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Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. "Number of lines varies according to content; text breaks in fols. 1-3 denoted by three puncti; 1r remedies extracted from …
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Bifolio from a medical textbook, notable for being written in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Barukh, in Sammanūd, to his wife, in Fustat. In Hebrew. The address reads, "to be delivered to Eitan ha-Ezraḥ (cf. Psalms …
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Fragment of a letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. There is a note at the top of recto (part of …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions a woman and her father Munajjā (possibly …
Legal deed. Opening lines only; abandoned mid-way through the fifth line. Dated: Sunday, 1 Sivan 1539 Seleucid, which is 1228 CE, under the jurisdiction of …
Genealogical list of Nesiʾim. Names include: Neḥemya b. David; [...] b. Baradoy(?); Shelomo b. Ḥisday(?); Bustanay;
Verso: Letter drafts or copies. In Judaeo-Arabic. One of them is signed by Shimʿon Frances. Needs further examination.
Poetry in Arabic script. Most lines are crossed out with a single horizontal line.
Letter in Ladino dated September 1777 (Elul 5537), from Yiṣḥaq ביג'אן in Alexandria to to his brother Moshe ביג'אן in Rashid. The letter deals with …
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Letter from a father to his son. In Arabic script. The father's name appears in the right margin: looks something like كىى بن للسول. He …
Letter/petition Judaeo-Arabic. The sender may be complaining about his poor salary as a communal official; mentions 10 dinars; the community of Egyptians or people of …
Letter conveying holiday greetings to Elazar, who is given five titles. Other side (PGPID 1937): Prescription for pills against coughing.
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Magical recipes/spells in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script: (min nār al-[...] bi-l-Ḥayy al-Qayyūm . . . ).
Small fragment of a state document, likely a decree. Only two lines are preserved, written in very large letters with huge line spacing between them: …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer, the cantor of al-Maḥalla (or 'al-majlis'?), who …
Small fragment of a legal document. Probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1435 Seleucid = 1123/24 CE.
Marriage document. Small fragment from a ketubba. All we have are the usual stipulations found in marriage contracts. Part of the bride’s name has survived: …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Perhaps a contributors list. Several sephardic and/or Italian names.
Formulary for a marriage document. Dating: Catalogued as 17th or 18th century.
Recto: End of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1451 Seleucid, which is 1140 CE. Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Also signed …
Recipe or prescription, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Probably a will (refers to the testator, hādhā l-mūṣī). The sums, probably of will distribution, are half …
Accounts for wine production, submitted by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his father Eliyyahu the Judge. Similar to T-S Ar.18(1).127. This document is for the month …
Recto: Ketubba for the remarriage of a divorced couple. Location: Fustat. Dated: 25 Ṭevet 1622 of the Seleucid Era (= 17 December 1310 CE), under …
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Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Both need examination.
Document in Arabic script. Reused for jottings. Needs examination.
Probably a Talmud commentary, with citations such as Bava Batra 49b. See also TS NS 34.107, TS NS 288.209. AA
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Karaite deed of testimony that a husband has delivered a bill of divorce to his wife. Location: Baghdad (l. 7, פה בגדאד) Dated: 6 Iyyar …
Debt contract. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: Probably 1100–27 CE, as there is no …
Letter addressed to Yiṣḥaq Yaʿaqov. In Hebrew. Dating: Probably 16th century. Mentions the trade in raisins. Mentions various worries about 'the house' and the need …
Probably from a notebook of drafts, lists, and accounts. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions the government, probably in the context of of …
Letter from Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Alexandria, to Abū Bishr Azhar b. Manṣūr (aka Avraham), in Fustat, ca. 1075. Mentions a shipment of …
תקדמת כתבי למולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עלאה וכב[ת]
עדוה עדה גואבא ען כתבה אלואצלה אגבתה ען כל פצל פיה[א ואמא]
מא דכרה מן קבצ…
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Verso: Petition, or at least a formal letter in Arabic script. Portions of 11 lines are preserved. Many polite formulae are preserved, but unclear how …
Legal document, possibly a draft. Location: Cairo. Dated: Kislev 1542 Seleucid (=November/December 1230 CE). Abū l-Ṭāhir Hiba b. Yosef the superintendent (al-qayyim) of the small …
Sermon in Judaeo-Arabic punctuated by 'yā banī isrāʾīl!'
Leaf from a book of legal procedure and formularies.
Remnant of a letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi to Abū Saʿd. Only the address is preserved. On the other side, in a different hand, …
Legal deeds, fragments on parchment, most of which do not contain enough text to be described. The bottom right fragment joins the top left fragment …
Letter from Shemuel Gaon b. Hofni to an unknown Aluf (אלוף). October 1008. Information about copies of two of the Gaon’s books. The person who …
Business accounts. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Abū l-Ṭayyib Ibn al-Dhahabī; al-ʿAmid; flax; Abū l-Faḍl; Muẓaffar; "owed to Menashshe by Ḥasūn"; various …
One line of small Arabic script, unidentified. Verso is mirror-image imprinted text from another fragment.