COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
A 1019 - 1
Obverse:
A 1019 - 2
Image Number:
JRL050179dc
Image Title:
Maimonides autograph
Subject:
Medicine
Creator:
Galen
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
Creator Role:
Scribe
Creator Role:
Compiler
Source title:
Epitomes of Galen
Alternative source title:
Mukhtasarat
Creation site:
Egypt: Fustat
Date created:
1135-1204
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
131 mm
Item width:
60 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Oriental
Interrelation fragments:
A 1019 and the 2 x 2 conjoined fragments of Cambridge, University Library, T-S Ar. 21.112 from same manuscript; with a join between A 1019 and Cambridge fragment four
Bibliographic Reference:
Stern, S.M. in Maimonidis Commentarius in Mischnam (vol. 3), pp. 11-29 and Plates I-IV. Cf.
Bibliographic Reference:
Hopkins, S., 'A new autograph fragment of Maimonides's Epitomes of Galen (De Locis Affectis)', Bulletin of the SOAS 57, 1994, pp. 126-32 (facs. ed., transcription, commentary).
Notes:
22 lines. Part of an abbreviation of one of Galen's pathological treatises "On the affected parts". In total, Maimonides is thought to have abbreviated 21 works of Galen (about 10 of which are preserved).
Discovery site:
Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
Current repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository:
Moses Gaster
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Fragments
Image rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Access rights:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number:
A01019-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2008-05-21
Date: added:
2009-03
Metadata language:
eng-GB
