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Medical recipes and remedies in Ladino. The first recipe on the recto is for "tremor of the hands/ el temlor delas manos" (l. 1r) and the final section of the page is dedicated to an issue related to the mouth aches of infants "para una kiriyatura qe___[?] mal de boka" (l.18-19r). This latter phrase could be a reference to the pain associated with teething. One ingredient in use for the tremor of the hands is "olive oil/אזייטי די אוליבה" (l. 5r) and usage of a "magnet / קאלאמיטה" is also mentioned (l.2r). For the mouth aches of infants, the recipe mentions "leche/ ליג׳י". Among the other ingredients listed for the recipes on the recto are "white pepper/pimyenta bilanca" (l.9-10r) and "cinnamon/kanela" (l.10r). On the verso, olive oil is mentioned again as recipe ingredient (l.3v). MCD. For a full transcription of this fragment see Idan Perez's in FGP.

Fragment of a commentary on Beshalaḥ in Hebrew and Ladino, it seems signed by Yaʿaqov Frances.

Medical recipes in Ladino, including for nosebleed and sciatica.

Medical recipes in Ladino, including for toothache.

Fragment of a commentary on Beshalaḥ in Ladino (see also ENA 2799.2).

Medical recipes and remedies in Ladino. On the recto the ingredients and recepticles include "asucar/sugar" (l.10r) and "vasya de laton" (l.14r), also written as "vasya de alaton" (l.12r), which could indicate a container made of a copper-zinc alloy whose yellow-gold color points to the word's etymology in Turkish "altın/gold" (information from the Diccionario de la lengua española – Real Academia Española). On the verso "limones" (l.1v) are mentioned as well as "ash/seniza" (l.6v). MCD.

Ladino glosses on Judges 4.

Medical recipes and remedies in Ladino and Hebrew. The recto contains two entries and in the second the writer switches from Hebrew completely into Ladino. The first entry mentions the use of "fire/אש" (l.2r, 4r) in the recipe includes the direction to "make a cake/עשה עוגה" (l.3r). Before switching into Ladino, the second entry on the recto mentions the use of "spring water/ מיים מן המעין" (l.10-11r) and there is also mention of "the sun/השמש" which is faintly legible along one of the fragment's lower tears (l.11r). Further down in Ladino there is mention of angels with "אנג׳ילו" and "אנג׳יל" (l.13r). On the verso all recipe entries are in Ladino and the penultimate one refers to an "infant/קירייאטורה" (l.) in the same unique spelling as the join ENA 2713.17. MCD.

Page from a medical treatise in Hebrew and Ladino.

Medical recipes and remedies in Ladino from an extensive chain of joins that suggest the existence of a broader compilation. On the recto there are ingredients such as "pepenikos amargos / bitter cucumbers" and "azeite / oil" (l. 1, 3r). The second entry on the recto is crossed out, which may provide evidence that the author or scribe was drafting and correcting recipes among this broader chain of joins. The verso's first entry mentions a "white dove / poloma bilanca" (l. 5v) and "azeite" is called for again in the lower recipe, which is crossed out. MCD.

Medical recipes and remedies in Ladino from an extensive chain of joins that suggest the existence of a broader compilation. On the recto there are ingredients and/or components such as a "wick / קאנדיל" (l. 5r) and below that there is mention of "pearl" and "coral" (l. 8r). On the verso, one entry is dedicated "para kurar la kabesa / for curing the head" and "sesame oil / טאחינה" may be in use. Further down on the verso, olive oil is also mentioned as an ingredient. MCD.

Medical recipes in Ladino.

Commentary in Ladino on the section of the Guide for the Perplexed dealing with the reasons for circumcision makes up the main text. The remaining space on both recto and verso is filled with other jottings, sums, accounts, etc. (Information from FGP)

Text in Ladino that is probably literary and often draws on Hebrew, for example on the verso: "מוי גראנדי פור קי נו איש דרך / muy grande por ke no es derekh" (l. 5v). In the first legible line of the verso the name "Yosef" is mentioned and the the first-person may be in use with "יו / yo". There is also discussion of escape on line 6v with "דישפואיש אישקאפה / despues escapa". MCD.

20 small fragments. Image 4 and Image 14 and Image 17 are fragments of legal documents in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Images 5 and 15 are from a printed work on the laws of Shabbat in Ladino. Images 6 and 16 are a Judaeo-Arabic letter (right side of recto, left side of verso) regarding business in foods/drugs (pepper, wormwood) and mentinoing Abū l-Surūr, from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother (Abū Saʿīd?). Image 7 lists the names of various Nasis, Hizqiyah ha-Nasi and Shelomo ha-Nasi ben David ha-Nasi Rosh ha-Golah. Image 9 is another literary printed fragment in Ladino. Image 13 + Image 19 is a list of materia medica on one side, mentioning Abū Saʿd on the other, and preserving the remnants of an Arabic document.

Epistle concerning the messianic activities of Barukh Gad. In Ladino. Attributed to the imaginary King Aḥiṭuv b. ʿAzarya, ha-Nasi Yehoṣadaq b. ʿAzza, and ha-Zaqen Uriel b. Elyasaf. Versions of the same letter (in Hebrew) are dated to 1645/46 CE (e.g., K Visotski, Haschiloah: Litterarisch-wissenschaftliche Monatsschrift, Volume 1 (1896), p. 140). On this copy, one of the pages was reused for accounts/sums.

10 pages of Hebrew poems and/or piyyutim. Headings are in Ladino (e.g., "el triste amador") and Hebrew.

Bifolium from a Ladino transcription of a medical work by the physician (el diskreto sabio) Arnau de Villanova. Information from http://www.investigacion.cchs.csic.es/judeo-arabe/sites/investigacion.cchs.csic.es.judeo-arabe/files/Genizah-Al-Andalus.pdf.

Literary text in Ladino and Hebrew. Probably a sermon.

The main text is in Ladino and Hebrew, perhaps a sermon or exegetical work. Verso also contains: the draft of the beginning of a Ladino family letter with several drafts of the signature of Eliezer Ḥazaq; a musar text in Hebrew in a different hand; calligraphic pen trials of the Arabic alphabet; and scattered jottings and sums in Hebrew characters.