Part of an astrological work making connections between the stars, their position in the sky and the incidence of diseases and natural disasters.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 6 lines
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
Psalms 149:1-150:4 with Hebrew writing-exercises, jottings in Judaeo-Arabic, and two lines of a medical recipe in Arabic.Condition: slightly torn, holes, stainedLayout: 10 lines (recto); 8 lines (verso)
Recto: Genesis 1:1-4 and 1:14 from the Hebrew Bible. Verso: possibly the beginning of a story in Judaeo-Arabic of an ascetic man passing a doctor’s office, where the treatments for a boy’s ailments, such as medication, pills, bloodletting and urine analysis, are being loudly discussed.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 9 lines
End of a medical treatise regarding different kinds of food and drinks, their tastes and their influences on the body depending on the time and the amount. Studying this book is said to free one from the long-windedness of ‘quacksalvers’. According to the colophon (P2 f. 1v), the copy was prepared in Alexandria and the scribe wrote it for himself. The name of the scribe is deleted and the name of a new owner, Abraham b. Saʿadya, is added below the colophon.Condition: Holes, rubbedLayout: 8–15 lines
Title page and beginning of Qusṭā b. Lūqā al-Baʿalbakī, Kitāb fī ṣifa al-kadar wa-anwāʿihi wa-ʿilalihi wa-asbābihi wa-ʿilājihi (d. ca. 913 CE), a treatise on numbness according to the opinions of Hippocrates and Galen. There are some jottings on the title page.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 23 lines
Bifolium that shows considerable evidence of reuse. Originally, there was a colophon on f. 1v to Isaac b. Sulaymān’s ‘Book of Fevers’ (כתאב מגמוע מן אקאויל אלאואיל פי אלחמאיאת ממא עני בגמעה ותאליפה אסחק בן סולימאן אל אסראילי). Subsequently other hands have reused both sides of the bifolium, treating it as a single leaf. The texts include different Judaeo-Arabic philosophical treatises on Creation, and some Arabic basmalas.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: various lines
Recto: a piyyuṭ with the title Qidduše Yarḥayyā (apparently by Pinḥas). Preserved are the piyyuṭim for Nisan and Iyyar. Verso, top: a medical recipe in Judaeo-Arabic for chest and rib pain. Verso, bottom: an ownership note with the name Šabbetay b. Joseph ha-Mumḥe b. Elʿazar b. ʿAmram the judge, written by this person’s son.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 25 lines (recto); 13 lines (verso)
Recto: passage possibly from a commentary or homiletic text, mentioning the book of Exodus. Verso: Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic jottings, with mention of Isaac Israeli’s Book on urine (Kitāb al-qārūrāh lil-Isrāʾīlī).Condition: Slightly rubbedLayout: 13 lines (recto); 8 lines (verso)
Commentary on Exodus 21:18-19, possibly Saʿadya’s, with an explanation of the five compensatory payments for injury, pain, medical costs, loss of income and indignity mentioned in Mišna Bava Qamma 8:2.Condition: Torn, rubbed, holesLayout: 22 lines; P2: 14.5 x 15.2; 16 lines