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Contract in which Ṣedaqa b. Muvḥar, a scholar known from a number of manuscripts dating to 1076–86 CE (e.g. T-S 20.110 (PGPID 1774)) gives 50 …
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Letter from a certain Efrayim concerning consignments of wheat and sums of money, written in a very polite form with many Hebrew phrases, among them …
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Deed of sale for a residential building and its upper-story apartment in the Jewish quarter of Cairo. Dated: in the first third of Nisan 542[4] …
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Marriage contract – 5690AM – 1930CE – (number 58) – in Hebrew and Aramaic in manuscript and print. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
No Scholarship Records
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Perhaps a release granted from a man to a woman.
Business and/or family letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower part only). The sender reports that he arrived in Tinnīs. Greetings to the teacher Sulaymān, to …
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…
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Business letter to Mevorakh b. Avraham Ibn Sabra. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the margins of verso (the first page), there is a price list for commodities …
Small fragment from a legal deed. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Only a few words remain. Probably a bill of release. Mentions the name Ṣedaqa/Ṣadaqa. On …
16 small fragments, most appear to be in Judaeo-Arabic, difficult to discern significance of any of them. Some fragments are printed and thus fifteenth-century or …
Recto: Bill of release. Dating: 1094–1111 CE, as it was written during the period in which Mevorakh b. Seʿadya was known as Sar ha-Sarim (this …
Accounts, probably. List of various items and values in Judaeo-Arabic. The items include tin (qazdīr), violet (zahr banafsaj), and sulfur (kibrīt).
Letter from Yosef b. Labrāṭ al-Fāsī (identified on the basis of the handwriting), probably writing from Qayrawān, to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal. Refers to …
Document in Arabic script. It seems imposing alimony of 1/2 dirham per day on ʿEzra b. Menaḥem, the ex-husband of Jawhara bt. Yusr, who has …
Recto: Account of Abū l-Faraj the physician upon his arrival from Damietta. Dating: ca. 1130 CE (based on the dating of verso). In Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic …
Minute fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi under the authority of Masliah Gaon, with a partial …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Fragment of a deed of release (שטר אביזאריה).
Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (vertical strip from the right side). Probably concerning payments to a …
Possibly a letter. Mentions [...] al-Baṣrī. (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto: List of names. In Judaeo-Arabic, followed by quantities of grain in waybāt. Very faded. Names include Abū l-Surūr; Abū Zikrī b. Moshe; Abū ʿImrān; …
Arabic, literary.
List of materia medica with weights. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Small fragment of an official document (petition or decree?): والله تعالى وعدل هذه الدولة ما يقوم . . . (Information in part from CUDL.)
Dowry list and nuptial gift of a rich bride. In the hand of Natan b.Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Dating: ca. 1128–53 CE.
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Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, to Yeshuaʿ b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. Mentions Abū Ibrāhīm (Isḥāq) b. Khalaf, who had written to tell al-Tāhartī that he …
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Legal query in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Might be sent to Avraham Maimonides. Regarding two partners who had quarreled regarding a certain …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentioning Ḥusayn or Ḥassūn. (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto: liturgical composition, followed by a genealogical list, starting with the Nasi Sar Shalom and going back seven generations (Sar Shalom b. Pinḥas b. Hodaya …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on vellum spanning two leaves (and three pages) that already contained literary text in Hebrew. The first page of the letter …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dated: 4 Tammuz = 18 June 1059 CE, according to Gil. The …
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Small fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.
Beautiful fragment of a legal document from Alexandria in the hand of the court clerk Mawhub. A father gives an entire house to his son …
Very faded text in Hebrew, probably literary.
Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise with some corrections in a different hand.
Legal query with the autograph responsum of Yehuda ha-Kohen Rosh ha-Seder b. Yosef (aka "the Rav"). Yehuda b. Yosef was a student of Rabbenu Nissim …
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Medical prescription.
Letter to a certain Abū Saʿd ('the dear boy') likely from his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century (paleographic dating). Contains inter alia a …
Letter addressed to a Nasi (השר הנכבד היקר פאר הנשיאות). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Congratulating him on the birth of a son possibly named Shelomo.
10 pages of Hebrew poems and/or piyyutim. Headings are in Ladino (e.g., "el triste amador") and Hebrew.
Fragment of a marriage contract between ʿEzra b. Menahem and Jawhara bt. [...], a virgin. Dating: mid-11th century, since ʿEzra b. Menaḥem signed T-S 10J28.2 …
Fragment of an unidentified treatise, written on a pair of conjugate leaves. It includes the beginning of the nineteenth faṣl, on the anatomy of the …
12 pages of calendrical writing, with molad calculations and Islamic calendar conversions, for the first decade of the 19th century.
Letter from Elḥanan b. Shemarya to the community of Malīj. He has received the petition (ruqʿa) of the Alexandrian woman whose divorced husband is not …
Letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic. First two lines only. Addressed to 'my father Abū l-Faraj.'
Bifolium from a Judaeo-Persian commentary, including sections on Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, and Lamentations.