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Type: Literary text
1840 records found
Halkhic discussion regarding sending-away the nest . Image not available.
Hebrew poetry or liturgical text.
Liturgy and blessing as an opening for a book list - needs examination. No image
Literary texts. Possibly a Maimonides autograph. See FGP for identifications.
Kifāyat al-ʿĀbidīn by Avraham Maimonides. Information from FGP.
Commentary on the Mishna. Maimonides autograph.
Commentary on the Mishna. Maimonides autograph.
Mishneh Torah. Maimonides autograph. There are joins: see FGP.
Guide for the Perplexed. Maimonides autograph.
Botanical work in the handwriting of Maimonides. See partial transcription and translation in Friedman, Dictionary, p. 563.
Cryptic text in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems to be mostly or entirely lines of love poetry in a low/popular register, but there may also be some curses mixed in. Needs further examination.
Literary text. In Arabic script, calligraphic. Contains a narrative involving ʿAmr b. Umayya al-Ḍamrī (one of the companions of Muḥammad). It involves espionage (al-dukhūl ilā diyār al-qawm li-yasriqa akhbār) as well as a scrawny rider and 2 camels (nāqatān) that looked like a pair of ostriches (naʿāmatān).
Kathismas (قاتسما). Christian liturgical divisions of the Psalter into daily readings ('for Wednesday and Friday'; 'for Thursday and Saturday') together with supplementary prayers. In Arabic script. Section divisions are marked by little crosses. Identification of the genre kindly provided by George Kiraz.
Quran. Bifolium from a codex. Containing part of Sūrat al-Maʿārij (70).
Quran. Containing part of Sūrat al-Shuʿarā' (26:13).
Literary text in Arabic script. Part of contains an epistolary exchange written in verse, full of expressions of heartsickness and longing. The arrangement of the text on recto is interesting: there is a horizontal crease in the middle and the text blocks on either side of the crease are oriented downward, at 180 degrees to each other.
Awaiting description
Prayer in Arabic script. Probably Islamic. Quite elaborate. Rudimentary handwriting.
Literary text in Arabic script. Calligraphic. Bifolium from a codex. The text is arranged in very neat columns, with space between the hemistichs of each line. Rhyming couplets. Telling the story of a king.
Literary: Talmud. There is a note at the bottom: "Of Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham b. Daniel b. Yiṣḥaq known as Ibn al-Baqra(?)."
