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Reference number: 
B 3362 - 1
Obverse: 
B 3362 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0701880dc
Image Title: 
Medical thesaurus
Subject: 
Medicine
Language: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
79 mm
Item width: 
86 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. 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: 
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: 
B03362-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-01-10
Date: added: 
2007-02
Metadata language: 
eng-GB