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Bottom of a legal document signed by Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq, Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), Munajjā b. Shelomo and Yeshuʿa b. Yaʾir. An addendum …
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Damaged fragment from a Hebrew letter mentioning "our Rabbi son of our Master" (רבינו בן אדוננו). Also refers to separation (פרידותו) and delaying (לרבינו להתעכב) …
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Shipment record of goods that were shipped in the ship “Ben Daysur”. Around 1045. Different merchants recorded their shipments, probably from Mahdiyya to Alexandria. Mentions …
שרח אלרזמה אלדי פי בן דיסור
ברכ]ת .:. היא תעשיר
] מבלג בקדרת [ ] אלכאתמין
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Testimony concerning the death of a man and his son. Dated: 5 Shawwāl 427/1 August 1036. The witnesses attest that Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn Ibn al-Dabbāb …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The witnesses named in this document, all of them knowing Ṣadaqa ibn ʿAlūn ibn al-Da…
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. "sharḥ mā taḥaṣṣala min thamn al-[...]." This seems to be the third reuse of the fragment: first it …
Addendum to a letter. Addressed to a woman. The sender reports that after finishing the letter, al-Bazzāz al-Ḥajj arrived and insisted that the sender's son …
Letter from Shemuel b. Eli Gaʾon in Baghdad to an unknown person. In the hand of his disciple Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder of Irbīl. …
Much damaged, rubbed and faded ketubah written by Yosef b. Shemuʾel Halevi (Date: ca. 1180-1210) . AA
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Avraham ha-Ḥazzan b. Yaʿaqov, in Tūnis, to his brother Peraḥya b. Yaʿaqov, in Palermo (Siqilliyya). The letter deals with a matter of ḥaliṣa …
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Receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam. Dated 508? Needs further examination. See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related …
Fatimid state document. Needs examination. Reused for a memorial list (see PGPID 19130).
Verso: Bottom of a state document in Arabic script. 3 lines preserved, wide space between the lines. Gives the date of writing (12 Shaʿbān, no …
Legal record (#21) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 8v-9r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 7 Tevet [5321] …
Printed Haggada in Ladino and Hebrew. One side contains the Hallel with Ladino translation on the side. The other side contains remnants of lovely illuminations …
Accounts with Hebrew numerals. Mentions names such as Muḥammad and Ḥasan. (Information from CUDL)
Literary, Hebrew.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew referring to someone who cursed (וגידף בנפשו). Reused on recto for literary text.
List in Arabic script. Unclear significance.
Guarantee for a debt. Yūsuf b. Saʿīd agrees to cede 3/4 of a house and half of a ruin situated opposite it, to the orphan …
Biography (sīra) of the Prophet Muḥammad in beautiful Arabic script. Bifolium.
Letter of appeal for charity from [...]n b. Eliyya ha-Kohen to Yehuda b. Menashshe. Large.
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Recto: legal document, mentioning inheritance. Verso: legal document in a different hand. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from the judge Menashshe to the Cairene judge Avraham b. Natan regarding a personal and communal affair in the small town of Sumbutya (Sunbāṭ), …
Fragment of a literary narrative in Arabic script. Mentions: a jāriya (meaning either girl or female slave) who nursed or was nursed; someone who "brought …
Probably accounts or a fiscal document. Needs examination.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Qaraite. Groom: Ṣedaqa. Location: Fustat(?). Dating: 1020–30s(?). Witnesses: Avraham b. Khalaf ha-Kohen; Netanʾel b. Revaḥ/Rawḥ ha-Levi; Barakāt b. Mubārak; Hiba b. Yosef; …
Prayers and praises for God in Judaeo-Arabic.
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 1v: …
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List of expenses on food and crockery made on a journey. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
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א> א וט עת
ווזוז ז ה נוק א …
Beginning of a petition to the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim.
Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) to a certain Avraham ha-Sar (likely the same addressee as in T-S 8J40.2) regarding …
Letter from a person in Jerusalem – 28 March 1920CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 183) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad …
Mostly blank, but part of one line in Arabic script remains. The word saʿīd may appear. late.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, at least three entries relate to pepper. 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. There is a date 8 Ramaḍān on the …
Lower part of a letter, possibly a postscript to a preceding letter (there is a wide space before l. 1). Probably sent from Damīra to …
Legal query regarding whether a man who has an emission of semen is permitted to come near his wife and in the morning recite the …
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Letter fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). He says that the Nagid had issued a letter/document …
Accounts and lists in a communal register, recorded on a recycled mercantile letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late 18th or early 19th century based on the …
Fatimid decree. The decree is from the period of al-Hafiz (1131–49) and mentions the congregational mosques of al-Ḥākim (in Cairo) and al-Ḥāfiẓ (it is not …
في المسجدين الجامعين الحافظي والحاكمي
فيضورك من تاخر جائهم فقد خرج
الامر الى الديوان بذكر ما عنده في ذلك
فاعلم هذا امر أمير المومنين ورسمه
In the two congregational mosques, the mosque of al-Ḥāfiẓ and the mosque of al-Ḥākim.
You will suffer if their arrival is delayed. For the order
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Expenses like couriers (raqqāṣīn) and trash disposal; mentions Mūsā al-ṢB[...]
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Mentions [...] b. Bilʿam (a very rare name); Asad; ʿAbd al-Karīm; al-Muʿallim; ʿAbdūn; Yosef; Hibatallāh. Dating: probably Mamluk …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may known (there is a distinctive loopy אל). Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Names include Ibn al-Rūmī (l. 7) …
Informal note from the cantor Abū Sahl Levi to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (identification based on handwriting and typical content). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic comprising the lower right corner of recto. The handwriting is elegant and distinctive. Dating: likely 12th century. Various …