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Bill of debt. Dated: Tuesday, 28 Elul 5406 AM, which is 8 September 1646 CE. Rahamim b. Ya'aqov Qayyim and his wife Muhja bt. Yaʿaqov …
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Fragment from the top of an iqrār made by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUbayd known as [...] al-Fakkāh. The document continues وهو يومىذ which would have …
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Fragment of an extremely faded legal document on verso. The only legible portions include a signature and a partial date of Adar II 5[...] AM. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Abū l-Surrī. Transactions mainly in rubāʿīs.
Minute fragment, contains mostly rhymed sentences, might be from a letter or a poem to honor a certain Halfon, but too little text remained. AA …
Fragment containing a few words in Hebrew script, including the name Shimʿon.
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (the lower part is missing, and the right margin may be missing if it existed); the letter continues in the …
Fragment from a letter or legal document, probably in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Mentions ha-Maskil and al-Amīn. T-S AS 169.122 and T-S AS 169.124 …
Legal document in Arabic script. Calligraphically written. Five lines preserved. Dating: probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Mentions an amīr(?) Yūsuf, summoning somebody (to …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Dated: End of Tammuz, 5562 AM = July 1802 CE. Yisraʾel leases his cheese shop in Ḥārat al-Ṣaqāliba to Yosef Medina …
Tax receipts, two documents sharing the same page which were never cut apart, unlike most receipts (cf. T-S AS 184.101 (PGPID 37561)). The top one …
Minute fragment of a letter. On recto a few words from the beginning (prefaced כי רם ייי) and in the margin. On verso part of …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script.
Recto - Letter, in Judaeo Arabic. Needs examination. AA Verso - Private accounts or receipt in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Tax receipt. Fragment (bottom half only).
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Mentions the name Abū l-ʿAlāʾ and various numbers. On verso there is a piyyuṭ based on the 10 commandments.
Legal document. Will from 1527 CE (1 Shevat 5287 AM) drawn up by Shul or Sol (Sul, Shol = שול), the wife of R. Shelomo …
Small fragment of a letter. Deferential tone, referring to the great station and the many preoccupations of the addressees (בכתיר אשגאלכם . . . ועטים …
Recto: Letter fragment. Very narrow. Handwriting of Avraham Maimonides? Verso: memorial list of the family of Sheʾerit b. Yefet. (Information in part from CUDL and …
ס . ד . פי | מ שלמ…
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Legal document, fragment from the lower left containing part of a date.
Colophon for a Torah. The scribe is Yeshuʿa b. Yiṣḥaq. Dedicated to ʿAmram ha-Kohen b. She'erit ha-Kohen Paqid ha-Soḥarim.
Accounts. There are some unusual names. Barsīm; Shāhīn b. ʿAnkūs(?); and more. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter in Arabic script from a blind man, Barakāt al-Jiblī, to the man with whom his son Ḥassūn lives, Sābiq al-Kohen b. Maḥfūẓ, dictated to …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Mentions going out of the house and a turban. (Information in part from CUDL)
Karaite betrothal deed. Bride: Yamān bat David b. Isaiah, of Egypt. Groom: Shela b. ʿAmram al-Qirqisānī, of Tyre. Both the bride and groom are represented …
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Recto: List of items and quantities, such as saffron, aṭrāf ṭīb. potash (ushnān). Verso: Order of payment. Maḥfūẓ is asked to pay 7 of something …
Petition to the Fatimid vizier Al-ʿAbbās requesting an allowance in grain to be paid to the petitioner in yearly installments. Dating: 548–49/1153–54. (Information from CUDL.) …
الافضلى السيفى الناصرى ا[لــ]ـكافل لقضاة المسلميـ[ـن الهادى]
لدعاة المومنين عضد الله به الدين وامتع بطول بـ[ـقائه امير المومنين]
وادام ق…
al-Afḍal, sword of Islam, the defender, the protector of the judges of the Muslims [and the guide]
of the dāʿīs of the believers, may God…
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Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century. Refers to Farajallāh going to the Rayyis with a Qaraite and then going separate ways …
Two fragments from a letter in Hebrew. Mentions being in Tyre for 17 years; a book purchased in Egypt or Fustat years ago (the book …
Letter from Khaṣīb b. Musāfir to Abū Isḥāq [...] Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva, the son of somebody who had the title Sheviʿi — likely Avraham b. Natan …
State document. Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir regarding a murder on a boat. The son of the petitioner was traveling with a young fellow-merchant from …
بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل تحياته على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستنصر بالله
أمير المومنين صلوات الله ع…
Letter begging for help from a communal authority ('sayyidnā'), written by Abu Sahl b. al-Ahuv during a famine. Likely early 13th century. He opens with …
ולד אלאהוב זל
Six small fragments with Arabic. One of them is state related and seems to say "māl al-dīwān al-dīwān" which is probably not right.
Family letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Filled with expressions of affection and concern over sums of 2 dinars and 3 dinars. A Christian is mentioned.
Long fragment of parchment containing recipes involving raisins and honey, in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Needs further examination.
Lower left fragment: Letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). He has sent two notes, one with Abū l-Ṭāhir and one …
Letter of business in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf and Tyre and the value of the Tyrian dinar. The address is on verso …
A list of names: Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq; Yaʿīsh b. Avraham ha-Kohen; Maḥfūẓ b. Ṣedaqa; Mevorakh b. David ha-Levi; Ḥalfon b. Ṣedaqa; Pinḥas b. Hillel; Yefet …
Letter from an unidentified sender (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. The addressee is asked to "give this paper" (another letter that was originally enclosed?) …
A general prenuptial agreement in the hand of Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. Goitein suggests that this document was written before 1134, the year that Ṣedaqa …
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Either legal document(s) or a letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a Sefaradi hand. Refers to firewood, arrangements of labor, and an agreement.
Late accounts in Arabic.
Book list in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. See T-S K3.41 for a similar booklist in his hand (possibly but not clearly a …
Legal document? This is a relatively large piece of paper, but essentially the only text preserved is the name Shelomo b. Natan ha-Levi.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his 'father.' In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he arrived in Qalyūb. He suffered a setback (izʿāj... qāsaytu shidda...) en …
Fragment of a communal letter in Judaeo-Arabic with wide line spacing. Discussing the qualifications of the son of Mevorakh as cantor and communal leader: ודלך …
Folios from the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity) on parchment. The folios are from the epistle on magic and talismans (Risāla …
Court notebook, probably Qaraite. Many pages. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated with individual entries spanning the 1570s CE, such as 8 Tevet 5337 AM which is 1576 …