1. "Bahram Gur at the Home of Baraham the Jew," Page from an Illustrated Manuscript of the Second Small Shahnama of Firdawsi (d. 1020)

Date:

ca. 1300

Geographic region:

Baghdad, Iraq

Time period:

Ilkhanid

Medium:

Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper

Extent:

6 5/8 x 5 1/4in. (16.8 x 13.3cm)

2. "Commentary on Maimonides's Mishneh Torah (Sefer ha-Zemanim)"

Creator:

Author: Kohen, Shelomoh ben Yeshuʻa

Date:

1201–1300

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Geographic region:

Orient

3. "Ibn Janāḥ' dictionary (fragments) and grammar (fragment)"

Creator:

Author: Ibn Janāḥ, Abū al-Walīd Marwān

Date:

1101–1300

Geographic region:

fols. 1-43: North Africa?; fols. 44-92: Orient

5. "Minhagim in Arabic (fragment from Shelomoh ben Natan's Sidur)"

Creator:

Author: Shelomoh ben Natan

Date:

1301–1400

Geographic region:

Orient

6. "Mishneh Torah (Sefer Hafla'ah)"

Creator:

Author: Maimonides, Moses

Date:

1305

Geographic region:

Eastern Orient

7. "Sultanabad" Bowl

Date:

14th century

Medium:

Black, cobalt blue, and turquoise glaze on white ground.

Extent:

3 3/4 x 7 3/4 x 2 5/8 in. (9.5 x 19.7 x 6.6 cm)

8. "Śefat yeter (free translation of a grammatical treatise
together with extracts from Abū al-Walīd Marwān Ibn Janāḥ's Kitāb al-Mustalḥaq)"

Creator:

Author: Ḥayyuj, Judah ben David

Contributor:

Translator: Isaac ben Eleazar, ha-Levi

Date:

1301–1400

Language:

Judeo-Arabic

Geographic region:

Orient

9. 14 Potsherds from One Bowl

Date:

14th century

Medium:

Ceramic

10. A large bifolium from a collection of Geonic responsa, including questions addressing Amram Gaon ...

Date:

6th-19th century

Language:

Hebrew
Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)

Medium:

Vellum

Extent:

2 leaves (bifolium). Leaf: (height: 23 cm, width: 40 (1 leaf: 20) cm)

11. Account note page

Language:

Hebrew

Geographic region:

Egypt?

Extent:

Columns: 2; ruling method: folded lengthwise into two halves.
27.6 X 14.6 cm

12. Accounts (?) 24.369

Date:

6th-19th century

Language:

Arabic

Medium:

Paper

Extent:

Leaf: (height: 13.7 cm, width: 4.6 cm)