ms22a(o) (University of St Andrews Library, Special Collections, University of St Andrews)
Oriental Manuscripts
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1 copy of Prayer sheet for illnesses
Large illuminated sheet in Arabic and Persian, Eighteenth table of a possibly bigger collection. Headings in squares describe ailments- to the right of the prayers to be said to remedy them. Blue, red, green, yellow and orange are generally used for text in Arabic, whereas black is used for Persian text. The Persian part describes what actions have to be taken and Arabic is the incantation to be used. Incantation for 18 different diseases. Central magic square (surrounded by Persian text)
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