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Minute fragment with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic.
No Scholarship Records
Appeal for charity for captives, with several signatures. Dated: 5382 AM = 1621/22 CE. Mentioning an appeal by several poor men who are imprisoned in …
Letter from Lāmiʿ b. Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm regarding unfulfilled exchanges and obligations. Reflects the complex relationships between Muslim officials …
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Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment that begins with the clause setting forth the wife’s obligations (to serve, etc.) and concludes with a dowry list. A minimum …
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Order addressed to the ʿarīf al-ʿaṭṭārīn for either 10 raṭls or 2 bales (عشرة ارطال او رزمتين) of an unidentified commodity (appears in the second …
Legal document. According to Ashtor, "an agreement concerning a levirate marriage, second half of the 15th century." However the basis for the dating is not …
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Original use: Decree? Two faded lines in a chancery hand containing a ṣalwala (wa-l-ṣalā ʿalā al-sayyīd Muḥammad al-muṣṭafa wa-ālihi al-ṭāhirīn) which suggests that it is …
Small fragment with remnants of words in Hebrew.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Poems, evidently pages from a collection, beginning with the final section of Avraham ibn Ezra's 'Aha yarad,' the lament over the communities of Spain and …
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Probably fiscal document(s). Needs examination.
Magical recipe. 100 ghalla (produce) of the Nile(?) should be burned(?) or put into....and [....] oil should be poured over it, and it should be …
Letter from Avraham Ḥazzan. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a distinctive, rudimentary hand with some resemblance to T-S 12.271 but probably not the same scribe. The …
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Letter fragment addressed to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Regarding a very poor man. Mentions the word me'uḥar three lines from the bottom, which …
Recto: legal fragment in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108). No names or details clearly preserved. Verso: unidentified document in Arabic script and …
Recto: document, probably notes for a legal document. Verso: accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Religious exegesis carrying the title "ha-Qaddima" or Muqaddima – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 163) – in Hebrew. (information …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Currency: grossos. Mentions the name Yosef al-Rūmī on the recto.
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. D - Fragments of accounts, in Arabic script.
Account register in Judaeo-Arabic. Nine folios. Late. Includes many foodstuffs.
Fragment from the middle of a legal document. In Hebrew. Hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya? Concerning an inheritance and its division. Dating: one …
State document, or official letter, in Arabic script. Refers to an amīr and his operations, and mentions something in relation to the bedouins (ʿurbān). The …
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Bill of rent for Shemuel Maṭāwīṭ. Dated: Sivan 53[..] AM = 1540–1639 CE. Location: possibly Cairo, the portion of the word that is visible before …
Informal letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to R. Ḥananel. He asks for a piece of rhubarb (rāwand), it seems for medicinal purposes.
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Small fragment from the top of a marriage contract (ketubba). Dated: 12 Nisan 1453 Seleucid = 9 April 1142 CE. Groom: Tiqva ha-Levi. Bride: [...]ār. …
Legal notes, possibly for a dowry list. Name: Sayyid al-Ahl b. Abū l-Munā. Dated: Monday, 16 Tammuz 1438 Seleucid, which is 1127 CE. Might be …
Small receipt or order for 4 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
Table of numerals.
Fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Dating: 1127–38 CE, due to the fact that we find part …
Small fragment containing a few words in Arabic script, possibly a name. Probably late.
Fragment (left half of recto, right side of verso) of an 11th-century business letter to Musa b. Yiṣḥaq of Sfax.
Letter in Ottoman Turkish. It begins "benim efendim" (my master). Several materia medica may be mentioned, including barberries (line 5), unless barbarīs means something else …
Legal record. Location: Damietta [אי כפתור]. Dated: [2]7 Tishrei 1467 Seleucid = 25 September 1155 CE. Somebody testifies that as he was returning from the …
List of about ninety persons receiving subsidies for their capitation tax obligation, similar to T-S K15.14 + T-S K15.66, Apps. 4-5. Many names and sums …
Letter/petition in Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. Begins, "yakhdum al-majlis al-sāmī...."
Letter from Mevasser (Bishr) b. David, Busir, to Abu l-Faraj Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrahim ibn ʿAllān, Fustat. Around 1052 (Gil). The writer wants to ship flax …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Contract for the sale of flax following the dissolution of the partnership. Tiqva …
Tax receipt, maybe. Difficult to read. Penultimate line contains a ḥamdala.
Verso continuing onto recto: Instructions for treasure in a village called אלכרבה (al-Khirba?) in the Fayyūm, in a known genre: treasure-hunting instructions. The toponym אלכרבה …
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Two legal queries addressed to Avraham Maimonides (Nagid) with his autograph responsa (r. 1205-1237 CE as Rayyis al-Yahūd and also with the title Nagid after …
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Long vertical strip of parchment. At the top of verso: allāh khayr muʿīn. There follow various versions of orders of payment. The first is headed …
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, apparently addressed to Makārim, who is probably the same as Abū l-Makārim b. al-Talmid Abū l-Riḍā. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter …
Fragment of a letter from Alexandria, probably from Avraham b. Yosef al-Sabag, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Contains information about merchandises that have …
One side: Names in Judaeo-Arabic, including Isḥāq b. Bahā b. Bahā the uncle (ʿamm) of Manṣūr. The other side: Accounts in Arabic script, naming Rashīd …
Piyyut.
Two fragments in Judaeo-Arabic, both mercantile, either accidentally stuck together or intentionally folded together. Both hands look familiar from the 12th-century India Books documents. The …
Petition of a widow whose only remaining son had been killed by the Ghuzz (Seljuks), while her four other grown-up sons had died as well, …
Possibly a fragment from a circular letter from Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, with the genealogy at the top of recto and part of the address (משער הישיבה) …