COLLECTION NAME:
Genizah Collection
Record
Reference number:
B 2828 - 1
Obverse:
B 2828 - 2
Image Number:
JRL0804539dc
Image Title:
Medical recipe
Subject:
Medicine
Language:
Arabic
Script:
Hebrew
Support material:
Paper
Item height:
105 mm
Item width:
113 mm
Folio:
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used:
Handwriting
Notes:
8 lines. Prescription which includes medicinal substances and their measurements. Eye collyrium (šiyaf). Mentioned are among others: haematite (אלשאדנה), zinc (אלתותיא), Meccan lycium (אלכולאן אלמכי), cuttle-fish (זבד אלבחר). Text partially faded. Marginal note.
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:
B02828-1
Image technique:
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured:
2008-02-27
Date: added:
2008-10
Metadata language:
eng-GB
Metadata language:
heb
