Type: Literary text

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Faded text in Hebrew, some sort of first-person narrative, likely literary.
Leaf from a literary work in Hebrew, mentioning bodies, sins, and Mars.
Small fragment containing Judaeo-Arabic poetry; see joins for more substantial poems written by the same scribe.
A sermon in praise of marriage. Twelve advantageous aspects of marriage for men are mentioned, each illustrated by a biblical quotation. Based on BT Yevamot 62b (where only 6 such laudatory aspects are brought together). Written in very large characters. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, 53; V, 312, and Goitein's index cards.) See also Goitein notes linked below(?).
Literary: a Hebrew maqāma. Identified by Miriam Frenkel and Oded Zinger as Ne'um Ṭuviyya b. Ṣidqiyya composed by Yosef Ibn Shimʿon. Compare T-S AS 117.69 and BL OR 6197.1–36. Apparently based on the Arabic story Ḥadīth Bayāḍ wa-Riyāḍ. Information from Matti Huss, "קטע גניזה נוסף של פתיחת 'נאום טוביהו בן צדקיהו' ליוסף אבן שמעון," Tarbiz 82 (2014), 135–37.
Dirge by Avraham Ibn Yiju on Madmun b. Ḥasan's death. Yemen, 1151.
Hebrew poetry or biblical text.
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Literary work in Aramaic, probably. Very faded.
List of piyyutim, probably.
List having to do with seliḥot.
Piyyut or liturgy.
Literary, Hebrew.
List of seliḥot.
Liturgical. Mentions "Maḥzor Yannai" at least twice.
Halachic text. Image not available.
Criticism on those who give to much charity. Image not available.