Geniza Lab

Work written by Isma'il b. Isra'il X the physician dealing with medicine. Opening page.

Colophon (FGP)

Poem of praise to a certain Yosef.

Literary.

Magical spells. One folio from a larger booklet. In Arabic script. Possibly for arousing love (tahyīj al-ḥubb?). One of them is to be placed inside the shoe of the man. VMR. ASE.

Looks like a small fragment from a literary piece with colophon from 1351 in Yemeni hand. AA

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).

Dirge (seliḥa) written by Efrayim b. Shemarya after the death of the gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda, May 1051.

Lament (seliha) by Efrayim b. Shemarya after the death of Shelomo b. Yehuda, May 1051. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya.

Poem in honour of Masliah Gaon.

Popular literature, probably. In partially rhymed Judaeo-Arabic. Narrates a painful parting from a friend ("I was left in a difficult state, like he who sits on an ember"). Further down: "Then, one day we drank in the house of a friend... our cupbearer was a black (asmar) man, graceful and elegant..."

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.

Literary text. Written in a mixture of Arabic script and Hebrew (for biblical quotations).

Literary text. Written in a mixture of Arabic script and Hebrew (for biblical quotations).

Literary text, rabbinic.

Piyyut and/or secular poetry. There are at least three poems on these two folios. One is attributed to Avraham Ibn ʿEzra (in a different hand) and another to Efrayim. One is about Moses and the angels weeping and screaming, perhaps at the time of the giving of the Torah.

Literary. List of positive and negative commandments.