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Small fragment of an Arabic document, likely accounts.
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Letter concerning the dispatch of gold from the congregation in Bilbays, to be delivered in Jerusalem to 'the synagogue of the Yemenite' and to 'the …
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Legal fragment written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), comprising the lower left corner of the document. Probably regarding a business partnership …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic dated in Shawwal 1237AH which is January/February 1834CE. All of the monetary figures are expressed in "פצה /silver" and a variety of …
Recto: Chancery exercises. The basmala appears twice, and one line begins, "Qāla Amīr al-Muʾminīn..." Verso: State document, Fatimid. Opens with a reference to an employee …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in several locations according to the Islamic calendar, probably in the year 968 AH (חסץ) but this alphanumerical designation is backwards …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
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Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 11th century. Begging a dignitary for help interceding with the king and tax administrators concerning the burden of tax being …
Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 13th–14th century. Maybe a recommendation for the bearer. Mentions 250 dirh[ams]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment from the top of a letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides, with his motto, mentioning Avraham ha-Sar. Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides' lifespan was 1310–1355 CE. …
Book list with six items. Written a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The last item is simply "Hārūn al-Rashīd."
Verso: Four (?) interesting accounts in Arabic script, one mentioning "wāṣil al-ḍamān". Dated: Jumādā II 513 AH, which is September 1119 CE. (Information from Goitein's …
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Recto: part of a large letter to the courtier Avraham b. Yashar (Abraham b. Sahl Tustari). The writer wishes him recovery from his illness, and …
Business account, probably. In Arabic script. Repeatedly mentions various numbers of "qiṭaʿ" along with sums of money. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Trousseau list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Goitein's notes and the NLI catalogue both give 1459 CE. The tens digit is very faded, but the …
Small fragment with text in Hebrew. Probably literary.
Literary, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Discussion of blessings and curses, possibly from a Bible commentary. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
Letter in Arabic script. Quite faded/damaged. Greetings to various people on the back (preserved as recto), including to ʿAdwān and Muḥammad.
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Very faded. On verso: "perush qedoshim of Rabbenu Ḥananel (ZL)"
List of entries in Arabic script that include names, locations, and possibly goods such as "ʿaṭr/عطر" or "perfume" which appears throughout the recto and verso. …
Fragment of a letter in Ladino that was recorded on an oddly large piece of paper (based on the orientation of the body and marginal …
Recto: Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man who has been detained in the arsenal (khizāna, according to Khan khizānat al-bunūd, which was also …
[علـ]ـى [مولانا وسيدنا الامام المسـ]ـتنصر بالله امير [المـ]و[ـمنيـ]ـن [وعلى ابائه]
الطاهرين عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه ينهى الي
الحضرة ا…
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Literary text, in Arabic script.
Late accounts that draw on the Hebrew alphanumerical system and Arabic numerals.
Letter fragment addressed to the Gaon Shelomo (b. Yehuda?), or conceivably his son). In Hebrew. Only the beginnings of four lines from the beginning are …
Legal query with responsum. Concerning tefillin. Late. Striking signatures.
Letter in Arabic script. Only the beginnings of the first four lines are preserved. Reused on recto for Hebrew poetry or liturgical text.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Account fragment, so tiny that the language is unclear. The accounts draw on Hebrew alphanumerals. Newly treated and encapsulated.
Epistolary writing exercises in Judaeo-Arabic. The dating is probably 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography, The student Ya[ʿīsh(?)] Marzūq, whose name appears in the …
Trousseau list. In Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic. About 30 items are preserved. Information from Goitein's note card.
Letter. Polite, refers to addressee repeatedly as אלמולא. Fragment from toward the end, including the end of business matters involving dirhams and then the greetings-to-the-family …
List of donations (?) collected for the first four months of 5583 = 1822/23 CE (or perhaps 5553 AM). All the entries refer to "the …
Letter from Shemuel b. Eli Gaʾon, Baghdad, addressing community members and asking them to welcome Shemuel b. Shelomo ha-Kohen from Ashkenaz, who was forced to …
Court record approving a payment for Ya'aqov Berakah the cantor b. Moshe for his service in communal prayers for five years. Dated Tuesday, 12th Nisan …
Deed of acknowledgement (iqrār). In Arabic script. Concerns a debt of 2 dinars contracted by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā, the Christian bath attendant (al-ḥammāmī) from …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God, lord of the universe.
Abū al-Ḥasan - this patronymic being his name - Ib…
Letter from Fadl b. Amrūṣ to Nahray b. Nissim. On verso a note by the reciever, in Arabic script, documenting the arrival of the letter …
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Letter, probably. In poetic Hebrew.
Recto (secondary use): tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 9 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403. Measurements: …
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A booklet containing, among other things, a rendition of Megillat Esther into Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic verse. The name Moshe Aghion appears at the bottom of …
Halakhic treatise on legal deeds by Saʿadya Gaʾon (recto deals with ketubbot). (Information from CUDL.)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably the same scribe as T-S 13J34.5 (Alexandria, 1090 CE), T-S 13J35.5, and T-S AS 117.131 (PGPID 38280). Mentions Avraham the …
State document, Arabic script. Fragmentary. Probably an official correspondences offering congratulations/prayers on the occasion of a new caliph coming to power (... fī ḥulūl mulk …
مو]لانا صلوات الله عليه واهلك[عداه
]ـل بالتسبيح والتمجيد عند اعلانه به وشفع دعاء [
و[د]عا جميع الحاضرين بالابتهال من الله تعالى والرغبة اليه
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Order of payment. In Arabic script. Sayyid al-Ahl is to give something to the addressee.
Long discussion between a woman and the court about taking an oath in a legal dispute she had with a man (the document mentions that …
Document or receipt of some kind issued for al-muʿallim Salmūn al-Yahūdī. Dated: 10 Shaʿbān 997 AH = 24 June 1589 CE.There is a signature at …