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Type: Paraliterary text
749 records found
Literary text with a colophon. "I, Yehuda b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi in Egypt/Fustat, wrote this for the mighty prince Efrayim ha-Levi Ḥakham ha-Yeshiva."
Document in Arabic script. Two very narrow vertical strips filled with rudimentary Arabic script. Likely magical, but this is based entirely on appearance rather than reading any of the content. (MR) The name of God appears very often and is sometimes followed or preceded by a shahāda. A prayer or incantation? (YU)
Prayer in Arabic script with geomancy jottings. Late.
Magical text about the angels (e.g., Metatron). In Arabic script, in two different hands.
Medical prescription. In Arabic script. With numerous ingredients and instructions. Some ingredients include tamarind (tamr hindī), seeds of chicory (bizr hindibāʾ), chebulic myrobalan (ʾihlīlaj kābulī), lavender (usṭūkhūdhus), and polypody (basfāyij or perhaps basfānīj). Needs further examination.
Fragment in Arabic script. Filled with praises for God. May be a magical amulet. There is a square drawing on verso captioned "the angel" (or "the king").
Recipe or medical prescription. In Arabic script. There are two similar recipes, oriented at 180 degrees to each other. On recto there is an Islamic literary text (qāla l-nabiyyu ṣallā llāhu ʿalahi....).
Medical prescription. Some ingredients mentioned are pear (ajāṣ), red dates (ʿenāb), almond oil, seeds of chicory (Bazr Hindbāʾ), Egyptian Cuscuta epithymum (aftīmūn Miṣrī), Syrian Borage (lisān thawr Shāmī), white sugar, rose water, ambergris (ʿamber) and basil (raiḥān). The line in the margins reads; may the nourishment be beneficial God willing (al-ghizā....nafiʿ Inshallah).
Magical recipe written in Arabic and Hebrew. The Arabic script reads "ṣifa kāghaḍa (=kāghadh) saḥiḥa wa-hiya lā tataghayyar wa-taṣnaʿ minhā mā shiʾt" on verso. Recto: pen trials and signature practices in Arabic script including taqbīl clause, and cartouches. Late. Perforations for binding.
Ophthalmological medical recipes. In Arabic script.
Magical spell formularies. Includes a spell apparently intended to arouse and agitate (tahyīj and izʿāj) a female target (fulāna bt. fulāna) for a male (fulān b. fulāna). But then the direct objects in the next part are masculine: "If he is standing make him sit down, if he is sitting make him stand up, if he is sleeping awaken him, and have no mercy on him (wa-lā tajʿalūh al-birr) either day or night."
Mysterious text mainly in Arabic but with some words which are not Arabic. Might be a magical invocation of some kind. Looks late. Needs examination.
Technical table of some kind. In Arabic script. Calendrical?
Brief medical prescription in Arabic script, scrawled on the back of a torn up state document (of which only 1-2 words from the beginning of two lines are preserved).
Prescription or recipe. In Arabic script. The first words read, "gum arabic and tragacanth and dragons' blood" (ṣamgh ʿarabī wa-kathīrā' wa-dam akhawayn).
Medical prescription. In Arabic script.
Fragment in large, calligraphic Arabic script. Praise for God and prayers for Muḥammad (ḥamdala and ṣalwala). There are two lines above that need to be deciphered (mentions the name Sulaymān).
Medical text in Arabic script. Contains instructions for applying flower oil and water lily (nīlawfar) oil over the head, forehead, and a few drops in the nose. It is also advised to eat it after a meal. On the lower portion of verso there are pen exercises.
Magical fragment. In Arabic script. Including epithets of God (Ḥayy, Qayyūm, Dā'im, Dayyūm, Huwa Huwa) and Quranic verses (idhā qaḍā amran innamā yaqūlu lahu kūn(!) fa-yakūn) alongside nonsense words.
Medical recipes in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. One is for a child's cough, another for dysentery.
