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Minute fragment

Literary fragment.

Arabic philosophical text mentioning "the fourth chapter... called Timaeus."

Qurʾān: sūrat al-fātiḥa.

Literary text in Spanish, in a Castilian hand. Legible words include "contraparte" and "a pagarle." Dating: 14th century. Information kindly provided by Lluís Sales i Favà and Nina Melechen.

Bifolium written in Arabic script in black and red ink, with diacritics. Contains a version of the famous ḥadīth in which the true jihad is defined as the struggle against oneself. Here: الجاهد المقاتل من يقاتل نفسه بنفسه. In another source (e.g. https://al-maktaba.org/book/3610/17): الْمُجَاهِدُ مَنْ جَاهَدَ نَفْسَهُ بِنَفْسِهِ. Needs further examination.

Printed treatise in Ladino and Hebrew. Translation of Mishna Avot.

Treatise in Ladino. Possibly medical.

A Maimonides autograph of his commentary on the Mishna (Kelim 8:9). (Information in part from FGP.)

Cryptic fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems literary.

Yiddish translation of the siddur, including ʿAl ha-Nissim and Asher Heni' for Purim. Dated on paleographic grounds to the 15th century, making it the oldest known Yiddish translation of the siddur (as of the 1980s, at least). T-S NS 298.35 was published by Shmeruk and Romer-Segal, "Fragments of a Yiddish Translation of the Prayerbook from the Fifteenth Century" Tarbiz (1980/81). T-S AS 204.12 was published by Hopkins, "New Fragments of a Prayerbook in Old Yiddish Translation," Tarbiz (1986). T-S NS 37.110 was identified by Alan Elbaum, 12/2020, with the help of FGP Joins Suggestions.

Translation/paraphrase of the book of Job into Judaeo-Arabic. Probably 18th or 19th century.

Liturgical text, Nestorian. In Syriac. See Sebastian P. Brock, “East Syrian Liturgical Fragments from the Cairo Genizah,” Oriens Christianus 68 (1984) pp. 58-79. Idem, “Some Further East Syrian Liturgical Fragments from the Cairo Genizah,” Oriens Christianus 74 (1990) pp. 44-61. Information from FGP.

Literary fragment of Qaraite interest. "We have completed . . . [Binyamin] b. Moshe Nahāwandī."

Literary text in Spanish.

Literary text in Spanish.

Commentary on the haftarot. In Ladino.

Part of a treatise, possibly on inheritance. Arabic (CUDL)

Psalms 34:14-23 with a חזק at the end. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

Judaeo-Arabic fragment, part of a treatise on ritual slaughter