Dec 14, 2019
LJS 469 - [Sefer ha-seder ha-ḳaṭan]
This manuscript features some copies of letters of the Finzi family, including reference to Abraham Cohen or Abraham Arie ben Benjamin Portaleone, possibly also known as Abraham ben David Portaleone, a famous physician of Mantua. Then, there are two pages of homiletical comments on the Biblical story of Joseph, and an anonymous translation from Arabic into Hebrew of an abridgment of Avicenna's Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (Canon), which begins with a list of human limbs and their qualities and proceeds to the middle of the third chapter. It was written in Italy, around the year 1490 CE.
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