COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 2642 - 2
Obverse:
B 2642 - 1
Image Number:
JRL0804092dc
Image Title:
Medical work
Subject:
Medicine
Section:
Letter כ
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
125 mm
Item width:
132 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, verso
Technique used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink (black and red)
Notes:
11 lines. Medical book, materia medica (book on simple drugs), probably an abridged version of Ibn al-Baytar's Kitab al-Jami` li-Mufradat al-'Adwiya wa'l-Aghdhiya. Consists mainly of an alphabetical list of healing plants. Here are mentioned scarabees (כ'נפיסא) and pig (כ'נזיר).
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:
B02642-2
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2008-02-19
Date: added:
2008-09
Metadata language:
eng-GB
Metadata language:
heb
