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Type: Literary text
1840 records found
Bible commentary or midrash
Dirge. On verso the name of the owner: Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen b. Simḥa.
Recto: The Book of Gathering the Winds. In Hebrew. See Goitein's index card for more information.
Verso: In a script different from recto, a page from a magical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic, with a colophon, Iyyar 1146 CE (4906 AM). See Goitein's index card for more information
4 pages from the medical text of the infamous medieval Persian polymath Muḥammad b. Zakarīyyā al-Rāzī (d. 925 or 935 CE) entitled al-Ḥāwī fī-l-Ṭibb. The pages are from the section of 'Hospital experiences' at the end of volume 2 and the second folio is from the end of volume 3 and the beginning of volume 4.
Literary text about al-Khansāʾ and her brother Ṣakhr. ٍSeems like an adapted narrative with few a selected elegiac verses from al-Khasāʾ’s dīwān, could be pages from a literary book of jāhiliyya poetry. No matches come up if you Google snippets of the narrative and even some of the poetry—could it be otherwise unattested? ASE, YU.
The text is badly damaged but one can read ʾišhād fulān ʾišhād fulān (l. 3)
Exegesis of Parashat Vayishlaḥ. Late. There are some jottings in the margins.
Arabic script. One part of it looks literary. There is also a string of titles addressing someone (al-qurashī . . . al-ajall); there are some drawings; and there is what looks like a signature in Arabic script.*
List of parshiyot with haftarot.
Too faded
Piyyut. On the back are drafts of piyyutim and an Arabic script text. *
Literary text having to do with the restoration of Jerusalem, in the hand of the secretary of Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaon. (Information from Goitein's index card)
Medical treatise. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Piyyut.
This is a commentary to BT Bava Qamma in the hand of Ḥananel b. Shemuʾel, not a legal document. AA
Praise poem for Maimonides (FGP)
Literary text, Arabic script recto and verso.
Literary. Judaeo-Arabic. This is either Maimonides' introduction to Perek Ḥeleq of Sanhedrin, or a work quoting it. Elaborating the 13 principles of faith; this excerpt focuses on the first principle. Information from FGP.
Hebrew poems in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. There are also pen trials in a different hand.
