into medicine 135v - 151r
Hippocrates On Airs, Waters, and Places 151r - 153r
Hunayn ibn Ishaq Introduction 154r - 162v
Avicenna Drugs for the heart 163r - 166v
Averroes Consultation on Diarrhoea 166v - 167r
  • Incipit:
    תשובה שהשיב אבו אלוליד בן רשד על תרעומת השלשול
  • Explicit:
    וזאת היא העצה הנכונה על זה והשם יהיה בעזרך. נשלמה התשובה תודה לאל
  • Note:
    Without the introduction of the translator. Not a work originally composed by Averroes, for details cf. C. Schliwski, Averroes' Medical Work in Hebrew. Translation and Compilation, in: R. Veit/C. Schliwski (eds.), Averroes as a Physician – Intellectual and Social Contexts of Medicine in Al-Andalus (forthcoming).
Averroes Treatise on the Theriac 167r - 169r
  • Note:
    For details cf. C. Schliwski, Averroes' Medical Work in Hebrew. Translation and Compilation, in: R. Veit/C. Schliwski (eds.), (forthcoming).
Galen Ars parva 170r - 191v
Galen On the Crisis 192v - 205v
Galen On Colics 206r - 207r
Galen On Phlebotomy 207v - 211r
Hippocrates On Acute Diseases 211r - 213r
Recipes 213v - 215v
Shlomo b. Yosef Treatise on electuaries 216r - 219v