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A Palestinian marriage contract from Ḥaṣor. The groom ([...] b. Yefet) is to pay 10 dinars as the “security” of the marriage contract. (Information from …
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Fragment from the end of a legal document. Mentions [...] b. Menaḥem and Hillel b. Yeshuʿa and the phrase "four cubits of land" (used in …
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Fol. 3v: Brief jotted accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Nāṣirī silver. There is also an ownership note for Moshe b. Hillel the descendant of [...]. This …
Responsa. A query whether milk milked on the Sabbath may be sold. Almost identical with T-S 13J9.10. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
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Accounts in Hebrew. Late. People include: Moshe Dammuhi and Moshe Abudarham. The currency cedid may appear.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Adar I 1437 Seleucid, which is 1126 CE. Abū l-Munā al-ʿAṭṭār Yaʿaqov b. David ha-Parnas …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Order from a higher official, or a copy of one. Issuing instructions about looking after the property of 'the two noble mosques,' something to …
Letter of appeal for charity. Addressed to Efrayim he-Ḥaver ha-Meʿulle. EMS
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Biblical exegesis of Micah 6:8, perhaps part of the preparation of a sermon. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
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List of names and accounts for the week of Mishpaṭim. Names include Ṣefanya Kohen, Yaʿīsh Shāmī, Shalom Sambari, Raḥamīm Maghribī, Khiḍr Barakāt, al-Ḥaver Khiḍr Kohen, …
Recto: Letter from the daughter of Rāfiʿ al-Ḥarīrī to the Nagid asking for a new veil for the holidays. Dating: probably ca. 12th century. She …
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Recto: Accounts in Arabic. Verso: Probably a bookseller's account, who is selling off the Hebrew books that belonged to R. Yosef ZL, including Halakhot Pesuqot …
Letter from Dāʾūd Ibn Shuqayr, probably in the Levant, to his son Shemuel b. Dāʾūd Ibn Shuqayr, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Catalogued as 15th …
IB V, 2 (ח17). Letter from Abu Zikri Kohen, representative of the Merchants in Fustat, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Aden. Dated: Adar I …
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Legal deed. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4849 AM = 1088/89 CE. In which a woman, whose identity is established in court by ʿEli ha-Kohen, appoints an …
Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to an unknown recipient, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: written in mahzor 275, which spanned the years …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script (with the words שער הנשיאות in Hebrew) to a Nasi, by ʿImrān b. Muhājir. According to Goitein's note card, it …
المملوك الاصغر
عمران بن مهاجر
يقبل الارض بالمقر الشريف المولوي النبوي اعاد الله علينا
وعلى اولادنا بركاته واعتقادنا في شرفه وفي اعراقه
الز…
Marriage-related document, small fragment. Only a few words are preserved:ועל ירתי בתריי לאגבויי לאנתתי דא מכל שפר ארג.
Ownership note: "This daftar belongs to Ḥasan ha-Zaqen the shaliaḥ of our master David ha-Nasi" the exilarch.
Arabic script (VMR)
Legal fragment. Mentions a debt of 50 dinars.
Literary text in Judaeo Persian - ENA 2627.106, 110-111 appear related.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th century. Headed by the motto הנה אל ישועתי. Fragment (upper part only). The occasion of the letter is to …
Letter from Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), probably in Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), probably in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. …
Letter from Yeshua ha-Kohen b. Yosef in Alexandria to the community of Fustat. The handwriting is Yeshua's and the letter is written in rhymed prose. …
Literary treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Soteriological: recounting the wars heralding the messianic era, involving Mashiaḥ ben David and Mashiaḥ ben Efrayim. Mentions the Byzantines, the Franks, …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Mūsā b. Futūḥ, in Alexandria (bi-thaghr al-Is[kandariyya?]).Same cluster: T-S AS 178.69 (PGPID 36898) T-S AS 180.22 (PGPID 37373) T-S …
Accounts in Arabic script.
Writing exercises in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
Letter from Shemuel Skandari. In Hebrew. Dating: No earlier than 14th century. Preceded by a decorated ב״ה. The writer addresses his older brother (אל אחי …
Legal formularies. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Likely belongs with ENA 3755.6.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One of the headings refers to "its planting (zirāʿatuhū) suggesting an agricultural context.
Legal document, but could also be a state document because of the various ʿalāʾim (registration marks) on the top of the document and the mention …
Legal document. Tiny fragment. In the hand of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active c.1181–1209).
Fragment of a letter from Sitt Rayḥān to (her husband) [Eliyyahu] b. Zekharya, probably in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a woman's mother-in-law and a woman's …
Upper part of a legal document. Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū Mansur al-Kohen, known as Ibn Qasāsa, receives from Avraham b. Masliah and Elʿazar b. Menaḥem …
Letter to Shemuʾel, mentioning Yaʿaqov Sonso (שנשו) (c. 15th-16th century). (Information from CUDL)
Letter of praises for Yehuda b. Saʿadya, mentioning also his brother the future Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya.
Magical document with a humanoid figure and Greek alphabets.
Recto: letter of recommendation from Jerusalem to all cities on behalf of Shabbetay Karira b. Raphael (שבתי כרירא בן רפאל). Dated Adar 5596 AM = …
Esther 2.
Enigmatic fragment with both Hebrew and Arabic script. Needs examination.
Verso: Accounts including names such as [...] b. Makārim, Abū l-ʿAlā', Abū l-Bahā', Abū l-Rabīʿ, and Ṭāhir.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic in a crude hand. Addressed to a community or group of elders (שיוככם שצ). The sender reports that he …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The paleography helps to estimate the dating of this fragment as sixteenth- or seventeenth- century.
Popular literature in Arabic script, on the theme of a medical prescription for a lovesick man. Similar to T-S NS 264.27 + T-S NS 224.181 …