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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38), with a reshut formula indicating that it was drawn up in the time of Maṣliaḥ …
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Piyyut.
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Document or notes in Arabic script. Perhaps a draft of a letter or petition. Needs examination. On the other side there is Hebrew literary text. …
Bottom of a large legal document in Arabic script. Contains some release formulae. Unclear if the date is preserved. Two signatures are partially preserved. Needs …
Recto: Letter in Arabic to Hayyim al-Ṣarrāf (moneychanger/banker) in the High Diwan. The writer's full name is difficult to read (ʿĀ___ __rdī[?]) as is the …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
A long and flowery communal, formal letter in Hebrew, addressed to the elders of the community of Malīj, probably from the leaders of the Jewish …
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Petition to an unnamed Ottoman official from Pinḥas son of Yūsuf. Dating: c. 1620s CE (per Hathaway), an estimate which is supported by the probable …
the witnesses, and concerning this slander, and that which was taken from [his] taxes [?] [ ]
by //great/…
Letter from Avraham Hamān and Gavriel Ḥefeẓ to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Elul (Raḥamim) 5569 AM, which is 1809 CE. Needs …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Large and well preserved, merits examination.
State document, in Arabic script. Petition fragment, asking for a rescript. Preserves the closing invocations and the inhāʾ formula.
State document, Fatimid. Two fragmentary lines preserved of a larger document. A partial reading of the first line is as follows: "منها وما معها وبوس(؟) …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic dealing with wheat and perhaps other goods. Dated [5]590 AM in the heading (ש׳ תקץ) which is 1829/30 CE. A few names …
Booklist in Judaeo-Arabic. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog. Needs examination.
Riddles in Judaeo-Arabic poetry. The one on verso: "Tell me what kind of bird I saw in the lands of Persians and Arabs. / It …
Recto: accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions some materia medica and rock sugar (sukkar nabāt). Verso: document in Arabic script, possibly a note …
Accounts. (Information from CUDL)
State account of some kind, headed "72 ghulāms(?)... for each of them in a day...," and underneath entries such as "1/6 + 1/8 irdabb." On …
Letter from Mūsā (or Musallaḥ?) b. Ṣāliḥ to an unknown addressee. In Hebrew and in Arabic script. Appealing for help from the addressee. (Cf. Geoffrey …
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Letter from Perahya to Shelomo ("ha-Talmid ha-Sar"). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Perahya says that Muʿāfā has given the bearer of the …
Letter segment from Avraham b. Saadya the Hebronite, Bilbays, to Shelomo b. Shelah, probably in Fustat, beginning of the twelfth century.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Lists goods such as mastic; tartar; labdanum; marjoram; pepper.
Engagement agreement from 1184. The date of marriage was set for the month of Elul in the following year, almost two years after the document …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Yehuda b. Sulaymān.
Letter addressed to two people. In Arabic script. Only the beginning on recto and the address on verso are preserved. The names should be legible, …
Verso (original use): Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The basmala and the beginnings of five lines are preserved. The lessee …
Yosef ibn ʿAqnīn's (d.1220) Inkishāf al-Asrār wa-Ẓuhūr al-Anwār (commentary on the Song of Songs). There are numerous joins. Information from FGP.
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Business accounts
Verso, with the address on recto: Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salmān, in Alexandria, to his sister, in Qayrawān. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address written in …
Small fragment from a draft of a bill of divorce. Very rudimentary hand. On parchment. Husband: Ṣemaḥ (or rather Ṣubḥ?) b. […]. The year is …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in at least two distinct scribal hands. Dated toward the middle of the verso as 1253 AH which is 1837/38 CE.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to "majlis al-qāḍī Bū Qāsim al-Dāʿī." In Judaeo-Arabic with a bit of Hebrew, and the address on verso in Arabic script. …
Responsa of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder - literary collection
Copy of a story about the edicts against the Jews in Baghdad and how they were saved. Dating: ca. 1120 CE. The scribe reused numerous …
Literary text in Arabic script, with biblical verses in Arabo-Hebrew. A commentary of some sort, arranged in question-and-answer format.
Bifolium from Mitzrayim, 1790–92 CE, apparently from a ledger of betrothal and marriage contracts. About nine are preserved, complete with names, and trousseau lists, and …
Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, the muqaddam of Bilbays (ca. 1170s–1218) to Pinḥas b. Meshullam, a judge of Alexandria in the time of Maimonides. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Currencies: cedid, corona (קרונה)– the latter is likely the Spanish escudo minted as early as 1535 CE or the gold excelente …
Note on parchment. Addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn. Making a request about obtaining silver for the sender, and passing on a message to Abū Saʿd al-Ḥazzān(?) …
Recto: Qaraite legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 25 Av 5335 AM, which is 1575 CE. The context is a communal struggle over who would …
Awaiting description (but see description for the whole notebook, Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52, PGPID 33686).
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Karo y Frances & Company to Moshe Bibas. Unusual, since the vast majority of their correspondence that has been preserved …
State document, Fatimid period. Petition to a vizier of Al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh from a baker in Fusṭāṭ concerning a debt that he had incurred with …
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Abū ʿAbdallāh, the baker from Fusṭāṭ.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The benedictions of God and his ble…
Bifolio from a ledger of business accounts. In Arabic script. Dating: Several years are specified, but they are difficult to read; perhaps 493–95 AH, which …
Ketubba or dowry list. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Dating: ca. 1100 CE. See Goitein's index card for further information.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Rudimentary hand. Damaged.
Literary text, in Hebrew script. Needs examination.