Canon medicinae

Accession number: 
MS M.693
Title: 
Canon medicinae
Created: 
Italy, possibly Bologna, Venice, or Padua, ca. 1300.
Binding: 
19th-century brown morocco over heavy boards.
Credit: 
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
Classification: