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Legal document dated Monday 14th Iyyar (no year but probably late 12th or early 13th century), about the gift of half a house which Khibāʾ …
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Unidentified text with Arabic and interspersed Judaeo-Arabic. Maybe a glossary of some kind. In one place it says עצם (bone) in Judaeo-Arabic followed by the …
Legal query concerning a newlywed girl who is scared of her husband who has a convulsion every time they attempt sexual intercourse. She is begging …
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Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, in a rudimentary hand. Mentions a distressing matter ("and we are perishing..."). Asks for a thawb (garment).
Document mainly in Arabic, mentioning dirhams and fractions. Probably accounts.
Deed of testimony. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1471 Seleucid = 23 May 1160 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe …
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A Judaeo-Arabic magical spell of some kind, probably malevolent, for "binding" somebody. The female victim's name is meant to be filled in in lines 5/6. …
Bill of sale for an enslaved woman (jāriya, l. 4). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No details preserved. (Information …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Part of a ketubba, referring to various sums in dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a letter to Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), likely from one of the Geonim of Palestine, possibly sent in the name of …
Deed of release (שטר אביזאר). The handwriting may be known. Involves [...] b. Shelomo known as Abū Saʿd and Sahl b. Ḥasan b. Salāma.
Probably legal document. Tiny fragment. Mentions Yaḥyā ha-[...] and perhaps [ha]-Sar ha-A[dir]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Unidentified text in Hebrew. At one point after a small space reads ועכשיו אחינו ישראל suggesting it could be a communal letter or sermon. Dating: …
Receipt of some sort. For Sahl b. Saʿd? Needs examination.
Recto (secondary use): Court record written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (1125–50). Wherein it is stipulated that a husband who travels to the …
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Pre nuptial agreement between Nissim Halevi b. Eliyyahu b. Nissim and Rachel d. Mordechai b. Shalom, dated Sunday 18th Adar, 5579 Era of creation (1819).
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Medical treatise in Arabic script.
Recto: opening of a Hebrew letter, with much of the text illegible. The poetic opening is neatly arranged in two columns, with extended letters, and …
Literary. Psalms and Job.
Deed of compensation (שטר פיצוי) in the scribal hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Second half of the 11th century. In …
Recto: deed of transfer, in which Abū l-Ẓāhir and Abū ʿAmr give a sixth of a house to Hillel ha-Baḥur. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4992 AM …
Letter fragment from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov to Sar Shalom b. Hiyya. Damaged. Contains mostly blessings.
Letter from a man to his son-in-law. In Ladino. Dating: Perhaps on the earlier side, 16th or 17th century (based on hand and vocabulary). The …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to a person in Alexandria. Mentions merchandise and textiles, along with books and various texts that someone is copying for …
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Recto: Document in Arabic script recording the settling of a business account (wafāʾ), perhaps what al-Thiqa owed to Barakāt b. Salāma. Dated: 12 Muḥaram '47 …
State document, Mamlūk-era, in Arabic script. An ʿalāma in an outsized script at the top. Needs examination.
Recto: Karaite Arabic work with Hebrew quotations in transcription. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic Bible commentary. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
Recto: An Arabic note with instructions. "Send to Alexandria with the ghulām of Ibn al-Falā[tī?] 5 1/2 manns of aloe wood (ʿūd), to be delivered …
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Cairo. Dated: Tevet 1744 Seleucid = November/December 1432 CE. Husband: Shemuel b. [...] b. Shemuel. Wife: Sarah bt. [...]. The …
Nearly complete letter from Muḥammad al-Jamāʿī(?) to Muḥammad ʿĀbidīn. Late. Needs examination.
Literary text in Arabic script with a couple words in Arabo-Hebrew. Maybe a commentary.
Unidentified document(s), maybe legal or official or simply accounts. Dated: Thursday, 13 Shaʿbān 632 AH = 3 May 1235 CE. Several names are mentioned, but …
Recto - Letter, in Judaeo Arabic. Needs examination. AA Verso - Private accounts or receipt in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Recto: Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: middle third of Av 1481 Seleucid (= July/August 1170 CE), with the signing delayed until the middle third of …
Letter in Hebrew mentioning Avraham b. ʿAllūn, 20 gold coins, a deposit and a lawsuit. Dating: Might be 11th century. Elevated style, partially rhymed, with …
The beginnings of two lines of an official letter in Arabic script. On verso reused for Hebrew seliḥot.
State document, in Arabic script. Most probably an internal correspondence. Mentions a Qāḍī Ḥammād b, ʿAlī and also Amīr al-Muʾminīn in l4. Reused for Hebrew …
Bill of divorce, badly damaged. Dating, 16th-century or later based on the paleography. A small remnant of the date is visible in line two "[ה]עשרים …
Note in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Mentions paying the prices of different medicinal syrups (shurba... murammal...). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Business accounts in Hebrew, might be late.
Letter from Natan b. Nahray b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim.
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלרייס אלגליל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה וסעאדתה
ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה יום ראש חדש ניסאן ואקבאל מועד אלמימון אעאדה
אללה על…
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Beginning of a deed from Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa ha-Levi to the dyer Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū Saʿd. Dated: Wednesdsay, 1 Adar 1539 Seleucid = 9 …
Karaite betrothal deed. Location: Cairo. Dated 19 Elul 5428 AM (1668 CE). Bride: Qamr bt. Ṣemaḥ b. Efrayīm. Groom: Shelomo b. Yahūda b. Shelomo Rofe. …
Letter signed by Yosef b. Avraham, Aharon b. Yo[..], [Yiẓḥa]q b. Aharon, and a fourth man. The content is not entirely clear. Mentions an Abū …
Formulas of letters to VIPs.