Literary text: Halper 456

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Literary. Medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, including one for how to fatten onself. Dating: Late, based on the hand. "Fol. 1r, under the heading פזמון, is Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia's kabbalic poem for Shavuotאשתעשע במש(א)ל קדמון, which ends in praise for Maimonides. See Steinschneider, Koṿets ʹal yad, sidrah 1, kerehh 1 (1885), p. 4, 15. Followed by Hebrew instructions for preparing a prescription for sorts of leprosy. Together they are 17 lines, the remainder of the page is empty; Fol. 1v contains various remedies in Judeo-Arabic; Fol. 2v contains a potion in Hebrew for a thin man or woman who wishes to be fat; remainder of the page is empty." Information from Penn catalog.