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Trousseau list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Goitein's notes and the NLI catalogue both give 1459 CE. The tens digit is very faded, but the …
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Tax receipt, Fatimid.
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Small fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso contains mirror image text from another (or the same) fragment, also from a Judaeo-Arabic …
List of names, all beginning with Yiṣḥaq or Yosef. Late.
Court record. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: Thursday, 23 Kislev 1401 of the Seleucid Era (= December 1089 CE). On the day …
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Poem of friendship written by Shemuʾel the cantor b. Avraham ha-sefaradi. On the back the holiday of sukkot is mentioned, which may have served as …
This fragment consists of two pieces of parchment pasted together to assemble a rotulus of elaborate medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: possibly 11th century or …
Legal document fragment ("I increase on top of her ketubba. . . . 5 dinars. . . 3 gowns. . ."). The fragment has an …
Letter in Ladino to Efrayim ʿAdda (עדה) from David Mir. Dated: 1 Ṭevet [5]563 (5563 of the Era of Creation = 1802 CE). The letter …
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Legal document. Fragmentary (lower left corner). Mentions a shop and a sum of 55[.] (dirhams? dinars?). Perhaps in the hand of [Shelomo] b. Eliyyahu whose …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dating: Mentions a period of 6 years beginning in Shawwāl 512 AH and ending in Ramaḍān 518 AH. …
In [the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.] Praise be to [God alone. He is sufficient.] Peace upon his servants, whom he has chosen.
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Letter in Ottoman Turkish. It begins "benim efendim" (my master). Several materia medica may be mentioned, including barberries (line 5), unless barbarīs means something else …
Series of accounts, consisting mostly of numerical sums including two notes stating the accounts are for al-mu`alim Ya`qub Shalom al-Yahudi. Dated Muharram 1233 AH which …
Page from a court notebook concerning the verdict of the court in Fustat, written by Avraham, son of the Gaon, December 1026. See also T-S …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe or Hillel b. ʿEli? Mentions Avraham b. Shemaʿya.
Form letter from the community of Safed to the communities of 'everywhere.' In Hebrew. Dated: Tammuz 5619 AM = July 1859 CE. Recommendation for Yaʿaqov …
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably to Sahlan b. Avraham, 1029.
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Letter addressed to Rabbenu Yiṣḥaq ha-Rav ha-Gadol, in Fustat. This is probably Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. With the address both in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic …
Very faded right side of a document, with 5 lines at the top of the page, a wide space, then 12 lines at the bottom …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dated: Rabīʿ I 8[.]2 AH, perhaps 822, which would be 1419 CE. Many of the sums are in …
Commercial accounts in Spanish. Dating: perhaps late 15th century, based on the script. Involves Jews. Lists debits and credits ("devo a rebbi Samuel"). Mentions the …
Letter of recommendation concerning one of the chief people in Sunbat, who had to flee because he could not afford to pay his own and …
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Recto: Letter from Muḥammad b. ʿUmar. In Arabic script. Dated: 538 AH = 1143/44 CE. Mentions the bearer of the letter, Karīm b. Zak[kūr? b.] …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Majd is to give 1 dirham to the messenger who went …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Court record in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (ca. 1066–1108). Dated: Tammuz 1387 Seleucid, which is 1076 CE. Location: Fustat. Record of a partnership …
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Jewish prayer in Arabic (in Arabic script). Including a recitation of miracles done for biblical prophets (e.g., Joshua, Jonah, Joseph).
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. He excuses the messiness with the fact that he is writing this …
The text is almost completely vocalised and rhymes in -akh. It seems to be more of a poem than a letter; it breaks off mid-sentence, …
Accounts in Arabic script, including merchandise from India and trips to India. Mentions people such as Bundār (several times) and Khalaf. (Information in part from …
Fatimid decree (possibly in the hand of Ibn al-Ṣayrafī himself?). Two lines preserved. See also the separate PGP record for the letter by Yeḥezqel b. …
Letter from Ṣadoq b. Av ha-Kohen, either in Ramla or Jerusalem, to [...] ha-Reviʿi. Mainly in Hebrew. About the oppressive measures of the local government …
Letter fragment from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to a community, approximately 1020.
Rough draft of a ketubba (marriage contract), with instructions to the scribe for drawing up the final version. Possibly written by the judge Ḥayyim known …
Letter, probably. Late. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "his small baby girl." Needs examination.
IB IV, 21 (ח38). Letter from Avraham Ṣiqillī b. Moshe from somewhere in Iberia to Ḥalfon b. Natanʾel, probably in Algeria. Contains a long Hebrew …
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Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen? Mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf and issuing instructions about commodities such as fine Andalusian …
Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (upper left corner). Regarding shares in a house which was given …
IB VI, 25. Letter containing the testimony of Makhlūf, a respectable merchant, who had to flee from Alexandria before an oppressive government official, 'the plundering …
A few words in Hebrew script. On papyrus.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Looks literary at first glance, but mentions a kharājī year (or at least something "al-kharājiyya"), which suggests something to do …
State document, report, in Arabic script. Chancery hand (though not the best), with widened space between the lines, and with white space used to divide …
Letter from Avraham Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 15th century. Reports on the complaint of a teacher from Ṣafad who had settled in Gaza, to …
List of accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals dated at the opening of each entry, for example, 15 Shevat 5450 or 25 January 1690CE. …
Letter from Avraham b. Rav Shelomo the Yemeni, in Jerusalem, to Eliyyahu the Judge in Fustat. Avraham lives with Eliyyahu's son, the physician Abu Zikri, …
Beginning of a petition from Yosef b. Moshe asking the addressee, his lord and master (mawla and sayyid) for a favour, describing himself as modest, …