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Receipt for Muḥammad b. Khalīl.
Draft of lists of conditions for a partnership. Late. In Judaeo-Arabic (first folio) and Hebrew (second folio). The name Yehuda Bonan might appear at the …
Recto: Legal query in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE) concerning a carpenter who let his Muslim employees work making doors on …
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Recto: Form letter of recommendation for charity. In Hebrew. Yemeni hand? Filled in with the name of Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān. Dating: Late, probably 17th–19th century. …
Letter from Salāma b. Ismaʿīl to Ismaʿīl b. [...] concerning business affairs. Dating: 11th century. (Information from CUDL.)
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Upper fragment: Copy of a contract of betrothal (erusin) according to the Palestinian style. Location: Probably Tyre. Dating: Before 1037 CE. Written by Yosef b. …
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Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Organized by parshiyot. Mentions Barakāt al-Qazzāz b. Sulaymān; Sukkot …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Upper right piece. The sender seems to be rebuking the addressee. Headed by Proverbs 1:7 (יראת ייי ראשית דעת …
Fragment of a legal document in which the signature of Toviyya b. Daniel appears.
א ב י מ ק ת
ו א ס ב מ נו ר י ש שמ
צ ר ח ה ו ג י קן עי עיה
Letter from the community of Jerusalem to the gabbay and treasurer of כארכוך (=Kirkuk?). In Hebrew. Dated: Adar 5603 AM, which is 1843 CE. This …
Accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals. The dating is likely 16th-century based on the paleography and mention of Ottoman sulṭānī currency. The second entry …
Small fragment of a letter in Hebrew addressed to a dignitary (... sar ha-ʿeda ha-nadiv ve-ha-shavaʿ...)
Bill of divorce (get). Fragment (lower right corner). No details preserved. Written and signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver. Also signed by Ḥalfon b. Mevorakh …
Small legal fragment? Mentions "the law" and "his wife." There are several different hands and writing on both recto and verso.
Dirges in Hebrew for the deaths of women, including at least one that the poet composed for his own daughter. It would be interesting to …
Would that I could listen to y…
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Judaeo-Arabic poetry in a rudimentary hand.
A Karaite marriage contract (ketubba) between Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef and Karīma bt. Avraham, whose father is also her legal representative. Karīma was perhaps a Rabbanite, …
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Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sent from Rome. Addressed to 'my son' Barhūn Naqqāsh. Dating: Likely late Mamluk or early Ottoman-era. "I remained in Sardinia (צרדאניא) …
Ketubba. Location: Fustat. Bride: Sitt al-Kuttāb bt. Netanʾel. The name of the groom, the date, and the names of witnesses are not preserved. (Information from …
Letter fragment from Ṭāhir b. Bū l-Ḥasan known as Ibn [...]. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the recipient to send greetings to somebody and a …
Letter from an unknown writer to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer rebukes the addressee for failing to write with his news. Everyone has …
Bill of divorce. Fragment (lower left corner). There do not appear to be any identifying details preserved.
Hebrew poetry. One side has a rahaṭ attributed to Yehuda (ZL) (Yehuda ha-Levi?).
Document containing signatures, including those of Yiṣḥaq b. Mevorakh, Avraham b. Maṣliaḥ ha-Talmid, Subah ha-Kohen the cantor, Shelomo b. Ṭuviyya b. Binyamin, Hiba ha-Kohen b. …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1433 Seleucid = July/August 1122 CE. Written in the hand of Avraham b. Shemaʿya (or rather Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?), …
Minute fragment
Fragment of Saʿadya Gaʾon's treatise on biblical hapax legomena (Kitāb al-Sabʿīn Lafẓa).
Tiny fragment of a medieval document in Arabic, perhaps a state decree or petition based on the paleography.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Made by Q[...] b. Mūsā al-[...], "one of the captains of the victorious fleets" (aḥad quwwād al-asāṭīl al-manṣūra). …
Letter from David ben Naʿim to Moshe ben Naʿim in Alexandria concerning business matters, dated 17 Heshvan 185 (5585 of the Era of Creation = …
Official letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left piece). The addressee is an amīr with various titles including [...] al-salāṭīn. ِA state official by the …
Small fragment of a business letter in Arabic script. Referring to the sale of rice in Fustat, something blue (al-azraq), and Abū ʿAbdallāh.
Money order of the qodesh. Issued by Shemuel b. Saadya ha-Levi. The administrators of the compound of the Jerusalemites are to pay 9.5 dirhams to …
Literary work in Judaeo-Arabic on the laws of divorce.
Legal document. Dated: Sivan 1411 Seleucid, which is May/June 1100 CE. Ghanya bt. Ḥusayn and her divorced husband Hillel b. Faraj agree that their little …
Pen trials. In Hebrew script. Probably late. Mentions names such as Manṣūr, Ibrāhīm, Ibn Fakhr, Fakhr b. Bū Saʿīd.
Note at the bottom of a copy of a psalm: "This is what Hillel b. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham wrote."
Legal fragment. The beginnings of ~11 lines are preserved. Mentions various valuable items, such as a jūkāniyya. Possibly a dowry list?
Letter fragment (lower right corner). In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably from Yefet b. Menashshe to Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (it looks like Yefet's handwriting, and he greets Sitt …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mentions the date 9 Av 1412 Seleucid, which is 1101 CE. The issue involves a man and his daughter Maḥfūẓa …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. "My desire to enter... when I met with..."
Letter from [...] b. Yefet to Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning various business matters and mentioning Damietta. The writer's name appears to be …
Deed of sale of a female slave named Sa'ada. Dated 19 Av 1501 Seleucid / July 1190 CE. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 139, …
Recto: Short Judaeo-Arabic poems with some Arabic titles written at the beginning, such as ghayruhu (`another one) and sawt (`song) Verso: Judaeo-Arabic poem and an …
State document, in Arabic script in a chancery hand. The beginnings of two lines are preserved: "wa-lammā uṭliqat al-[...]... wa-ʿalā kāfat al-mamālīk...." Reused for Hebrew …
Letter draft in Arabic script. Addressed to Abū l-Murajjā (ابلمرجا). Only a few words of the substance of the letter are preserved after the standard …