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Literary text in Arabic script. There are grids of red ink filled with eastern Arabic numerals.
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Letter from Barhūn b. Yisḥaq al-Tāhartī to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: 1045–96 CE. The sons of the late Nagid, who are owed favors, have asked …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Medicine: The letter of Ibn Butlan to Ibn Ridwan. Before the letter there is another medical tratise.
Verso (original use): fragment of a letter addressed to Moshe ha-Levi, head of Yeshivat Geʾon Yaʿaqov. He was appointed as Gaʾon already around 1140, when …
IB III, 10. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in Dahbattan on the Malabar coast. Goitein dated the letter to …
In Your name, O Merciful.
The letter of your excellency the illustrious Sheikh, has arrived—[may God prolong your life/]
and make perman…
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Biblical and liturgical text in Hebrew.
Prices and accounts, in dinars and quarter dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Two betrothal contracts. First is of Wazira bt. ___ b. Yishaq. The groom's name is effaced, but his marriage payment is 5+30. The second is …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, a silk worker (qazzāz) and craftsman (ṣāniʿ). Dated: 537 AH = 1142/43 CE. Same …
Lists of names in Hebrew and in Arabic script, among them Efraim b. Shemarya. The others include Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Yosef; Shemuʾel b. Yosef; YKBR(?) …
Recto: Much effaced list of donors to charity. With one exception all called by their first names. Nineteen pledges of at least twenty-two persons. (Information …
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Late list of foodstuffs and amounts in Judaeo-Arabic, it seems with some Hebrew too. Items named include oil, honey, taḥina (? spelled with a tav), …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in several locations according to the Islamic calendar, probably in the year 968 AH (חסץ) but this alphanumerical designation is backwards …
Court record concerning financial matters between Munajjā and Abū l-Surūr. Dated 49[..] of the Era of Creation and [..]25 Era of documents, so it is …
Minute fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed. On parchment. Only a few words and partial signatures preserved: Yaʿaqov, Nusayr, Yefet. Also possibly …
Bifolio of accounts. Mentions many names, including Sitt al-Bayt and 'the house of al-Fāris.'
Letter or informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. There are the remnants of 6 lines. Mentions Abū Isḥāq al-Kohen, and offers to carry out tasks on behalf …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Dealing with business matters. Neither writer nor addressee appear to be named; the latter is addressed as 'my brother.'
Letter in Arabic script. There are wishes for somebody's health (ارجو ان قد وهب عافيته). Mentions the arrival of Abū l-Faraj. Mentions that 'I have …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions some works at a house in Fusṭāṭ, "tajdīd fī al-makān allatī lahu bi-Miṣr". Also mentions a stable, and probably …
Account for Shevat and Adar 1495 sel. ca. 1184. This is a single leaf from the notebook of Shemuel b. Saadya, written in two columns. …
The accounting of the collection of al-Shaykh Abūʾl-Bayān for the two months, Shevat and Adar,
corresponding to Shawwāl and Dhūʾl-qaʿd…
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Legal query in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi regarding a man who married a widow, then found in her a "hidden defect" from …
Drafts or copies of phrases from official correspondence. Medieval-era. The two main sections both seem incomplete and unrelated to each other. The first has to …
Legal draft. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. No signatures. Dating: The document itself does not appear to be dated but mentions another document from the year 5514 …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic. Needs examination.
Verso: Legal memorandum submitted by Avraham b. Shemaʿya to Avraham (b. Natan) ("Foundation of the Yeshiva"). He reports that Yosef and his wife appeared before …
Small fragment from a ketubah? - needs examination. No image
Letter from Yeshu'a b. Isma'il to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1065 per Gil, and ca. 1045-1096 per Udovitch.
אתם אלסלם ולו חלפת לה באגל ימין אן שק עלי פרקתהם פי מתל הדא אלשהר אכתר []
ור אברהם ואולאדה וכל מן סאל עני ואגתמם לי [אתם] אלסלם וגמיע מן תש…
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Ownership note on a folio that came from a volume containing texts by Yehuda Ḥayyūj; Ibn Gikatilla (d. after 1305); and Kitāb al-Tajnīs by Yehuda …
Scattered phrases having to do with marriage documents. Legible names include "Sarah bt. Avraham to the son of R. Yiṣḥaq," and "the daughter of David. …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter from David (b. Yaʿāqov) al-Shammās to Moshe b. Yehuda of Alexandria. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Also signed …
Two pages from an Arabic work on prognostications, including whether the days of a month or lucky or unlucky.
Order of payment, for Muḥammad al-Raīsī(?), which will be delivered (al-wāṣil) from the kitchen (maṭbakh?), by (ʿalā yadd)....... Needs examination.
Letter in Hebrew. Late. Needs examination.
Maqāma in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi. The same maqāma (in a different hand) appears in T-S K16.28.
Tiny fragment in Hebrew characters. Might say רבינו היי ורבינו שרירא followed by מסלה אל . . . .
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, late. Mentioning a variety of names, such as: Esther Medina, ʿAbd al-Rāhīb Mūsa, ʿAbdallah Mūsa, Yaʿaqov Barqī, among others. Requires further examination. …
Recto: Legal document. Fragment of a shīmmūsh, or court ledger. Mentions Sar Shalom; possibly [...] b. Sālim. In the hand of Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya? Verso: …
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Letter from a student to his teacher. In Hebrew. Sefaradi hand. Dating: Probably 15th–17th century. Looks like it came from a book binding. The sender …
Arabic, literary. Pinholes at the margin ~3–5mm apart.
Legal query. In Arabic script. Addressed to "al-sāda al-fuqahāʾ al-ajillāʾ." Regarding a woman who sold a property; what happened next is not entirely clear. Mentions …
Letter from Zakkay b. Moshe to the ḍāmin (tax-farmer) Abū l-Bishr Mevasser ha-Kohen b. Salmān. The writer, a scribe in al-Maḥalla, describes his work of …
Accounts in Arabic script. Lists various dates and items such as rose water and almond oil.
Accounts in Ladino.