Recto: accounts in Arabic. Verso: few letters in Hebrew and Arabic.Condition: badly torn, rubbed, badly stainedLayout: 4 lines (recto); various lines (verso)
Fragment from a notebook with drafts (of a letter) and accounts. Mentions Ḥayyā [Yaḥyā] ha-Kohen ha-Melammed and Abū l-Ḥasan and measures such as qirrāṭ.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 8 lines + marginalia (recto); 10 lines (verso)
Possibly an account of auctioning the right to read a paraša: a list of parašot from Exodus and Leviticus with the words ‘dirhem’ or ‘two dirhems’ written next to each one of them in Arabic script. The text at the top of recto, which may not be related to the account, mentions the names of Abū Naṣr al-Dalāl and Abū l-Faḍl. With jottings in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic on verso.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: various lines
P1: f. 1r: description of a dream dated 525 AH (= 1130 CE); f. 1v: alchemical recipe called ‘the operation of mixture’; f. 2r: invocation to God. P2: f. 1r: alchemical recipe (continues from P1 f. 1v); f. 1v: calendar in which the Hebrew months of Sivan and Tammuz are mentioned; f. 2v: invocation to God and separate letters. P3: leaf 1: magical words and description of their use, with a mention of the city of Damascus; calendar mentioning Jewish festivals (Passover, Ḥanukka). P4: f. 1r: sequence of letters arranged according to the abrade; f. 1v: on the substitution of letters in words according to the Kabbalah; P4 leaf 2: calendar with mention of Hebrew festivals (continues from P3, leaf 1). P5: f. 1r: very damaged, only a few letters legible; f. 1v: list of some of the months of the Jewish calendar; f. 2r: description of movements of the sun (first 8 lines) and list of some months of the Jewish calendar; f. 2v: badly rubbed. P6: f. 1r: description of celestial phenomena; ff. 1v, leaf 2: on the reckoning of the days of the festival with mention of the leap year. P7: ff. 1r-2v: mention of a musical instrument in Arabic and Hebrew; f. 2r: mention of Rabban Gamaliel and reckoning for the rising of the New Moon. P8: unidentified Hebrew text. P9 recto: alchemical recipe involving the use of vitriol; verso: Arabic (separate letters and words and unidentified partial text).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 0-16 lines
Hebrew instructions for producing silver and gold, followed by Hebrew writing exercises and an unidentified Arabic text.Condition: holesLayout: 20 lines per page (recto) 22 lines (verso)
Recto: two alchemical recipes. The first recipe (ll. 1-8) is aimed at producing ‘the work’ (אלצנעה), a word commonly used for indicating the production of gold, silver or the elixir that would turn base metals into precious ones. Ingredients mentioned are: sublimated arsenic, vinegar, sulphur, dissolved salt, sublimated mercury. The second recipe is composed of two parts. The first part (ll. 8-14) describes a preparation requiring silver, salt, water, mercury, and sal ammoniac that is aimed at obtaining a clear plate of metal. The second part (ll. 14-end) requires the use of quicksilver, horse manure, sal ammoniac, the Khurasani (?) and young boys’ urine. The end of the recipe is lost. Verso: part of a widely-spaced letter sent to a nagid in Fusṭāṭ.Condition: Torn, fadedLayout: 36 lines (recto); 16 lines (verso)
Astrological table, mentioning the sun and the planets, such as Mercury and Jupiter. On verso, another leaf is stuck to the page; on it a letter which mentions the name Abū Saʿīd b. Ṣaḡīr.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: various lines
Recto: benediction המלאך הגאל for a boy reading the Torah. Verso: the Arabic word عنز, ‘goat’, written repeatedly to form a circle of text and a few Hebrew letters.Condition: torn, stainedLayout: 4 lines (recto), 1 line (verso)
P2 f.1 followed by P1 f. 1 and P3 f. 2: Birkat ha-Mazon. P3 f. 1, P1 f. 2 and P2 f. 2: qaddiš. P4: Judaeo-Arabic letter sent by Ismaʿīl to al-Šayḵ al-Ḥaver David ha-Kohen, mentioning the elder Abraham and Damascus. The letter starts on the current verso. A line of address in Arabic script is found on recto. P5: The cover page and beginning of birkat ha-mazon, copied by Mešullam b. Yefet.Condition: Torn, holes, slightly stainedLayout: 5–15 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. 2 Samuel 10:9-19; 13:14-32.Condition: Torn, holes, stained, fadedLayout: 9-11 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. 2 Samuel 10:9-19; 13:14-32.