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Prenuptial agreement written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Thursday, 9 Elul 1428 Seleucid = 9 August 1117 CE. The top part of the document …
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Tiny fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter.
No Scholarship Records
Bill of divorce. Husband: Mevasser b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Wife: Khulla bt. Menashshe. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: Sunday, 3 Elul 1417 Seleucid = 5 August 1106 …
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Recto: (1) Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic from Abū ʿAlī to al-Shaykh al-Makīn. Complains about al-Shaykh al-Mufaḍḍal. Nearly complete, but difficult to read because of the overlapping …
First fragment: Prayer or poetry, Hebrew. Second fragment: Small piece of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. For pepper, lac, etc., bought and sold in Fustat (the two sides are headed by מערפה שרא אלרחל and שרח מא אשתרי …
Interesting legal document probably from 1682 CE (at least after Adar 5442) involving a businesswoman apparently named Mazal Tov and at least two famous rabbis, …
Fragment of Ḥovot ha-Levavot in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Likely belongs with T-S Misc.28.24 (which consists of another 6 …
Recto: Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: [4]84[.] AM = 1079–89 CE. Husband: Tamīm b. Shelomo. Wife: Nafīsa bt. David. Signed by the ḥaver Yosef b. …
Pen trials in Judaeo-Arabic, labeled as such "תגרב(ה) ק[ל]ם". The dating is medieval-era based on the paleography.
Legal document (deed of sale). In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Venue: The house of Shelomo b. Aharon Kohen Khāzinī. Dated: Thursday, 19 Heshvan 5527 AM, which …
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Part of a large, finely decorated ketubba. Dated 13[.]2 Seleucid; Goitein read 1342 Seleucid = 1030/31CE, but could be 1372 or 1392 (=1080/81 CE) as …
Recto: Letter sent to al-Mahalla concerning various business matters and dealing with the sale of sugar, chewing gum (mastaka) and rice. Dated 1165. Mentions a …
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Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Looks like it is dated 7[..] AH = 14th century CE.
Possibly a fiscal document in Arabic script. Very stylized. One entry begins: "al-maḍmūn..."
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Writer and addressee unknown. Dating: No earlier than 15th century, since it mentions the currency ashrafī. Deals mainly with business matters. Mentions …
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Each entry is headed with a day of the week.
Fol. 3: Possibly a replacement ketubba (אורכתא). Mentions Aharon. Signed by Yoshiyyahu b. ʿAmram.
Official (tax?) receipt. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE). Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Deathbed declaration of an old man, bringing his two sons before four witnesses and explaining …
Lower fragment: Bottom part of a legal document, in Arabic script. Deed of sale. The seller is Dāʾūd and his son is also involved. Two …
Medical prescription in Arabic script. Some phrases: 'manzūʿ al-ʿajam' (l-4), 'muṣaffā ʿalā'' (l-5), and fī niṣf mithqāl' (l-6). Diet: chicken. Recto is blank.
Recto: Decree from the 1130s. Only the closing boilerplate and a date (without the year) have survived. Reused by the India trader Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel …
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A few words in Arabic script. Possibly a blessing and a jotting of an address of a letter? It refers to a woman named Sitt …
Letter, possibly. In Hebrew. Describing trials and tribulations and mentions fugitives.
List of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Medieval era. Mentions quantities of gold dinar throughout the entries, with some crossed out. In a rudimentary hand previously …
Memorial list, probably. See Goitein's index card for a reference to Mann.
Letter (possibly a halakhic question) by Shelomo b. Elijah, with jottings on verso. (Information from CUDL)
Minutes of court proceedings, recto dated Kislev 1454 sel. (December 1142), written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Verso a different recording, related to the …
List of materia medica, including simples such as pepper, nard, and Prunus mahaleb. With Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment. From the bottom part of a late letter or legal document. Only part of a fancy signature survived title סופר ועד, possibly with …
Recto: Late account in Hebrew characters, mentiong names such as: Eliya Ḥabīb, Pineḥas Ghazālī, and Ḥananya Maṭīra. Verso: Jottings in Arabic script.
Fragment of a learned opinion on different subjects. The last section, preserved here and transcribed by Goitein, is against the 'direct method' in teaching children …
You also mentioned that a teacher in your place instructs the boys with out (first teaching them) the alphabet and the vowel signs. This is by …
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Court ledger. Document regarding claims made at court. Persons named as concerned (line 1) are Ibn Hadida and Abū ʿAlāʾ al-Halabi and in the body …
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Letter fragment addressed to a Kohen. In Hebrew. Information from Brody catalog.
Short note in Judaeo-Arabic: "Let it be known to Mūsā that Avraham al-Shammāʿ agreed with us that he live in the house that his sister …
Minute fragment from the top of a letter.
Legal query in the form of a letter to Yiṣḥaq b. Sasson, Maimonides' contemporary with his answer on the verso. The writter of the query …
Letter concerning various business issues and the new agent Abū […]. Mentions a qāḍī, a widow, and a girl. Also mentions the Sar ha-Sarim and …
Small fragment, probably literary
Legal document. Record of release. Dated: August 9, 1077. Location: Alexandria. This release document, written in the Alexandria rabbinical court, concerns a partnership between Yosef …
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מ יוסף ביר יאשיה נ[ע אל]מערוף בן אל | דהבי ומ כלף בן עזרון ו…
Gnomic literature in Judaeo-Arabic including advice for dealing with a king. On the back is the name Yosef b. Avraham written twice.
Small and faded fragment from a ketubah.
Letter. Business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī to the parnas ʿŪlla ha-Levi recommending a young Jewish man and describing him as being very …
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Accounts in Arabic script. Might be headed "In the name of Mūsā the son of the deceased(?)."
Jewish (not Muslim) religious text. Written mainly in Arabic script but with some Hebrew mixed in. Having to do with the Exodus. Some of the …
Note in rudimentary script and spelling to a certain Ḥaver. Quite faded. "I did not bring with me to this [...] more than this of …