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Booklet of medical recipes.
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Beginning of a letter, sent by Rav Sherira Gaon to Qayrawan. Dated ca. 970. (Information from Gil)
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with a few words preserved from the Arabic-script address on verso. Mentions Menaḥem, someone whom the sender thinks is stingy (wa-qad raʾaytuh …
Probably literary
Letter from Moshe (?)..סיפר to Avraham ha-Kohen. In Ladino. Dated 3 Kislev 5[..]3 AM. Candia is mentioned in line 6, as is the case with …
Qadish containing praise for an exilarch: “May He make great his welfare and the welfare of his generation like the water of the Euphrates. . …
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Left part of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim, who also wrote the letter enquiring about commercial matters and conveying greetings. Ca. 1055. Description from …
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Technical instructions in Hebrew. Magical?
Letter from Abū l-Surūr b. Ṭarīf to Abū Naṣr b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Informing him that Abū l-Najm Hillel had sent him five jars containing …
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Letter in Arabic.
Letter; Literary Fragment from a codex containing copies of the correspondence and poetry of Judah ha-Levi.
Letter from Yosef b. Shemuel al-Dani in Palermo to Isma’il b. Avraham in Damsis. The first part of the letter deals with the tragedy that …
My elder and master, may God prolong your life and make your welfare and happiness permanent. May he augment his bounty and spiritual gifts gra…
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Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The petitioner complains that the ىىن (= the fig trees? the straw?) have been moved …
Recto: fragment from a dowry list, in Judaeo-Arabic.
Small fragment mentioning Yosef ha-Shofeṭ
Letter affectionately addressed to "qurrat ʿaynī" Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn b. Yahūdā. Only the address, in Arabic script, is preserved. The rest of the fragment is …
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One page is a summary of accounts with Abū Riḍā. Mentions sugar and safffron among other commodities.
Recto: late letter prefaced by בס''ד and concluding with an elaborate (and illegible) signature. It politely addresses a friend, Yaʿaqov al-Tilimsānī, (from Tlamcen, Algeria), asking …
IB V, 15. Letter from a certain Shelomo to Abū Zikrī Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing blessings for the Gaon Maṣliaḥ and the India trader Abū …
Possibly a letter - needs examination.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably mercantile. Moderately wide space between the lines. Too faded to read much. Mentions sending something with Abū …
Late legal document in Hebrew having to do with a widow, the payment of a ketubba and other property arrangements. Needs further examination. ASE.
Legal document. Possibly a draft. Dated: Thursday, 21 Tammuz 1453 Seleucid = 16 July 1142 CE. Location: Cairo (al-Muʿizziyya), "at the seat (moshav = majlis) …
Letter of greetings written and signed by Abraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237), to Anatoli b. Joseph. (Information from CUDL)
Small receipt or order, for Maʿālī, for 6 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral …
A prayer for Karaite nasis
Deathbed will of a rich woman, made during the absence of her husband. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 13 April …
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Decree, probably. "... wa-amr amīr al-muʾminīn..." Reused between the lines for an Arabic-script text, apparently a Jewish exegetical work since there are Hebrew words interspersed.
Ketubba fragment. The groom's name is Mazal Ṭov ha-Levi, and the bride is Esther. The eight lines below in smaller handwriting contain a detailed account …
IB II, 71. Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab on behalf of the court, in Aden, to the druggist Hillel b. Naḥman (aka Sayyid al-Kull), in …
[lines 1-18 contain a poem, not translated in Goitein/Friedman]
Your distinguished letter, my lord, arriv…
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Verso: Letter in the same hand as recto, in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The sender swears by God (including by the name Ehyeh …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter addressed to to Moshe, probably Moshe b. Yehuda, the head of the community of Alexandria in the last quarter of the 15th century. In …
Letter from a woman to a female family member. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: Ibn al-Rayyis Abū l-B[arakāt] (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu); the addressee's sister; "he does not …
Petition in Arabic script to somebody called "mawlānā al-Ṣāḥib." Conveying a story about a brawl at the Dār al-Wakāla and people getting arrested. The petitioner …
Literary text in Arabic script.
Letter fragment (lower right of recto, lower left of verso) in lovely handwriting. Mentions the capitation tax, hunger, and charity. On verso a woman seems …
Recto: Bill of gift, in which a house in Qaṣr al-Šamʿ is given by [Isaa]c b. Abraham to his daughter Sittāna, the wife of Mevasser …
. [….]מאתים
2. [….]ם שעל נילוס
3. [….]אנה ל[..]שר
4. […ע]שרים וארב[ע]ה
5. [….]וע בקצר אדום
6. [….]ע[..]ד והיא החצר
7. [….]תה מצר מזרחי מגיע
8. [….]ת…
Ketubba, probably. Late. These are two addenda that detail various obligations of the groom Yaḥyā. Presumably the original ketubba itself was located on the upper …
First two lines of a large legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? The parties are Avraham b. Faraj ha-Kohen al-Raḥbī (known from …
Document describing a Damascene husband who had settled in Jerusalem and went bankrupt in Ramla, and who was being sued by his Egyptian wife. Her …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, badly damaged. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Only a few entries are legible relating to expenses and "copper" …
Decree. The ends of two lines are preserved. Mentions the cities [bi-]Minūf(?) and Ṣahrasht (=Ṣahrajt). Reused for a separate document in Arabic script (also on …
Marriage contract (ketubba) stating that the 200 zuz were "established by the holy college" and the dinars bear the sign "of the temporal ruler." Date, …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Yefet previously informed him about the arrival …
Communal enactment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1516 Seleucid = March/April 1205 CE. Supporting the authority …
Legal document mentioning the Nagid Yehuda b. Saʿadya. There are phrases about a man's legal competence (as in deathbed wills); quotes him as saying "my …
Medical recipes, e.g. for powders (sufūf) and lozenges (aqrāṣ). In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Ingredients include: chebulic myrobalan (ihlīlaj kābulī), dodder (aftīmūn), tragacanth (kathīrāʾ).
Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)