Geniza Lab

Recto: Text in Arabic script mentioning diseases of the joints. Or might be a letter - needs examination. Verso: Hebrew liturgical text, might be from an opening of a letter

Potion recipe. (CUDL) verso is blank

Blessings for Moshe ha-Kohen ha-Sar ha-Adir Tiferet ha-K[ohanim] Ḥemdat ha-Sarim Ne'mah ha-Soḥerim ʿAyn ha-ʿEda. This is a known figure. See e.g. ENA 4100.14a, a letter addressed to him.

Recto: amulet for Isaac b. Riḍā, using Psalms 121. Verso: magical spell to mend things.

Colophon from [Ramla located near] Lod from the month of Heshvan year 4802 = 1041

Medical prescription

Fragment from a Judaeo-Arabic book on hemerology.

Recto: Targum Jonathan of Habakkuk 3:1. Verso: medical recipe for a potion.

Possibly the title page or personal annotation of an anonymous commentary. שרח ועגיב לבעץ אלמפסרין לם אעלם מנהו רצי אללה ענה

Leaf from a book, possibly medical, with Arabic jottings in margin on verso. (CUDL)

Probably calendrical calculations. AA

Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly prognostications. Mentions prison.

Note containing medical advice, with recipes to improve vision, treat sciatica and painful joints, act as a purgative; and protect against the cold, humidity and spleen pain. Ingredients mentioned include orange, musk, colocynth, and Galen's seed, along with the relevant quantities and weights. (Information from Goitein's index cards; and H. Isaacs and C. Baker, Medical and Para-medical Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, Cambridge University Library, 1994, 80) EMS

Medical? Unidentified text, referring to ‘dying from the perishing cold’. AA and CUDL

Leaf from a medical book or notebook with recipes, mentioning among others the substances Black Nightshade (ʿinab al-ṯaʿlab), wheat (ḥinṭa) and rhubarb (rāwand), quantities of measures, ‘filtered medication’ and sleep. CUDL

Fragment probably from a medical book or notebook. Mentions temperaments, dryness, humidity, adding of water, and four fingers. CUDL

Explanation of the calendar, mentioning the months Sivan and Tammuz.

Recipe or preparation instructions, probably halakhic or medical, mentioning sieving, kneading, heat and a period of 10 days.

Magical text, mentioning ‘the people of Babel’ (ahl Bābil) and the Neguš. Magical drawing on verso. Looks like the same hand as T-S AS 145.71 + T-S Ar.30.81 (=Abū Sahl Levi?).

Recto: calendar; the ‘Head of the Yešiva’ (raʾs al-metīvā) is mentioned at the top. Verso refers to the ritual lighting of candles, במא מדליקין ובמא אין מדליקין. CUDL