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Phlebotomy knife
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This illustration of a phlebotomy knife appears in an eighteenth-century Judeo-Arabic medical manuscript. Bloodletting, thought to balance the humors of the body, was an accepted medical treatment at…

Contributor:

Atzlan ben Abraham al-Karaji

Date:

18th Century

Subjects:

Medicine, Health, Scholarship, Profession, Arabic

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Medicine, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Illustration of bloodletting knife on right side of a manuscript page, with Judeo-Arabic text surrounding.
Sefer goralot
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These illustrated pages are from a manuscript copy of Sefer goralot (Book of Lots), a treatise on geomancy, which was a method of divination popular in the medieval world. The text was attributed…

Contributor:

Abraham Ibn Ezra

Places:

Córdoba, Spanish Empire (Córdoba, Spain)

Date:

18th Century

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Astrology, Philosophy, Arabic, Translation

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Magical Texts, Print & Book Culture
Facing-page manuscript with illustration of fish and spiral design with Hebrew list below on right side, and illustrations of ram's head and bull's head with Hebrew lists below on left page.