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Type: Paraliterary text
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Magical fragment containing elaborate and vehement curses.
On verso descriptions of places in Fayyum. Recto-poem by Ibn Gabirol
Elegy for a female slave (taʿziya li-jāriya) in the hand of (and signed by) Yehuda (b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen).
Poem in Hebrew in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. May address the city of Tyre and its sages.
Verso: Medical prescription in Arabic script. On recto, Hebrew piyyut.
colophon; ביד אלחזן אלבגדאדי AA
Minute fragment. Discussion on sacrifice (recto); document referring to a goldsmith and quantities of materials (verso) (Data from FGP)
Strange composition in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic prose. A maqāma? Less likely a letter. Probably in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu or his father Eliyyahu. May mention someone named Muʿammar. Some excerpts: "...with ropes, and I am in the house... served me with wheat... and misery, and went up for me onto the rooftops... to Qalyūb... upside down (maqlūb)... there remained a piece of bread (raghīf)... and he says that its taste is weak (ḍaʿīf)... and he sermonized (? דרש) and said, "Blessed be [God?]... their minds...." And he had eaten... "I don't taste anything"... And in the same nights... the oath... and he had sent... down below... and he sought depravity (fisq) and whoring (zinā) with... and that the Rayyis would sleep at her place... and his wife remained... of the ugly, vile face/appearance...." AA. ASE
A magical recipe for a safe journey (data from FGP)
Halakhic commentary. On recto commercial (or astronomical) note in Arabic.
Monograph; laws of terefah; quotes the geonim Yehudai and Hai (info from FGP)
Very faded. Probably on court proceedings.
Text in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably technical/literary, but maybe a letter. Mentions the use of vitriol (zāj) in prescriptions and a certain year.
Medical recipes, including one for ophthalmia (ramad al-ʿaynayn), which uses verdigris (zinjār) and arsenic (zirnīkh). The recipe on verso uses billy goat bile (marārat tays).
Treatise on alchemy in the hand of Ḥananʾel b. Shemuel (active from the end of 12th century – ca. 1249).
A page from a volume of the Mishneh Torah, with a note of sale (intaqala... [...] b. Seʿadya ha-Kohen..."
Instructions for the preparation of drugs (booklet of recipes), mentioning pure rose water, wax (Info from FGP). On verso few named of physicians and paramedics, probably who will use this prescription.
Damaged fragment of a dirge
Fragment of an unknown nature, probably a personal prayer for visiting Jerusalem
Notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanel regarding a sugya in Bava Metzia. Very possibly written during his stay in Lucena, Spain, 1138/39 CE, while he was studying under Yosef Ibn Migash. (Information from India Book IV, Hebrew description below).
Probably Spain; 1138-1139
