List of names of contributors and amounts of their contributions in figures, mentioning approximately 50 proper names.Condition: holes, slightly rubbed, slightly stainedLayout: 21 lines (recto); 16 lines + marginalia (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
Recto: Arabic accounts, mentioning expenses for things such as good olive oil, firewood, melon, beans etc. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic note concerning the sale of books.Condition: torn, holesLayout: 4 lines
From an Arabic alchemical text of an operative nature. The purpose of the recipes is unclear due to lacunae. Ingredients include iron, sandarac, musk, (human) urine and cow’s urine. An iron pot and mortar are mentioned as apparatus.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbed, faded, stainedLayout: 20 lines (recto); 18 lines (verso)
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)
Alchemical or medical recipe containing both organic and metal substances, followed by a short history of the Umayyid caliphate in Damascus. Both texts are written in the same hand. On recto there are also 2 lines from the end of an Arabic legal document.Condition: Slightly tornLayout: 31 lines
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)
Leaf from an astrological work, dealing with the connection between the position of the stars in the sky and the development of epidemic and epizootic diseases, the rise of the Nile, the consequent floods and the successful growth of the crops.Condition: Torn, goles, rubbedLayout: 20 lines
Astrological table, mentioning the sun and the planets, such as Mercury and Jupiter.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: various lines (recto); jottings (verso)
Astrological table, mentioning the sun and the planets, such as Mercury and Jupiter.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, stainedLayout: various lines (recto); jottings (verso)
Computation of solar, lunar and planetary positions for two dates in 1299 CE (midnight between the 14th and 15th of June and 6 pm on June 29th), with some Coptic numerals.Condition: torn, holesLayout: various lines in 3 columns + marginalia
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
Astrological prognostications concerning illnesses, health and happy events.Condition: Torn, holes, badly rubbed and fadedLayout: 4-9 lines in 2 columns
Page from an astrological work describing the influence of the different months (here called by their Syriac names) on the incidence of diseases, deaths and natural disasters.Condition: Torn, holes, slightly rubbedLayout: 18 lines (recto); 19 lines (verso)
Part of an astrological work making connections between the stars, their position in the sky and the incidence of diseases and natural disasters.Condition: Torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 6 lines
Astrological prognostications regarding the winds and waves of health, possible diseases and the availability of food in particular combinations of stars and planets.Condition: Torn, tiny holesLayout: 15 lines
Recto: astronomical text. Verso: letter in Arabic script, in which the writer says that the addressee is like a father to him.Condition: torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 39 lines (recto); 10 lines (verso)