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Clockwise from upper left: (d) Small fragment in Arabic script, perhaps from a petition or draft: ...al-sāmī bi-faḍlihā...
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Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script, probably mercantile. Little of the content is preserved. There is an unrelated fragment sharing this shelfmark, which …
Letter from the lepers of Tiberias. Fragment. Written by Hillel b. Yoshua. (Gil)
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 13th or 14th century (paleographic dating). (Information in part from CUDL)
Brief accounts in Judaeo-Arabic referring to "ḥulayqāt" and on verso someone named Nānū.
Verso: There are at least three different textual units, all in Judaeo-Arabic. The first text block is a list of books: "(1) The book of …
Letter from Abū l-Maʿālī to Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi. Writing that although he has not heard from him in a while, …
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Late letter in Judeo Arabic. Much faded and the cursive hand makes it difficult to read. Few names are mentioned: Hasan(?) b. David (also partially …
Legal record (#14). Deposition in court. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Faḍl al-Mustaʿmal b. Natan testifies that Hilāl al-Mustaʿmal b. al-Raṣṣāṣ said to …
Accounts in an orderly scribal hand on a bifolium whose folding and size is suggestive of the existence of a broader ledger (from which there …
Accounts in Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic Hebrew, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions people such as: Yehuda; Yefet Ḥalabī; the Jewish youth (al-ṣabiyy al-yahūdī); Ibn Sammūna; Avraham; Nissim; …
Arabic script (VMR)
IB VII, 63. Letter of recommendation for charity for the judge Avraham b. Yosef. The addressee is on a boat and about to set out …
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Minute fragment with a few words of Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: Appeal from the prisoners in Tiberias, to R. Yeshuʿa and R. Shelomo. AA
A few lines from a Hebrew letter in a large, square script. Mentions a certain Ṣemaḥ and the speaker's love for him (בלשון ידיות . …
A list of at least 42 books of poetry, all called Dīwān or prefaced "min shiʿr [X]." In Arabic script. Poets named include: Ṭarafa, ʿAntara, …
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Verso: Letter from Hananya b. Yehuda to Yehi'el the judge b. Elyaqim. The writer asks the addressee to come to Jerusalem and decide in a …
State correspondence with signs of being reused for a book binding. The beginnings of four lines are preserved: خدمته ان المملوك قد سير لك... مملوكه …
Letter from the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (dated documents 1125-50), in Fustat, to his cousin Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli, in a provincial town. In Judaeo-Arabic. …
Verso: Account of some sort in Arabic script. Recto is Hebrew/Aramaic literary text.
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, to Salāma b. Nissim al-Barqī, in Buṣīr. Dating: ca. 1046 (Gil). Asking him to acquire various items in …
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Accounts of a textile dealer mentioning names such as Murhaf al-Dawla, [...] al-Dawla, and Sibāʿ. Entries include a jūkāniyya (spelled shūkāniyya here), the making of …
Prayerbook in Judaeo-Arabic, including a translation of the ʿAmida.
Receipt for a sum of 11 dirhams.
Legal document describing that Avraham b. Moshe and Shelomo ha-Kohen al-Bilbaysi dissolve their business and proposed family relations. Shelomo still owes 12 dinars, of which …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Alexandria to Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Ḥananel, known as ʿAwāḍ or ʿIwāḍ, in Fustat, in which the writer asks …
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One folio from a court ledger. Recto: Court record in the hand of Avraham b. Shemaʿya. Dated: End of Nisan, probably 1410 Seleucid, which is …
Bill of release from any claim granted by Netanʾel b. Yefet b. Meshullam Ibn Ḥirbish to Musāfir b. Shemuel in relation to the will of …
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Legal record (#3) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f.1r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Dated 12 Shevat …
Original document: Petition from a woman (al-mamlūka), probably in Tinnīs (المقيمة بمدينة تنيس حماها الله تعالى) to a dignitary with the title al-Juyūshī. The addressee …
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Letter addressed to a certain Shelomo. Small fragment (lower left corner of recto and part of the address). Mentions Khallūf. The addressee is to act …
Unusual list in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic nuemrals, with dates, names and commodities, mentioning Ibn ʿAyn al-Zamān, Abū l-ʿIzz and ʿAlī b. Nuṣayr. Also mentions the …
Debt contract. Probably in the hand of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Elul 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE. [Yose]f b. Elʿazar b. Mevorakh Ibn …
Letter in which a Kohen, who is in financial difficulties and is the father of girls, asks the Nagid Mevorakh to allow him to beg …
Recto: list of items for a certain day, including meat and bread. Verso: accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Legal testimony, fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Mercantile accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Each page is headed "the wheat sold in the name of Abū Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-Sukkarī." Dated: ca. …
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Fragment of a marriage contract giving details of the remarriage of a divorced couple. Tishrei 137_ Selucid/1058-1067 CE. Marriage gift 1+5 [total of six is …
Ladino and Hebrew literary work.
Beginning of a legal document dated 9 Tammuz 1602 Seleucid = 8 June 1291 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid David I Maimonides and …
Letter of questions and demands that was sent by R. Elhanan b. Shemarya to R. Sherira and to R. Hai, ca. 1001 CE. Elḥanan seeks …
Fragment of a letter in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides including the following bitter statement: "What is the reason of this? Don't …
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Literary text in Judaeo-Persian: "The Tale of the Stonecutter" (حکایت سنگ تراش). Dating: Late, perhaps 18th or 19th century. This poem is a masnavi that …