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Letter/petition in Arabic script. Seems like a letter of appeal for charity and alludes to the door/gate of the synagogue. Written in a chancery-esque hand. …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 2v: …
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Informal note from Yūsuf to a respected person ('sayyidnā'). In Judaeo-Arabic, calligraphic. The writer asks the addressee to do something (ישיל) with the bearer because …
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Large bifolio of business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef ("at his best"). (Information from Goitein's index card.)
State document, most probably a draft, in Arabic script with scribal practice. Begins with the regular honorifics and mentions longing towards the august presence "shawq …
Marriage contract. Dating: first half of the 13th century, on paleographic grounds. The handwriting is similar to that of ʿImanuel b. Yeḥiel (also compare T-S …
Minute fragment.
Multi-fragment shelfmark, with at least 4 different texts stuck together. Requires further examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the rent of a warehouse. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel?
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Muslims and the elder Zikrī. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment consisting mainly of piyyuṭ in Hebrew. Verso contains two sections of jotted accounts in Arabic script. One mentions Mūsā b. Ẓāfir and cardamom (hayl). …
Letter in which a man complains about a conflict over a power of attorney and a deposit. The sender of the letter held the opinion …
Business letter in Arabic script to Abū l-Ḥusayn b. X b. al-Simsār (son of the broker), in Fustat, from his son. 'Aodeh's transcription is available …
Verso (original use): Petition in an elegant Arabic hand. The sender's name probably appears at the end of the tarjama, but it difficult to read. …
Muslim legal query with responsum (fatwā). The query concerns a young Jewish man who insulted a venerable Jewish rabbi (...ḥākhān ʿālim al-yahūdī...) by calling him …
Verso: Part of a text in Judaeo-Arabic, discussing a divorce document and the settling of the dowry with Yaʿaqov, the ex-husband. (Information from CUDL.)
Minute fragment from a ketubah written by Yosef b. Shelomo Halevi (date: ca. 1170-1210)
Letter from Al-Mubārak b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn Sabra to his "father" (paternal uncle?) Abū l-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim Ibn Sabra. He reports that Ibn Siman Ṭov …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Location: Alexandria. Dating: Perhaps 16th century. Bride: Parna(?) bt. Nissim Berakha. Groom: Khalīfa. Signed: Avraham Levi (witness); Matitya b. Shelomo de Leon …
Recto: Legal document. In Hebrew. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; mentions the currency muayyadi. This appears to be a rental contract for a portion …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as: [...] b. Abū l-Munā; al-Qāḍī b. Najā; [...]n al-Miṣrī.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Bride: Nājiya bt. Hiba. Fragment (upper right corner). On verso there is a rhymed poem of praise for a certain person, with …
Note from the teacher Yefet b. Yosef the teacher to Abū Zikrī the physician, the son of Eliyyahu the judge apparently asking him to send …
Verso: Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) concerning the execution of a will. Headed, "all of the inherited gold …
Literary. The book of Numbers with targum.
Letter probably from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, probably in Fustat, to his paternal aunt (Umm Dāʾūd) and paternal uncle (Abū Manṣūr), probably in Alexandria. He says …
Letter in which an heir informs his correspondent that no one, the government included, had any claim on his inheritance and adds that his case …
Legal document(s). This fragment contains the bottom two lines of one document and the entirety of a second document (though a vertical strip from the …
Printed fragment that was reused for accounts in Hebrew script. The print features sections in Cyrillic, Arabic, and Georgian Mkhedruli script. Location/Place of publication: Moscow …
Verso: Beginning of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr seems to be called al-Sharīf al-Mahdawī (i.e., from al-Mahdiyya), and his name …
Possibly the top of a note from the office of one of the Maimonidean Nagids. The end of the motto וכול is visible, though the …
Remarriage contract of a bride who had been both widowed and divorced in which she receives a house, but no trousseau. Dated 1180-1191. (Information from …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions people such as Jamāl al-Dīn and Ismāʿīl al-Ḥalabī. Mentions commodities such as pepper, lac, and sumac.
Contract of sale between ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Marqūra and Bahja (?) bnt. ... b. Mubārak in Uqlūl. Dated Jumādā I 415. The two witnesses are …
Several medical recipes in Arabic by the title "صفة معجون نافع للارواح".
Fragment, probably of a letter, blank verso. Needs examination.
Letter addressed to Yeshuʿa b. Zekharya the judge (with many grand titles, including החזק הפטיש). Same addressee as T-S 13J21.16. Mentions someone's arrival from Alexandria …
Legal document in Arabic script. Mostly preserved. Dated: Rabīʿ II 535 AH = 1140 CE. Possibly a debt contract for 6 dinars. Needs examination.
IB VII, 33. Legal query to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) about a trader who travelled to India (Bilād al-Hind), remained there for fifteen years, …
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Business letter in Arabic script possibly sent from Istanbul (or written by someone named Constantine?). Dated: Ramaḍān 1133 AH = June/July 1721 CE. Addressed to …
Secondary use: Hebrew poetry, possibly in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū. There is an acrostic spelling out אברהמ.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified personality in Fustat, 1034.
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Business accounts in Arabic script. Very messy.
Recto: Leviticus 13:32 (Hebrew) and two lines of formulae from an Arabic letter. Verso: formulae from an Arabic letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Avraham b. Farāḥ, Alexandria to Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl, Fustat. The letter deals with the shipping of goods and money transfers. The writer describes …
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Accounts.
Qaraite legal testimony (zikhron ʿedut) dated 20 Adar 5442 (=1682 CE), written and signed by Avraham ha-Rofe ben Ṣaʿīr, one of the messengers sent from …