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Type: Literary text
1840 records found
Literary text in Arabic script. It is entitled as "the names of the earthly kings" (asmāʾ al-mulūk al-arḍiyya). The page is torn and mutilated, and parts of the text are illegible. (Information from JRL catalogue.)
Coptic and Arabic, the Arabic to the right of the Coptic perhaps the Coptic is a transliteration of the Arabic? Biblical text? (Information from JRL catalogue.)
Prayer for Moses Montefiore, composed by Shabbetay Elḥanan טריויש in 1840/41 CE. Printed in Trieste in 1845/46 CE. There are many additional names in the document.
Ismāʿīlī material in Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be the introduction to a copy of the 'waṣiyya' written by al-Manṣūr Billāh Amīr al-Mu'minīn (=the 3rd Fatimid caliph, al-Manṣūr bi-Naṣr Allāh?) before his death (intaqala ilā raḥmat Allāh). But needs further examination.
Popular literature in Judaeo-Arabic. Set in the time of Muḥammad. Involving ʿĀmir ibn al-Ṭufayl, Zayd, and a female slave. Needs further examination.
Popular literature. A battle scene from Sīrat ʿAntar. This excerpt begins with the line "وبوارق البيض الرقاق لوامع في عارض مثل الغمام المرعد." There are at least another 300 pages from the same book preserved in the Geniza. The largest chunks are in T-S Ar.13.3 (228pp) and AIU VII.B.1 (38pp).
Guide for the Perplexed. In Judaeo-Arabic. Likely 13th century, based on handwriting, which may be known from other documents. Looks like the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi but has a different aleph.
Fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like instructions for something, possibly medical or alchemical.
Popular literature or poetry in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting may be known.
Essay on the intercalation of the calendar: אדא ארדנא אלוקוף עלי עלם אלחיבור. The hand is familiar, perhaps 13th century.
34 pages of an exegetical work or sermon in Italian and Hebrew. The writer refers at one point to his teacher Menaḥem b. Yiṣḥaq (image 17 in the FGP app interface). Dated: 5519 AM, which is 1759 CE (image 2).
Table of contents of a literary work: sermon(?) funebre, sermon moral, orden de la oracion, sermon penitencial, vindiciae judeorum, A Short Demurrer to the Jewes, Collection of Testimonies Concerning Religious Liberty. Probably not Geniza.
Bifolium from Kitāb Tawārīkh Mukhtaṣar Yunabbi'u ʿan Mamālik wa-Bilād ʿAdīda. Printed in Malta by the Church Missionary Society in 1833 CE. The faces of the people in the frontispiece have been scratched out. On the background of Arabic printing in Malta and the Church Missionary Society, see Geoffrey J. Roper, "Arabic Printing in Malta 1825–45" (PhD Diss, University of Durham, 1988). Scans of the full book may be readily found online, e.g., https://archive.org/details/1164pdf2228/page/n137/mode/2up.
Literary text in Arabic script, with diacritics and vowels. Perhaps ethical advice (yā bunayy: kuthrat al...)
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Medical, at least in part. There is a section on tashwīsh al-qawlanj, which includes jaundice of the face.
Literary work, perhaps biblical commentary or halakhic. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Halakhic work on forbidden sexual relations and yibbum. Possibly from a collection of legal queries and responsa.
Fragment discussing the calendar and different parshiyot.
Probably a late literary work in Hebrew.
Judaeo-Arabic biblical discussion/commentary.
