Legal document: Moss. I,115.1
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Recto: autograph medical recipe in the hand of Moses Maimonides, prescribing an emetic and other drugs. The ingredients used include sticky sugar, lemon juice, oxymel, melissa, and green mint. The fragment includes dietary advice to avoid unripe dates, jujube, green almonds, carob, green broad beans, carrots and vinegar; whereas raisins, pistachios, figs and nuts should be eaten for dessert. Verso: draft of a witness statement related to a court procedure. (Information from CUDL)
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Editor: Ashur, Amir
Translator: Ashur, Amir (in English)
Moss. I,115.1 1r
Amir Ashur, "A newly discovered medical recipe written by Maimonides: Mosseri I.115.1," Fragment of the Month (Cambridge University: Genizah Research Unit, 2014).
recto
- סכר אוקיה גרוי תחל במא חאר
- ויעצר עליהמא מא לימונתין וישרב
- פאתרא לל̈קי ובעד אלקי בסאעה
- ילע̈ק אוקיתין שראב לימוא וסכנגבין
- ענצלי מפתרה בנאר לינה מחרכה
- בקלוב ריחאן תרנ̇גאני ו̈קלוב נענאע
- אכ̇צר ויחדר אכל אלטלע
- ואלנב̈ק ואללוז אלאכ̇צר ואל̇כרנוב ואלבא̈קלי אל
- אכ̇צר ואל̇גזר וכל טעאם ידכלה ̇כל
- או ̈קלקאס ויתנקל באלזביב ואל
- פס̈ת̈ק ואלתין ואל̇גוז כאצה והסיר
- השם ממך כל חולי ושלום הדרתה ירבה לעד
- נצח סלה
Amir Ashur, "A newly discovered medical recipe written by Maimonides: Mosseri I.115.1," Fragment of the Month (Cambridge University: Genizah Research Unit, 2014).
recto
- One ounce of sticky sugar melted in hot water.
- He should squeeze juice from two lemons onto it and drink
- it lukewarm in order to vomit. One hour after vomiting,
- he should sip two ounces of a lemon and squill-like oxymel drink,
- heated to lukewarm on a low flame, mixed
- with melissa-type and green mint leaves.
- And he should be careful not to eat unripe dates,
- Christ's Thorn jujube, green almonds, carob, green broad beans,
- carrots and any food that contains vinegar
- or taro. And for dessert he should eat only raisins,
- pistachios, figs and nuts.
- The Lord will ward off from you all sickness. May the wellbeing of his Excellency increase forever!
- Neṣaḥ. Sela.
Moss. I,115.1 1v
