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Tag: history
3 records found
Historical treatise (many pages), it seems mainly discussing the rulers and wars of Ifrīqiyya (Al-Jazā'ir, Tūnis, Qayrawān, etc.) in the mid-13th-century. Needs further examination.
Alchemical or medical recipe containing both organic and metal substances, followed by a short history of the Umayyad caliphate in Damascus written in Judaeo-Persian. Both texts are written in the same hand. On recto there are also 2 lines from the end of an Arabic legal document in large, calligraphic script. On parchment. (Information in part from CUDL)
Literary. Sefer Yosippon (Yosef ben Guryon) in Judaeo-Arabic. Information from FGP.