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 10 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. Ezekiel 16:24-40; 16:48-17:1.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 9 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. Isaiah 29:24-30:9.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 9 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script. Jeremiah 44:13-22; 48:1-13.Condition: Badly torn, holesLayout: 9-10 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels. Numbers 19:6-9, 9-13.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 10 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. Daniel 5:16-22.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 9 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. 1 Samuel 7:7-14.Condition: Torn, holes.Layout: 9 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. 1 Samuel 10:12-14, 17-18.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 4 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. Ezra 2:47-62.Condition: Badly torn, holes, stained, fadedLayout: 9 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script. Psalms 35:2-37:39; 109:1-115:13. In most cases only the incipits of the verses are given.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 24 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. Ezekiel 16:15-16, 20-21; 16:48-17:1.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 9 lines
Recto: A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script. Catena of biblical verses, including: Micah 6:6-8, Hosea 6:6 and Proverbs 21:3. Verso: Hebrew and Arabic pen exercises and geometrical doodle.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 9 lines + marginalia (recto); various lines (verso)
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. 1 Samuel 1:1-5; 3:6-17.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 9-10 lines (f. 2r is blank)
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. Leviticus 25:8-10, accompanied by Yešuʿa b. Judah’s (Abū l-Faraj Furqān ibn Asad’s) Arabic translation and commentary.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 11-14 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. P1, P2, and P4: Ezekiel 16:48-17:1; 17:17-23; 20:21-28. P3: 1 Samuel 18:15-24.Condition: Torn, holes, fadedLayout: P2: 24 x 19; P3: 26.4 x 18; P4: 19 x 18.8; 7-11 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels. Numbers 14:22-43, 15:19-25, 16:28-34, 20:3-8, 31:54-32:22.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 8-9 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels. Lamentations 3:50-66; 5:1-13.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 10-12 lines
List of sedarim and parašot, giving the first verse (first two verses in Exodus) of each and marking them in the right-hand margin with a decorated ס or פ: Genesis 30:22 (seder); 31:3 (seder); 32:4 (marked as seder and paraša); 33:18 (seder); 35:9 (seder); 37:1 (paraša); 38:1 (seder); 39:1 (seder); 41:1; 41:38; 42:18; 44:18 (paraša); 46:28 (seder); 47:28 (paraša); 48:1 (seder); 49:1; masoretic note in Arabic script giving the number of verses; Exodus 1:1-2; 6:2-3.Condition: Torn, rubbed, holes, slightly stainedLayout: 13–15 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels and cantillation signs. Ezekiel 16:24-40.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 9 lines + marginalia
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels. Numbers 19:10-19.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 8-9 lines
A Karaite version of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew is written in Arabic script but with Tiberian vowels. Numbers 19:5-10, 20-22, 20:1-3.Condition: Torn, holesLayout: 8-9 lines
Probably a Bible commentary in Judaeo-Arabic, quoting Song of Songs 3:7; marginal jottings in Arabic are visible on both sides of the page.Condition: badly torn, holes, rubbed, faded, badly stainedLayout: 11 lines + marginalia (recto); 13 lines + marginalia (verso)
Recto: commentary on Isaiah 28:25. Verso: commentary on Ezekiel 28:24; with Arabic between the lines. Probably part of an official Arabic document, containing names such as al-Amir (?), and Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥumaydi (?).Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: 9 lines (recto); 7 lines (verso)
Recto: part of a commentary on various biblical words beginning with the letter ע, including עין and עני. Verso: jottings.Condition: holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 18 lines (recto); various lines (verso)