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Judaeo-Arabic poetry (qaṣīḍ). Late.
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Legal document(s). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya? Recto is written in Hebrew and mentions Elḥanan Resh Sidra. Shemuʾel Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva b. Abraham, verso …
Fragment of a legal document. Possibly the dowry list section of a ketubba.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.
Verso: Response from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Yedutun, probably in Fustat. Instructing him to have Ibn Abū l-ʿAysh take …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Heshvan [4]7[..], which means no later than Heshvan 4799 AM, which is 1038 CE. Appointment of someone's brother R. Yehuda …
Narrative of events and stories of religious figures – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 296) – in Hebrew. (information …
Legal document. On parchment. Appears to be a writing exercise, because there are multiple efforts and because there are inconsistencies (on recto Abū l-Maʿānī states …
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Letter drafts in Judaeo-Arabic from an unknown sender to Yaʿaqov Maṣlīaḥ. Dated 15 Tammuz 5578 AM which is 1818 CE. There is writing on Page …
Much damaged list of names, amounts and some commodities such as silk. Mentions [...] b. Mardūkh.
Recto: Legal document, probably a deed of sale for an enslaved person. This can be deduced because a seller certifies that something is free of …
End of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely from Hilāl b. Yosef, as the handwriting appears identical to that of T-S NS J197 (PGPID 4296). …
A letter from Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl, probably in Fustat, to his father Ismaʿīl b. Faraḥ in Alexandria. Ca. 1057. Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl writes that he …
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Literary discussion of some kind.
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 29 Tammuz 5437 AM = 29 July 1677 CE. Concerning the moneychanging (ṣarf) partnership between Eliyyahu b. …
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Letter from the judge Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Kohen, apparently in or near Ashqelon, to ʿAmram b. Yefet (aka Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAmmār b. Ḥusayn), apparently in …
Legal fragment (upper right corner). Dated: Ṭevet 157[.] Seleucid, which corresponds to 1259–68 CE, under the authority of David I Maimonides.
IB ח94 (דף ב). Draft of a letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, perhaps in Damascus, to R. Ḥiyya. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. …
Testimony of woman, Sittuna bt. Hayyim, about her husband, Faraḥ b. Bānūqa, who left her "a widow in his lifetime" (ʿaguna). She is indigent because …
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Family and/or business letter addressed to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely late 12th or early 13th century. The sender is sick and throws up …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Damaged, difficult to extract much. (Information in part from …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions places such as al-Mahdiyya and Alexandria; people such as Abū Sulaymān Daʾūd Lebdī (cf. CUL …
Part of a ketubba, written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen (1127-1139 CE), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manassah (1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Legal document concerning debts, mentioning [...] b. Ḥayya ha-Kohen and Abū [...] b. Shemuʾel. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1438 Seleucid = …
Either a letter or a legal query. In Hebrew. Late. Describing the legal arrangements following somebody's death.
Probably from a book of legal formulas, citing a legal deed
Small fragment from the beginning of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 14th–16th century.
Get (bill of divorce) dated October/November 1041 CE (Kislev 4802), from Dam[sīs]. Yosef b. Sūq[..] divorces Sutayt bt. Aharon. Signed by Shemuel b. Avraham and …
IB IV, 1 (ח22). Account of Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, written for Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Bharuch, and the only account that survived in the …
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Letter from Sulaymān to his brother Abū l-Manṣūr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with a blistering rebuke for the lack of letters and the failure to inquire …
Letter mentioning a certain Yosef and commodities such as sugar. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions being fined silver.
Accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Letter addressed to a dignitary, perhaps to Avraham Maimonides ("Avraham ha-Nagid ha-Gadol" seems faintly visible, line 4, and his son is named David, line 9). …
Arabic script (VMR)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni.
Letter from [...] b. Yefet to Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning various business matters and mentioning Damietta. The writer's name appears to be …
Page from a Hebrew medical treatise
Unidentified text, in Hebrew script, late.
Letter signed by Yosef b. Avraham, Aharon b. Yo[..], [Yiẓḥa]q b. Aharon, and a fourth man. The content is not entirely clear. Mentions an Abū …
Popular poetry in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 13th century. Mentions the name Abū l-Faraj at the end.
Verso: Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyūb, probably to his father Abū Sahl Levi, in Fustat. He was very sad and wept the …
Legal document mentioning ʿAbdallāh b. Abū l-Faḍl al-Levi and a certain Yefet al-Levi. (Information in part from CUDL)
Subsequent use: Two legal drafts from the court of the Nagid Mevorakh. Fragmentary and incomplete. #1: Beginning of a statement about a brawl between Shelomo …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Yerushalmi to Abu al-Mansur Elazar the scribe from whom the writer asks a favor. The letter opens with six lines …
Fragment of a ketubah. The immersion clause is partily preserved, so we can date it accordingly to 1178 onwards, when Maimonides' enactment on this subject …