[Collection of recipes and prescriptions] : manuscript.

Publication:

[Orient, 11th century-12th century?]

Format/Description:

Book
1 fol. : fading, .
Parchment 13.8 X 20.4 cm material applied: black ink ruling method: copied widthwise columns: 1 lines: 8 (recto and verso), 6 (recto, in margin).

Subjects:

Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Jews -- Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Medieval.

Language:

Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic. Hebrew Oriental square.

Notes:

Instructions, mostly in Judeo-Arabic for preparations of different remedies. In the margin of the recto are instructions for extracting duck fat, written in a smaller hand. The last two items on the verso are in Aramaic, for killing spirits and for a woman whose sons has died.
Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Penn Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Cited in:

Halper, no. 452
IMHM, no. F38400

Contributor:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).

Contained In:

Cairo Genizah Collection

OCLC:

249591811

Status/Location:

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