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Fragment from a bill of release. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Drawn up under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon …
Accounts of a shopkeeper, it seems describing the proceeds of the sale of 9 out of 15 thawbs, living 6 in the shop.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions amounts 'with' (or owed by) various people such as Furayj the boy of al-Muhadhdhab b. Saʿīd …
Account of the pledges, pesiqa, for [the synagogue of] Dammuh, during the time of Nagid Avraham Maimonides (1205-1237).
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal document. Location: ציק/צידן? (Sidon?). Dated: Iyyar 5465 AM, which is 1705 CE. Involves Mordekhay ha-Kohen, Mordekhay Ben-Baez/Viaz(?) (ן׳ ביאז) and a sum of 133 …
1 نسخ
Recto: Draft of a will. In the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (this should be checked). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 4 Elul 1561 Seleucid = …
Likely a Fatimid fiscal account. Difficult to read. As of July 2025 this fragment is not conserved and can be seen only in Cambridge.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, likely a Maghribī letter of the 11th century. Mentions on recto women named Sittāt and Sitt al-Ahl. Quite faded. Needs examination.
IB VII, 31. Legal query to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) regarding a man who takes a 200 dinar loan and appoints his parents as …
2 نسخين
Mainly literary. At the bottom of verso there is a list of names: Avraham, Yaʿaqov, Netanʾel, ʿAmram, Ḥalfon, Yefet ha-...]; Ṭahor, Elʿazar, Moshe, Ṭahor. Dating: …
IB V, 37, folio 10v. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer lemon and …
Recto: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. For Jumādā I 5[.]2. Many names and households are mentioned. Verso looks like the beginning of an …
Letters. No image
Book list. Published by Alloni, The Jewish Library, p. 190-195
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Copy of a flowery Hebrew letter addressed to Maimonides.
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
State document, probably a petition or report, addressed to an official styled al-ḥaḍra al-sharīfa. Crumpled and faded. The sender was appointed to a position somewhere …
Recto: part of a rhymed letter in Hebrew. Verso: accounts in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning items such as pepper, mercury, and nutmeg. (Information …
Small fragment from the top of a letter, from Manṣūr b. [...].
Letter fragment from Salāma b. Yūsuf al-Gazal, in al-Mahdiyya or Qayrawan, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal. Dating: shortly before 18 October 1030 CE (there …
Small fragments from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, referring to [...] b. Saʿadya and the Ṣāḥib al-Khabar (the head of the police/intelligence). AA. ASE.
Probably an order of payment.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Connected to both the India trade and trade in the Maghrib. Mentions: lac, clove, nutmeg, civet, pepper; someone meeting with the …
Legal query written by Halfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi sent to Elʿazar al-Qasabi. Addendum to India Book IV. AA
Letter fragment in Arabic script (upper right piece). The addressee is asked to "release" the dinar and purchase a maqṭaʿ cloth for the sender and …
Small and torn fragment written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138), contains remnants of list of legal actions that took place in court (written …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. From a woman. Mentions expenses; "crazy" people (min nisāʾ wa-rijāl majānīn); the treasury (? bayt māl); being prostrated (inṭaraḥt) and "cut-off …
Two unrelated legal deeds written by the judge Avraham b. Yizhaq ha-Talmid. The longer one is a deed of sale of a female slave, dated …
1. אדנ[נו] מבורך שר השרים אלוף הבינות חכ[
2. סנהדרא רבא עוז בית ישראל בן כב' גד' ק[ד' אדוננו]
3. סעדיה החסיד ז'צ'ל' וחצ'…
Fragment of a ketubba. Bride: [...] bt. Yoel b. Yeshuʿa. Groom: Shelomo b. [...]. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dating: ca. 1237–79 CE, as it is written In …
1 مناقشة
Piyyuṭ fragment in an exquisite scribal hand comprising a portion of the Yom ha-Kippur Amidah (per FGP). The FGP description does not reference two faint …
Letter, probably from Damascus, in which fifteen elders admonish a community in another country to bring to court a merchant against whom a widow held …
Letter from a man to his son Shelomo Skandari. In Hebrew. Dating: End of the 16th century, according to Avraham David. The addressee spent time …
Verso: Record of the scribe Abū l-Faraj b. Abū Naṣr b. al-Mesos in which he testifies to having received from Shelomo ha-Nasi one Egyptian dinar. …
Recto (original use): Two fragments of a Qaraite betrothal deed. Dated Elul (year not preserved) in Egypt. Bride: Naʿama bt. Nissi b. Yaʿaqov. Groom: Barakāt …
List of contributors or people who get community support. Among the names we can find Musa al-Lebdi, probably a descendance of the famous Indian trader …
Deathbed declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138), comprising the right upper corner. An old woman, the widow of Abū ʿAlī Yefet …
Recto: Small fragment from official correspondence. The ends of three lines are preserved. Refers to a "matter" (qaḍiyya) twice and maybe a problem (mushkila). Verso: …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Listing many names and numbers. E.g. Bū l-Faraj; Isḥāq al-Baṣrī; Abū Naṣr; Yaʿqūb; Abū l-Riḍā; Tammām; Mūsā; Makārim Ibn al-Ḥajarī; Yiftaḥ; Shammash; …
Mysterious document with multiple text blocks, all quite faded. It may begin on verso and continue onto recto. At the top of verso there is …