Calendrical work mentioning the months of January (יונאריס) and February (פבראריס) and the calends (קלנדס).Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 16-21 lines
Leaf from Saʿadya’s commentary on the book of Isaiah. There is an owner’s note, written in large outline script, for Jacob he-Ḥaver b. Job. A smaller and neater colophon identifies the work and states that it was purchased by Josiah he-Ḥaver b. Aaron ‘the distinguished’ son of Josiah, Av. He bought it in the year that he was ordained into the Jerusalem Academy (בישיבה הקדושה ישיבת הצבי), the year 4791 of the Era of Creation (= 1030-1031 CE), in Acre. Later, presumably during the First Crusade, the book fell into Crusader hands and someone, holding the book upside down as if it was a Western book, wrote a short note in Latin identifying its contents: ‘[interpre]tacio esaya prophete’. During their conquest of the Holy Land, the Crusaders took not only prisoners for ransom but also Jewish books and scrolls. This leaf is presumably from one of the books that passed through Crusader hands but was eventually sold back to the Jewish community.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 43 lines (recto); 14 lines (verso)
Verses from the Latin narrative poem, Ilias Latina, composed by Baebius Italicus in the 1st century CE. This fragment contains verses 461-475 (recto) and 482-495 (verso), covering events in the fifth book of the Iliad.Condition: Badly tornLayout: 13 lines (recto); 14 lines + marginalia (verso)
Verses from the Latin narrative poem, Ilias Latina, composed by Baebius Italicus in the 1st century CE. Together with T-S Misc. 27e (with which this fragment joins), this fragment contains verses 423-434 (recto) and 442-454 (verso), covering events in the fifth book of the Iliad.Condition: Badly tornLayout: 12 lines (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Verses from the Latin narrative poem, Ilias Latina, composed by Baebius Italicus in the 1st century CE. Together with T-S Misc. 27d (with which this fragment joins), this fragment contains verses 423-434 (recto) and 442-454 (verso), covering events in the fifth book of the Iliad.Condition: Badly tornLayout: 10 lines
This manuscript contains al-Makkūdī (d. 1404)'s commentary on one of the most popular Arabic grammatical works, the Alfīyah of Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, d. 1274 Ibn Mālik (d. 1274) . The exceptional importance of this manuscript resides in the fact that it has preserved marginalia and commentaries written by its owner, Erpenius, Thomas, 1584-1624 Thomas Erpenius , Dutch Orientalist and author of the first scientific grammar of Arabic written in Europe. The Arabic text of al-Makkūdī is interleaved with folios containing Erpenius annotations, which provide important information about the way Arabic was studied in Modern Europe, and also about Erpenius' relationship with the Morisco Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ḥājarī, with whom he read al-Makkūdī's work.Layout: 28 lines to the pageScript: Main text in Maghribi script in brown ink. Marginal notes in European nask, brown ink.