Notes:

1. The final section of the manuscript appears to break from the ṭarīq structure that characterizes the other Arabic-language sections. Instead, we find one long poem in colloquial Arabic (with occasional loan words from Hebrew and Spanish), vividly narrating the expulsion of the Jews of Oran that took place in 1669. The text is rich in allusions to Oran’s natural and social geography and to everyday life, including Jewish ritual practices. This poem is the only one that has been translated and annotated, in an article by Paul Fenton. The poem is prefaced by a short, difficult to decipher rhymed prose introduction, shown above. The poem then appears in two versions, one headed zajal and the other, in a different hand, kharja. The heading for the zajal makes reference to two other Arabic-language texts. One of them, “Man rāhaṭ,” is not found in full in this manuscript but provides the melody for two short Hebrew texts that are found in an earlier part of the manuscript. The other, “Jismī kimā l-yaraqān,” refers back to Poem LX. A careful comparison shows “Jismī kimā l-yaraqān” to have been the direct inspiration for this narrative poem. The text and manuscript end with a short rhymed closing in Hebrew and Arabic.