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Several fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with wide line spacing. From the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (r. 1140–1159 CE) to Sason (b. Meshullam) the …
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State document: internal memorandum. Mentions the proceeds to dīwān al-Farjī and the state official Jalīl al-Dawla. Join: Marina Rustow. T-S Ar.31.58 is dated 507. Possibly …
To our lord, the blessings of God be upon him, belongs the lofty resolution concerning that, if God wills.
Praise be to God alone, God bless our …
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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 …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Qujandīm (קגנדים), Egypt. Dated: Thursday, 16 Av 4705 AM = 29 July 945 CE. The document records a marriage gift of …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document with testimony from al-Sitt bt. Yosef b. ʿAmram and her mother Jamīla bt. Yaʿqūb describing that Yosef (the former’s father and latter’s husband) …
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Fragment from a large letter of introduction from the people of Granada (גרנטה) ‘the city of our master Shemuel ha-Nagid and his son Yehosef’, signed …
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IB V, 15. Letter from a certain Shelomo to Abū Zikrī Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing blessings for the Gaon Maṣliaḥ and the India trader Abū …
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Fragment from the top of a petition. May be addressed to Saladin (al-Malik al-Nāṣir). Reused for Hebrew seliḥot.
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Fragment from the top of a Judaeo-Arabic copy of a decree (manshūr) of the caliph al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, it seems his appointment of a certain …
Fragmentary letter to a friend mentioning repeatedly the writer's gratitude. The hand resembles that of the cantor Yedutun ha-Levi, supported by his mention of his …
Verso: Medical prescription in Arabic script.
Letter fragment (part of a few lines of recto. Legible phrases include "I ask my master for help. . . . al-jalīl adām allāh 'izzahu. …
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions Khalīfa [...] and Salām Jumayl. The word "kalb" appears twice, likely a reference to the "Abu Kalb" …
Recto: Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimuni Nagid, though, it should be noted that he is not named directly among the many honorific titles. Written …
Draft of a legal query addressed to a legal authority referred to as 'our lord and gaon' discussing the marriage of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū …
Paraliterary text, in Arabic script. Possibly an alchemical or medical text. The document at the bottom is probably part of a tale.
Legal document in Hebrew. Dating: Late (c. 16th century?). Mentions a R. Yeshuʿa and the owner of a store (בעל חנות) among a broader legal …
Long court record written and signed by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Also signed by Moshe b. Efrayim and Yosef b. Zekharya. Ṣedaqa had …
Verso: Letter to the judge Avraham ha-Ḥaver, perhaps Avraham b. Natan Av. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is a complaint and an appeal for help against …
Fragment of a partnership agreement. The trader [Abū l-Surūr] Peraḥya [b. Tiqva ha-Levi?] Ibn al-Amʿaṭ (known from several other documents from the second half of …
Letter from Yehoshuaʿ ha-Shofeṭ probably to the community of Aleppo. Dating: ca. 1020 CE (Gil) or late 1020s—early 1030s (Frenkel). Gil identified the sender as …
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Verso: Draft of a legal document, dated Thursday, 24 Tammuz 4978 = 19 July 1218 CE. Written shortly after the document on recto and in …
Recto: Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: [4]84[.] AM = 1079–89 CE. Husband: Tamīm b. Shelomo. Wife: Nafīsa bt. David. Signed by the ḥaver Yosef b. …
Medical text in Arabic script. Instructions on interacting with the patient, it seems.
Letter requesting that a friend of the sender's brother-in-law pick up his first marital document for him – 10 December 1947CE – Museum of Islamic …
Letter mentioning Abū l-Faḍl, Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Kurazī (?), Abū Manṣūr al-Tabib, Abū l-Ḥasan and the elder Jalāl al-Mulk (here not used as a title …
Account of the Qodesh: revenue from rent, ca.1040. The upper part of a leaf, writtten by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. (Information from Gil, Documents, …
dinars …. that I collected for the month of Ṣafar of that year
from Dār b. Ḥasan al-Ṣabbāgh: The room of Sahlān, 9 dir.
The room of Waḥ…
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Letter from Mūsā b. Hibatallāh al-Yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib ("the Jewish doctor") to an unidentified dignitary. In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century based on …
State correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 13 lines are preserved. May involve a tax farm (ḍamān) and includes the dates Ṣafar 439 AH …
. . . . . .بالجري في الديوان [
اطال الله بقاك المعدية(؟) [
وكانت اخره فوقها وما ا . . [
وقطعات الجسر مضمنة(؟) . . .[
الثاني من صفر سنة تسع…
Tax or provisional receipt. Mention of silver (waraq) and the month Jumād al-Awwāl on verso.
Accounts, probably. Table of names and numbers. In Hebrew script. Late.
The document begins with four faint lines from the end of a text concerning a halakhic problem and ends with the expression ישע רב , …
Still un-conserved, and the pages stick together. Contains at list two letters, one in Arabic and one in Judeo-Arabic. According to the catalogue it is …
Business letter from Avraham Kolon (קולון) to Yosef Ardiʿa (ארדיעה). In Hebrew. Dating: Monday, 5 Adar [5318 AM], which is 1558 CE (see A. David's …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a wasaṭ garment; Alexandria (spelled סכנדריה); [not] being able to go out; great distress (shughlun ʿaẓīm); something good that happened …
Fragment of a communal letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The middles of four lines are preserved, wide spacing between …
Pen trials containing phrases from a Judaeo-Arabic letter: "may al-muʿallim Shemuʾel deliver the load. . . pepper. . . the amount. . . the price …
Bifolios from an account ledger. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the handwriting of a prolific scribe (previously misidentified as ʿArūs b. Yosef). Dating: Probably 11th or early …
Business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi, in Istanbul, to Efrayim ʿAdda (עדה) and Eliyyahu Aylion (אאיליון), in Fustat/Cairo. In Ladino. There is an "AI" in Latin …
Deed of release. Location: Cairo Dated: Friday, 9 Nisan 1[6]88 Seleucid = 20 March 1377 CE, under the authority of the Nagid ʿAmram. In which …
Letter from Natan b. Yehuda of Alexandria to Sason b. Meshullam, a judge of Cairo. The letter contains many personal matters that reflect the milieu …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script.
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. No identifying information remains. "If it were not for the cold weather, I would have already sent it. May God …
Fragment from the top-right of a ketubah. The bride's name is Sitt-al-Bayt. Part of the dowry list is preserved. AA
Responsum on the type of vellum used for writing tefilin. Glick attributing the hand erroneously to Yosef b. Ya'aqov Rosh Haseder, but it is clearly …
Renderings of modern amulets.
Recto: end of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document, signed by Eliyyahu b. Moshe, Nissim [..], Ismaʿīl b. Khal[af], Shemuʾel b. Neḥemya Kohen, [… b. She]lomo, Barukh …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Letter?