Letter from Abraham b. Šabbetay of Minyat Zifta, Egypt, to various congregations, including Bilbays and Benhā, concerning the preparation of cheese for Passover.Condition: holes, rubbedLayout: 19 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Letter from Abraham b. Šabbetay, judge of Minyat Zifta, to Abū Isḥāq ha-Kohen b. Samuel. It’s a personal letter that discusses various bits of news, including an annoying house guest is an inveterate gambler. It mentions a number of people, including Abū l-Faraj, Abū l-Ḵayr, Abraham Ibn al-Azhar and his son Ibrahim the cantor.Layout: 20 lines + marginalia (recto); 16 lines + marginalia (verso)
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)
Recto: end of a piyyuṭ, acrostic שמ]ריה], and a poem for Purim by Abraham ibn Ezra, יום בהמן אף אל חרה ליהודים היתה אורה. Verso: piyyuṭ for Simḥat Tora,בקרוב עת אומן להסיעו מנשיה, and a second entitled בסיטה, beginning כל אשר חי ימות.Condition: stained, rubbedLayout: 16 lines (recto); 17 lines (verso)
From a collection of poetic works by Abraham ibn Ezra, including a mi kamoḵa אל בפלא אשורנו בלבי, with a rubric ולה גירה and numbered 110, and an epistle written to Samuel b. Jāmiʿ, which is numbered 115 in the margin.Condition: Holes, rubbedLayout: P2: 18.3 x 13.2; 21 lines
Collection of liturgical poems: (a) [א]ליך קראת[י] with the acrostic אני פרחון (recto); (b) rešut beginning שדי אשר יקשיב לדל, by Saʿadya (verso); (c) the beginning of a third poem, שם אלי מנת גורלי, by Abraham ibn Ezra.Condition: torn, holes, stainedLayout: 16 lines (recto); 18 lines (verso)
Liturgical poems for Purim or for Parašat Zaḵor, including (a) part of אחשוק ולא אדע מקום עופר by Abraham ibn Ezra; (b) a poem headed אחרת אני ברוך חזק, which begins אם צר לעומתי; (c) a third poem, beginning lost, which includes the hemistich וברית שבת כלולה.Condition: holes, stainedLayout: 10–11 lines
Piyyuṭim: (a) ממכון שבתך עניני יה בערכי לך עתירה, with the acrostic משה בר [...], headed בשמך רחמ; (b) אם תאהב דרך אמת ללמוד by Abraham ibn Ezra; (c) ארץ מה לך עוד נבוכה by Abraham ibn Ezra; (d) שני זיתים נכרתים by Solomon ibn Gabirol.Condition: torn, stainedLayout: 10–17 lines