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Among the 200,000 fragments of medieval manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, there are around 2,000 items related to medicine. ‘Beneficial, if God wills!’ offers a survey of the different kinds of medical texts retrieved from the Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo.
Produced with funding from the Wellcome Trust, through its Research Resources and Public Engagement grants, as part of the project at Cambridge University Library’s Genizah Research Unit ‘Medicine in Medieval Egypt’.Beneficial if God wills