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Occult text in Arabic script. Mentions the jinns, the shayāṭīn, al-waswās al-khannās (from Quran 114:4).

Sermon in Judaeo-Arabic attributed to the late "Rabbenu ha-Gaʾon." On verso there is the remnant of an Arabic-script document, which was torn and reused for this document.

Medical prescriptions for "the little one" (al-ṣaghīra) Sitt al-Bayt(?) and for her son. In Arabic script. There is a section at the top for what each of them should use, then separate sections underneath for each one individually. Cf. the one 'bulk' prescription written for multiple people edited by Lev and Amar.

Medical prescription. In Arabic script.

Magical instructions, probably. Involving sex with a woman (fulāna bt. fulāna, ll.5–6). Needs further examination.

Medical recipes. In Arabic script. On verso there are jottings in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals as well as a few lines in Hebrew script.

Prescription in Judaeo-Arabic. Two words in Arabic script underneath: yustaʿmal...

Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. 3 bifolia. Alchemy? Amulets? Paper-making?

Bifolio from a sort of commonplace book. In Judaeo-Arabic. (There are a few words in Arabic script from an earlier document that was recycled.) On one side, there are approximately 21 numbered entries, which may be eloquent phrases to be deployed in letters on the subject of love, hatred, and the bonds of friendship. On the other side, there are verses of poetry from Arabic sources, some attributed to Ibn al-Rūmī. At the bottom of the page there is a verse that is attributed to Bahlūl on some websites: "My soul hangs from your camel's saddlebag; if you intend to kill me, urge her on" (روحي معلقة في كور ناقتكم أذا عزمتم على قتلي فحثوها). ASE

Verso: Compound prescription/recipe (ṣifa murakkab). In Arabic script. Contains the glyph. Ingredients include oak gall, gum, vitriol, Andarānī salt, lapis lazuli, saffron, and camphor. Needs further examination.

A block printed amulet, including الاسماء الحسنى. Information from Gideon Bohak via FGP.

Verso: Poem for a circumcision (ולמצוץ כדת...). It seems for the son of the Nagid Mevorakh (gaʾon ʿam ve-sar sarim). (Information from Goitein's index card.)

Medical recipes on the both sides (Wissem Gueddich in FGP)

Magical formulae in Arabic script. (Information from Wissem Gueddich via FGP.)

Prescription or recipe in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely medical or culinary (wa-yustaʿmal al-... bi-ṭabīkh al-ḥummuṣ(?)... wa-l-ʿaṣāfir...). Mentions honey, cloves, milk. On recto there is a document in Arabic script, far too damaged to read without special imaging.

Medical prescription in Arabic script.

Document(s) in very difficult Arabic script. Might be a medical prescription, but needs further examination.

Draft of an Arabic text discussing the Hebrew months of Tevet and Shevat

One side: Draft of the beginning of a letter from a wretched prisoner in "the dungeon" (al-muṭbaq). In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly poetry and not a letter. The other side: Two lines of love poetry in Arabic script, surrounded by jottings and pen trials in Arabic and Hebrew script. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card)

Recto: Historiographical work mentioning a conversation between `Abd al-Malik b. Marwan (646-705; the fifth caliph of the dynasty of the Umayyads) and his great general al-Hajjaj ben Yusuf Verso: Poetic verses. There are three widely interspersed vertical lines belonging to a Fatimid document written above the poems (FGP)