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Type: Literary text
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A damaged page from a diwan, probably, of Arabic poetry
14 pages of a Persian treatise on poetic meters and general eloquence. The text of the treatise may be found on pages 3–4 and 7–18. There are only a few, faded lines on page 4. There is a single word on page 6. The table of contents is on page 8. There are many lines of Persian poetry cited, starting on page 9. There is a doodle of a tree on page 17. There are a few words in Latin script (French?) on page 19.
A leaf from Avicenna's Qanun, including the chapter on fattening any organ, such as arm, leg, nose, lips, or penis.
Literary work in Arabic script. Perhaps a tafsīr.
Yemeni diwan. Containing poems attributed to Yehuda ha-Levi and Shalom Shabazi.
Medical treatise. In Arabic script.
Rhymed text (-kha) in Hebrew. By al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. On verso there is similar text, perhaps a draft of a poem.
Literary. Psalms and Job.
Literary text, in Hebrew
Literary. Aramaic commentary on Song of Songs 8:7-8.
Manuscript copy of a printed work, copied out exactly in conformance with the formatting of the printed edition. The book is the Qaraite polemical work against Christianity called Ḥizzuq Emuna, by R. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham of Troki. This version was published in Amsterdam, 1705 CE. The book was originally published in אלטארף by Johann Christoph Wagenseil.
Yemeni diwan. 2 folios. Containing Shabazian poetry.
Judaeo-Arabic poetry. Dialogue between a youth and [...].
Book of magical spells. In Hebrew. Some recipes attributed (erroneously) to Maimonides.
Poetry. Alternating verses in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Fragments of rhyming Hebrew lines.
Literary fragment. Cut into an acute triangle
Literary. Small fragment.
Literary. Small fragment.
Literary? Rhyming Hebrew text.
