Penn Library's LJS 469 - [Sefer ha-seder ha-ḳaṭan] ... [etc.]. (Video Orientation)
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Joseph (Son of Jacob)
Portaleone Abraham ben David 1542-1612
Finzi family
Medicine -- Early works to 1800
Medicine
Medicine Arab
Medicine Medieval
Jews -- Italy -- History -- 15th century
Jews
History
Italy
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Abridgments
Manuscripts Hebrew -- 15th century
Manuscripts Renaissance
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Renaissance Studies
Portaleone Abraham ben David 1542-1612
Finzi family
Medicine -- Early works to 1800
Medicine
Medicine Arab
Medicine Medieval
Jews -- Italy -- History -- 15th century
Jews
History
Italy
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Translations (documents)
Treatises
Abridgments
Abridgments
Manuscripts Hebrew -- 15th century
Manuscripts Renaissance
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Renaissance Studies
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2023-02-28
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Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 469, Copies of letters of the Finzi family (f. 1r-12v), including reference to Abraham Cohen or Abraham Arie ben Benjamin Portaleone, possibly also known as Abraham ben David Portaleone, a famous physician of Mantua; homiletical comments on the Biblical story of Joseph (f. 13r-14v); 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 (f. 15r-19v). Written in Italy, ca. 1490. Record on Franklin, with link to a digital copy: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9954524983503681 Record on Internet Archive, with a link to PDF: https://archive.org/details/ljs469