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Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
No Scholarship Records
Tiny fragment of a legal document mentioning Ḥiyya ha-Kohen b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment containing a few words in Hebrew script, including the name Shimʿon.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter addressed to al-Asʿad Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-Munajjā, in Fustat. Only the address remains, which is in Arabic script. Dating: likely late 12th or …
Inventory of the books and furnishings of the Palestinian Synagogue received by Ṭāhir b. Maḥfūẓ the beadle (al-khādim). Dated: Ḥeshvan 1498 Seleucid = October/November 1186 …
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Business letter to Barhūn b. Mūsā. Reused for accounts (by Barhūn?). Long but very faded. Needs further examination for content. (Information in part from CUDL)
Literary text in Arabic.
Letter from Faraj, the “freed” of Barhun (ha-Tāhartī?) from the Maghreb, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal and his sons, Fustat; ca. 1015. Regards a …
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Fragment of a poetic letter in Hebrew. Mentions 'our master . . . Shelomo' and ha-Rav Moshe b. Sheʾrit and "your slave Yiṣḥaq" (probably the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Tinnīs. He wants to borrow from “the Great Rav” (a Tunisian rabbi in Egypt) his copy of the …
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Letter, probably. Damaged and rubbed. One line reads كل احد شغله والمملوك ما يستطيع(؟).
The main text is in Ladino and Hebrew, perhaps a sermon or exegetical work. Verso also contains: the draft of the beginning of a Ladino …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Letter; from Maʿānī b. Abū Maslūk, mentioning a certain Isḥāq. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment. Recto: Few words from opening of a vocalized letter to ‘our Nagid David’. Verso: letter, informing sayyidna about an halakhic issue. AA
Petition from Ṭāhir b. Isḥāq, a poor man from Alexandria, to the amir Qarāqūsh Bahāʾ ai-Dīn b. ʿAbdallāh al-Asadī (his nisba derives from his having …
The slave
Tāhir ibn Isḥāq
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the lofty, mighty and sublime presence, the most g…
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Small fragment from a ketubah.
Recto: Fragment of a legal document, referring to transactions and mentioning Ibn al-Bayrūtī and ‘in the hand of Abū ʿAlī ha-Levi’. Verso: jottings. (Information from …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Mentions Mawlāya l-Qāḍī (letter?).
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Calligraphic (chancery?) hand, but no wide space between the lines. 6 lines from the middle of the letter are preserved. …
Legal document in Arabic script.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1040s CE. Concering a commenda partnership between Faraḥ b. Yosef known as Ibn Bānūqa (who also features in CUL …
Letter from Yom Ṭov and Shelomo Kastiel (? קשתיאל) to family members including a mother. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th or 16th century. Needs …
Poetic epistle addressed to the poet and man of letters Yehuda ha-Levi, who was also a well-to-do physician and devoted time to public welfare and …
Likely a receipt or order. Small scrap with two lines preserved. Needs examination.
Likely a letter in Arabic script. Very faded/damaged.
Letter in the hand of the judge Shela b. Mevasser on behalf of the community of Alexandria addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, in …
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Small letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen.
Medical treatise in Hebrew.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Neatly written, large, and detailed. Evidently he wrote much more neatly when submitting accounts to his partners …
Literary. In Hebrew, with calendrical diagrams.
Accounts for the distribution of bread for the same period as in T-S K15.25 (1241/42 CE), for the thirteenth through the eighteenth weeks of the …
Original use: Fiscal account in Arabic script, mentioning wheat and various districts and an ʿāmil. Needs examination.
Order of payment. Hand of Eliyyahu the Judge? Al-Shaykh al-Kohen is asked to pay a pound of something. The name Hibatallāh appears on verso.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Tuesday, 7 Elul 1425 Seleucid, which is August 1114 CE. Inventory of the estate …
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Bifolio from a ledger of business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Commodities include: camphor, civet, cardamom, clove, wood, brazilwood, and …
Fragment from the beginning of a petition written on behalf of a woman to a notable. Same hand as (but probably not a join with) …
Letter sent by Mubarak b. Musa b. Ibrahim to Rabbi Nissim b. Shela, informing him that he was going to send to Tinnis the goods …
Recto: part of a dowry list (bedding and copper section). Verso: copy of a ketubba, probably not related to dowry list on the recto as …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Very deferential. Twice mentions "the late Mujāhid." It is cataloged in the Halper catalog as "part of a letter or …
Recto: Jottings in Arabic script, apparently drafts of phrases from a letter. Verso: A few numbers in Hebrew script (calculations of some kind? calendrical?); a …
Few strokes, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Recto: Legal testimony. Dated Sunday, 2 Shevaṭ 14[..] Seleucid (or 146[.]?). The protagonists are Abū l-Fakhr and Abū Saʿd b. Naḥman. The witnesses state that …
Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic script. الله تعالى في ذلك... قد تعطل شغله في هذه... قليل جدا وقد...خمس احمال صحبة اصغر مماليكه.
Continuation of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic (likely the last of multiple pages). The sender is rejoicing at an unexpected happy turn in a serious affair. …