[Classified List of remedies] : manuscript

Name:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 454

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1000s

Language:

Hebrew; Judeo-Arabic; Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)

Provenance:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).; Amram.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Magic and drugs -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Medicine, Medieval; Jews -- Medicine -- Early works to 1800; Torah scrolls (Jewish law); Parchment; Jews -- Medicine; Magic and drugs

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

4 fols. : folio 1 damaged, losses from top bottom edges; fols. 2-4 nearly complete; stained, faded

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Number of lines varies according to content; text breaks in fols. 1-3 denoted by three puncti.; 1r remedies extracted from dogs, from foxes, in Hebrew, starting סגולות השועל.; 1v remedies extracted from ducks. in Hebrew.; 2r two paragraphs of cures, in Judeo-Arabic.; 2v record of words, maybe a magical chant, in Aramaic.; 3r instructions in Judeo-Arabic for the preparation of different remedies, followed by Hebrew instructions for the preparation of an amulet, engraved into a heart.; 4r in a different hand; contains instructions in Hebrew for preparing parchment for a Torah Scroll. Headed: עיבוד גויל של ספר תורה מן מעשה. The term מעשה usually infers a unit of transmitted practical Halakhah, most common among the literature of the Erets Israeli tradition. This too is not written as a Halakhic monograph, but rather as a recipe, in second person format:תקח עפץ. This is a complete, distinct essay, ending towards bottom of recto: תם תם.; 4v (in the same hand as recto) contains the same, in Judeo-Arabic. The heading: הדא עמל אלריק.; Judeo-Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 454