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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 …
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Letter from Perahya b. Yosef, the learned nephew of the India trader Avraham Ibn Yiju, beginning with Bible verses, including Job 23:28. (S. D. Goitein, …
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Letter fragment to an unidentified physician. In Judaeo-Arabic. The format is notable: written in a narrow column, with the width of the margin almost equal …
Letter. Faded. Addressed to Abū l-Majd. It may be from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. …
Medical prescription in difficult Arabic script. Information from Goitein's note card.
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Tinnīs. Mentions: the speaker wishing to will his or her money …
Bottom part of a legal query written by Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066-1108 CE). Concerning a court record written by a scribe, agreement between two …
Bifolio from a court notebook. Right page: a summons written by Yefet b. David the cantor, summoning Neḥemya b. Avraham to court due to complaints …
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A list of Talmudic sayings.
Second folio of an irate letter addressed to a son. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly in the hand of the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya (and therefore might …
Probably a letter of praise in rhymed Hebrew for [...] Shemarya ha-Rosh. Written in a beautiful scribal hand in square characters on a lined piece …
Arabic script (VMR)
On verso and spilling over onto the margins of recto: account and a list of at least 82 indigent people, including at least 14 Europeans, …
Letter describing the claims of the writer's brother-in-law on the half of a house that was sold by the mother to her daughter, the writer's …
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Order of payment from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Khalīl is to give the bearer a half raṭl of soap, a raṭl of oil, and an eighth …
Small fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involving a woman named Sitt al-Sāda and a sum …
Printed. Daniel with Ladino translation.
Fragment from the right side of a legal document in the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Damaged, few details preserved. May be …
Letter addressed to a dignitary, possibly the Nagid. Possibly a preface to an appeal for charity.
Beginning of a ketubah dated 133[.] Era of documents = ~1020s.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era, based on handwriting, spelling, and vocabulary. Needs examination for content. Quite faded. Might mention a commodity called qiṭmīr. (Information …
Unsigned Karaite bill of debt, possibly a draft given the reusage of the recto for a liturgical(?) text. Dated Friday 4 Nisan 5403 AM (1643 …
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Letter from Yefet to Abū l-Barakāt the physician, in Fustat (bāb qaṣr al-shamʿ). which the writer alludes to some bad news ("ever since I heard …
Document in Arabic, medieval-era. Two partial lines of text are preserved. Possibly related to the neighboring shelfmark T-S AS 208.330. Requires further examination.
Recto: Bill of divorce. Wife: [...]fiyya bt. Levi. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid = 988–1088 CE. Verso: remains of another legal deed, maybe connected to the bill …
Bifolio with one page of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Also writing exercises in Arabic script (with some Judaeo-Arabic transliteration). Also Hebrew poetry.
Lower fragment: Letter from an unidentified man, in Damascus, to a female family member, in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. On recto, there are elaborate instructions for …
Small fragment from the upper left corner of a legal document. May have to do with the death of [...] b. Yaḥyā.
Marriage document. A large damaged piece from a ketubah, from the 12th century, 1127 onward, based on the title יהי שמו לעולם כירח יכון עולם, …
Letter from Moshe Bibas. In Judaeo-Arabic. The port city Rashid is mentioned at the opening of line 20. Dating: Late 18th or early 19th century. …
Bifolio from a ledger of a merchant. Very neatly written and organized. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century, possibly even 14th. Refers to Alexandria numerous …
Drafts of documents, made by Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel and other scribes. Dating: 1159 CE, based on the date mentioned in the first entry …
Accounts in an orderly scribal hand on a bifolium whose folding and size is suggestive of the existence of a broader ledger (from which there …
Letter or letter draft, preserving only the copious opening praises for the addressee. Probably from the archive of Moshe b. Yehuda. Dating: last quarter of …
Few lines of not very readable text, in Arabic. Blank verso. Needs examination.
Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic script. الله تعالى في ذلك... قد تعطل شغله في هذه... قليل جدا وقد...خمس احمال صحبة اصغر مماليكه.
Small fragment of a Hebrew letter, probably. Faded. Narrow vertical strip from the middle.
Ketubbah of [...] b. Solomon (groom). Dated [...] Sel. in Fusṭāṭ. Written by Emmanuel b. Yeḥiel, Middle of 13th century. Probably under the reign of …
Business letter from Avraham Kolon (קולון) to Yosef Ardiʿa (ארדיעה). In Hebrew. Dating: Monday, 5 Adar [5318 AM], which is 1558 CE (see A. David's …
Book list. Dating: Likely 12th century, as none of the books listed are later than that.
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Verso (original use): State document in Arabic script. Portions of the ends of 8 lines are preserved. Mentions a large number of horses. Needs further …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Minute fragment.
Small fragment of an official document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved, with wide space between them. Reused on verso for …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on parchment, in a scribal hand, in a narrow column on the verso of a page of piyyuṭim (in the hand …
Accounts. Mentioning several names and several interesting commodities (e.g., black cumin, ushna/lichen, mastic). Dating: looks ca. 1150–1250.
Small fragment of a list of names accompanied by numbers. Dating: probably Mamluk-era. Mentions ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, Sulaymān, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, al-ḥakīm Farajallāh, and ʿAfīf the banker …
Minute fragment with a few partial words in Hebrew script.
Literary text, in Arabic script. Small Arabic characters, in not a very legible script, maybe a prayer. Three bold and large lines read: حرر الى …
Personal letter from the head of the Babylonian community in Jerusalem (Adath HaBablim) to Mr. Yiṣḥaq Mordechai [Gabbay] seeking an explanation for why he has …
List of Judeo-Arabic two accounts in a very orderly hand that detail the funds requested from one Yiṣḥaq Ḥefeṣ (l. 2r) and the payments of …