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Reference number: 
B 5664 - 1
Obverse: 
B 5664 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0707920dc
Image Title: 
Medical recipe
Subject: 
Medicine
Language: 
Arabic
Script: 
Numerals: alphanumerical
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
67 mm
Item width: 
77 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Notes: 
8 lines. Prescription for menstruation which includes medicinal substances and their measurements. Mentioned are e.g.: kohl (כחל אסוד), dried cane (אלקצב אליאבס), black cumin (חבה אלקצח), vinegar (כל כמר). It recommends a three-day course of powdered substances, to be taken in admixture with wine.
Transcription: 
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: 
JRUL
Access rights: 
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number: 
B05664-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-05-29
Date: added: 
2007-09
Metadata language: 
eng-GB
Metadata language: 
heb