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  • Order of payment (recto); Babylonian Talmud (verso)

    File Ref: EAP025/1/9
    Recto: order of payment in Arabic for a number of goods, including firewood, cheese, green beans and a fat chicken. Verso: excerpt from BT Ḥullin…

  • Benediction

    File Ref: EAP025/1/16
    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…

  • Halakhah

    File Ref: EAP025/1/35
    Laws of šeḥiṭa in Judaeo-Arabic, containing a (mis)quotation from Mišna Ḥullin 2:4 in Hebrew (leaf 2).

  • Philosophy

    File Ref: EAP025/1/80
    Philosophical text consisting of a dialogue between Moses and Plato.

  • Exercises

    File Ref: EAP025/1/107
    Pen exercises and jottings.

  • Letters

    File Ref: EAP025/1/146
    Recto: a compilation of letter formulae or part of a form letter. In the bottom right-hand corner there is a typical sender’s formula with the name…

  • Medical

    File Ref: EAP025/1/189
    Pages of a medical work, dealing with different kinds of illnesses and their causes, including fever. On f. 2r there is some Arabic written in…

  • Magico-medical

    File Ref: EAP025/1/218
    Quasi-medical book, with recipes mentioning white alum, apple preserve, rhubarb preserve, rose, unripe grapes and bamboo ashes. There are magical…

  • Medical; document

    File Ref: EAP025/1/220
    Recto: prescription mentioning medicinal substances and their measures. Verso, written transversely in relation to recto, contains an Arabic…

  • Letter

    File Ref: EAP025/1/245
    Letter from Ḥayy Gaʾon to Sahlān b. Abraham, dated 1349 of the Seleucid era (= 1037 CE). The continuation is inverted on verso, with an address in…

  • Letter

    File Ref: EAP025/1/251
    Letter addressing Abū Sahl, and his family, and Abū Manṣūr, and referring, among others to an elder, Barakāt and his son, Abū Faḍl (in Arabic…

  • Letter

    File Ref: EAP025/1/253
    Part of a letter written by Nahray b. Sahl to Nahray b. Nissim, mentioning the names Abū l-Surūr and Abū Iṣḥāq Barhūn.

  • Letter

    File Ref: EAP025/1/256
    Letter sent to Abū l-ʿAlā Ṣamʿar (?) b. al-Munajjā al-Dimašqī from [...] b. Yiftaḥ ha-Kohen in Tinniīs, mentioning Abū ʿImrān, Abū l-Mufaḍḍal, Abū…

  • Letter

    File Ref: EAP025/1/258
    Part of a business letter to Abū Zikrī Judah b. Manasseh b. David Ṣayrafī, concerning the trade in pepper and mentioning Abū Saʿd. Arabic accounts…

  • Letter; jottings

    File Ref: EAP025/1/260
    Letter from the exilarch [ʿAzariah] b. Solomon b. Josiah to [...] b. Ḥusayn. Verso contains the address, inverted, along with a great many jottings…