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Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 ounce of chewy candy (ʿaqīd).
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Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 raṭl of rose and lemon syrup.
Note in Arabic script, including a basmala the word "al-qāḍī" (the judge). On recto there is piyyuṭ.
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The addressee is greeted with many respectful titles. Mentions Abū l-Bayān al-Ṭabīb (the physician). AA. ASE.
Involves a woman named Sitt al-ʿIrāq. (Information in part from CUDL)
Dating: ca. 13th or 14th century based on handwriting. Mentioning [Reuven?] al-Kohen, [...] b. Yosef, and maybe Abū l-Bahāʾ.
Business letter addressed to Avraham b. Shanju and Shelomo al-Shaqar. Dating: First half of the 16th century.
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Draft of the beginning of a legal document, mentioning a certain Abū ʿAlī known as בן אלמכבה. The scribe appears to have written אלטחין in error instead of אלטארחין.
Address on verso in Arabic script: to Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. [...] al-ʿAṭṭār. (Information from CUDL)
Responsum; apparently sent to Abraham Maimonides; on verso Abū ʿAlī is mentioned. The dating is c. 1213–1237 CE given that Abraham Maimonides is referenced with the title "Nagid."
Mentions the fees of the market (rasm al-sūq). ((Information in part from CUDL.)
Yehuda to Mevorakh, with a long Hebrew introduction full of biblical citations (such a Psalms 133:1 and 128:4) and allusions to biblical verses. (Information from CUDL)
Letter / order of payment addressed to al-Ḥ[akham] Yosef asking him to send the money 'quickly quickly.'
Document with list of names, either with remarks such as ‘will testify’ or with numerals, mentioning Ibn Zurayq; Abū l-Surūr Ibn al-Kohen, Khallūf and Sitt (or Bayt?) Nissim. (Information from CUDL)
Mentions someone who went to live in "the city" ("al-madīna" = specifically Palermo?). It will be difficult to extract more information without a join.
Note/order addressed to Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Instructing him to collect four dirhams from the bearer, the 'boy' (ṣabiyy) of the sender.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning a judge and his paternal uncle Yosef, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ and several sums of dinars. (Information from CUDL) Arabic-script stamp on the verso with ___ Suleyman.
Legal document mentioning Abū l-[...] and probably Sitt al-Sāda, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE).
Small fragment with part of a list of names, including Yosef Hibat[allāh], Ḥalfon b. Y[efet?], ʿUthmān, and referring to the Palestinian Yeshiva (Geʾon Yaʿaqov).
Small fragment of a letter in the hand of Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī (early 13th century). Likely related to T-S AS 157.364 and T-S AS 157.365.
Mentioning Abū l-Fakhr al-Kātib... a man known as Ibn Ayyū[b]... and a woman known as [...].
Fragment of a letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic, praising the benefactions of a group of people (al-sāda). אלא בהם... פאלמכארם תצדר ענהם טבעא ותלקא[...]
Yehuda ha-Kohen; an amīr; and the term "al-mutawalliyīn." Likely an indirect join with T-S AS 168.223 (PGPID 38193).
Mentions ha-Maskil and al-Amīn. T-S AS 169.122 and T-S AS 169.124 may belong together.
Related to BL OR 5566D.24 + T-S 10J16.8 (PGPID 491) and contains more information about Ḥalfon's oath and the matter with the Persian Nasi. Join: Alan Elbaum. Needs examination.
Letter in Arabic script, from Hārūn b. Mūsā al-Kohen to his 'father' (yā wālidī) in Fustat.
Receipt or order of payment for Manṣūr Ibn al-Zaʿīm (same as in T-S AS 176.451 (PGPID 37337)).
Numerous names are listed, such as Samawʾal al-Khayyāṭ (the tailor).
Original use: Decree, of which only the phrase "amīr al-muʾminīn is preserved." The document is reused for a internal state report for which see different entry.
Informal note from Eliyyahu to a certain Kohen asking him to give Umm ʿAzīza the sister of al-Makīn one dirham so that she can buy two pullets.
Mentioning a variety of names, such as: Esther Medina, ʿAbd al-Rāhīb Mūsa, ʿAbdallah Mūsa, Yaʿaqov Barqī, among others.
Recto mentions Aḥmad b. [...] al-Khawlī(?) . . . . wa-l-nawwātiyya (something to do with the sailors?).
Headed, "One of the governors (ʿāmil min ʿummāl) of Homs wrote to ʿUmayr(?) ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz(?). . . ." This is followed by an extract from a letter and two pages of poetry.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic that mention Ottoman-era jadid coinage. 16th- or 17th-century. Along the recto's upper border the name Yosef appears with a possible surname: שוריפה = Sorifa[?].
Involving a woman named Sitt al-Sāda and a sum of 50 dinars.
Mentions 5 dinars and alludes to a conflict between two people. No names or details.
The cipher was cracked by Gideon Bohak in 2025 and the document will be published by Bohak, Oded Zinger, and Alan Elbaum. Recto: Medical prescription in Arabic script.
First page of the Cairene Purim Scroll (Megilat Purim), the Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic verses alternating, mentioning the date 5284 AM (= 1524 CE).
The second line of the fragment is in a thicker script than the first, and reads "al-iqtāʿ in shāʾa llāh." Reused on verso for a piyyut.
Mentions two people and their brother; a house called Dār al-Jazīra; and a woman.
Contains the phrase שבוקין כדת משה וישראל. Almost nothing else is preserved.
The other side has, in large letters in a chancery hand, "... al-dīwān ... fī dhālika in shāʾ llāh."
One side is headed [...] al-Tawārīkh and gives three different dating systems for the year ~1889 CE.
Abū l-Faraj and Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān al-Yahūdī. Needs examination for content.
One is a list of foods and materia medica. E.g., almond, pistachio, cardamom, tamarind, labdanum, costus, mahlab, saffron.
A very thorough release that involves Abū Zikrī al-Kohen. Unclear if any more details of the case are preserved.
The sender's name looks like [...] b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Faraj. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Only a few words are preserved: ...[al-du]khūl wa-l-khurūj ilayhim...
One side is headed "account of the qāḍī al-Muḥyī(?)."