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Typewritten copy of a ketubba from Essaouira (Morocco), 16 September 1891 (13 Elul 5651), with a note at the bottom, "this is the form of …
No Scholarship Records
Legal document? Probably from a book of legal formulas. Very damaged. Hebrew, Aramaic. AA
Report on the financial activities of an association – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 22, 23) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein …
Beginning of a letter sent to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. S[alāma]. (Information from CUDL)
Draft, written in two hands, of a letter of congratulations to Mevorakh’s “only son” for Passover. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS
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Table of names. Perhaps a contributor list that was never filled out with numbers.
Colophon of Saʿadya Gaon’s book on the laws of evidence and documents (Kitāb al-Shahadāt wa-l-Wathāʾiq) belonging to Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq, a judge in Ṣoʿan (= …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a legal case. Mentions a sheṭar matana and witnesses: פי מא כתב . . . שצ תכריקהם . . . …
Letter addressed to the Nasi Shelomo b. Yishay from the town of Bilbays containing local news and sending greetings to the Nagid David b. Avraham …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Featuring a feather or palm frond drawing on the verso.
List of contributors and payments in which some entries comprise both a name and a sum, whereas others have names only. Dating; probably 12th century. …
Document in Arabic script. Two very narrow vertical strips filled with rudimentary Arabic script. Likely magical, but this is based entirely on appearance rather than …
Legal fragment mentioning a certain Shelomo and 21 dinars. On parchment. (Information from CUDL)
Responsa concerning various topics in civil law. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document written by a Muslim notary, or two legal documents written on recto and verso respectively. Very little preserved: part of the left side …
Unidentified state document in Arabic script. Recto: The two lines near the top refer to [al-juy?]ūsh al-manṣūra wa-l-majlis al-[...]. There are several further text blocks …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Literary text, in Arabic script. Probably a prayer or some sort of instruction manual. Contains a few Quranic verses like "al-Nabī al-Ummī", and "wa-lā ḥawlā …
Accounts in Arabic on verso with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era.
Maimonides Mishne Torah, Sekhirut, 6. AA
Religious matters and exegesis – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 84) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …
Letter to Yehuda Daud in which the writer references previous correspondence with the addressee and mentions exile (גולה). EMS From ʿEli Sanbakro (סנבקרו), c. 16th …
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Copy of a responsum of R. Semah Dayyana de-Baba (Judge of the Gate, active ca. 870 CE). The transcription below begins on line 14 of …
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Small fragment in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Upper part of list, in the hand of judge Shemuel b. Saadya (see Bodl. f56.43c), on the reverse side of a document issued on the …
Four minute fragments with Arabic. Probably all literary.
Letter addressed to Abū Saʿd. In Arabic script. The sender begs for an urgent loan of 5 dirhams, because he is sick. He will try …
Legal document in Hebrew, perhaps a draft or beginning of a copy. In a which a woman, possibly Jawhara bt. Maḥfūẓ (whose name appears at …
Accounts arranged according to parshiyot and months. Dating: probably 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography. A variety of names are mentioned, such as: Moshe …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Last decade of Kislev 1529 Seleucid, which is November 1217 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. The virgin Sitt …
Part of a legal document; much of the date is lost. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. The name Abū Saʿīd is …
Fiscal account or receipt. Mentions a name at the top and mentions wheat further down. Needs examination.
Medical text in Ladino.
Fatimid tax receipt.
Upper left corner of a bill of release given by Abū Saʿd Mevorakh to his maternal aunt Gharb; also mentions his mother. Concerning the rent …
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Poetic work involving the caliph (amīr al-muʾminīn) and enslaved women (jawārī). Merits examination.
IB IV, 23 (ח31). Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Barukh, Almeria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Lucena. Dated: Monday 29 Av 4898 (August 8, 1138). The …
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Accounts, mentioning several sums of dinars and the name Yosef and al-Naṣrānī. Small fragment. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very neat. On verso there is a calendar in Hebrew script, listing years in the 12th century CE …
Accounts or shopping list in Judaeo-Arabic. "Green fūl" appears in the upper right.
Ff. 1v-2r: calendrical work on the 259th lunar cycle (= 1142–61 CE) written for the cantor ʿOvadya b. Aharon he-ḥaver. The work is in Hebrew …
Part of a ketubba. Bride: Luʾluʾa bt. Shemarya (לולוה, meaning Pearl). Groom: Yiṣḥaq Kahana the cantor. Dated 4[8]44 AM = 1083/84 CE. Location: ‘on the …
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Minute fragment from a list of debts. Late
List in Judaeo-Arabic, written with a graphite pencil. The writing method and paleography help date this fragment to the 19th-century. The list names חנין סמען …
A few words in Garshuni (Arabic language in Syriac script): al-r[abb?] (=God) and jamīʿ al-bilād ("all the lands"). Information from Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni …
Accounts. Needs examination.
Legal queries, one of them apparently concerned with sharing in partnerships. (Information from CUDL)
Approximately 8 lines of unidentified Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Might be a book list since the last two lines seem to begin with the word "tafsīr."
IB IV, 16 (ח20). Small fragment of a letter from Yosef b. Avraham, a merchant of Aden, to a certain Abū Saʿīd (likely Abū Saʿīd …