Obj. ID: 20941
Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts  Fugger's Commentaries, Venice, c.1552

Fugger's Venetian Commentaries | Unknown

*Manuscripts and Printed Books | Medical literature

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c.1552

Meir (scribe)
Yaakov ben Yosef (scribe)
Itzhak ben Elijahu Manosh (scribe)

Italy | Veneto | Venice
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Germany | Munich | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB)
| Cod.hebr. 27 (Steinschneider 1895, No. 27)

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1. Sod ha-Melakhah (סוד המלאכה; The Secret of Work) by Johannes Jacobi (fols. 1'-96v): beginsזה הספר הכולל בקיצור כל הרפואה משער הראש עד פריסת הרגל (Steinschneider 1893:805). Another copy in Munich, BSB Cod.hebr. 286 (fols. 19-81), belonged to Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter. 2. Treatise on Purgation (מאמר במיני ההרקות במשלשלים) by Sheshet Nasi ben Benbenishti (fols. 96v-116v): begins מאמר במיני ההרקות במשלשלים וגם במקיאים. Another copy in Munich, BSB Cod.hebr. 134 (fols. 116-122v), belonged to Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter. 3. Short version of Arnavdina (ארנבדינה) by Arnaldus of Villanova (fols. 116v-151, 158v-163, 177-186) in an anonymous translation: begins בעלי הריח ותרגיל זה האישרוף העשוי עם מיץ. 4. Treatise on Purgation (הכבוסים והטהרות) by Gerhardus (גררדוס) (fols. 151-158v, 163-177, 186-193v) in an anonymous translation (Steinschneider 1893:792). Other copies in Munich: BSB Cod.hebr. 49 (fols. 411v-451v) from Fugger's Venetian group; BSB Cod.hebr. 245 (fols. 3-62v), belonged to Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter. 5. Canon (Book I, 4: 20-25) by Avicenna (fols. 193v-200v): begins אמנם אם יהיה באבר השכן אלא מחלקים. 6. Super commentary on Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Organon (פירוש על ביאור אמצעי על ספר ההגיון) by Judah ben Jehiel Messer Leon (fols. 201-410): begins ספר תבנית חותם חבר מסיר ליון מנפולי אמר העבד הקטן האוהב הנאמן יהודה המכונה מסיר ליאון.

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Watermarks: A trefoil flower between 'P' and '3' in the outer corner of the folio (32 mm; e.g. fols. 2, 19, 51, 81, 149, 199, 200a, 271, 325): similar to Harlfinger 1974-80, Lettres 75 (Venice, 1548, 1550); 'A' with a curl on its right in the outer corner of the folio (22 mm; e.g. fols. 324, 331, 346, 370, 393, 409): Harlfinger: Ancre 40 (1548). Counter mark: quadruped animal in profile with outstretched tongue in the centre of the folio (60 mm; e.g. fols. 408, 410, 410b): unidentified.

Dark green leather on wooden boards (338 x227 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 רפואות, below are letters DDDDD. The spine, blind-tooled with hatching, has three hidden cords and head and tails 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. 19, 27, 33, 39, 42, 47, 51, 55, 59, 61, 65.

 

Watermarks on the front flyleaf: An anchor within a circle and a star on top at the centre of the folio

(65 mm): similar to Harlfinger 1974-80, Ancre 24-31 (Venice, 1556).

The decoration was executed by Meir:

1. Decorative title page (fol. 1).
2. Marginal decoration (fols. 17, 39, 41, 41v, 56, 56v, 57v, 58, 59, 59v, 60, 60v, 63v, 65, 70v, 103, 121v, 126v, 127, 129, 129v,  131, 132, 132v, 133v, 134v, 137, 143v, 145, 148, 159, 160, 166v, 168v, 170v, 171, 172v, 174v, 175, 176v, 182v, 183).

Owners' inscriptions: None. Inscriptions of librarians and researchers: Front flyleaf, verso: an inscription in brown ink by Librarian 1a: ספר הרפואות אשר חיבר הרופא/ המומחה יוהניס גאקמה הנקרא/ סוד הגדול המלאכה הוא הספר כתב לאדון המלך קארולוס/ במדינת צרפות/ ספר תבנית חותם חבר מסיר ליון מנפולי. Below by Librarian 3: Sephaer harephuos aeschaer hiber harophe\ hamumha Iohannis Gagma hanikra\ sod hagadol hamlocha hu hasephaer\ cosaph leadan hamaelech Karolos\ Bimdinas zarphas\ Sephaer taunis hosan hiber masir Lion\ Menapuli\ Id est.\Ioanis Gagmae Montispesselani\ de arcanis medicinae, liber Carolo\ Francorum Regi ab autore dedicatus.\ Domini Leonis Neapolitani liber, qui vocatur\ Tasnis hosan.i. Similitudo sigilli. On a piece of paper by Librarian 2(?) in brown ink: Ioannis Gagma Montispessulam (corrected by Librarian 3) arcane\ operis Lib. Stat. 8. n0. 62. ... ad calum". Back pastedown, on the exlibris, in plummet: contents of the manuscript in German. Exlibris and stamps: Front 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 front flyleaf, recto, there is a 20th-century oval stamp of the BSB: BIBLIOTHECA\ REGIA\ MONACENSIS. Old signatures: Back cover, upper right part in black ink, upside down: St. 9 (?) (second signature of Fugger's library). Front cover, lower right part in black ink: (?) (the Duke's library, Prommer's signature). Front flyleaf, verso in red ink: 1. 51 (the Duke's library, Prommer's revision of 1583). Front flyleaf, verso, upper right part, in black ink: MS. Hebr. 23.