Recto: abridged piyyuṭim, separated by horizontal lines, and with acrostics: 4 spelling Judah, 2 Isaac and 1 Abraham. Verso: a medical prescription in Arabic, with a Hebrew liturgical text in the margin.
Kitāb al-khāshī fī mawlid adwah Mūsá Shalūm –The book of the fearer on the birthday of Adwah Moses Shalūm
Scope & Content:
liturgical text for public reading honoring the birthday of Moses. Physical condition of originals: 43 ff.; 250x160 mm paper, black and brown inks; Decorated frontispiece. In the cover fragment of other manuscript. Condition: very bad , water stains, ink smears, finger marks.
Various religious texts in 19 fascicles: eg. commenatries on the biblical texts, benedictions, sermons, paryers, fragments of the church history, horologium, text: Al-sirat al-mustakim ilà makarr al-naim – the way of true sanctification, exercises in translatin from Italian to Arabic . Physical c...
Seper magen Avraham -The Book of the Shield of Abraham
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Polemic treatise against the Christian interparation of the Old Testment. Physical condition of originals: 113 ff; 210x150 mm paper, coloured edges; black ink; cardboard cover, spine brown leather, worn at the edges; condition of book-block good
Pentateuch, Old Testament (fragment). Physical condition of originals: 7 pp; 77.5 (2 pieces: 26.5+51) x24 cm; written in 4 columns parchment (2 pieces sawn together and folded); black ink; modern cardboard cover
Old Testament, Pentateuch (fragment). Physical condition of originals: 47x65 cm; written in 4 columns roll; one piece of parchment (membrana theutonica); black ink