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Ladino literary work.
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Magical fragment. In Arabic script. Including epithets of God (Ḥayy, Qayyūm, Dā'im, Dayyūm, Huwa Huwa) and Quranic verses (idhā qaḍā amran innamā yaqūlu lahu kūn(!) …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1414 Seleucid, which is 1102 CE. Groom: Meshullam b. David. Bride: Sutūt bt. Ṭahor, the divorcee of Yefet …
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Legal record (#28) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 7r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 27-29) Folio 7v
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿAruṣ b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Some of the pages are crossed out with vertical lines.
Letter. From a woman (see lines 13–15), possibly in Bilbays, to the Nasi Shelomo b. Yishay. Dating: ca. 1240 CE. This letter was likely dictated. …
Letter in which the sender addresses a cantor, who has been sick, and whom the writer has not recently seen, and from whom he now …
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Garshuni text. Only 2.5 lines are preserved. It is difficult to make out more than "...idhā... al-wuḥūsh taftaris..." Cf. Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in …
Letter from the Yeshiva Ahava VeAhva reporting on the increased participation in services – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 49) – in Arabic. (information …
Court record. Dated: Middle decade of Ṭevet 1417 Seleucid, which is December 1105 CE. Location: Fustat. Describing a married woman—Mudallala aka Sitt Baghdād—depositing part of …
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On recto an account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Needs examination. On verso a Bible citation possibly written by Natan b. Avraham Av. At …
Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo_Arabic. . . . אללה וטלעת . . . קבל אלמרכב . . . אלאכרם . . . …
Unidentified Hebrew; Arabic jottings in the margin, including one document draft mentioning Ibrāhīm b. Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Yahūdī. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Legal or official document, probably some sort of a receipt, in Arabic script. Baqā b. Bū l-Fakhr owes some sums to Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. …
Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan to Elazar ha-Kohen expressing sympathy at the death of his father. The writer notes that he had already sent a …
Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL) Dating: likely ca. 13th century or later.
Late legal documents in Hebrew from Cairo, probably drafts of what resulted in a single legal deed. This seems to be the case because the …
Small fragment of a letter/petition. Recto is probably the tarjama: [aṣghar] mamalīkihī Hibatallāh b. Bū Naṣr. Verso is probably part of the address: hadrat... (Information …
Petition from a Jewish man to a Muslim general (al-isfahsalārī > isfahsalār), possibly named Bahāʾ al-Dīn or Bahāʾ al-Dawla. Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: probably …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a decree fragment. "محوطة بالسعادة واليمن في الاصـ". On verso there is a list of piyyutim.
Shipping certificate of Yosef b. Khalfa. Summer 1062. Details about textile products to send with boxes of crocus. The same goods are mentioned in Bodl. …
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Legal document with testimony of Farah b. Yusuf Banuqa regarding shipments to Qayrawan, which were received by Barhun b. Moshe Tāhartī.
Late family/business letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Elʿazar Sadīd. He greets numerous people including Yūsuf Shoshan, Doña Najma, the boy Aharon Shoshan, the brother David Sadīd, …
Story in Judaeo-Arabic. Reminiscent of the 1001 Nights, in that they tell of a clever woman in the palace of the king, answering riddles, etc. …
Probably an Ikhshīdid fiscal document. See T-S NS 139.65 (PGPID 23643), belonging to the same Hebrew reuse. ASE
Printed receipt from Verein Gemiluth Hasadim in Jaffa (חברת גמילות חסדים עה״ק יפו ת״ו), with details filled in by hand. For a sum of gurush …
Table of Greek/Coptic alphanumerals in a very disorderly scribal hand. Medieval-era.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Dating: Late, probably 16th century. Mentions Yehuda קאשטורו, perhaps a variant of the surname Castro. Possibly mentioning an enslaved …
Literary, Arabic. Concerning calendar or astronomy.
Responsum, late. Published by Glick in his Ottoman Responsa book.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender regrets his departure.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) concerning payments in installments, and the names Yefet and Benaya(?). Dating: mentions Sivan …
Short letter to Abū Naṣr, asking for money both on account of the rent or wages of Avraham and on account of the capitation tax. …
Recto: Two fragmentary legal records or drafts, perhaps from a court notebook. The lower one refers to Abū l-Maḥāsin [...] b. Abū l-Riḍā [...] and …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto: Decision of the court on repairs in a compound partly owned by the Qodesh. Dated: …
(1-2) .... and if it is not carried out, and if …. not
…. and his children in a grave danger of ….
assessment, (in which) he proposed…
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Letter of appeal for charity from Avraham b. Yitro of Damascus (al-Dimashqī). He opens with lengthy Hebrew blessings, then describes his sufferings (poverty, dependents, capitation …
Verso: Unidentified document (accounts?) in Arabic script. Mentions "qinṭār wāḥid" Recto: Qinnot, possibly in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: Late, probably Ottoman era. Mentions mainly Christian names: ʿAbd al-Masiḥ b. Yūshaʿ(?); Ṣalīb(?) the son of …
Book list in the hand of Shelomo ha-Levi, mentioning, among other items, Mishna tractates and their gemara (occasionally specifying the type of script), a commentary …
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Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Involving the will of a deceased man; a woman, …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably early 13th century. The writer complains that the Rayyis does not trust him to deliver letters for him, thus he …
Letter from Shemarya b. Yakhin, in al-Maḥalla, sent to Shemuel ha-Nagid dealing with the production of cheese in Bashmur and its transport to Fustat. (Information …
Marriage document in Hebrew. Late. Possibly just a formulary, as it is introduced with the header "זהו טופס." Currencies: Venetian peraḥim and muayyadis/medins.
Accounts.
Administrative document(s), probably. On one side: ʿAbd al-Muḥsin b. Ḥasan 1 dinar waẓīfa. On the other side: Muslim b. Salāma 1 dinar waẓīfa. There are …
Accounts in Arabic script.
Late accounts, mentioning Eliyyahu Palombo and a Shtiwi, the Ottoman currency fonducli, and a candelabra (shamʿadān).
Begging letter from a certain Yosef (top right-hand corner) to Natan b. Yefet known as Ibn Tinnīsī (top left corner). In Hebrew. The writer complains …
Letter from a community to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. They think the addressee for whatever it is that he sent a Parnas to tell them.
Debt contract. Location: Minyat Ashna. Dated: first third of Tammuz 1461 Seleucid = June/July 1150 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. …