Ruling board (masṭara), made from layers of paper stuck together, incorporating what is probably a medical work in Arabic. There is Hebrew, probably originally a colophon, on verso.
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.
Manuscript Collection at the Monastery of St Saviour in Old Jerusalem
Scope & Content:
The collection contains 553 codices and rotuli, dating from the 12th to the 20th century and written in eight languages: Ethiopic, Arabic, Armenian, Corali, Greek, Hebrew, Miniati, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Coptic and Syriac. The texts present great variety and contain theological and philosophica...
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...