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Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 14 Jumādā II 634 AH (=1237 CE). Certifying that Yaʿqūb al-Yahūdī b. [...] al-Māwardī and possibly one other person …
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Bifolium from a rabbinic work dealing with ritual slaughter, possibly a responsum, quoting Exodus 12:6. (Information from CUDL)
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Verso: Colophon with an embellished signature by the scribe Yehosef b. Ṣedaqa. Written on Monday, 1 Elul. There are writing exercises in Arabic in a …
Verso: lists and accounts in Arabic script; with Coptic numerals. One of the lists is materia medica, e.g., chebulic myrobalan (kābulī), sarcocolla (ʿanzarut), barberry (barbārīs), …
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Narrow vertical strip of parchment containing a list of materia medica with quantities. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Legal document, letter of ḍamān, in Arabic script. Mentions al-Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn.
Business letter to Yiṣḥaq Ashkenazi (Avraham David does not think it is Luria).
Fragment of a Christian marriage contract written in Arabics on parchment and dated Muḥarram 554AH. The bottom half of the contract was reused as writing …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Account written in Alexandria on 3 Jumada I 1236 AH/February 1821CE. The basis of the transaction in silver kuruş is explained in the heading and …
Badly damaged letter in Ottoman Turkish concerning shipments of firewood. Dating: circa 1736 CE or later (per Hathaway) based on the mention of the Ottoman …
[ ] peder-i ʿazīzim //el-Ḥāc Muḥammed// ḥażretlerinin ḥużūr-i şerīflerine
[ ] selāmlar ve ḫayır dūʿālar olunduḳdan ṣoñra…
[ ] To my most honoured, esteemed, noble, dear father //al-Ḥājj Muḥammad//,
[ ] ...after offering greetings and sincere pr…
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Formularies for Arabic legal deeds. Recto is for a bill of (khulʿ) divorce.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). "A litigation concerning an inheritance. Two partners were operating a store and upon …
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Official correspondence having to do with provincial administration, mentioning farmers and their complaints and various amirs and "the ʿāmil" and "the qāʾid." Approximately a dozen …
Recto: 1. Judaeo-Arabic, Hebrew jottings and pen trials2. Draft of an opening formula to a halakhic question addressed to Rabbi Isaac ha-dayyan: מא יקול הדרת …
Agreement regarding a marital match. Location: Malīj. Dated: Thursday, 6 Iyyar 1803 Seleucid = 3 May 1492 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Natan …
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Legal document. Abū al-Bahā' al-Kohen Ibn al-Naḥḥāl (“the beekeeper”) undertakes to pay back his nephew Moshe ha-Kohen 66(9)0 silver dirhams, 200 dinars, and 100 irdabb …
Probably a legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions 10 dinars. Needs examination.
Legal document. Involving Abū Saʿīd Dāʾūd Ibn Shaʿya, Zekharya b. Tammām, Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan, and a house. Quite faded.
Deed of testimony. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1471 Seleucid = 23 May 1160 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe …
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Letter draft from the wife of a drunkard to "sayyidnā." In Judaeo-Arabic, beautifully written. She reports that her husband took her belongings, demanded from her …
Our [lord], may God prolong your life and the life of your children. Your slave is
in great distress due to the false accusations about me…
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A register copy containing accounts of three arrests. The first detainee is Faẓāʾil (Naẓāʾir?) b. Ismaʿīl who was arrested by Sayyid al-Ahl, Riḍwān, and al-Muẓaffar …
Recto (secondary use): Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions names such as: al-ʿAfṣī, the Jewish woman (al-yahūdiyya), Ibn al-ʿIrāqī, …
A formula of bill of partnership.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Crude hand. Mentions MKRM; Asʿad; a khirqa; a garment. Cf. T-S AS 186.97 (PGPID 39928).
Recto: work on masora in Hebrew. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script. One section is headed Friday (yawm al-jumʿa). Mentions commodities and quantities (qadaḥ, ūqiya). The …
Letter by Shelomo b. Meʾir Rosh ha-Seder, descendant of Meʾir Gaʾon, to Avraham Kahana b. Yiṣḥaq. (Information from CUDL)
Petition to al-Mustanṣir in Arabic, preliminary draft (possibly also in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya), complaining about the closure of the Palestinian synagogue in …
A few lines in Arabic script on a Hebrew document. Maybe a spell or a magical text. Needs examination.
List of names, roughly alphabetized. It is unclear for what purpose (a community census?). Dating: 11th century. Names include: Wahbān b. Isḥāq ʿAkkāwī; Wahbān b. …
State fiscal and administrative text from the Ayyubid period. Dated: 4 Rabīʿ II 595 AH = 3 February 1199 CE. Written in the form of …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله حمد الشاكرين
لما ورد امر المولا الطواشي الاسفه سلار الكبير بها الدين قراقوش المنصوري
الافضلی بخط کریم …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God, with the praise of those who give thanks.
When the order of our ma…
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Minute fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. May mention (not) blaming (the sender), and the tardiness of the work. But it is too fragmentary to …
Receipt of some sort. For Sahl b. Saʿd? Needs examination.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo b. Yehuda served as Gaʾon.
Recto: Order of payment for 5 11/24 dinars. Verso: probably Arabic accounts. (Information from CUDL.)
Bottom of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions pearls; Abū ZIkrī Ibn Sughmār; a request to buy camphor; his sister's son Ḥammād(?); …
Late accounts. Mentioning currencies of בונדוכי and קורונא.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Small note for legal purposes ("al-muʿtaraf bihī") detailing the value of two mattresses/sofas (martaba) (24 and 9 dinars respectively) and a female slave (18 dinars).
Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. "O you whose slave I am: the servant came to the house in the end, seeking you on account of …
Upper section of a partnership agreement, the lower half of which remains as T-S 10J4.19 – PGPID 16113 (join: Matthew Dudley). Date: the end of …
:(JTS MS 9160, fol. 7) Upper Section of Join