Khulāṣat al-ikhtiṣāṣ fī maʻrifat al-qūwā wa-al-khawāṣṣ Contains Ibn al-Raqqām’s Kitāb khulāṣat al-ikhtiṣāṣ fī ma‘rifat al-qūwā wa’l-khawāṣṣ [Compendium of competence in knowing faculties and characteristics], preceded by an anonymous poem on agriculture. As stated in the incipit, Ibn al-Raqqām’s treatise is an abridgement of Ibn Waḥshīya Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 9th cent. ’s Al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭīya. The work consists of an agricultural tract in fifteen chapters, and an account of 309 plants, with their actions and properties, which are listed and numbered in the table of contentsLayout: 23 linesScript: Clear Naskh, black inkAdditions: Catchwords in the interior bottom-margin of versos marginalia Marginal commentaries in black ink marginalia Numbers referring to the index of plants written in red ink in the margins of ff. 30v-118v
Recto: testimony by Nissim b. Šemarya that Sason b. Nathan had deposited with him 17 counterfeit dinars. When Nissim tried to exchange the dinars the deceit was discovered and he was in mortal danger. Yaʿir ha-Šofeṭ b. Abraham resolved the matter but the money was lost. Dated ca. 1090 CE. Verso: originally an official Arabic document, probably a letter, which was later reused for drafts of various documents, such as a replacement ketubba from Abraham Kahana b. Yešuʿa to his wife Rayyisa bat Yefet, dated 1081 CE. On the top of the right side of the page, there is a draft of a bill of release, and below, written inverted in relation to the other Judaeo-Arabic documents, there is another legal document, mentioning names such as Solomon b. Kalev, Ephraim b. […], and Joseph ha-Kohen. A paragraph written transversely appears to belong with the ketubba on the left side.Condition: torn, holes, rubbed, fadedLayout: 20 lines (recto); various lines (verso)