Articles
• “The master calligrapher of medieval Judaeo-Arabic alchemy: on the identification of a prolific alchemist-scribe in the Genizah alchemical corpus”, Asiatische Studien, forthcoming 2021
• “Pauca numero et utilibus plurima. Maimonides’ Treatise on Poisons and its Graeco-Arabic sources”, Micrologus (forthcoming 2021)
• “Sorting the pieces: towards a typology of Judaeo-Arabic alchemical fragments”, Journal of Islamic Manuscripts (forthcoming autumn-winter 2020)
• (with Maud Kozodoy), “Sciences and Medicine”, in Ackerman-Lieberman, P. (ed.), The Cambridge History of Judaism, Vol. 5: ‘The Middle Ages’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press – forthcoming autumn 2020).
• “Maimonides’ Book on Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs”, in Wexler, P., Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (London: Elzevier, 2017), pp. 31-42
• “In the Shadow of Goitein: Text Mining the Cairo Genizah,” Manuscript Cultures 7 (2014), pp. 29-34 (with C. Stokoe and B. Outhwaite)
• “The Jews and Alchemy: Notes for a Problematic Approach,” in M. López Pérez, D. Kahn, M. Rey Bueno (eds.), Chymia. Science and Nature in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), pp. 19-30
• “Understanding the Language of Alchemy: The Medieval Arabic Alchemical Lexicon in Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS Sprenger 1908,” Digital Proceedings of the First Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 2 (online at: http://repository.upenn.edu/ljsproceedings/vol1/iss1/2 ; downloaded more than 3400 times by 04/01/2017).
• “An Arabic Dictionary of Technical Alchemical Words: MS Sprenger 1908 of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (ff. 3r-6r),” Ambix: Journal for the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry 56 (2009), pp. 36-48
http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174582309X405219
• “Al-Kimiya. Notes on Arabic Alchemy,” Chemical Heritage Review 25 (2007). Reprinted in Lembright, R. (ed.), Annual Editions: Western Civilization, Volume 1: The Earliest Civilizations through the Reformation (New York, McGraw-Hill, 2011)
http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/media/magazine/articles/25-3-al-kimya-notes-on-arabic-alchemy.aspx
• “Origins and Transmission of the Liber de aluminibus et salibus,” in L. Principe (ed.), Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chymistry (Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2007), pp. 137-148
• “Il Libro degli allumi e dei sali: status quaestionis e prospettive di studio,” Henoch 26 (2004), pp. 275–296
Online resources
• Medicine in Medieval Egypt: Creating Online Access to the Medical Corpus of the Cairo Genizah (funded by the Wellcome Trust), 2017 (with catalogue of 1800+ medical manuscripts from the Cambridge Genizah Collections)
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/projects/medicine-medieval-egypt
Reviews, Reports and Short Publications
• “Plants on Maimonides’ Bookshelf: T-S Ar.41.41”, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit’s Fragment of the Month (January 2017)
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/fragment-month/fragment-month-10
• Review of La Messe alchimique attribuée à Melchior de Sibiu (Didier Kahn, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015) Ambix, 64:1 (2017), 99-100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2017.1310425
• Review of Art and Alchemy. The mystery of transformation (Wismer, Von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Dupré eds. – Düsseldorf, Hirmer 2014), Ambix 63 (2016): 71-72
• “The earliest known fragment of Qusṭā ibn Lūqā’s Book on Numbness: T-S K6.194”, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit’s Fragment of the Month (September 2015)
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/fragment-month/fragment-month-3
• Review of La Conoscenza del Fare. Ingegneria, arte e scienza nel De la Pirotechnia di Vannoccio Biringuccio (Andrea Bernardoni, Roma: «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, 2011), Ambix 61 (2014): 200-201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/0002698014Z.00000000054
• “Medieval Scientific Texts”, in G. Khan et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 3: 460-462
http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-hebrew-language-and-linguistics/scientific-texts-medieval-period-EHLL_COM_00000289
• Review of Matteo Martelli, Pseudo-Democrito. Scritti alchemici con il commentario di Sinesio (Paris: S.É.H.A, 2011), Ambix: 60 (2013):182-183
http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/0002698013Z.00000000030
• “The affair of the purloined cows, T-S Misc.22.310”, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit’s Fragment of the Month (March 2011)
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/fragment-month/fragment-month-14-2
• Review of Ahmad Y. Al-Hassan, Studies in Al-Kimiya’. Critical Issues in Latin and Arabic Alchemy and Chemistry (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2009), Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry 16 (2010):130-134
http://www.hyle.org/journal/issues/16-2/rev_ferrario.htm
• “A Judaeo-Arabic version of Ibn Bahrīz’s treatise on logic, T-S K6.181” (with Ronny Vollandt), Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit’s Fragment of the Month (September 2010)
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/fragment-month/fragment-month-13-2
• Review of Michael H. Morgan, Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists (Washington: National Geographic Society, 2007)
•Review of George Saliba, Islamic Science and the Making of European Renaissance (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), Chemical Heritage Review 26,1 (2008), pp. 44-45
http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/media/magazine/articles/26-1-seek-knowledge-as-far-as-china.aspx
• Report on the International Conference Judaism of Southern Italy in the Mediterranean Context: New Contributions (Syracuse, Italy, 25-27 September 2005), European Journal of Jewish Studies 1 (2007):189-194
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/187247107780557290
• Report on the International Conference Guerra santa, guerra e pace dal Vicino Oriente antico alle tradizioni ebraica, cristiana e islamica (Ravenna, 11 May 2004; Bertinoro FC, 12 – 13 May 2004), Henoch 26 (2004):224-236
Translations
• M. ‘A. Amir-Moezzi and I. Zilio-Grandi (eds.), Dizionario del Corano. Milan: Mondadori, 2007. Translation of 200 pages from the French original, Dictionnaire du Coran (Paris: Bouquinis – Laffont, 2007)
