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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. This portion preserves the formulaic ending only.
No Scholarship Records
Informal note. In Hebrew. "Yiṣḥaq ha-Rav sent to your holy presence." There is nothing more.
Official document in Arabic script. Apparently dealing with witnesses and legal procedure. Fragments of two lines are preserved: ... fa-asqaṭahu min al-shahāda... min shuhūd al-bilād …
Fragmentary letter mentioning several names and a parnas.
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Contract of sale between Bahja bnt. Manṣūr and her brothers Faḍl and ... dated 408. (AP)
Letter from Khalīfa Ḥāmī to Yaʿaqov. In Hebrew with some Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 16th century. The sender heard the addressee was in prison and sent …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Requires identification.
Letter in Hebrew (peppered with Arabic, Turkish, and Italian), addressed to two unnamed merchants (one the uncle of the writer), written almost certainly in Alexandria …
Very faded and damaged Hebrew letter addressed to a community. Most of the text preserved contains poetic Hebrew verses. On verso only part of the …
IB II, 16. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ben Yiju. Dating: 1133–40 CE. This is the scribe's copy of Maḍmūn's original …
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Recto: Unidentified text in Hebrew script. Verso: Faded and damaged documentary fragment mentioning al-Ramla and "to Egypt" and "Adonenu." Dating: likely 11th century. Needs further …
Recto: Page from a medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic, the chapter on headache. In the hand of the scribe Shelomo b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (active …
Family and/or business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century based on the abbreviations used (e.g., al-wālid al-makh[dūm]). Refers to a weight …
Order of payment issued by “your friend Abū l-Faraj" to the elder Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, instructing him to hand over 122 dirhams to the unnamed bearer. …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (left side only). Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. 1128–38 CE, based on the …
Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Refers to the qāḍī Zayn al-Dīn; a plan to go out on Tuesday the 3rd of Ṣafar; that the …
Long-form work, fragment of a page mentioning (on verso) enslaved people (jawārī). MR
Opening of a ketubba for Malka bat Yeshuʿa (bride) in a very calligraphic script. Reference to 20 dinars. There are many pen trials in the …
Shipping certificate of Yosef b. Khalfa. Summer 1062. Details about textile products to send with boxes of crocus. The same goods are mentioned in Bodl. …
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Letter of request for money addressed to the Qaraite community on occasion of a circumcision. (Information from Goitein's index cards). Goitein may have identified it …
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Marriage document (ṣadāq) between Mulūk b. Surūr b. ... and Fāṭima bnt. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Marqūra in the Fayyūm, dated Rajab 444 AH. (AP)
Calendar in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi.
Amulets or magical recipes in Arabic.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the upper left corner of the recto: Shaʿbān 958 AH (נח׳׳ץ), which is 1551 CE. At least three entries mention …
Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
Megillat Miẓrayim, here called "Megillat ha-Saṭan ha-Yaduaʿ." Retelling the events of the rebellion of Ahmad Basha against Suleiman I of Turkey in 1524, and its …
Account including names, numerals and various jottings
Letter from ʿImrān to Abū l-Ḥasan. After a deferential opening there is a sharp warning to send the silver quickly with ʿUthmān and not to …
Secondary use: Note to Abū l-Faḍl b. Elʿazar. In Judaeo-Arabic. "You are neither a scholar nor a relative nor a friend of mine because of …
Recto: (a) List of names in Judaeo-Arabic: Isḥāq b. Khulayf; Khalfa b. Ismāʿīl; Hiba b. Mūsā; ʿImrān b. Mufarrij; Lu'lu'a bt. Ḥalfon. (b) Draft of …
Large legal document, a quittance. It is given by Muna bt. Hiba, the widow of Moshe ha-Kohen, (line 8) to Abū l-Khayr ha-ger (the proselyte) …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a Sefaradi hand, laid out almost like a literary text. Not very much is preserved. On the other side there is …
Two lines of accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals: "I collected from Maḥāsin 3 nuqra dirhams less a kharrūba." The main text is a calendar …
Letter fragment in Hebrew addressed to ʿEli ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Little of the content remains. Refers to seafarers (עולי ים).
Letter opening from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: before 1048 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's …
The text is almost completely vocalised and rhymes in -akh. It seems to be more of a poem than a letter; it breaks off mid-sentence, …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Khalaf b. Ghālib the Jew, a druggist (ʿaṭṭār) and something else (jabbān? jazzār?) in Fustat for the year 504 …
List of revenue from rent ca. 1200. A fragment of a double leaf from a notebook. The revenue listed refers mainly to the funduq and …
The small ṭabaqa, 3 ….
The upper part of the funduq,
the apartment of (A)būʾl-Faraj …. 18(?)
The funduq:
The storer…
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Family letter in Arabic script. To be delivered 'to the house of Abū Manṣūr.' Opens with two verses of Arabic poetry: "I write, suffering from …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment with the name Makārim b. Maʿālī, another incomplete name ([...] b. Shelomo), and mention of a monthly (payment?). probably from a sketch for …
Letter, possibly a draft, to a certain Sulaymān, inquiring about various business transactions and whether the addressee had taken the two copies of the Halakhot …
Business letter from Barakāt b. Khulayf dealing with shipments of textiles within Egypt. The name Abū l-Ḥasan is mentioned, as well as merchandise sent with …
A booklet containing copies of eight letters by Rav Sherira Gaon and one letter by Rav Hayye Gaon. End of the 10th century. The letter …
Accounts.
Accounts with a variety of payment types: jadid, corona (קרנה), and an unknown Venetian coin (נוצ בונדקי). 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. Requires …
Late legal document, regarding provisions. A person called Makhlūf is taking an oath. Location: Marrakesh (מראכש). Dated: 28 Tammuz (5)561 (לצאתם) AM = 9 July …
Account in the hand of Nahray b. Nissim, mentions men in his circle. The year 52 is mentioned, but it's not clear whether this is …
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Arabic script (VMR)
Letter to Eliyyahu concerning the thirty-dirham balance of the capitation tax (jizya) owed by Abu al-Makarim, who is in great need of it because he …
כאן קד תקדם קולי ללמולי אלשיך אלאגל מר' ור' אליה ש'צ'
פי מעני אלשיך בו אלמכארם באנה קד בקי עליה מן אלגזיה
ל' דרהם והו פי שדה וכ…
In your n(ame), Oh Merci(ful)!
I have previously written to the august elder and patron our mas(ter) and tea(cher) Elijah (may his) R(ock) …