Obj. ID: 21003
  Illuminated Manuscripts  Fugger's Medical Miscellany, Venice, c.1550

Fugger's Venetian Medical Miscellany | Unknown

*Manuscripts and Printed Books | Medical literature

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c.1550

Venetian group of Hebrew manuscripts for the collector Johann Jakob Fugger: | Meir (scribe)

Italy | Veneto | Venice (Venezia)
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Germany | Munich | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB)
| Cod.hebr. 29 (Steinschneider 1895, No. 29)

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1. Generalities (Kulliyat, כוליאת) by Averroes (fols. 2-248) in an anonymous translation: beginsאמר השופט הנכבד החכם השלם אבן מחמד בן רש"ד זכר לטוב אחרי ההודאה והתחינה אליו הנה הכוונה במאמר (Muntner 1946:64-5; Steinschneider 1893:673). 2. Phlebotomy (ספר ההקזות) by Mauro (fols. 249-256): beginsתחלת דברי מאברוש מן ההקזות אמר הנה נדבר בקצרה (Steinschneider 1893:810). 3. Theriak (מאמר בתריאק) by Averroes (fols. 256-266v) in an anonymous translation: beginsאמר אחמד בן רשד אחר אשר הודתי לאל שאל ממני (Muntner 1946:67; Steinschneider 1893:676).

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Watermarks: 'A' in the outer corner of the folio (27 mm; e.g. fols. 6, 10, 36, 84, 162, 247, 264). Counter mark: 'B' between the tips of two crossed arrows forming an X in the centre of the folio (66 mm; e.g. fols. 265, 266): similar to Harlfinger 1974-80: Flèche 35 and 41 (1550, 1547).

Dark green leather on wooden boards (356 x243 mm), gold-tooled with a central roundel on the front and a shield on the back cover within an undulating lozenge in a large rectangle, decorated with floral motifs at the centre of each side and at the corners. The front roundel is inscribed רפואה, and below it are the letters MMM. The spine, blind-tooled with hatching, has four hidden cords and head and tail bands. On the edges of the front cover are vestiges of four groups of three plaited leather bands, two on the side and one each on the upper and lower edges, with corresponding holes for four nails on the edges of the back cover (for preserved bands see Cod.hebr. 301). Each group of three bands terminated in a ring intended to hook over the nails in the opposite cover. The leaves are gilt-edged.

 

This binding was made for Fugger by the 'Fugger Binder' inVenice(Hobson 1999:119-129). Similar bindings in BSB: e.g. Cod.hebr. 29, 32.

 

Watermarks on flyleaves: A star above an anchor within a circle in the centre of the folio (65 mm; front flyleaf): similar to Harlfinger 1974-80, Ancre 24-31 (Venice, 1556).

Owners' inscriptions: None. Inscriptions of librarians and researchers: Front cover flyleaf, recto: Contents in Hebrew in brown ink by Librarian 1a: ספר קוליוט ובו נרשם רפואות אומני/ הבארבירר מניזקי שבחוץ הגוף/ גם ספר הסמים והמזונות. Below by Librarian 3: Sephaer koleioth vbo nirscham rephuos umane habarbirar\ miniske schaebehutz haguf.\ Gam sephaer hasamim vehamesonos.\\ Koleioth liber medinis ad chjrurgiam portinens de omnibus\ externis in commodes, frachtionbus zt. (?)\ Item liber de ratione victus, et aromatibus. Front cover flyleaf, verso, in red ink by W. Prommer: .ספר קוליוט ובו נרשם רפואות אומני/ הבארבירר Back pastedown, in plummet on the exlibris: contents of the manuscript in German. Exlibris and stamps: Front cover pastedown: an exlibris of the Bavarian Court and State Library (227 x 155 mm) with the arms of Elector Maximilian I of 1638 (Dressler 1972:B3ab), stuck over his earlier exlibris (175 x 135 mm) of 1618, before he became Elector in 1623 (Dressler 1972:A3a-f). On fol. 1v there is a 20th-century oval stamp of the BSB: BIBLIOTHECA\ REGIA\ MONACENSIS. Old signatures: Back cover, upper part in black ink: Stat. 9 n0 12 (second signature of the Fugger library). Front cover, lower right corner in black ink: 2 n0 54 (Duke's library, Prommer's signature). Front cover flyleaf, verso, upper right corner: MS. Hebr. 25. Front cover flyleaf, verso, lower part in red ink: 2. 54 (Duke's library, Prommer's revision of 1583). Spine and back pastedown in black on stickers: Cod. hebr. 29 (current signature). On exlibris in plummet: Cod.hebr. 29 (current signature).