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Letter by a Karaite woman to three different family members. The language is opaque in many places. (1) To her mother, she opens with her …
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Small fragment (upper left corner) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Dating: 11th or 12th century. None of the substance is preserved.
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Legal notes, outline for drawing up a document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Involving the daughter of the female teacher (ṣabiyyat al-muʿallima), a …
Recto: the remnants of two lines of an Arabic chancery document with wide spacing, probably a decree. The first line reads as "من حياطة دينه …
Recto: Astronomical table in Arabic script, listing zodiacal terms (thawr, jawzā, saraṭān, asad. . . . jadī, ḥūt) which are accompanied by strings of Greek/Coptic …
Letter of introduction, signed by Shemuel b. Avraham, in an unknown location, on behalf of Yosef b. Ḥelbo, addressed to a Jewish community (לכבודכם, although …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic by someone who calls himself "ha-ẓaʿir" and addresses al-Shaykh al-Rayyis. Perhaps by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu.
Letter from a man to his prospective father-in-law. In Judaeo-Arabic. Expressing his enthusiasm about the future connection (ittiṣāl) with him and stating to have heard …
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Legal fragment. Mentions a debt of 50 dinars.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals. The currencies mentioned include the Ottoman kurush and the maḥbū[b]. The latter numismatic reference makes it possible to …
Small fragment from near the beginning of a letter in Arabic script.
Fragment (top) of a letter to [...] b. Menaḥem ha-Levi ‘Av Bet Din of the House of Meeting (שלבית הועד).' On parchment. (Information from CUDL …
Verso: Accounts. Ayyubid era?
Legal testimony, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Literary text, in Arabic script. Mentions animals like elephant, ostrich, snake, probably discussing the permissibility of its eating. Needs examination.
Letter from Hārūn to Moshe b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. The sender reminds Moshe that it is his custom …
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Letter from the Karaite congregation of Alexandria to the leader of their community, complaining about the helplessness and dissolution of the community. (Information from Mediterranean …
Page from a late Hebrew medical treatise.
Receipt on behalf of the elders of Jerusalem. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Seems to be a state report on agricultural tax collection. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era based on formulae, names, and handwriting, but this is a guess. Seems …
Palimpsest. Underneath there are faint traces of an Arabic book hand, and on top there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in at least two different hands …
Jottings in Judaeo-Arabic. Accounts? Some names and numbers are faintly legible: Abū l-ʿAlā al-Ḥājj, Ramaḍān, 101; Shelomo Eliyya Maḥbūb. VMR. ASE
Beginning of a letter from a certain Abū l-Faraj to "the judge" (perhaps Eliyyahu the Judge). Dating: ca. early 13th century. Opening with blessings and …
Tiny fragment in Hebrew script.
Legal fragment with release formulae. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The parties are Abū Zikrī and Berakhot. They might …
Short lists of names along with numbers (Coptic numerals?) arranged according to parshiyot.
Small fragment from the beginning of a commercial letter. 11th-century Maghribī hand. Might mention Ibn al-Yamānī. A few words from the address in Judaeo-Arabic and …
Popular literature. Animal fable in rhyming Judaeo-Arabic. 9 folios.
Long fragment of a letter mentioning dignitaries and members of the Yeshiva.
Top of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In the name of al-Ḥājj ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Maḥmūd known as al-Shāʿir (the poet). Several more names …
Letter sent from Alexandria by Yiṣḥaq Nisaburi to Abu al-'Ala Sa'id b. Munajja in Fustat, asking him to send a Byzantine scribe to Alexandria to …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Deals with trade, including in pepper and flour. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl and Ibn Sibāʿ.
Recto: Arabic document, probably a letter. Verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Both sides are extremely faded. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Saʿd and an agreement upon a monthly payment of one dinar, possibly for a communal office. Mentions the Nagid. …
Multi-fragment shelfmark. The verso of the left fragment contains accounts in Judaeo-Arabic that are organized according to the months of the Islamic calendar. The accounting …
Minute fragment of a legal document in Hebrew dealing with payment of a debt (פרעון). The paleography supports a dating estimate of late fifteenth- or …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The beginnings of five lines from the main text block are preserved, together with a large piece of the right margin, …
Draft of a flowery letter in Hebrew with wide line spacing, possibly a communal epistle. The draft was abandoned in the first line of salutations. …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Perhaps aphorisms or advice? The tone is informal ("aysh lil-nās minnī?"). There are هs separating different sentences or sections.
Original use: Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Mentions sums in dirhams and mithqāl. Reused for a literary text in Judeo-Arabic on recto and verso.
Genealogical list of Shemuel b. Hananiah's family.
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Late accounts in Arabic, reused for Hebrew commentaries on different portions of Genesis.
Late letter to Abd al-Karim Kashani dealing with orders for goods. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Legal document, probably. Small fragment. Looks like the hand of Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Mentions a deposit.
Fragment of a will (upper left corner). Testator: Abū l-Faraj Wahb al-Muʿallim (aka the teacher and ḥaver Natan b. Avraham). No details preserved. (Information from …
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Fiscal account or receipt dated Muḥarram 437H (July–August 1045). Closing five lines. (MR)
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Legal document mentioning a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)