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Letter/petition from a certain Yehuda to a dignitary named David (Maimonides?). Refers to a [pe]siqa which took place 20 years ago. Only a small piece …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Contains the phrase, "inform her that we will not kill her or sell her." The context is too faded to read. …
Judaeo-Arabic halakhic work on legal procedure, for instance what do you do when a witness says he doesn't remember witnessing a document.
Order of payment by Abu Zikri Kohen to Kalil for 1 ratl of oil.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Crude handwriting and spellings. Mentions "the runner (raqqās) of the capitation tax, for/from Makhlūf" and then "Manṣūr the collector …
A 'literary' book of magic (possibly Sefer ha-Yashar or Sefer Adam); a recipe to procure rain, the name of the angels in charge of wild …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl, the mother of al-Rayyis Abū Manṣūr, Abū l-Faraj Ṣabbāgh, and Abū l-Ṭāhir Ḥarīrī.
Legal document in Arabic script. Maybe a lease - mentions money and a period of 3 months. Needs examination.
Primary text: Accounts for Dā'ūd b. ʿAmmār b. ʿAzrūn for the year 443H (1051/52 CE). 68 lines spread over 2 pages. In Judaeo-Arabic. Nahray b. …
Recto: probably a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic; Arabic jottings in the margin. Verso: beginning of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. The muqirr …
Deed of sale for a property. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Tuesday, 17 Nisan 5338 AM, which is 1578 CE. Seller: Yosef מושודו. Buyer: Binyamin אלרייאש. Price: …
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Letter or petition in Arabic script. Repeated references to the benefaction (iḥsān) of the addressee. Concerning a "portion" (ḥiṣṣa) belonging to the righter. Might mention …
Magical document with a humanoid figure and Greek alphabets.
Verso: various jottings, including the draft of the opening of a letter to Abū Saʿd b. Moshe in Judaeo-Arabic. Expressing the writer’s desire to see …
Unidentified table of words and/or names in Arabic.
Letter in Hebrew script. Judaeo-Persian?
Colophon for a rabbinic literary work written in multiple columns. The scribe is the judge Elʿazar ha-Levi known as al-Rajānī: אני הצעיר מכל בני העיר …
Legal document, probably. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Names [...] b. Efrayim; Yiṣḥaq ha-Zaqen ha-Nikhbad; Isḥāq al-Nafūsī. Also …
Recto: list of distinguished names: Saadya ha-Rofe... Yehuda ha-Nagid and his son Saadya Segan ha-Yeshivah... his four sons... Mevorakh Sar ha-Sarim ve-Nagid ha-Negidim... and his …
Letter to the Gaon, probably from Aleppo, complaining that the Gaon is paying too much heed to those who slander the writer, approximately 1035. Verso: …
Two fragments, both probably in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Fol. 1: Fragment (upper right corner) of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Possibly official. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Only some words are legible: ... منهم ومنعت ... الى حضرته …
Accounts of a shop in Judaeo-Arabic. There are also a few lines copied from a legal testimony in Hebrew. Dated: Wednesday, 11 Tammuz [5]310 AM …
Accounts mentioning people such as Ṣāfī, the brother-in-law ṣāḥib rabʿ, and Muḥammad.
Magical text(s) in Arabic script mentioning "fulāna" and "fulān b. fulāna."
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a report, petition, or recommendation from Ṭalḥa al-Qibṭī to a dignitary, probably in Cairo. Dating: Probably Ayyubid-era or later, …
Letter in Hebrew to two men, one of whom is called Abu al-Ḥasan.
Recto: Testimony by Nissim b. Shemarya that Sason b. Natan had deposited with him seventeen counterfeit nizārī dinars. The counterfeiter was the mutawallī al-sikka, or …
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Probably a tax receipt. Needs examination.
Letter from Yosef b. Gershon (a French scholar appointed by the Nagid Avraham Maimonides to be one of the three judges of the Jewish community …
Opening of a letter addressed to the heads of the community (שלום ממובא עד הלום . . . אל הקהל הקדוש קה[. . .] וראש …
IB VI, 35. Fatimid petition to al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from India …
العبد المملوك
موسى بن صدقة التاجر اليهودي
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا
وسيد…
Mūsā ibn Ṣadaqa, the Jewish merchant.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The benedictions of God a…
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Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1213/14 CE. This commenda records court proceedings regarding a partnership; only one of the partners' names, Saadiah b. …
Letter fragment (upper right corner of recto). In Arabic script. The addressee is called, flatteringly, 'al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya.' Unclear how much of the substance is preserved.
Literary discussion of some kind.
Petition/letter of appeal for charity. Addressed to someone titled Ḥemdat ha-Nesiʾut, possibly the same person as Sayyidnā in l. 8. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The …
P18: Unidentified fragment with several lines of Hebrew script on it. Maybe a letter, or maybe literary. Needs examination.
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Minute fragment.
A few words in Arabic script. Reused for bible in shorthand, continuous with Bodl. MS heb. f 56/2 (PGPID 19595). Unless the Arabic script is …
IB V, 37, folio 5r. Letter fragment related to the India trade. Mentions the Kārim convoy, worrying news, and someone named Abū l-Saddād.
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Document in Arabic script. Mentions a wakīl. Reused for what looks like a Hebrew literary text.
Letter conveying holiday greetings to Elazar, who is given five titles. Other side (PGPID 1937): Prescription for pills against coughing.
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Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Written in purple ink. Late, probably 18th or 19th century.
Book list in Arabic script. Titles include Kitāb al-Tabṣira of al-Qalaṣādī (d. 1486), Kitāb al-Bayān, and Iʿjāz al-Qur'ā[n]. There is an additional text block in …
Typewritten copy of a ketubba from Essaouira (Morocco), 16 September 1891 (13 Elul 5651), with a note at the bottom, "this is the form of …
Ketubba fragment. Very elaborately decorated with colorful patterns and micrography. The handwriting is probably that of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (ca. 1181–1209). Location: …
Recto: part of a letter in Arabic. Verso: unidentified text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Fiscal document in Arabic script. May mention a year at the top ([..]9), and elsewhere mentions various other numbers. In the main text block refers …
Legal document, probably from a ketubba, mentioning sums of money and a chest. (Information from CUDL)