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Legal document. Not signed. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning Shelomo b. Shabīb ha-Kohen and Yosef b. Khalfa; the latter is trustworthy (to handle the mercantile …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning various foodstuffs and natron.
Recto: The title page with illuminated capitals of Sefer Eliyyah Mizraḥi ʿal ha-Torah, printed by Itzik ben Leib Buchbinder in Fürth, 1763. There is an …
IB V, 39b (previously V, 34f). An Abū Zikrī Kohen cheque. Khalīl is to give the bearer one raṭl of linseed oil.
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Draft of the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is typical to the 13th century, and is probably that of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu …
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IB VII, 22. Inventory of what was found in the house of a certain Yiṣḥaq. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on textile (cotton?). Scribed by Avraham …
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script, possibly official. Mentions names including Ḥasan b. Ḥusayn and Salār(?) b. al-Ṭunṭāsh (or al-Ṭanṭāsh) (this name appears on …
Letter from ʿEli b. ʿAmram, in Fustat, to Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Nagid Ibn Naghrila, in Spain. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: c.1055 CE, as this …
Accounting in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Quite damaged. Verso and recto are written at 90 degrees. Verso mentions firewood and alum and wool …
Legal record (#47-49). Liquidation of a dowry. The family is Qaraite. The father is selling off items from the dowry of his wife, Sitt al-Dār …
Legal document dealing with the sale of a ruined house or building. Dated December 1719 CE (9 Tevet 5480 AM). Location: possibly Jerusalem, based on …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century.The upper left corner is preserved, consisting mainly of formulaic content.
Poetry in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter. Small fragment only. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli?
Verso (original use): Letter in Arabic script conveying a request not to hold back a man who is 'one of the peasants of my brother' …
IB VI, 22a. Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to an unknown recipient (the address is cut off). Deals with the Indian Ocean trade. Includes commercial …
Recto (original use): Business accounts in Arabic script. Verso (secondary use): order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, instructing Abū l-Khayr Khiyār to pay the …
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, probably a legal document. Mentions Abū l-Najm Ṣāliḥ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Records of three betrothal agreements. The first is a receipt dated Monday, first day of Pesaḥ, mentioning the groom Yaaqov Ḥanan b. Yosef Ḥanan and …
Verso: Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a distinctive large hand with loops on the ends of the lameds. The witnesses attest "that we know …
Verso (original use): Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Very faded. Spanish/Maghribī hand. mentions Fez.
Literary text, probably an Arabic grammar text. Mentions فاعل، مفعول، فعل with a few examples from the Quran in the explanation of these phenomena like …
Legal record (#112) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 36v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 16 Iyyar 5327 …
Legal record (#9) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 6-9) Folio 3r
Arabic poetry. Reused for a literary text in Hebrew.
Upper part of a twin list in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, seemingly a draft, one list with amounts, and one mostly without amounts. …
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Small fragment in Hebrew script. Possibly literary.
Legal testimony, or perhaps a letter. Written in Judaeo-Arabic on a bifolium. The document contains a blow-by-blow account of what various messengers said about the …
Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 20 Sivan 5568 AM, which is 15 June 1808 CE. …
Fragment of a letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). Dealing with goods such as red antimony (rāsakht), perfumed cherry bark …
Lists in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso. Medieval-era. One of the entries on the recto lists the weight of a specific good. The list on …
Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.19 + ENA 641.21 + ENA 641.23. …
Fragment of an Arabic document concerning a period of time and sums of money; genre uncertain: اول هذا الحساب وتاريخه من يوم الخميس . . …
Verso: Letter from Shabbetay b. Avraham, in Minyat Zifta, to the judge Zakkay b. Moshe, perhaps in al-Maḥalla. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Zakkay was in al-Maḥalla in …
Legal document mentioning a certain Nadīv and Menashshe b. ʿOvadya. Signed by [Eliyyahu] b. ʿEli ha-Meʿulle, whose name is surrounded by little characters spelling יגדל …
Bottom part of a legal query written by Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108 CE). Concerning a court record written by a scribe, agreement between two …
Verso: opening lines of an Hebrew letter addressed to a dignitary written in a different hand from recto. There is also one line of Arabic …
Release document in which three partners release their fourth partner, Abū l-Waḥsh b. Saʿadya, (Information from Goitein's index cards) It appears to be Ḥalfon's hand. …
Legal document written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Very faded, but complete. Dated: Monday, 8 Adar I 1448 Seleucid = 1 February 1137 …
Recto: Letter in a late hand, 16th-century at the earliest. Verso: Address to "the excellent judge" Meʾir b. Murjī (מרגי) in Dimyāṭ/Damietta (קפוטקיא). (Information from …
Fragment of a geṭ. Husband: Name not preserved. Wife: Fakhr bt. Faḍāʾil the Maghrebī. Date not preserved. Witnessed by Menashshe b. Yosef and Mevorakh b. …
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Verso (original use): Seems to be a legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. May involve Pinḥas: ועוד אמר פנחס דנן דעו רבותי וחיי . . …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Verso (secondary use): Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the name Hammām b. Manṣūr at the top.
Bifolium. One folio is a Judaeo-Arabic translation of Exodus 21:1-17, 27:20-28. The other folio is magical instructions in Arabic script. The first few lines of …
Five notes on tiny pieces of vellum, ordering the addressee to hand over small sums or certain quantities of oil, soap, wood, vegetables, lemon, or …
A manuscript of Later Prophets (partial). Dedicated by Ḥusn bnt. Ya'aqov b. Yosef [b. Kushnām "to the qaraite community of Jerusalem... to be kept in …