Ein Kol (The Eye of All), A commentary on Ibn Sina’s Canon of Medicine
Rabbi Shem-Tob ben Isaac Shaprut
1400–1450
Spain, Aragon?
21.9 x 15.2 cm; Manuscript on paper, 195 folios, the title in beautiful Sephardic square (title on folio 1r) and text written in semi-cursive scripts in brown ink; fol. 12 in a later Sephardic semi-cursive hand in black ink.
This fine manuscript is the earliest known recorded Hebrew manuscript of Ein Kol, a medical commentary on Book 1 of Ibn Sina’s al-qānūn fī al-Ṭibb (Canon of Medicine) by the fourteenth-century Spanish Jewish scholar Rabbi Shem Tov ben Isaac ibn Shaprut (fl. mid-14th century). The elegant Sephardic square Hebrew script and paper type confirm a Spanish provenance.
