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Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 13th–14th century. Maybe a recommendation for the bearer. Mentions 250 dirh[ams]. (Information in part from CUDL)
No Scholarship Records
Late letter in Hebrew from Natan Hefez to Aharon Beirav. Further information available on FGP in Avraham David's transcription and notes.
Two lines of an unidentified document in Arabic script.
Document in Arabic script. Listing various sums of money in dinars.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From 'their brother' al-Mumḥe Ibn al-Shofeṭ to Surūr and [...] Ibn Ṭaybūs(?). Also mentions the names Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan and al-Kohen al-Dimashqī …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Grocery list? It lists a raṭl of sesame oil (sīraj/sayraj), 1/2 raṭl sumac, 1/2 raṭl tahina, a cupful …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a wife; the writer's suffering; gold; regards to the addressee's wife and children; mentions Sitt Faḍāʾil.
Letter in Judaeo--Arabic. Dating: Probably late 11th or early 12th century. The sender congratulates the addressee(s) on the holidays and reminds them of a promise …
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged. The sender asks the addressee to purchase some purslane seed (bizr rijla). Might join with ENA NS 85.1339 …
Beginning of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Addressed to [...] b. Sulaymān(?) b. Khalaf al-Barqī. Mentioning Palermo or Sicily (סקיליה) …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (in a rudimentary hand) and Arabic script (in a better hand). Mentions amounts owed to various people, e.g., Abū Waḥsh and Abū …
Letter addressed to to Moshe, probably Moshe b. Yehuda, the head of the community of Alexandria in the last quarter of the 15th century. In …
Letter from Barhūn b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, probably in Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1045 CE. Nahray is sending goods to the …
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Copies of letters by Rav Sherira Gaon, dealing with money matters.
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IB II, 66. Aden, August 1199. Sender and recipient are unknown, as only the lower part of this letter has been identified. The letter makes …
[...to] Aden. Immediately after his arrival [he was brought before the caliph?],
who said to him: “Become a Muslim, or you will cause the d…
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Liturgical. Mentions "Maḥzor Yannai" at least twice.
Legal document: Bill of indemnity or deathbed declaration; fragment. Begins in Hebrew and continues in Arabic script. The subject declares that he has no assets, …
Receipt, but needs identification for typology. Contains a basmala, and an ʿalāma (الحمد لله حمدا يرضيه). Mentions "al-dīwān" and beginning of a date "bi-tārikh al-khāmis.......arbaʿ …
Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Farrāḥ, Fustat, to [ ] b. Isḥạq b. ʿAlī Majjānī in Alexandria. Mentions an ullaba (container) holding bible codices, details about …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand may be known.
Business letter in Arabic script. Missing the beginning. Mentions places such as Malīj (l. 2) and probably Maḥalla (l. 8, though it looks more like …
Draft of the opening lines of a letter to R. Elazar. AA
Quittance (bottom part only) written and signed by Eliyyahu b. Zekharya, also signed by Elʿazar b. Avraham. Reused on verso for accounts in Arabic script …
List of expenses regarding building according to date? ENA 4047.4 is related.
Fragment of two documents of sale, on recto and verso. The document on the verso is regarding the sale of a house.
Recto: part of a letter in Arabic.Verso: unidentified text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Mentions 3 dinars. Two witness signatures. Dated Ṣafar 449 H, and the beneficiary is a descendant of the Abbasid …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلم على عبا[ده الذين اصطفى
اقر جعفر بن محمد بن جعفر بن الفضل بن الفرات[
في صحة عقله وبدنه وجواز امره وقد اشه…
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Letter in Arabic script, in a beautiful hand. Dating: 11th century, based on the reference to the Tustaris. The sender is a professional scribe, probably …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
قد عرف مولاي الشيخ اطال الله بقاه //وادام نعماه وكبت اعداه// شرح حالي مع خصومي على اختلاف احوال المطالبة وصفاتها
Likely a deathbed will. Shemuel b. Yosef grants executorship of his estate to his brother Yehuda. Location: Damascus. Rivlin says date is 1003 CE (but …
Letter from Zekharya b. Ya’aqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Early August 1062. The writer complains about the accusations against …
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Responsum of a gaon, copied into a literary compilation.
A letter to the Karaite community of Istanbul from Shmuel.
Alchemical text.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
Booklet of psalms and other liturgical text. On fol. 3v, righthand side, there are various jottings, including one phrase that looks like it is from …
Verso: Account in Arabic script. Every line is crossed out. Mentions arsenic (zirnīkh) in the first line. Deserves close study because it could shed light …
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Legal or official document, wide space between the lines. Dating: Looks Ottoman-era. Needs examination.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Neatly written, large, and detailed. Evidently he wrote much more neatly when submitting accounts to his partners …
Late accounts in Arabic.
Original text: Three lines in calligraphic Arabic script. Possibly part of a document. Prayers for Muḥammad are clearly legible (الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning various fabrics and garments, including several Shāmī and several Hurmuzī.
Legal record (#38) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 9v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 37-39) Folio 9v
Verso: Petition or report to the Fatimid vizier al-Afḍal (r. 1096–1121) regarding a government appointee reporting for duty or fulfilling an order. Including a raʾy …
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Arabic, literary. Might be medical.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a chest of coral (3 lines from bottom). Very close to the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū, although does not …
Legal document. Fragment of a beautifully written ketubba. Early style. Ca. 1080. (Information from Goitein’s index card)