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[Lilium medicinae], f. 6r.
Title: Shoshan ha-Refuah [Lilium medicinae].
Language: Hebrew, translated by Yekutiel ben Schlomo in 1387.
Origin: Escalona, Spain, 23rd day of Tevet, [5]226 (= 10 January 1466).
Description: Manuscript on paper. 243 leaves (many damaged and illegible). 18 x 13 cm. Single column of 27 to 29 long lines. Textblock: 16 x 10.5 cm. Written in unpointed Sephardic script in brown ink. Margins closely trimmed, and some passages not legible due to ink corrosion.
Binding: Eighteenth-century vellum. In clamshell box.
Comments: Bernardus de Gordonio was a physician at the University of Montpellier. His Lilium medicinae appeared in 1305. It was translated from Latin into Hebrew at Seville in 1360 and again by Yekutiel ben Shlomo at Narbonne in 1387. This is one of 33 recorded manuscripts of Yekutiel's Hebrew text, and one of the few that are complete. It was copied by Moses ben R. Shmaya de Castro in Escalona (colophon, f. 243v).
Decoration: Leaves 4, 5, 6 with red and brown "mudéjar" pen work panels.
Provenance: (1) Mili'ard Archives, London. (2) Previously owned by "Richwood." (3) Sold at Sotheby's, London, 30 May 1949, lot 511. (4) Sold again, Sotheby's, London, 28 November 1949, lot 1. (5) Dr. Lyle Sellers, Dallas, 1947-1964. (6) Baylor University Medical Center Library, Dallas, 1964-2001. (7) Long term deposit at Bridwell Library, Dallas, 2001.
Bibliography: Thomas Herndon, "Bernard de Gordon Manuscripts in the United States," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 34 (1960), 80.
(Katelyn Mesler, Northwestern University, provided valuable assistance with this description, 2010).
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[Lilium medicinae], f. 5v, detail.
[Lilium medicinae], ff.
5v (right) - 6r (left).
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