[Collection of recipes and prescriptions] : manuscript

Name:

Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Halper 452

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1000s

Language:

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; Jews -- Medicine -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Medieval; Jews -- Medicine

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

1 folio : fading

Rights:

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

Notes:

Instructions, mostly in Judeo-Arabic for preparations of different remedies. In the margin of the recto are instructions for extracting duck fat, written in a smaller hand. The last two items on the verso are in Aramaic, for killing spirits and for a woman whose sons has died.; Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic. Hebrew; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 452