Recto: Treatise of Shem in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: magical recipes in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic for adjuring demons (with Muslim elements, possibly including Quranic phrases) and for an amulet, and the beginning of a text called Tafsīr Dīwān [ ], which teaches wisdom.Condition: stained, fadedLayout: 45 lines (recto); 11-14 lines in columns (verso)
Astrological work dealing with various questions (מסלה). The text is divided into sections, of which 3-13 and 89-91 are preserved. Appended to the text is a list of stars of destiny for each hour of a week (leaf 2). F. 2v contains a masoretic list written in the empty space between the columns, consisting of incipits of biblical verses from Numbers and Deuteronomy.Condition: Slightly torn, holes, slightly rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: leaf 2: 18.5); 23-28 (arranged in two columns from the middle of f. 2r)
Leaf from an astrological treatise describing the different reciprocal positions of the Sun, Moon, planets and constellations, and their effects on bodies and their health.Condition: Slightly rubbedLayout: 25-27 lines
An astronomical treatise by Abraham b. ʿAnzar(?) on the seven planets and the model of the Universe. Mentions Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Abraham bar Ḥayya, Copernicus and the philosopher Abū Bakr b. al-Ṣāyiḡ (ibn Bajja), whose book the author read with a Muslim.Condition: Torn, holes, slightly rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 15–27 lines (2v is blank)
On the creation of heavenly bodies (the sun, the moon and the starts), quoting Genesis 1:14-16, and Psalms 136:7-8.Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 10 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Commentary on the 1501 Astronomical Tables by Abraham Zacut (Zacuto b. Salamanca; 1452) written by Abraham Gascon (16th century) and adapted to the geographical position of Cairo.Condition: tornLayout: 20-23 lines
Probably Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 98b-99a, but the text is very difficult to readCondition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 48 lines (recto); 42 lines (verso)
Quotations from the Babylonian Talmud, e.g. BT Soṭa 22a; unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic (mentioning the marriage of Leah).Condition: torn, stainedLayout: 32 lines (recto); 19 lines (verso)
Selection of texts from the Babylonian Talmud relating to the examination of the slaughtering knife and expert supervision of the slaughter (Šavuʿot 34b; Ḥullin 17b–18a; ʿEruvin 63a; Beḵorot 28a–28b).Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 31 lines + marginalia (recto); 31 lines (verso)