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Mercantile letter, in Arabic script. From Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl to Abī ʿAbd Allāh b. Khodādād at the Dār al-Wakāla. The writer mentions sending several commodities …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتبت اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام
تاييدها وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها وسموها
وارتقاها وكبت بالذل حسدته…
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Fragment of a letter mentioning [...] b. ʿAbd al-Karīm. Dating: probably Mamluk-era. (Information in part from CUDL)
No Scholarship Records
Several fragments in both Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, all magical, one containing the line ". . . Sayyidnā Mūsā Rasūl Allāh al-Rasūl. . ."
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment in Arabic script. There is a name preserved (Abū something), possibly in reference to a debt owed, but not much else is preserved. …
India Book VII, 48: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "1200 Malikī dinars. . . I was distressed by (the state of) those poor children. . . …
Verso: Medical list in Arabic script. One of the columns is headed, "[For] ear pains." The material is cloth. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index …
1 Discussion
Copes of letters sent to Troki (now in Lithuania)
Marriage document. An ornamented ketubah from Rashid, 1785 CE. The text is complete, but the left margin with the decorations is torn. The groom is …
Late account i Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions ʿAzarya and Ḥasān and Shelomo the currency fulūs and possibly קרונה.
State document, draft of a report, in Arabic script. Addressed to a lower official whose titles are "al-Rayyis al-Muḥrim al-Amīr ʿImād al-Mulk". Reports an event …
الريس علم الرياسة الـ[
يجدد نعمته وينهي ان ا[
بالمولا على شاطي الـ[ـبحر]...
وصول وصول بتاريخ بتاريخ بتاريخ علي الـ...
المملوك يجدد خد…
Accounts. In Hebrew script. Partially in Judaeo-Arabic (אלחאל חסאב פרוצהם), but maybe also with some Judaeo-Persian. The names would have unusual spellings if this were …
Bifolio of mercantile accounts in Arabic script. Detailed, mentioning many specific names and commodities (manly textile goods: maqṭaʿ, miʿjar, maʿraqa; also mentions candles and cotton). …
Fragment of a calendar, including a table. Mentions the year 1667 since the destruction of the temple.
Minute fragment, few words in Arabic and Hebrew - needs examination. The Arabic reads as "bāb aqṭaʿ al-riʿā[.
Small fragment (upper left corner) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Dating: 11th or 12th century. None of the substance is preserved.
Accounts, in Arabic script. Dated to the 8th/14th century.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Twelfth-century Spanish hand, similar to several documents from India Book IV (e.g., ח44 and ח45). Only a few phrases …
Fragment of a bill of divorce (geṭ). Location not preserved. Written and signed by Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi (active ca. 1181–1209). Also signed by Moshe …
Debt contract. Probably in the hand of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Elul 1443 Seleucid, which is 1132 CE. [Yose]f b. Elʿazar b. Mevorakh Ibn …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Mamluk-era?
Letter from Yoshiyyahu b. Hārūn (the grandson of Yoshiyyahu Gaʾon according to Gil), in Ṣahrajt, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 CE …
Legal record (#15). Deposition in court. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Makārim b. Salāma al-Kohen known as Ibn al-Maqāniʿiyya states that he was …
Acknowledgment of receiving a Torah scroll - needs examination. No image
Letter from a man in Minyat Ghamr to his brother Maḥfūẓ in Fustat. In Arabic script. The writer has been ill, and people tell him …
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the name ʿAlī b. Hārūn. The fragment also contains Hebrew literary text.
Legal record (#49) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 13v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 48-50) Folio 13v
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions soap, sumac, wood.
Invitation from the administration of the Paḥad Isḥak Synagogue (Kraïem) for attending the celebration which will be held in the synagogue on Passover between Saturday …
Instructions in Avraham Maimonides' hand to R. Eliyyahu to give them bread for Sabbath. Also: List of contributors (in the judge's hand) and names of …
Government receipt attesting to payment of the government tax on the sale of an enslaved woman. Seller: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yaʿqūb al-Yahūdī. Buyer: Sumra bt. …
Letter in Arabic script. Containing a large order for various quantities of materia medica and foods. On verso there is a note in response, acknowledging …
Lists of goods and sums of money. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Likely related to T-S AS 145.241 (PGPID 18215).
Substantial, late acccount in Judaeo-Arabic, at least one part of which is headed "list of debts." People named include: Avraham Yerushalmi; Yehuda Leon; Yeshūʿa al-Ḥāmī; …
Top: Prayer in Hebrew about being liberated from enemies. Bottom: Rhymed (poetic?) lines in Judaeo-Arabic containing both references to beauty and to how someone should …
Qadish containing praise for an exilarch: “May He make great his welfare and the welfare of his generation like the water of the Euphrates. . …
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IB I, 26. Court proceedings in the case of al-Wuhsha (or al-Wahsha) against Yosef al-Lebdī. Wuhsha's representative, Moshe b. Yeshuaʿ, sues al-Lebdī for her share …
2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 3 Discussions
One line in Hebrew, one line in Italian. Significance unclear.
Letter of instruction to ʿEli ha-Kohen ha-Parnas to cash from Abū l-Faḍl Netanel Ibn ha-Shofeṭ 18 dinars due to one Seʿadya and to prepare 'the …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script. Probably fiscal, concerning amounts of produce (e.g., بان عنده ستين اربد غلة four lines from the bottom). Dating: likely Fatimid, …
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Dated: 15 Ḥeshvan 1410 Seleucid, which is 1098 CE. Involves [...] bt. Nissim and her ex-husband …
Fragment of a deathbed will. The testator is Abū Yaʿqūb Yequtiel (b. Moshe) known as al-Ḥakīm, the well-known representative of the merchants. He gifts two …
Learned letter in Hebrew with various inquiries addressed to ‘our lord’, including a question about the birkat ḥatanim and about the customs of the meturgemanim …
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, along with a couple practice signatures of David Ben-Naʿīm, whose dated documents are from the first half of the nineteenth century. …
India Book VII, 45: Letter, written by a trader before leaving Aden for Nahrawāra, mentioning Abū l-Waḥš, Abū Saʿd, Abū Naṣr, Abū Yaʿqūb and the …
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Upper text: piyyuṭim by Yannai, qedushtaʾot for the reading of two sedarim in the Palestinian triennial cycle, Leviticus 15:1 and 15:25, part of a maḥzor …