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Verso: note possibly in the hand of Ḥananʾel b. Shemuʾel. Order of payment, instructing al-Raṣuy to give 5 nuqra dirhams and 15 wariq dirhams to …
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Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic involving Mūsā b. Yeshuʿa. Very damaged.
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Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. About a dozen signatures are preserved. Reused for medico-magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic, on the uses and preparation …
Legal declaration. Dating: refers to the year 4826 AM, which is 1065/66 CE. (The document itself may be later.) Concerning Nahray b. Nissim's occupancy of …
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State document, in Arabic script. The decree of al-ʿAbbās, the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, concerning the monks of Mt. Sinai and ordering that no unusual impositions …
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Letter from Yiṣḥaq ben Naʿim to his brother Meir ben Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 5 Shevaṭ 5565 AM, which is 1805 CE. Yiṣḥaq is anxious …
Ottoman-era list, probably in Ottoman siyaket.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with a few words preserved from the Arabic-script address on verso. Mentions Menaḥem, someone whom the sender thinks is stingy (wa-qad raʾaytuh …
Medical text, in Arabic script.
Petition addressed to a Jewish dignitary. Dating unknown. The document is mainly in Arabic script but interspersed with biblical quotations and phrases in Hebrew. The …
Letter from a woman complaining of abuse by her co-wife (or co-wives?). Dating: ca. 16th century.
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Accounts of Yaḥyā Ḥajabī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Yemen. Currencies used are gurush and zolota (a silver coin minted by the Ottomans to replace the Polish-Lithuanian …
Recto: 1) Draft of the opening of a letter to a dignitary (al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-jamālī) 2) Accounts (table of names with numbers). Verso: Arabic …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1 Tammuz 5499 AM, which is 1739 CE. This shelfmark was previously listed with the date 1 Tammuz 5439, but the …
List of Italianate names and corresponding monetary values, perhaps communal contributions. The paleography, ink, and pre-lined paper all point to the nineteenth century as a …
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ II 717 AH = 4 July 1317 CE. Buyer: Isḥāq b. Manṣūr b. Abū Sahl the …
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Petition to al-Mustanṣir in Arabic, preliminary draft (possibly also in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya), complaining about the closure of the Palestinian synagogue in …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. On verso refers to Tuesday; a ship (the word markab is written with an elongated bet); and perhaps ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ b. …
Official correspondence. The beginnings of 9 lines are preserved. There are two fragments here which were glued together out of order. The top fragment mentions …
Fragment of official correspondence concerning the administration of Upper Egypt. The first four lines are mostly preserved. "It is necessary to write a noble letter …
Letter in Arabic script. Quite faded. The address (on verso) includes the word al-Iskandarānī. Needs examination.
Ketubba dated 13 December 1799 CE (15 Kislev 5560 AM) from Cairo, for Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham Muḥibb and Palomba bt. Shalom ha-Levi. The me'ukhar is …
Minute fragment. On Recto an opening of a marriage document which might be connected to the verso. On verso an opening of a betrothal deed. …
Document with a few lines of Arabic script on each side. Probably a fiscal account. Mentions 200 dinars on verso, and possibly a dīwān. Needs …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right lower piece). Mentions paying someone 10 dinars; [Abū] l-Ḥasan and Qalyūb; the sender being weary of something (קד קלת נהצתי …
Bifolio of mercantile accounts. Dating: probably 11th century. The hand may be known (Nahray b. Nissim?). Mentions names such as Abū Isḥāq (Ibrāhīm) b. Farrāḥ; …
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Bill of divorce. The date, location, and names of the husband and wife are not preserved. Written and signed by the cantor Hillel b. ʿEli …
Rent receipt(s) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One column is headed "kharāj" (therefore fiscal in nature?). The accounts with numerals at 180 degrees may …
Notebook of Hebrew alphabetical practice, ten folios. Early modern.
Accounts in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script, together with Greek/Coptic numerals. In the Judaeo-Arabic section at the top of recto, mentions items such as soap, …
Literary text, probably a prayer, in Arabic script. "الانعام توسل به" - "the beasts seek intercession through him".
Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Recto is in two columns and verso is in one column. Recto is particularly messy. Mentions …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The sender conveys distress about the addressee's distance from his children and over …
Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic attributed to Sayyidnā Dā'ūd al-Faqīh, possibly alchemical. Needs examination.
Business letter, fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The writer crossed out the first three lines (following the Arabic-script basmala) and began …
No. 1: Letter of condolence from a Gaon on the death of the addressee's son. (Bamerkazim, pp. 69-72); No. 2: Letter from Hayya Gaon to …
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Clockwise from upper left: (d) Small fragment in Arabic script, perhaps from a petition or draft: ...al-sāmī bi-faḍlihā...
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, quite damaged. Hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Refers to a rescript from the government (tawqīʿ al-sulṭān, verso l. 3).
Verso (original use): account (table form) in a fiscal hand, transverse to Arabic text. The first entry refers to a white Dimyāṭī garment that is …
Announcement from the Jewish association of charity and brotherhood to participating members in the funds of al-Kūrātšīyūt[?] paid in their contributions from the previous year …
Legal fragment in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Damaged. Mentions Tamīm ha-Kohen and the sale of pepper. (See description for …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. In the hand of the prolific scribe previously misidentified as ʿArūs.
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One page is a summary of accounts with Abū Riḍā. Mentions sugar and safffron among other commodities.
Legal document, deed of acknowledgment, concerning an inheritance dispute between Jamīla bt. Lāḥiq the veterinarian and her brother. Contains three testimonies at the bottom. The …
Prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dated documents from 1100-1138). It is possible that the agreement reflects special circumstances: the marriage …
Legal formulary. Bifolium. One of the entries is headed, "The copy of the purchase of Abū l-A[frāḥ] of all of the Dār al-Dhahabī. The copy …
Business account in Arabic script, lengthy, ca. 1055, with a list of bankers and money changers and their locations. Also contains a list of pharmaceutical …