Detail View: Genizah Collection:
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Reference number:
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Ar. 103 - 1
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Obverse:
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Ar. 103 - 2
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Image Number:
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JRL0909023dc
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Image Title:
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Kitab Ghunyat al-Labib
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Subject:
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Medicine
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Creator:
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Ibn al-Akfani, Muḥammad ibn Ibrahim (ca. 1286-1348 or 9)
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Source title:
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Kitab Ghunyat al-Labib 'inda Ghaybat al-Tabib
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Translated source title:
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A Sufficient Book for the Intelligent Person to use in the Absence of a Physician
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Language:
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Arabic
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Script:
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Arabic
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Support material:
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Paper
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Item height:
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184 mm
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Item width:
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138 mm
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Folio:
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1 / 1 leaf, recto
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Technique used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink (brown)
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Interrelation fragments:
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Ar. 103, Ar. 123 and probably Ar. 467 from same manuscript
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Notes:
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14 lines. Medical self-help book. Text advises on the natural treatment of several conditions: what should a barren woman eat and do in order to have children; how to speed up a delivery of a baby. Text partially faded.
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Discovery site:
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Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
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Current repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Former repository:
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Moses Gaster
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Fragments
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Image rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Work rights:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access rights:
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 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester |
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Image sequence number:
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PAR00103-1
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Image technique:
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Digital capture by JRUL Imaging Services
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Date image captured:
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2009-01-23
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Date: added:
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2009-11
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Metadata language:
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eng-GB
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