Astrological prognostications regarding the winds and waves of health, possible diseases and the availability of food in particular combinations of stars and planets.Condition: Torn, tiny holesLayout: 15 lines
F. 2v: legal document through which Ḥasan, known as Abū ʿAlī b. Ḵalaf, the Jew of Tyre, renounces to all his monetary claims towards Isḥaq b. Sahl b. Bišr b. Nāḥūm and Abū Naṣr. Dated 6th century AH (= 12th century CE). F. 1r: Arabic document of lease. F. 1v-2r and marginalia: medical text dealing with parts of the human body.Condition: Torn, holes, faded, rubbedLayout: 10-22 lines + marginalia
Bifolium f. 1: beginning of the ophthalmological treatise Taḏkirat al-kaḥḥalīn by ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā with table of contents on f. 1r. F. 1v: colophon. Separate leaf: record of an ordinance dated Ṣafar 537 AH (= September 1142 CE) from Al-Ẓāfir to instruct Al-Hāfiẓ’s book warehouse to issue ‘the epistle of the elder ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā’ (i.e. the ophthalmological treatise Taḏkirat al-kaḥḥalīn) to the amir Faḵr al-Dīn Abū Manṣūr ʿIzz al-ʿArab b. Muḥammad.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 9-14 lines (f. 2v is blank)
Astrological-medical work, discussing the effects of the signs of the zodiac on the human body.Condition: torn, holes, stained, stained, rubbed, fadedLayout: 16 lines
Short letter to Abū l-Riḍāʾ in which the writer explains his health problems and asks for medical advice.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 15 lines (recto); 8 lines (verso)
Recto: piyyuṭ in Hebrew and Aramaic. Verso: medical prescription in Arabic referring to goat’s spleen.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 14 lines (recto); 8 lines (verso)
Recto: Targum Jonathan of Habakkuk 3:1. Verso: medical recipe for a potion.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 7 lines (recto); 14 lines (verso)
Recto: probably drafts of letters, one is a letter to Abū l-ʿAzz (?). Verso: medical recipe in Arabic for the treatment of fever.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 16-17 lines in 2 columns + marginalia (recto); 8 lines (verso)
Astrological prognostications concerning illnesses, health and happy events.Condition: Torn, holes, badly rubbed and fadedLayout: 4-9 lines in 2 columns