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Type: Literary text
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Literary. A beautiful and very large (30cm) page from a diwan of R. Moshe ibn 'Ezra. Among the poems preserved: on pens, on a candle, one that he wrote to Yehudah b Abi l-Hajjaj his brother; his elegy for Abū Ibrahīm Isḥāq b. Barūn [Benveniste]; his elegy for Barukh b. Barukh. ASE.
Literary. A beautiful and very large (30cm) page from a diwan of R. Moshe ibn 'Ezra. Among the poems preserved: an elegy for his brother Abu l-Hajjaj who died in Toledo, Elul 1127 CE (4887); a congratulatory poem for the physician Abu Omar Joseph ben Kamnial upon his release from prison. ASE.
A rendering of Song of Songs into Judaeo-Arabic poetry. The next document in this folder is a similar rendering of Lamentations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Four pages from an Arabic literary treatise on prosody (ʿilm al-ʿarūḍ).
Leaf from an Arabic treatise, calligraphic and vocalized. It appears to be a literary anthology, with quotations and verses cited from various Abbasid-era caliphs and poets. The margin on one side contains text from the mishna (Berakhot 4:2). The margin on the other side contains accounts in Arabic-script, naming people such as Abū Saʿd, Abū Isḥāq, Abū l-Faḍl, and Maʿānī.
Arabic poetry, calligraphic.
