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131. EAP025/1/210

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/210
Title:
Magico-medical; responsum
Scope & Content:
Recto: a recipe attributed to Ḥayy Gaʾon to ascertain whether an ill person will survive, followed by a recipe to make ruby ink from Iraqi cinnabar, saffron and other ingredients. Verso: a responsum by Isaac Gaʾon, dealing with debt repayments.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

132. EAP025/1/211

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/211
Title:
Medical
Scope & Content:
Pages from a book on ophthalmology, describing various recipes for the treatment of diseases of the eye. Substances include copper, soap, arsenic, animal fat, urine, soda, camphor and vinegar.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

133. EAP025/1/213

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/213
Title:
Medical
Scope & Content:
Small fragment from a medical work dealing with medical recipes. Ingredients include oxymel, yellow myrobalan, water lily and garden purslane.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

134. EAP025/1/214

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/214
Title:
Medical
Scope & Content:
Pages from a medical book, mentioning authorities such as Galen, and mainly dealing with medical problems of the head. Substances mentioned include sweet violet oil, quince, flea-wort seeds, bottle gourd water and watermelon water.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

135. EAP025/1/215

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/215
Title:
Medical
Scope & Content:
Fragment from a medical work dealing with diseases of the eye, including ailments such as inflammation of the eyelid and ophthalmia, and recipes for collyria and creams. Substances mentioned include gum Arabic, burnt copper, sugar, saffron, opium and cinnabar.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

136. EAP025/1/216

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/216
Title:
Medical
Scope & Content:
From a medical work, probably a commentary or translation of Hippocrates’ Aphorisms, since he is quoted at the end of each paragraph.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

137. EAP025/1/217

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/217
Title:
Medical
Scope & Content:
First page of a medical work by Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq, entitled Book of Introduction (Kitāb al-Mudḵal). Identified in Jacquart (1997: 213) as Masa'il fi l-tibb, and matches T-S NS 164.192
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

138. EAP025/1/218

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/218
Title:
Magico-medical
Scope & Content:
Quasi-medical book, with recipes mentioning white alum, apple preserve, rhubarb preserve, rose, unripe grapes and bamboo ashes. There are magical symbols.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

139. EAP025/1/219

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/219
Title:
Medical
Scope & Content:
Page from a medical work, presenting medical problems, such as diabetes, and recipes for their treatment. Substances mentioned include gum Arabic, Armenian tin, potion of unripe grape, rose, vinegar, rue, hematite and ceruse.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images

140. EAP025/1/220

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP025/1/220
Title:
Medical; document
Scope & Content:
Recto: prescription mentioning medicinal substances and their measures. Verso, written transversely in relation to recto, contains an Arabic document and, inverted in relation to the Arabic, the continuation of the prescription from recto.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Judeo-Arabic
Date Range:
10th century-Early 20th century
Extent:
2 TIFF images