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List of names with numbers. The list includes three Ṣabbāghs (dyers), a Ṣā'igh (goldsmith), and a Khabbāz (baker).
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Verso: Letter of appeal for assistance in Arabic script. الشيخ الجليل . . . ادام . . . والخوف والقلة Recto: Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic.
Accounts.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A power of attorney appointing somebody to sue someone for a quantity of …
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Late communal accounts. For the collection on the week of parshat Devarim. Several dozen names and surnames are listed: גזאוי, אלעטר, הלוי, קוצייר, גלמוש, גאבי, …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Mercantile letter fragment mentioning Yehuda b. [...], previous correspondence and quantities of dinars. Dating: 11th century. On parchment. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal deed. Rental contract. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. Siwār, the wife of Shemuel b. Yiṣḥaq de Molina leases an apartment …
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Petition from an official. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century (this can be narrowed if the person named is known from chronicles). Mentions an amir …
[ ] . . . عنده لاحد المماليك يسمى علم الدين سنجر المحمود[ي]
مبلغ وصـ[و]لات في ثمن قنده المبيع من شونه وهو
الف واربعمائة . . . . . .…
Fragment from a ketubba. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Muʿizzī dinars. The bride's father is named Ḥubaysh. Reused for various jottings on verso.
Informal note from Abū l-Majd and Abū l-Faraj to 'the kind brother' (al-akh al-shafīq) Abū ʿAlī and to Abū Manṣūr. In rudimentary hand and spelling. …
Formal letter in Arabic script. Full of eloquent expressions of patronage. Unusual layout. Needs examination for content. Verso, is covered with writing in Arabic script …
Recto: Bottom seven lines of an official letter in Arabic script. It seems like few details are preserved. Legible phrases: . . . عزها في …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
On one side there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. On the other side there is what looks like an address of a letter in Arabic script, …
List of several dozen donors to the public appeal (pesiqa) for the kharāj (here probably meaning capitation tax). Last line contains a reference to Abū …
Outstanding Pledges for the Poll Tax [of the Poor]—Paid.
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Sugar accounting from the administration of the Ayyubid sultan al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb (al-Dīwān al-Ṣāliḥī al-Saʿīdī ...). The dating is established by comparison with TS AS 183.83 …
Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably to Nahray b. Nissim. Probably in February 9, 1053. Mentions collecting debts from Kamel and b. Hajaj, which …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם [עזך…וצרף אלאסוא]
ענך ברחמ ליב בקין מן אדר [ראש]ון ואלחאל סל[אמה
ענכם מן יום וצלת סוא כתאב ואחד …
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Bill of release. Dating: signed on Wednesday, 29 Kislev 1377 Seleucid = 30 November 1065 CE. In which Natan b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen gives a bill …
Drafts of Karaite conditional divorce documents in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Sivan 5503 AM, which is 1743 CE. Two of the drafts provide detailed record of how …
:Draft one
Bifolio from a medical textbook, notable for being written in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic.
Very damaged letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The text is rubbed and hard to read, but the letter seems to be of a private or family nature. …
Letter from Yosef ha-Levi to Yosef Bagilyer. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century. Concerning tax farming. Mentions two rich and famous figures …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal deed. Location: Damietta. Dated: 4840 AM = 1079/80 CE. Peraḥya b. Yona ha-Kohen and Netanʾel b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi appoint Yaʿaqov b. ʿEli as their …
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Damaged fragment of an Arabic document.
Letter probably from Abū l-Surūr al-Shāmī to Umm Abū l-Faraj, in Fustat, Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, since it mentions …
Book of legal formularies. In Aramaic and Hebrew.
Calendrical text concluding 've-shalom' (like a letter or epistle) and signed by Saʿadya ha-Kohen. Mentions maḥzor 262 (which spanned the years 1200–18 CE). Refers to …
A fragment from the top of a ketubah from the year 1038. The bride is the daughter of Efrayim. Part of the dowry list is …
Too little text remains to identify, possibly accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Treatise in Judaeo-Arabic (Abraham Maimonides per FGP, but probably has no connection with him for the hand is 11th century). In fact an interesting theological …
Quittance (bottom part only) written and signed by Eliyyahu b. Zekharya, also signed by Elʿazar b. Avraham. Reused on verso for accounts in Arabic script …
Love spells. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. One of them involves setting an egg on fire.
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
Fragment of a will in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (r. 1127–1139) in which a man …
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Verso: Memorial list in the hand of ʿEli b. ʿAmram, who was the head of the Palestinian congregation in Fustat 1055–66, but apparently already active …
Fragment from the end of a letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is a Talmudic commentary in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably alchemical, but possibly medical. Magnesia (מגניסיא) is mentioned. This is not a legal document related to business, as it is listed …
Folios from the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity) on parchment. The folios are from the epistle on magic and talismans (Risāla …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. The term ublūja may appear on verso.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Persian. Mentioning Abū al-ʿAlā (בולעלא), Mihrōy/Mihrwayh (מהרוי) and "the daughter of Reuben the draper" (דוכתר ראובן יבזאז). The letter is …
Probably from a letter, mentioning the elder Abū l-[...]. (Information from CUDL)
State-related account, on one of the four pages of the bifolio: muḥāsabat al-mawlā [……..] al-muʿāmal/il bi-l-dīwān al-maʿmūr…..Needs examination.
Accounts, or maybe just arithmetic. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic(?) numerals. There are two leaves of this document, following 5 leaves of a literary text …
Letter from Moses the schoolmaster petitioning ʿAmram ha-Levi for a charitable donation. He had not earned any fees over the holiday period. He asks for …
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Literary text, on vellum. There is an ownership note mentioning Elʿazar b. Efrayim.
Letter addressed to Avraham Kohen, in Istanbul. Dated: Shevat 5409 AM, which is 1649 CE. In Hebrew. "We have not received any letter from you …