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Page from a Judaeo-Arabic work giving instructions for what to do with various metals and chemicals, presumably alchemical.
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Alchemical instructions in Arabic script. On one side of the paper, at 90 degrees, there is another undeciphered list in Arabic script.
Folio of an alchemical work. The present fragment mentions the usage of mercury, and lead, and some discovery attributed to Hermes. Needs further examination.
Recto: two alchemical recipes, the first on the use of a water derived from a preparation of tutty (an oxide of zinc), which is left …
Recipe in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Headed "al-qalʿī." For אקאמה אלפלקי (this may not be the 'celestial sphere,' as that would …
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Recto: Bill of gift, in which a house in Qaṣr al-Šamʿ is given by [Isaa]c b. Abraham to his daughter Sittāna, the wife of Mevasser …
. [….]מאתים
2. [….]ם שעל נילוס
3. [….]אנה ל[..]שר
4. […ע]שרים וארב[ע]ה
5. [….]וע בקצר אדום
6. [….]ע[..]ד והיא החצר
7. [….]תה מצר מזרחי מגיע
8. [….]ת…
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Fragment of a bifolium with recipes in Judaeo-Arabic, probably alchemical.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Opening blessings (. . . الله عزها وادام تمكينها . . .), then possibly a query about a technical procedure …
Alchemical text.
Alchemical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic (mentioning e.g. "restoring the spirit to جسد المغنيسيا") in the margins of an Arabic (philosophical?) treatise.
Four pages from a literary treatise containing instructions for treasure hunting and recipes, perhaps alchemical. There are numerous fragments probably in the hand of the …
Bifolium from an Arabic literary treatise, including the pious opening and, on the other two pages, several (al)chemical recipes.
Several alchemical recipes written at all angles to each other.
Folio from a late treatise containing alchemical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic, including for "water of lead" that will dissolve anything. ASE
Recipe in Judaeo-Arabic involving iron, sal ammoniac, cotton, silver, and other items. Alchemical?
Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably alchemical, but possibly medical. Magnesia (מגניסיא) is mentioned. This is not a legal document related to business, as it is listed …
Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Alchemical: dhahab kāmil in shā' allāh.
Alchemical or medical recipe containing both organic and metal substances, followed by a short history of the Umayyad caliphate in Damascus written in Judaeo-Persian. Both …
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Recipe, alchemical. (Information in part from Goitein's index card)
Hebrew instructions for producing silver and gold, followed by Hebrew writing exercises in a different hand. At the bottom of recto there is a draft …
Bifolium from a book of alchemy. Same hand as numerous other fragments: start with BL OR 5565G.23–26.
Recipes (alchemical?) mainly in Hebrew with many Romance words mixed in (mercury, sal natri). Late.
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Giving alchemical recipes, occult correspondences between celestial objects and metals (called ʿaqāqīr), and handy recipes for getting stains, e.g. saffron stains, …
Recipe or instructions in Arabic script. Likely alchemical. Mentions lead (three lines from the bottom) and "it becomes elixir" (iksīr) in the next line. On …
P1: f. 1r: description of a dream dated 525 AH (= 1130 CE); f. 1v: alchemical recipe called ‘the operation of mixture’; f. 2r: invocation …