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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. In fact, one page is entirely filled with numerals.
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Brief official report in Arabic script. Ends, "anhā dhālika wa-l-raʾy aʿlāhu." Dating: Likely Ayyubid or early Mamluk-era, based on handwriting and format. it seems to …
Bifolio of an Islamic legal text discussing the different types of guarantee (kafāla). Sections preserved here include guarantees in money (bāb al-kafāla bi-l-māl), in powers …
Recto: fragment of a letter in a crude hand, mentioning a woman’s death, מתה וערסה על השלחן. Verso: letter of consolation in a different hand, …
List of unknown nature in a very crude hand. Among the items oil.
Legal deed mentioning sums of money and the names Abū Isḥāq and Abū l-Riḍā. Fragment from the bottom. Signed by Yeshaʿyahu b. Maṣliaḥ b. ʿAzaryahu …
A flattering letter from an unidentified community of Jews (קהילת היה[ודים]) to a dignitary named [...] b. Aharon. In Hebrew. Dating: 11th or 12th century. …
Religious litanies – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 83) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Small fragment of a power of attorney, appointing Ḥayyim b. ʿImmanuʾel (likely the 11th century Maghribī merchant).
Poetry in Judaeo-Turkish. In two sections, the second may be a distinct scribal hand. The verses bear central themes of love, deference, and suffering (excerpts): …
Saʿadya’s Bible translation of Genesis with Hebrew incipits. On f. 1 Genesis 18:9-19; on f. 2 Genesis 20:6-21:1. (Information from CUDL.)
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Calligraphically written and on parchment. Likely a deed of sale specifying landmarks, but it needs further examination. Mentions a …
Writing exercises in which a student practiced Judaeo-Arabic epistolary formulae. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Verso might be a continuation; contains cryptic lists of numbers.
Recto: 1) Draft of the opening of a letter to a dignitary (al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-jamālī) 2) Accounts (table of names with numbers). Verso: Arabic …
Detailed commercial accounts for the year 1526 Seleucid = 611 AH = 1214/15 CE of a silk merchant who served also as Parnas. His business …
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Marriage contract. Location: Abyār. Dated: Friday, 4 Ṭevet 4831 AM = 10 December 1070 CE. Groom: Fuḍayl b. Yosef. Bride: Sittūnā bt. Ṣāliḥ. (Information from …
Copies of various letter by Ishaq Laniado. Late.
Note from Yūsuf to "al-Rayyis Rabbi Eliyya" (= Eliyyahu the Judge). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Giving instructions or making a request …
Literary text. In Arabic script. Leaf from an Arabic work on horoscopes/prognostications in a beautiful naskhī script. The horoscopes/prognostications are predicted for each day of …
Fragment of a text in Hebrew script, badly damaged. The recto has a main body and marginal text, yet, it is too damaged to discern …
Either legal document(s) or a letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a Sefaradi hand. Refers to firewood, arrangements of labor, and an agreement.
Letter in Arabic script, evidently from a muqṭaʿ to a patron ('al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiyya al-ajalliyya..."). Recto consists mostly of formulaic blessings. Mentions wheat granary (makhzan qamḥ) …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is the end of the letter. Greetings to Abū l-Faraj b. al-Daqqāq (or possibly al-Raqqāq). Very squiggly descenders.
Legal document: testimony that Ya[ḥ]yā b. [ ] (?) is a Jew from Khaybar, and thus exempt from the capitation tax. Dated: middle decade of …
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. Prayers of God and peace be upon our lord Muḥammad, his prophet, and upon his family.
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Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Bifolio. Neatly written. Mentions Mūsā and Ḥusayn.
Perhaps a bookbinding—at least four 3 manuscripts are folded around each other here into a narrow vertical strip, partially unfolded at the top. One of …
Document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, probably accounts. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic text, probably love poetry.
Literary text on the laws of ritual slaughter (sheḥiṭa).
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Legal document. Perhaps an inventory of an estate. Refers to witnesses going to somebody's house, and lists numerous valuable items. Mentions Barakāt al-Katnānī (? אלכתנאני).
Note in which a scribe asks "Sayyidnā al-Rayyis" to be permitted to copy an Arabic translation of the tractate 'Hullin.' (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Very faded. Verso seems to be mainly construction expenses.
Unidentified text (letter?) in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. There is an unusual case of a hybrid Arabic-Hebrew term: בחצרתהנו ("bi-ḥaḍratenu") — an Arabic word with a …
Fragment of a legal document involving a marital dispute. On parchment.
Recto (secondary use): order of payment for the salary of the judge Yaʿaqov b. Yosef ha-Kohen for January 1165. Verso (original use) contains a ḥikr …
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Family letter in Arabic script. Mostly crossed out with copious squiggles. Mentions the illness of the addressee's daughter (ولا تسال ما على قلبنا من . …
Legal fragment involving half of a house and Elazar who is known as Manṣūr al-Zajjāj. Needs examination. See T-S 13J3.13 (PGPID 7967) for a list …
Letter from Asad b. Hilāl to a maker of scales (al-Mawāzīnī) to whom the writer had given a scale on which to affix a hanger, …
4 pages from the medical text of the infamous medieval Persian polymath Muḥammad b. Zakarīyyā al-Rāzī (d. 925 or 935 CE) entitled al-Ḥāwī fī-l-Ṭibb. The …
Letter to a woman in which the writer mentions his mother and aunt, and gives news about a marriage that has taken place. The addressee …
Accounts in Ladino.
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions names such as Ḥayyim and Khalīfa. There is larger text in a different hand on verso.
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, probably legal. Mentions ʿUbayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm and Ḥasan b. Ismāʿīl b. Yūsuf.
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. The middle portions of ~11 lines are preserved from near the top of the document. The price of a …
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Legal document from Cairo, dated 1730 CE (8 Heshvan 5491 AM), involving the partners Moshe ʿAzarya and Yosef Benṭora/Binṭora(?) and a debt of 16,495 diwani …
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Letter from Binyām (druggist of Rashīd), probably in Alexandria, to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr (al-ʿAfṣī), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. He has sent 20 pounds …
Document in Arabic script. Probably a letter. Very faded. Mentions a boat. Verso may be a distinct document, also in Arabic script.
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay one and a quarter dinars for gum …