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Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The sender mentions requesting the 'marsūm' and something which came out to 700 dirhams; …
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two lists, probably colophon - needs examination. No image
Opening line of a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Three lines in Arabic script. Needs examination. Accounts?
Record of testimony about a deposit of a modaʿ, with only fragmentary date surviving. Dated Elul 14[..] Seleucid = 1088–1188 CE.
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Recto: Trousseau list. Mentions the elder Abū l-Faḍl, the groom. Goitein dates it to the late 12th or early 13th century.
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Long strip from the right side of a letter written and signed by Yosef b. Arah.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably concerning the book trade. The sender asks for a certain maqāma to be sent to him (for copying?); mentions the …
Accounts.
Legal document, damaged, perhaps regarding a partnership. Protagonists include Moshe ha-Kohen known as Abū ʿImrān. and Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlā. Witnesses include [...] ha-Kohen …
Elegy on the death of the wife [actually: the mother] of the Nagid Mevorakh by Sedaqa b. Yehuda in which condolences to the Nagid and …
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Letter from Manṣūr b. Sālim, in Alexandria, to his son Abū Najm, who has gone on an adventurous journey or had run away to the …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Several of the psalms in Judaeo-Arabic (לא לנו... אהבתי כי ישמע...). 19th century. The paper has red vertical lines, including one squiggly line.
Damaged letter. Recto is in Judaeo-Arabic, much faded. Mentions dār al-mushārif in the last line. Verso is in Hebrew. The writer is addressing אדוננו ירום …
Mercantile letter sent from Alexandria to ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Arabic script. The lines of Judaeo-Arabic on verso may be jotted accounts in the hand …
List of names (e.g., al-shaykh Abū ʿAbdallāh) and sums of money in Arabic script. Unclear if private or official. Evidently cut up and reused for …
Small fragment of an account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
List of "מצרופ/expenses" related to food/household items that is dated in Heshvan [55]97 AM which is 1836 CE. The fragment may have been folded and …
Announcement from the educational committee about the morning and evening classes for the summer of 1953, and a chart naming the teachers and the children …
Magical spells, 1 for arousing love (tahayyuj) and 1 for binding someone's tongue (ʿaqd lisān). Probably in the hand of Abū Sahl Levi (see tag). …
Ketubba fragment. The groom is Avraham. Probably a draft or formulary given the layout and that it is written on paper.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: After 1425 CE, as the ashrafī currency is used.
Responsum in the autograph of Maimonides, ca. 1168–1204 CE based on the years when he was active in Egypt.
Jottings perhaps in the hand of a young Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (on verso: "Berakhot wrote this"). On the lefthand page there are excerpts from a …
Medical recipe. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: no earlier than 1415 CE, based on the currency niṣf fiḍḍa (medin). The partners are Riḍā b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. …
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Literary. Sharṭ al-Alḥān wa-Uṣūl al-Tanqīṭ by Ibn Asher (ZL). (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Probably a legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions 10 dinars. Needs examination.
Piyyut.
Letter dated 3 Tevet 4975 AM (which is 1214 CE) from Abu l-Najm Hilal, in Alexandria, to his brother Abu l-Majd (Meir b. Yakhin), in …
Letter from Abū l-Bishr to Abū l-Bahāʾ. Also addresses Abū l-Riḍā on verso. In Arabic script. Dating: Likely ca. 13th or 14th century, based on …
Letter from Shelomo Mizraḥi or a female family member, in Alexandria, to Ibrāhīm/Brahim Aghion, in Cairo (Miṣr). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in slightly broken …
Official letter. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The hand may be known. Wide space between the lines. Addressed to a community, and containing a recommendation (or …
Letter in Hebrew giving a detailed account of a dispute, apparently in the Muslim courts, regarding the flax trade, a legal document, and the validity …
Verso: Communal accounts with revenue available and expenditures: 'A [public] Fast--29' 'Food for the poor (mezonot)--39.' Among the expenses, besides bread and salaries, are payments …
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Recto: Official document in Arabic script concerning administration of a district. Phrases include "al-[...] al-marfūʿa min al-aʿmāl.... fī dhālik alladhī uqṭiʿa... min al-jiha al-madhkūra.... in …
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of a petition addressed to al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Majīḍ (1132–49). Apart from the opening formula and the blessings on the …
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Bifolio containing a copy of a letter explaining various talmudic sources and referring to a collection of responsa(?) which the recipient had sent to אדוננו …
Small fragment of a legal document. Damaged and faded. Might be a bill of release. One party may be named Nissim al-[...].
Two unrelated Arabic script documents glued together for the sake of reuse. Lower document: State document. Only the first few words are preserved from ~12 …
Legal fragment. On parchment. Probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions collaterals; a period of 10.5 months beginning in Tishrei; granting somebody permission …
IB V, 42a. Recto (secondary use): An Abū Zikrī Kohen promissory note: "Abū l-Surūr is owed 3/4 dirhams."
Prognostications? In Arabic script.
Letter to the Head of the Yeshiva (or someone titled Gadol ha-Yeshiva). Seems to be reporting about a dispute and people's words and requesting guidance.
IB V, 47a. Legal record (#60). Deposition in court. Dated: Av 1467 Seleucid. Concerning repairs of a dilapidated wall belonging to two houses. Sitt al-Khāṣṣa …
Formal letter from Yūsuf to someone he titles Sayyidnā al-Rayyis [...]. Mainly the address (in Arabic script) is preserved, along with a few words in …
Recto: letter. The top half of the leaf contains greetings to various people (including several cantors), written in brown ink. The lower half consists of …