COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 3361 - 1
Obverse:
B 3361 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0701878dc
Image Title:
Medical thesaurus?
Subject:
Medicine
Subject:
Language and languages--Dictionaries
Language:
Hebrew
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
86 mm
Item width:
92 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Style Period:
Sephardic
Interrelation fragments:
From same manuscript: all A 539 fragments, B 3362 and probably B 3361
Notes:
11 lines. If this fragment is from the same manuscript as the other fragments mentioned above, it belongs to a medical book, Materia Medica (book on simple drugs). Belongs to the medical genre of the Kutub al-Mufradat (cf. Ullmann, Medizin im Islam, ch. 14). Consists of an alphabetical list of healing plants and mineral substances. Entries are transcriptions of Arabic words (Judeo-Arabic).
Discovery site:
Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
Current repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository:
Moses Gaster
Category of Material:
Manuscripts
Sub-Category:
Fragments
Image rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights:
The University of Manchester Library
Access rights:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number:
B03361-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2007-01-10
Date: added:
2007-02
Metadata language:
eng-GB
