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Letter from the Yeshiva to the community of Ḥaṣor. Friedman suggests that the hand is that of Yeshoshuaʿ b. ʿEli, but Gil disagrees and thinks …
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Responsa of the geonim copied by a known scribe who lived around the beginning of the 11th century. Some of responsa are known to us …
No Scholarship Records
Letter from Egypt concerning agricultural business matters, mentions a pair of oxen purchased for ’15 large dinars’ and a pregnant young donkey for 4.5 dinars. …
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Tax receipt? Very faded. May be dated 507 AH = 1113/14 CE.
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper half only). The addressee is greeted as ḥaḍrat mawlāya al-raʾīs al-jalīl. The sender reports that Abū l-Ḥusayn told …
Recto: Informal note (ruqʿa). In Arabic script. Perhaps containing detailed orders of payment--consists almost entirely of sums of money and begins with the word "yaṣil." …
Legal fragment (lower right corner). Signed: [...] b. Yosef ha-Kohen; Shela b. Mevasser (dated documents 1065–1103). On verso there is a prescription/recipe in Arabic script.
Legal document. Bill of release, damaged, relating to a quarter of a house. No names preserved. Probably early 12th century (familiar hand but still unidentified). …
Minute fragment from a legal document. Hardly any text preserved. AA
Letter from Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq, a Qaraite in Jerusalem, to the brothers Yiṣḥaq and Binyamin b. Yosef in Warjalan, July 1039.
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Letter addressed to a dignitary, perhaps to Avraham Maimonides ("Avraham ha-Nagid ha-Gadol" seems faintly visible, line 4, and his son is named David, line 9). …
Quire with Masekhet Avot. Fol. 10v: Colophon. Completed Thursday, 25 Tammuz 1377 Seleucid = 21 July 1066 CE. Copied by Yoshiyyahu ha-Ḥazzan b. Saʿadyahu ha-Meʿulle …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto, one of the entries mentions iron. The scribal hand is difficult to place chronologically, perhaps late medieval or 16th-17th-century. Requires …
Poem of praise to a certain Yosef.
Two fragments of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Dated 20 Av. Concerning a divorce, mentioning [...] the doctor b. …
Tables of Hebrew letters with a first-person phrase along the lower border of ENA NS 10.4, "...]אני הצעיר יצחק הר", perhaps a scribal attribution (Join: …
Letter, opening with biblical quotations, including Psalms 16:8, 34:8 and 33:21, and mentioning commodities such as silk. (Information from CUDL.) The letter is addressed to …
The wife of Ṣedaqa b. ʿEzra gives to her husband reshut over a house (which was part of her ketubba from her father's inheritance) after …
Upper section: Probably a medical recipe ("yudaqq wa-yuʿjan...") involving galingale (khalwanjān) and ginger (janzabīl). Quantities are specified with Greek/Coptic numerals. Lower section: List of names …
Letter in Arabic script. Faded/damaged. The format is unusual—could this be a formulary? The fifth line from the bottom reads, "Forgive me for my foolishness."
Letter to Peraḥya ha-Ḥaver about a visit of the carrier of the note, Abū l-ʿAysh, to the Nagid for the issue of whether he had …
List of objects found in the home of R. Yosef after his death. Very poor (?), but important details not found elsewhere. See Goitein's note …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Certificate in the hand of the judge Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Kislev 1473 Seleucid, which is December 1161 CE, under …
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Trader's letter concerned with the sale of commodities, in which the addressee is asked to send 'the boy' to Abu l-Hasan. Judeo Arabic. Only part …
Recto: Letter from Abraham Sagis (סאגיש) in Safed to an individual in Egypt who had previously studied with the sage Moses di Trani in Safed. …
Two unrelated fragments. The first is a two-sided fragment of a bifolium of an Arabic medical treatise. The second has three lines in Arabic, probably …
Late letter from Yaʿaqov Bagilyer to his brother Aharon. Dealing with financial matters (amounts in peraḥim/ducats). (Information from CUDL)
Legal document involving several amīrs, including ʿIzz al-Mulk Bahāʾ al-Dawla wa-Sadīduhā Dhū al-[...]. Also concerning Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī, the ʿArīf ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammmad, and another …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals (verso). Dating: Likely 13th century. On recto, mentions Abū Naṣr al-Ṣayrafī, [al-Shaykh] al-Rashīd Abū l-Ḥasan, …
Unidentified document in Hebrew script. Late.
Arabic script (Naïm Vanthieghem; description to come). (This seems erroneous - the fragment only has a Hebrew liturgical text on it.)
Letter from Yehoshuaʿ ha-Shofeṭ probably to the community of Aleppo. Dating: ca. 1020 CE (Gil) or late 1020s—early 1030s (Frenkel). Gil identified the sender as …
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Letter of a father to his son Ibrāhīm in Damietta, to be delivered to the shop of Dāʾūd al-Ṣabbāgh or Surūr or Yaʿqūb the Jews …
Responsa collection
Fragment of a letter mentioning [...] b. ʿAbd al-Karīm. Dating: probably Mamluk-era. (Information in part from CUDL)
A page containing a bill of loyalty from the book of Legal deeds by Hayya Gaon. Published by אסף, מספרות הגאונים, עמ' 40-41. Image not …
List of names. Maybe witnesses to a legal document, but maybe not. Natan b. Shelomo; Natan b. Yosef; Natan b. Elʿazar; Natan b. Qay[...]; Shemaʿya(?) …
Recto: End of a legal document in Arabic script. Only the witness signatures are preserved. Verso: Complete legal document in Arabic script. No witness signatures. …
Letter from Moshe Castro, in Jerusalem, to Avraham Ibn Shānjī, in Fustat/Cairo. Written in Hebrew. Dating: 1513/14 CE, based on the assessment of Avraham David. …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting resembles that of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Refers to a father, children, and …
Verso: Last two lines of a formal letter or petition in Arabic script. Ends with a ḥasbala + ṣalwala.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions Abū ʿAbdallāh, al-Sharīf, and various dates, weights, and sums of money.
Probably an Ayyubid capitation tax receipt. Headed by the ʿalāma "iʿtimādī ʿālā khāliqī." The next line refers to an Aleppan Jew ([...] Yahūdī Ḥalabī). The …
Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: After 1425 CE, as the ashrafī currency is used.
Legal agreement between spouses. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Location: Fustat. The husband of Sitt al-Bahāʾ takes her to court …