COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 2929 - 2
Obverse:
B 2929 - 1
Image Number:
JRL0804736dc
Image Title:
Medical work
Subject:
Medicine
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Script:
Numerals: alphanumerical
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
88 mm
Item width:
66 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Technique used:
Handwriting
Notes:
14 lines. Medical book. Pharmacopoeia written in Judeo-Arabic. On fevers. Includes a detailed description of recipes, names of medicinal substances, as well as "cooking" and dietary instructions. Mentioned among others are: honey (אלעסל), galingale (אלכולנג'אן), amomum (אלקאלקה).
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:
B02929-2
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2008-03-04
Date: added:
2008-11
Metadata language:
eng-GB
Metadata language:
heb
