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Letter that mentions Avraham Maimonides - it seems that the writer asked him a question regarding legal procedure and now he is asking the recipient …
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Mysterious document. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Naming Salmān b. A[...]. Likely magical.
Hebrew and Aramaic poetry.
Legal document. Dated: Friday 12 Shevat 5407 AM, which is 1647 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. A woman named Khāṣṣ bt. Shelomo Levi Somekh, the widow of …
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Account in Arabic script, possibly fiscal.
Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā to Nahray b. Nissim. Mardūk writes with idiosyncratic spelling, something that doesn't appear to be true in all letters of …
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Court register. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/45r: Deathbed will. Dated: Wednesday, 18 Nisan 1493 Seleucid = 24 March 1182 CE. Testator: Abū l-Faraj b. Moshe …
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State document, in Arabic script. Probably a report or a petition. Probably late Fatimid or Ayyubid. Mentions "sulṭān", and someone appointed by him.
State document, in Arabic script. Fatimid petition or report. Mentions a state official by the name Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ḥadīd, a partnership, and …
Letter in Arabic, possibly from 'your father Futūḥ' (this appears at upper left a few lines down from the top) to an unidentified addressee, it …
Legal deed. The trader (tājir) Abū l-Murajjā S[ā]lim b. Natan he-Ḥaver gives 30 dirhams per month to his daughter Fakhr from his divorcee, the freedwoman …
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Panegyric for a certain Elʿazar. In Hebrew.
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions names such as Abū Muḥammad (owes 21 raṭls), Abū ʿAbdallāh (owed 149.25), Yūsuf al-Munādī (20-some raṭls)
Fragment in large, calligraphic Arabic script. Praise for God and prayers for Muḥammad (ḥamdala and ṣalwala). There are two lines above that need to be …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Minute fragment of a legal document, probably from a marriage contract. Mentions two gold dinars.
Letter from ʿAmram ha-Mumḥe b. Ḥalfon ha-Ḥaver, who signs his name in the margin. In Hebrew. ʿAmram's son Moshe wrote T-S 16.252. Dating: probably 11th …
Responsa of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder - literary collection
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Signed by […] b. Nisan ha-Haver.
Legal document in Arabic script. Deed of sale (refers to "hādhā al-bayʿ" three lines from the bottom). Involves the daughter of Yaḥyā b. Naṣr al-Kātib, …
Recto: Mercantile letter addressed to a certain Ibrāhīm. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: mid-11th century (since verso is related to T-S 8J29.5, which is dated 1047 CE). …
Confirmation by witness of the divorce of Raisa b. Kathir, who wanted to marry Yosef. Written by Yefet ha-Hazan b. David. (information from Goitein's index …
Purchase note: "that which Shemuʾel ha-Levi b. Saʿadya purchased." Written in his own hand. The quire itself contains the commentary of Rabbenu Nissim on Pereq …
Recto: Legal fragment regarding a loan. In Hebrew. On verso there is a literary text in Hebrew.
Recto: Accounts in Ladino and Hebrew and sums of large numbers, giving the names Ibrahim, Yizhaq, and Yaʿaqov, who seem to be contemporary business associates, …
Accounts, mentioning quantities of dinars held by certain people. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen? (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment from the beginning a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in lovely and distinctive handwriting. The writer has been forced to stay in a funduq due to …
Recto and verso are both late family letters in Judaeo-Arabic by the same writer, perhaps to different recipients. The writer goes into great detail about …
Letters in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto is from a son to a father (in Fustat?), and verso seems to be from the father to the son (in …
State document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary.
Letter from an unidentified sender, probably somewhere in the Rīf, to Abū l-Ḥasan Yefet al-Khāzin. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning people such as the tax farmer Abū …
Letter of greetings from Sedaqa he-haver to Yehuda or to Mevorak Nagid (1095-1112). Alternative description: the title "prince of princes" (שר השרים) is obviously meant …
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Amulet for Ḥana bt. Rivqa. In Aramaic and Hebrew. Probably late. Against the evil eye and other bad things.
Letter from Barakāt(?) to Eliyyahu he-Ḥakham ha-Maskil. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper part only). Greetings to Bū l-Ṭāhir Zaqen ha-ʿEda. (Information in part from CUDL)
IB III, 51. Calendar for September 1153-September 1156 for Avraham Ibn Yiju's private synagogue.
Possibly a letter in Hebrew. The portion preserved is mostly blessings. Less likely a piyyuṭ.
Legal document signed by [...] Berakhot ha-Kohen, Abraham ha-Kohen and Mevorakh b. [...]. (Information from CUDL)
Pen trials and practice signatures. Late. One of the signatures on the recto is in the first-person "אני הצעיר יהודה כהן". The calligraphic signature just …
Letter in rhymed Hebrew.
Receipt for Muḥammad b. Khalīl.
Tax receipt for Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Mufaḍḍal in Fustat.
Letter in Judaeo-Persian. נדאשתם דיגר בה דל אז . . . . נמיתואנסתם ברדאשתן . . .
Legal formularies, including for a wedding contract for people with prior divorces. There is also a section about repentance and forgiveness.
Minute fragment of accounts. Dated Muḥarram 1003 AH on the verso. The recto mentions an Ottoman military officer Maḥmūd Çavuş in the heading as well …
Alphabetized list of contributors and their payments toward the communal kosher meat tax (gabela) in the month of Elul (Raḥamīm). The dating is likely 19th-century …
Small receipt or order. In lieu of a name: wusūluhū yudfaʿ. At upper right: bi-rasmihim(?). Sum: 58 (dirhams). Written on the 6th of Dhū l-Ḥijja …
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Minute fragment in Hebrew. The recto and verso are in the same scribal hand, possibly literary.
Bill submitted to Avraham Maimonides: the cantor 'al-Makīn' is owed 9 dirhams for 6 weeks, and Abū l-Ṭāhir is owed 1.5 dirhams for 3 weeks. …