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Arabic poetry on longing and estrangement from loved ones with the rhyme (ravī) of ʿaīn.
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Arabic poetry.
Four pages from an Arabic literary treatise on prosody (ʿilm al-ʿarūḍ).
Arabic poetry, calligraphic.
An Arabic poem transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic and prefaced as al-Baghīḍī's deathbed advice/testament for his son. See these articles for more information about the poet (also …
Arabic poetry, probably.
Recto: excerpts of Arabic poetry, transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. The poem beginning in line 6 is credited to Qays b. al-Mulawwah (Majnun Layla) in some anthologies. …
Poems, probably. In Arabic script. There are also a couple lines of sums in Greek/Coptic numerals.
Remnant of an Arabic poem attested in literary sources (رمى الحدثان نسوة آل حرب بمقدار سمدن له سمودا فرد شعورهن السود بيضا ورد وجوههن البيض …
Arabic poetry: a close variant of this poem, praising the tongue/speech over other forms of beautyرأيت العز في أدب وعقل وفي الجهل المذلة والهوانوماحسن الرجال …
Several stanzas of Judaeo-Arabic poetry, at least partly about wine; late.
Several pages of Judaeo-Arabic poetry on religious themes.
Recto: several lines of Arabic poetry transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. A few words from the same poems are also written out in Arabic on the page …
Both sides consist of Arabic poetry transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. There is an interesting albeit damaged postscript in a different handwriting (but conceivably the same scribe) …
Recto: Arabic poetry transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic (helpfully headed "this is poetry"). Verso: An obscure incantation (?) in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs further examination. ASE.
Recto: Arabic love poetry transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: One very faded line in Arabic, then in Hebrew characters, "Abu Sa'id b. Muslim." ASE.
Recto: The same love poem in both Judaeo-Arabic (above) and Arabic (below). Verso: More Arabic love poetry that has been transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. ASE.
Account ledger filled with Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic entries. Several pages. Merits examination. Includes on one page an Arabic poem transcribed into Hebrew characters (the …
Two poems in Arabic script.
Poem in Arabic and an unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Arabic poetry, including a verse beginning "yā qalb." Recto: Hebrew poetry.
Bifolio containing poetry in both Arabic script and Hebrew.
Love poetry. In Arabic script. To the effect that passion is a terrible disease whose only cure is union. On verso there are 6 unidentified …
Legal document in Arabic script. Only the witness signatures are preserved, e.g., ʿAlī b. ʿAbdallāh and Bū Bakr [...] b. ʿAbdallāh. Verso: love poetry also …
A damaged page from a diwan, probably, of Arabic poetry
On recto, the bottom of a letter (official letter? formulary?) in Arabic script. The writer thanks the addressee in the concluding lines quoting two verses …
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Piyyutim with four lines in Arabic script afterward. Possibly poetry (anā l-gharīb alladhī. . .)
Literary text, compilation of poetry (dīwān). A portion from the long didactic poem (originally of around 90 verses) stretching through five pages from the dīwān …
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Aharon ha-Kohen to the parnas ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh). Opens with a verse of Arabic poetry …
Hebrew poetry. In a familiar hand. There is one line of Arabic script at the bottom of each page; one of them is clearly Arabic …
Poem in elegant Arabic script followed by a curious note: (the poet and/or scribe?) "Mukhliṣ al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Hādī l-Islām Iyādi (?) was …
From a diwan of Arabic poetry dating from 1847/48 CE.
Panygeric prasing the leaders (negidim) of the Jewish community. Mentioned are Elʿazar, Yefet, and ʿUziel and later also ʿOvadya. There is also a single line …
A version of the muwashshaḥ known as "al-ʿArūs" ("The Bride") attributed to the poet Ibn Ghazala al-Maghribī, a contemporary (and vizier?) of the Almohad caliph …
Literary text, poetry, in Arabic script. Mentions forbearance during harsh times and seekers of knowledge. Needs examination.
Writing/calligraphic exercises in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic and Arabic. Recto, upper right quadrant: Formulae beginning with אדאם אללה and ادام الله in Judeo-Arabic and Arabic. Upper left …
Poetry. Extract from Abu l-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Sulaymān al-Maʿarrī’s (d. 449/1058) al-Luzūmiyyāt.
One side: A muwashshaḥ by al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭīlī (d. 1126). The other side: More difficult to read, but also contains poetic phrases (ḥumrat al-ward...). ASE.
Arabic poems transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. A version of the second of them is still circulating in online forums, attribution unclearتغيرت الايام وانقلب الدهرو ~ وصار …
Verso: Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic book list, consisting of names of tractates and other titles. On recto there is classical Arabic poetry (not a letter). Dating: …
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Verso: Amorous poetry in Arabic script and accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning "white" and "red" commodities weighed in ounces, a kind of stone, mercury, and the …
Love poetry, in Arabic script. The name of the beloved is Buthayna and the lover is Jamīl. The poem is written in verse form on …
Arabic poetry. Needs examination.
Poetry in Arabic script. Recto is all one poem rhymed on -bī. There is an intriguing verse in which a speaker "swears by the Torah.... …
A narrative poem in Arabic script. Seems to be a humorous dialogue (including phrases such as "fa-qāma yaḍḥak...").