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Title

Penn Library's LJS 470 - [Medical and magical compendium]. (Video Orientation)

Authors

Dot PorterFollow

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Date of this Version

2-28-2023

Comments

Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 470, a collection of medical recipes, folk remedies, charms, and spells, including a Hebrew translation of John of Parma's medical treatise, Practicella. Diagrams and notes added by later hands at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1v-3v).

Written in Siena in 1533.

Record on Franklin, with link to a digital copy: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959102523503681

Record on Internet Archive, with a link to PDF: https://archive.org/details/ljs470

Link to eBook

http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/41

Link to OPENN

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs470.html

Keywords

Medicine -- Early works to 1800, Medicine, Jewish magic -- Early works to 1800, Jewish magic, Codices, Diagrams, Tables (documents), Treatises, Manuscripts Hebrew, Manuscripts Renaissance

Disciplines

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Medicine and Health Sciences | Renaissance Studies

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Recommended Citation

Porter, D. (2023, February 28). Penn Library's LJS 470 - [Medical and magical compendium]. (Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/209