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Rhymed text (-kha) in Hebrew. By al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. On verso there is similar text, perhaps a draft of a poem.

Hebrew poems for Purim in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. ASE

Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣīr al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Large and well-preserved. Probably mainly love poetry.

Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Mainly love poetry. One of them has a blazon of the beloved along with references to a garden, musical instruments, and a virgin female slave.

Piyyut and/or secular poetry. There are at least three poems on these two folios. One is attributed to Avraham Ibn ʿEzra (in a different hand) and another to Efrayim. One is about Moses and the angels weeping and screaming, perhaps at the time of the giving of the Torah.

Hebrew poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. This is one of the fragments that he signs (נאצר אנא האדא שגלי קד צגת מענ . . בעקלי . וזן מן גנא . לי ואסמעת אן . . . ). There may be a reference to his rivals falling mute when they try to speak.

Hebrew poems in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. There are also pen trials in a different hand.

Recto and verso: Poetry in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Apparently on the subject of the eye diseases induced by love, but it is quite faded, so this awaits confirmation. This is one of the fragments that he signs (אנא אלאדיב אלעברי אלדי אסמי נאצר פי כל אלאשגאל לי כלאם גיד נאדר....)

Debate poem between wine and water. In Hebrew. Likely in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Composed by Yehuda b. Eliyyahu (per the acrostic). A complete version of the same poem may be found in T-S 8K15.9 (copied in a different hand). Information in part from Penn Catalog.

One side: A prayer in Hebrew (each phrase begins תתברך) in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. The other side: Judaeo-Arabic poetry, also in Nāṣir's hand. This is followed by a recipe of some sort, possibly (but not necessarily) medical. It involves linseed oil, drying something in the sun for 4 days, the seeds of a green watermelon, something being washed, then placing something in the sun for 7 days.

Wine and/or love poem in Judaeo_Arabic. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. This is one of the fragments that he signs (וגא נאצר כתבת אביאת פי דרגי ופי אלחאני).

A poem in honor of somebody important, perhaps a groom, since verso also contains (in the same hand) blessings for the bride. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

Debate poem between hashish and wine. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. The narrator is a partisan of wine: "Hashish has a way / Of flipping the brain around. / If you want to go to Qalyub / You end up in Banhā! / Check out that stoned dude (masṭūl) .../ He looks like a ghoul (ghūl)." At the end, the narrator goes to a monk and pays him a dower to betroth 'the daughter of the vine.' This is one of the fragments that Nāṣir signs (anā al-ʿibrī...). ASE

Verso: Piyyut, (probably a qina) Hebrew poetry. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. (Information in part from CUDL)

Recto: Formularies of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic letters to the great rabbi, the Nagid, the Mordekhay of the age "so-and-so." Verso: Wine poem in the hand of Nāṣir "the Hebrew litterateur." Dating: ca. 1300 CE.

Rhymed text (-bī) in Judaeo-Arabic. This may be a poem in honor of Rabbi Avraham. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. (Information in part from CUDL.)

Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. There are at least two compositions here (one of them oriented at 90 degrees). The main text has a section on basketmakers (qaffāṣīn) and a section on fava bean vendors (fawwālīn), praising (satirically?) the quality of their goods. ASE

Arabic poems transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. A version of the second of them is still circulating in online forums, attribution unclearتغيرت الايام وانقلب الدهرو ~ وصار خيار الناس ليس لهو قدرووصار اخم الناس يعلو خيارهم ~ فما اصبح الايام وما اعجب الدهرو. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

Recto and verso: Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. This is one of the fragments that he signs (אנא אלאדיב אלדמי אלכאמי ונאצר אסמי רצעת אלדרר פי נצמי ועקדי אנתצבת...).