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Recto: Responsum in the name of Shelomo Kohen b. Aharon Kohen Kanzī(?) Dimashqī. Dating: After 1490 CE. It has to do with a man who …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Cairo. Husband: Netanʾel b. [...]. Wife: [...]ā bt. Yefet.
Literary. On benedictions, quoting biblical sources (1 Samuel 25:33; Genesis 14:20) (recto); on the `amidah and personal prayers quoting BT Berakhot 34a (verso). Information from …
Verso: Fragment from a letter written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), probably connected to recto.
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Letter to the Nubian eparch Īsū in Ibrīm from Al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad [ ] ibn Naṣr [ ]. The sender reports that the eparch's slave …
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Recto: Letter fragment from Manṣūr Kohen to Rabbenu Yiṣḥaq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Same writer as several other letters (see tag) addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge, giving …
Small document(s) in Arabic script, legal or official. Note that these are not actual joins, but they are all from the same genre of document …
Short letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy. Around 1045. Seems that the letter is from the beginning of Nahray’s time In …
Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138)
Communal letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: First half of the 11th century. Mentions Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn. Edited by Elinoar Bareket. Awaiting fuller description.
Draft of a petition to the caliph al-Ḥākim, with tarjama and opening formulae. Recto contains a Hebrew legal deed (see separate entry). From Hibat Allāh …
بسم للهّ الرحمن الرحیم
بسم
العبد المملوك هبة الله بن
ابو منصور الیھودي
صلوات للهّ وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وأفض…
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State document, probably a decree fragment, huge script. Reused for later writing practice, contains a registration mark "والحمد لله وحده" and a name "فضائل بن …
Letter from a scholar and muqaddam (Aodeh identifies him as Avraham b. Ṣedaqa but does not explain why) to Abū Saʿīd Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa the …
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Bifolio of accounts. Two of the four pages have Judaeo-Arabic accounting in a rudimentary hand. These mention Ibn Ghulayb; Ibn Saʿadya; Ibn al-Dhahabī. One of …
Table of gravesites in Tiberias, Sidon, Jerusalem, and Hebron. A description of gravesites in Tiberias references the resting place of Maimonides. This fragment may be …
Fragment of a ketubba, with menstrual purity conditions. The husband also accepts that he will not take a second wife. Dating: Probably late 12th or …
Letter, possibly. In Spanish. (Information from CUDL.) Needs examination.
Medieval glossary in Judaeo-Arabic for "God" or "God of heaven" in 15 languages including but not limited to Aramaic ("Targumiyya"), Samaritan, Nubian, Circassian, Russian, Armenian, …
Bottom of a legal document. Needs examination.
Accounts listing names and quanties on the recto and verso. Medieval era. Several names appear with the title "Ship Captain" (רייס) and one al-Somekh (סומך). …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Parties: Abū l-Khayr and Avraham. Dated Iyyar 4[...] AM, so prior to 1240 CE.
Letter from Manṣūr b. Sālim, in Alexandria, to his son Abū Najm, who has gone on an adventurous journey or had run away to the …
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Dream interpretation in Judaeo-Arabic. E.g., if you dream you are building a synagogue or mosque, you are a peacemaker and a leader.
Verso (secondary use): draft of a chapter from a medical treatise or a medical notebook, dealing with tumors and mentioning for example drinks made from …
Court record in Hebrew. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). (Or at least about Damietta.) Dated: Nisan 1360 Seleucid, which is 1049 CE. Concerns a debt of …
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Bifolio containing mainly Judaeo-Arabic poetry. It is fully vocalized, which is relatively rare for Judaeo-Arabic and useful for shedding light on dialectal pronunciations. There is …
Bill of divorce. Dated: 7th Tishrei 1421 Seleucid, which is September 1109 CE. Written and signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel the Spaniard. Husband: Ḥasan b. …
Letter to [... b.] Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning business issues, mentioning commodities such as gum and walnuts. Containing an order of Abbadani mats, which were …
Recto: Upper part of a letter addressed to the Nasi Amaṣyahu Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder? The addressee is known …
Verso: Another letter in a different hand, from a husband to his wife. He encourages her to send their two sons to school in the …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Dated: Adar [...], under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). One of the parties …
Recto might be a letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning a wicked person (הדא אלרשע) and reward. Verso looks like Hebrew piyyuṭ. Might be in the hand …
Calendrical fragment in Hebrew script; the margins are filled with jottings in Arabic script.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a man to a business associate and/or family member. Mentions "your father" and "your paternal uncle Abū l-Faḍl." The overall tone …
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Refers to 100 dinars; ʿUlla; capital; and seven manns of …
Damaged fragment of a (state?) document in Arabic script. The name Mūsā b. ʿUmar b. Aḥmad appears.
Bottom left fragment, letter or official correspondence. Requesting validation (tathbīt) of something; and apologizing for the prior lack of letters (وان كانت كتبي منقطعة عن …
Letter in Arabic script, maybe official. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Needs examination for content. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text which …
Legal record (#37). Concerning earthenware vessels. The beginning of the record is missing, and it was not completed. Makārim al-Abzārī b. Avraham attests that he …
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Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic in two columns about Alexander the Great. Narrating how when Alexander went east to wage war on Persia in a place …
Verso: Jottings in Judaeo-Arabic about people fighting and/or playing. "Abū l-Munā and Barakāt were quarreling. . . Abū l-Faraj the dyer of red was playing …
Fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.
Section 15 of Shem Tov ibn Shaprut's Even Boḥan (a refutation of the polemical arguments of the convert Alfonso of Valladolid), containing citations of the …
Fragment of a letter referring to real estate transactions, referring to specific landmarks and houses including the house of a Christian. In the margin there …