Leaf 1: commentary on Hosea. Leaf 2: medical text dealing with physiology, particularly the humours and the temperaments of the body.Condition: Torn, stainedLayout: 35-48 lines
Small part of a document in which one of the people mentioned is a physician (al-mutaṭabbib).Condition: Badly torn, slightly rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 4 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Part of a legal document in Arabic mentioning people involved in the medical profession: […] al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār (the perfumer/the druggist); […] al-Isrāʾīlī al-Ṣaydalānī (the pharmacist).Condition: Badly torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 9 lines (recto); 11 lines (verso)
Pen trials. The top two lines are biblical quotations including Psalms 19:8 and Numbers 21:27. Below is the beginning of a statement on a person afflicted by grief and sorrow, surrounded by the words ‘Hippocrates said’ repeated a number of times.Condition: Holes, rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 8 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Recto: genealogical list with family names, such as the house of the Kohen b. Ḡazaliyya (?), whose father was called Natan and had two sons Šemarya and Samuel, who in their turn had two sons, respectively called Aaron and Natan ha-Kohen etc. Verso: portion of a medical treatise that mention surgical instruments and includes the beginning of a chapter three.Condition: A few tiny holes, stainedLayout: 9 lines (recto); 12 lines (verso)
Recto: passage from a Judaeo-Arabic grammar of the Hebrew language; Jottings and Hebrew alphabetic writing exercises. Verso: medical recipe, including the ingredients liquorice, raisins, aniseed, polypody, lavender and fennel.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 21 20 lines (recto); 21 lines (verso)
Recipe or preparation instructions, probably halakhic or medical, mentioning sieving, kneading, heat and a period of 10 days.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 7 lines (recto); 6 lines (verso)
Letter in the hand of Maimonides, with a medical recipe consisting of (iron) water, lentisk and spikenard, and an account of a huge number of ships in the harbour, which brought wood.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 9 lines (recto); 8 lines (verso)
Letter in the hand of Maimonides, with medical recipe consisting of (iron) water, lentisk and spikenard, and an account of a huge number of ships in the harbour, which brought wood.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 3 lines
Letter from the wife of Baṣīr the bell-maker (al-jalājilī) to the Nagid David, asking him to help return her husband, who was living in a Sufi community, to his family and to the Jewish faith. She also asks for medicine for her child.Condition: holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 17 lines + marginalia (recto); 11 lines + marginalia (verso)
Letter from Abū l-Surūr b. Ṭarīf to Abū l-Makārim and Abū Jacob, sons of Abū Jacob Kohen, describing the severe illness of Abū l-Riḍā, ‘their brother’, and asking for doctor’s advice and medicine.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 19 lines (recto); 10 lines (verso)
A letter from Minyat Zifta (Egypt) addressed to Abraham II Maimonides. A physician in a small town who undertook the teaching of schoolchildren in addition to his medical work, became so enthusiastic about the additional income that he did not let the children go back to their former teacher, when he returned from being away in Cairo, where he had had to pay his poll tax. On verso a draft of another letter in a different handLayout: 54 lines (recto); 36 lines + marginalia (verso)