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Literary text in Judaeo Persian - ENA 2627.106, 110-111 appear related.

Poetic work in Judaeo Persian.

Poetic work in Judaeo Persian. ENA 2627.113-114 is part of the same work.

Poetic work in Judaeo Persian. ENA 2627.113-114 is part of the same work.

Literary text in Judaeo Persian (?)

Literary text in Judaeo-Persian: "The Tale of the Stonecutter" (حکایت سنگ تراش). Dating: Late, perhaps 18th or 19th century. This poem is a masnavi that has been attributed to ʿUbayd Allāh al-Zākānī (d. 1370). It tells of a stonecutter on Mount Sinai who loves God so much that he weeps from lovesickness and invites Him down to earth and promises him a beautiful stone cottage and all sorts of mountain delights (e.g., the choicest sheep-tail). He will minister to God: "I will wash Your hands and feet; I will make the earth you tread into my tutty (=an ophthalmic ointment)"; the Persian versions available online give "kīmiyā" instead of "tutty," as in elixir of life. The stonecutter tells God not to be scared of apostates and wild animals, for he will protect Him. Moses wanders by and chastises the stonecutter for these ravings. But God then chastises Moses for what he has told the stonecutter, whose simple faith is more profound than that of Moses. The story is a variation of Rumi's earlier tale of Moses and the shepherd (موسی و شبان); in fact, some of Rumi's verses are transplanted into the ending of this Judaeo-Persian version. On the verso of fol. 128, there is a different text in a more informal script in Judaeo-Persian. ASE.

Poetic work in Judaeo Persian with the title שחר והשכים. ENA 2627.63-64 are part of the same work

Poetic work in Judaeo Persian with the title שחר והשכים. ENA 2627.63-64 are part of the same work

Poetic work in Judaeo Persian.

Poetic work in Judaeo Persian.

Judaeo-Persian. Some of the sages are mentioned (Hillel ha-Zaqen, Yosef ha-Sadiq. ENA 2627.81-82 are part of same work. On ENA 2627.81 there are also some account in a different hand mentioning Elazar Yehudi.

Judaeo-Persian. Some of the sages are mentioned (Hillel ha-Zaqen, Yosef ha-Sadiq. ENA 2627.81-82 are part of same work. On ENA 2627.81 there are also some account in a different hand mentioning Elazar Yehudi.

Judaeo-Persian. Some recognizable words like זעפראן and קרנפל suggest some sort of recipe or materia medica.

Poems for a groom named Moshe b. Yosef ha-Levi. Dating: Late, based on the hand.

Literary text in Judaeo-Persian.

Zemirot in Judaeo-Persian in honor of Rashbi. The surrounding fragments are part of the same work. Some of them have interlinear Hebrew and Judaeo-Persian translation.

A Bible commentary in question and answer style.

Very faded, seems like a late literary piece

Prayers in Arabic script.

Maimonides, Epistle to Yemen