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Image 4: Probably an account, using Arabic script for people's names and Hebrew script for the numbers. Image 5: A few words in Arabic including …
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Fragment in Arabic script. Possibly astronomical/calendrical (mawḍiʿ al-shams...) describing different positions of the Sun in the sky, especially its ascension. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Ketubba. Dated: 1[.]4[.] Seleucid. Groom: Surūr b. Ḥayyim. Bride: Ṣubḥ bt. Yehuda. It is not her first marriage (dower of 12.5 dirhams). Sums of 5 …
Receipt for Naʿīm. Sum: 68.5 (dirhams). At lower right (atypical position): bi-rasmihim(?).
Responsum and the beginning of the next by R. Migash. Published by Amir Ashur in Qoves al Yad 21 (2012), 1-24
Small fragment of a letter of recommendation for a poor teacher who has lost his living and now needs charity.
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Recto: Ketubba fragment. Groom: Yefet b. Maṣliaḥ. Bride: Zahr bt. Yosef ha-Kohen. Verso: Document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe after the couple had …
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Recto: Arabic document; seems to be a list of materia medica with corresponding quantities. Verso: list, possibly accounts. (Information in part from CUDL)
Karaite liturgical (?) fragment, referring to עדת בני צדוק, ‘the community of the sadoqites'. (Information from GRU catalog via FGP)
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Formal letter in Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century based on handwriting. From ʿAbdallāh b. [...]. He reports that he has obeyed the …
Two fragments of a mercantile letter from Marwan b. Ibrāhīm al-Maghribi, unknown location, to Yosef b. Avraham al-Maghribī, in al-Raqqa. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address …
Two lines in Hebrew mentioning the throne of glory, perhaps literary.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th century. Little of the substance remains. Signs of having been used in a bookbinding.
A letter containing a court ruling demanding the return of a deposit.
Commentary on Isaiah in Yiddish (?).
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 46 (Document of Testimony).
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Letter addressed to 'the dear son' Mūsā Ibn Sabrā. The beginning (on verso) mentions a certain Yosef. In the upper margin, complains about somebody (ווחק …
Letter to Moshe b. Nissim (or Moshe b. Labrāṭ?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Fragment (left side of recto). The addressee is …
Incomplete letter to a physician asking him to intervene with the Nagid concerning a complaint about a teacher from Tiberias who is accused of influencing …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Organized by parasha of the week. Names include "the father of al-Ḥakham Hiba," Nāṣir, and Yosef ʿŪdī.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. A note on verso: 'qabaḍtu min al-shaykh Abū l-Ṭāhir al-yahūdī naqqād . . . . thamāniya arṭāl. . …
Legal testimony. The witnesses have examined (bāsharū) the Jew Ibrāhīm b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, and found that he had developed leprosy (judhām) on account of a …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The people attaching their signature and registering their name (below), they being […
Recto: Accounts (or prescription?) in Arabic script. Sepiolite (zabad al-baḥr), 2.5 dirhams; rock salt (milḥ andarānī); white lead (isfīdāj); pepper (filfil); long pepper (dār filfil); …
Legal document. Containing testimonies about a certain document (kitāb) that is deposited with the Nasi Abū l-Ḥasan, which is a debt contract for 200 dinars. …
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Commercial receipt for Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs (b. Yūsuf) al-Urjuwānī, with Judaeo-Arabic business accounts in his own hand on verso. The set of similar documents: ENA …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Two bifolia from a ledger. Likely the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century.
Letters or letter formularies addressed to dignitaries (e.g. verso mentions Rosh Qehila). Recto and verso are in two different hands.
List of Italianate names and corresponding monetary values, perhaps communal contributions. The paleography, ink, and pre-lined paper all point to the nineteenth century as a …
Accounts. Grocery list?
Fragment possibly from a formal letter in Hebrew. Wide line spacing. No specifics preserved.
Hebrew poetry and sundry jottings. Maybe a join: T-S Ar.30.189 + T-S Ar.30.217.
Responsa, Miscellaneous; recto: unidentified Judaeo-Arabic text; verso: geonic responsum concerning a bailee who attempts to cheat the depositors heirs (Hebrew + Aramaic). (Info from FGP)
Recto: fragment of a letter in verse to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef, in a different hand than verso. Referring to a period of distress (killing, hiding). …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Contains the phrase, "inform her that we will not kill her or sell her." The context is too faded to read. …
Letter from Damascus to Fustat. Same hand as F 1908.44DD, which is very likely the end of the same letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier …
Renewal of a marriage contract (ketubba) after an earlier ketubba was destroyed or lost, or perhaps after the husband (the blind man Yaḥyā b. Shela …
Fragment from the bottom part of a ketubah with partial signatures and a qiyyum - approval of the signatures. The groom name is Natan. Signed …
Letter from Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef (active 990s–1030s CE), in Qayrawān, to his brother-in-law ʿAyyāsh b. Nissim. The sender reports that the addressee's son …
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Recipe(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Possibly medical. Items mentioned include malabathrum or Indian laurel (sādhaj hindī), litharge (martak), and rainwater.
Mercantile letter from Nissim b. Ismāʿīl, unknown location, to an unknown addressee, in Jerusalem. Fragment (upper right corner of recto) In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address …
Letter drafts or writing exercises in an elegant Judaeo-Arabic scribal hand. Dating: 17th-century or later based on the paleography. Some of these formulaic letters may …
Letter from Shemuʾel ha-Shelishi ba-Ḥavura to Maymūn b. David. Consisting entirely of greetings and blessings for the addressee and his son Abū l-Ḥusayn (possibly on …
Letter. "Discussion or record concerning the case of a man, Sulaymān, who is suspected of being an informer (מוסר). His testimony is given verbatim, ‘in …
Letter from Ismail b. Yitzhak ha-Andalusi, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1065. Blessings for the holiday. The writer asks to pass an attached …
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Legal document. A small fragment, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), regarding a settlement between a couple, probably after their divorce (a …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Nissīm Mshīsh to a group, perhaps business partners (אחים סי׳ חברים). Dated ʿErev Kippur [5]568 AM (1807 CE). This group is …
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