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Recto: letter in Arabic script. May refer to black silk (al-ḥarīr al-aswad). Reused on verso for probably a liturgical text with Judaeo-Arabic instruction יקול. (Information …
No Scholarship Records
Small fragment of trousseau list of the bride Zayn bt. Yiṣḥaq. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 132, and from Goitein's index cards)
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: 1126–29 CE, based on the mention of the state official Abū Najāḥ ibn Qannāʾ (who …
Probably a fiscal document. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic, reused for Judaeo-Arabic calendrical reckoning.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Karaite bill of sale in Judaeo-Arabic dated Thursday 29th Shevat 5548 (1787 CE). Location: Cairo, Darb Abū Qamr. The document was likely a draft given …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in large blocky letters. Mentions a certain Tamīm and a Torah scroll. The portion labeled 'recto' is …
Petition to an Ayyubid sultan from a Jewish physician. "The slave Makārim b. Isḥāq, the doctor. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. …
المملوك
مكارم بن اسحق المتطبب
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
يقبل الارض فينهى انه ممن نشا طبيبا ماهرا ف…
Makārim ibn Isḥāq, the doctor.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
(The slave) kisses the ground and reports that he …
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Letter from Shemarya b. Aharon ha-Kohen the descendant of Eliyyahu ha-Kohen to Avraham b. Natan Av Bet Din (and his brothers Aḥiyya and Berekhya?). In …
Two fragments from the beginning of a letter in Arabic script. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic accounts on the back (recto). Join: Alan Elbaum.
Verso: Extremely faded state document, wide line spacing, ~7 lines preserved. Recto is piyyuṭ.
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. …
Letter from Aharon ha-Kohen b. Namir to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Moshe. The writer informs the addressee that the item he expects is now on its …
Talmudic text.
Fragment of a legal formulary.
Letter from Avraham Maimonides to Ḥayyim b. Ḥananel. An autograph. A previous description called this "Three drafts of a letter sent by Shelomo to Hayyim." …
Small fragment from a formulary for a bill of release, in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). AA
Hebrew qinot mentioning the Spanish exile.
Minute legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Cursive and difficult to read. Several of the entries are circled. Verso is headed "Thursday, …
Recto: Fragment from the lower left corner of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions the date Dhū l-Ḥijja 575 H. Involves Hibatallāh al-Yahūdī. Verso: …
Fragment from a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.
List including quantities of dinars, introduced by ‘In Your name’ (בשמך). (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 13th century. Addressed to Meir "the great Prince." Trying to arrange a meeting in Fustat. On verso the name Abū …
Letter in Hebrew from Yosef, a scholar with minimal assets and now in a perilous situation because of debts, dependents, and sureties on his behalf. …
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Letter on vellum to Ali Abi Sulayman (? this description and transcription belong to a different fragment).
Legal document in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Thursday, 17 Nisan 1483 Seleucid (1172 CE). Inventory of the estate of the physician Abū …
Literary work in Judaeo-Persian. Perhaps related to the stories of Genesis?
Verso: Note in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to R. Yeshuʿa ("ha-talmid ha-mevin") instructing him to hand over a book (and possibly other items) belonging to the sender …
Financial settlement between Shela b. Yoel Ibn al-Sofer and his divorced wife and the mother of his child, Ḥusn bt. Avraham ha-Kohen. Dating: Probably second …
Palimpsest. Greek text beneath Hebrew literary text. Needs examination for identification.
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand may be known (Nahray b. Nissim?). Verso is rich in details of commodities and …
State document, chancery hand with elegant line spacing, in Arabic script. Mentions "mamlūkuhu" and "khidmatihi". Needs examination.
Deed of sale of a female slave, signed by Avraham b. Shemaya and Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Menashshe. Dated Av 1430 Seleucid (August 1119 CE).
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. The sender complains about the terrible distress of the congregation "from the beatings and …
Fragment of a letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, probably from Alexandria, to Yeshua b. Isma’il, Fustat. Around 1050. Some mentions of trading oil and crocus. …
] כלון מן טבת ערפך אללה ברכתה [
וצל כתאב מול]אי ידכר חאל אלצרר וקד כאן את[
] קבלך ואגתה[ד ] פי חמל אל[
] לי אכי אבי אלסרור אכדהא לם יפע…
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Literary treatise mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Catalogued as the Book of Commmandments by Yefet Ibn Ṣaghīr.
Unidentified calculations in Judaeo-Arabic. "The astrologers (al-munajjimīn) and others believe..."
Small notes regarding payments. Verso concerns a sum of 41 (dirhams?) owed by the scribe to his paternal uncle for a wasaṭ (belt). It seems …
Poetry composed in honor of the head of the yeshiva of Mata Meḥasaya (vocalized thus), i.e., Sura. In a scribal hand, presumably part of a …
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List, in Judaeo-Persian, mentioning Yiṣḥaq parnas, a social welfare official. Has Coptic numerals, e.g. no. 5, and perhaps the Hebrew tq (= 500?). Handwriting, too, …
Translation (tafsīr) of Ḥad Gadya into Judaeo-Persian (Yak Bozghāle).
Recto: Draft of a power of attorney written by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Names: ʿImrān; Ḥalfon (the agent - אפטרופא); and [...] b. …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th or 19th century. The sender's surname is Karo but their first name is unclear, perhaps Aṣl__? (Aṣlān?, from Turkish).
Unidentified.
Letter (ending only) addressed to David Ben-Naʿim and Moshe Ben-Naʿim in Alexandria ( נא אמון) presumably from their father, Meʾīr, who only signs with his …
Legal document. Dated: 1529 Seleucid, which is 1217/18 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. In which Abū al-Barakāt/Berakhot al-Sukkarī releases his maternal aunt Sitt …