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Two leaves from Leviticus 5 copied in Arabic script (but Hebrew vocalization).

One folio from a compendium of Judaeo-Arabic legal queries (but no responsa), including numbers 96-103. The first several queries have to do with laws of divorce. Query 102 asks, We know that someone who calls someone else a Mamzer gets lashes, but what if he calls him in Arabic a Zanīmī or a Farkh Zinā (both meaning "child of an adultress")? ASE.

Recto: Legal fragment involving Halil (?) al-Shayzari ha-Bursi and Yishaq and various sums of money. Verso: possibly a Judaeo-Arabic draft of a sermon (?); words are written between the lines and squeezed into the margins.

Magical instructions and diagrams in Judaeo-Arabic.

Leaf from a late Judaeo-Arabic rendition in rhymed prose of the tale of the Woman with Seven Sons, here named Ḥanna, from 2 Maccabees.

Leaf from the beginning of Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī.

Ḥamdala and ṣalwala from the bottom of a state document. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic calendrical text.

Leaf from a Judaeo-Arabic treatise containing magical instructions (ʿazā'im) including for summoning Sar ha-Torah to grant your wishes and for ḍarb al-mandal ('prophesying while contemplating a mirror-like surface').

Leaf from a Judaeo-Arabic treatise on prognostication or horoscopes.

Amulet in Arabic script. It is even dated at the bottom; 16 Ṣafar [?]25.

Amulets or magical recipes, at least partially for curing various physical ailments, in Arabic.

Recto: An amulet or talisman for protection, beginning with a chapter on charms and protections "bāb al-ḥirz l-aʿẓam". Verso: Magical recipe or charm involving an egg, writing something 49 times on it which leads to someone's birth in hell. Needs further investigation.

Amulets or magical recipes in Arabic.

Magical/medical recipes in Arabic.

Magical instructions in Arabic.

Magical instructions in Arabic.

Two pages from Kalīla wa-Dimna in Arabic.

Two pages from an Arabic work on prognostications, including whether the days of a month or lucky or unlucky.

Arabic poetry.

Leaf from an Arabic treatise on Islamic law.