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Accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning gallnuts (ʿafṣ) and quantities of raṭls and dirhams.
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Court record in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Tuesday, 12 Elul 1515 Seleucid = 10 August 1204 CE. In which Sitt …
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Letter from Moshe b. Yaʿaqov, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, c. 1045-1096.
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Minute fragment from a letter. Only a couple words preserved (qad ʿalima allāh. . . wa-lā mā. . .)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 1822 CE (the 36th day of Matmonim = the counting of the Omer, Iyyar 5582) from Moshe ben Naʿim to …
Literary discussion, or possibly responsum.
Small fragment of a letter from Ibrāhīm b. Nāḥūm to Bū l-Surūr, in Fustat. Mentions Abū Saʿd. Almost nothing else is preserved.
A manuscript containing Yefet b. Eli's commentary on Deuteronomy. The colophon on the first page documents the dedication of this manuscript by a certain Yefet …
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Legal document, Qaraite. Conditional divorce. Dated: Monday, 21 Heshvan 5516 AM, which is 1755 CE. The document describes a quarrel between ʿOvadya b. Eliyyahu Rofe …
Beginning of a letter, mentioning the arrival of the addressee’s letter. Written on the 12th of Tishri. (Information from CUDL)
Official correspondence. 7 lines are preserved. Catalogued as a decree concerning tax payment, but needs further examination. Mentions "the release of these seed advances" (khalāṣ …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. Consisting almost entirely of instructions for commodities the sender wants the addressee to buy for him, with a …
Accounts in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script, together with Greek/Coptic numerals. In the Judaeo-Arabic section at the top of recto, mentions items such as soap, …
Ketubba fragment.
Writing practice in Arabic script with a drawing of a horse on verso. Looks late.
Letter in Arabic written on parchment that previously contained a Hebrew literary text. Another annotation in Judeo-Arabic was later added onto the verso of the …
Karaite betrothal deed. Location: Cairo. Dated 4 Sivan 5516 (1756 CE). Groom: Moshe b. Yahūda b. Aharon. Bride: Qamr bt. Israel b. Raṣon ha-Rofe. The …
Bottom fragment of a legal document, in Arabic script. Traces of folds on the document are visible. Needs examination.
Accounts or donation list in Hebrew. Late. The handwriting and the names are unusual, possibly pointing to an Iranian origin for this fragment. E.g., Samarqandi; …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is distressed: "If the girl is alive, I wish you to send me the letters, and if she has died, …
Recto: Legal document. Abū Manṣūr Ḥayyim b. Sahlawayh appoints Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. Shaʿyā, known as Ibn Tawwazī, to investigate accounts relating to the estate …
Bifolio with unidentified text in Arabic script. Most of it seems to be prayers; mentions ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. Might be documentary, like the beginning …
Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions transactions in different kinds of silk (maftūl, laʿāliʿ). Mentions a debt of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic regarding sums of money owed by Umm Waḥsh. There are also jottings of accounts in Arabic script, probably the earlier use of …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. The basmala and the beginning of the first line are preserved.
Recto: note written and signed by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū Saʿīd, asking to be sent sums of money paid by Abū l-Ḥasan. Verso: a …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, at least three entries relate to pepper. 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. There is a date 8 Ramaḍān on the …
Maimonides’ responsa to the sages of Lunel. Headings שאלה and תשובה. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. A very thorough release that involves Abū Zikrī al-Kohen. Unclear if any more details of the case are preserved. (NB: There may be …
Draft by Avraham b. Natan of a document appointing ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi ha-Parnas as the wakil of an orphan in Damietta, Sheʾerit b. Yefet …
Letter from Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when …
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This very fragmentary legal document mentions a community leader with the Hebrew honorific 'Sar ha-Sarim' ('Prince of Princes'); on the application of this title, first …
Bifolio with various different text blocks. On the righthand page of verso there is a Judaeo-Arabic retelling of the Book of Esther, along with the …
Announcement from the Jewish association of charity and brotherhood to participating members in the funds of al-Kūrātšīyūt[?] paid in their contributions from the previous year …
Receipt.
Recto: Legal testimony. Location: [Banhā] al-ʿAsal. Dated: 1584 Seleucid = 1272/73 CE, under the authority of [David I Maimonides]. None of the content of the …
Scroll, textual amulet with figures. Oversize.
Letter from Moshe b. Elʿazar the teacher (ha-Melammed) to Elʿazar the scholar (ha-Talmid). In Hebrew (for the introduction and address) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Possibly the settlement of a dispute between two men, one of whom is …
14 pages of a Persian treatise on poetic meters and general eloquence. The text of the treatise may be found on pages 3–4 and 7–18. …
Mercantile letter. The sender is in Asyūṭ or near there and mentions goods which are in demand there. Mentions waiting for a caravan. Needs further …
Trousseau list. Bride: Sitt al-ʿAshīr bt. Netanel ha-Zaqen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Cf. T-S J3.26 (PGPID 8426). (Information from Goitein’s index card.)
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Mercantile accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. A commodity is specified as "coarse" ghalīẓ) vs "fine" (rafīʿ). Mentions robes (thiyāb).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Dated on the verso 14 Heshvan (שנת ברחמים)– which is a gematria given that the month Elul is normally …
Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan ha-haver containing congratulations to Passover for Shelomo ha-Rofe and "the sons of the generous Yeshua" (Hebrew: "Benei Yeshua Ha-Nadiv"). Verso: …
מבורך בן נתן בן שמואל החבר
State document, probably a petition draft, in Arabic script. The text reads as "المملوك يخدم مجلس مولانا وسيدنا القاضي". There are other jottings in Arabic …
Story in Judaeo-Arabic. A merchant arrived in a certain city together with a female slave (jāriya). He came to a "qaysariyya" (on which see Goitein, …