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State petition regarding a Maghribī Jewish trader caught drinking with a Muslim woman and imprisoned. Cuts off right before the request: there arrived from the …
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Extremely faded text in Judaeo-Arabic. Unidentified.
No Scholarship Records
Small fragment from a power of attorney written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). No details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Testimony, deed of divorce, catalogued as a legal document concerning the marital status of the daughter of Sayf al-Dīn, dated 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 808 H. …
Recto: Document of sale Verso: Jottings - needs examination.
Medical Medical text on medicine for the stomach and indigestion (from CUDL).
Possibly a promissory note. In Arabic script. "I owe the shayh [...] X dinars... in the year...." Needs further examination.
Elaborate accounts. Names and amounts expressed in Hebrew alphanumerals. Ottoman-era.
Verso (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Makārim al-N[...]; the Qodesh; a house; sums collected; payments for two months to the collector of ground tax …
Right fragment: Letter addressed to Eliyyahu b. Zekharya the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the introductory blessings are preserved here. Handwriting of Ṭahor b. Avraham.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, probably late.
Leaf from a court notebook. Recto: Legal entry related to the sale of a female slave. Dated: Thursday, 25 Iyyar 1528 Seleucid = 4 May …
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Legal document in Arabic script, central portion of either a contract or a deed of sale. Dating: Likely Mamluk or Ottoman era. The name of …
IB II, 66. Aden, August 1199. Sender and recipient are unknown, as only the lower part of this letter has been identified. The letter makes …
[...to] Aden. Immediately after his arrival [he was brought before the caliph?],
who said to him: “Become a Muslim, or you will cause the d…
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Letter from Yosef al-Muṣallī to Yeshuʿa the Cantor. In Judaeo-Arabic, with 14 lines of biblical quotations at the top. In between, the body of the …
Small fragment from a list of commodities in a very crude hand. Mentions cinnamon, brazilwood, pepper, maḥlab, rose, tamarind, and gum. AA/ASE
Recto: Note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-ʿIzz. In Judaeo-Arabic. He writes that he intends to come today with two witnesses to document how …
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This PGP record is for the copy of the earlier legal document embedded within T-S 28.6r (PGPID 3573), ll. 8–57. Location: Zuwaylat al-Mahdiyya. Dated: Tammuz …
Legal record (#115) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 37v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 1 Tammuz 5326 …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions someone named Ṣibyān several times.
Minute fragment from the top of a letter.
Fragment from the bottom of a legal deed, probably written by Natan b. Avraham (or rather Hillel b. ʿEli?). One of the parties is Abū …
Account, containing list of names
Business letter to Abu Yusuf containing information and instructions concerning various items. The letter also mentions a shipment of goods and may refer to trade …
Legal document(s). In Arabic script. The same block of text seems to be copied at least three times, followed by witness statements. At the far …
Late document in Hebrew, probably a legal declaration, in which the writer seeks to absolve himself from the complaints against him from Shemuel and Avraham …
Fragment from the end of a letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is a Talmudic commentary in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), mentioning Shela ha-Levi the elder. Uncharacteristically, there is also text on verso, which …
Leaf from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver, who also signed one of the entries. Probably belongs together with Bodl. …
Bill of exchange in the amount of 120 qirsh paid to Kẖawaja Mūsa Abū Hārūn – 25 October 1915CE – Museum of Islamic Art – …
Receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 16 Ṣafar 404. Written by the …
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Probably a liturgical piece with a few words of Arabic (probably not a document).
Letter addressed to R. Ḥananel, who receives about 10 lines of titles. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely early 13th century. Only three lines are …
Fragment of a legal testimony in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Involving Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Kathīr al-Ḥalabī, Salāma, and perhaps …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts. Mentions marjoram (mardaqūsh).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium. Very faded.
Damaged legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). May be a power of attorney in which a lady named Akhtar(?) …
Original use, probably: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or early 12th century. Fragment (vertical strip from the right side of recto). The sender may …
List of communal accounts dated in variety of places throughout the text, for example the first intact date on the recto is 12 Sivan 5352 …
List of expenditures of the Qodesh ca. 1169-70. An accounting written in the hand of Judge Shemuel b. Saadya ha-Levi, on both parts of a …
The Babylonians, paid for lime, 1. For transportation of bricks, 1⁄2. For
nightwatch: Dār ʿAbla,' for the month of Ṣafar, 1/2. Rent
for…
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Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Addressed to a judge (mawlāy al-shofeṭ). In the greetings section …
Accounts in Arabic on recto, medieval-era. Fiscal? Mentions a sixth of a stable (اصطبل); a sixth of a small compound (duwayra), Ismāʿīl, and maybe an …
Note in Judaeo-Arabic informing the recipient that the bearer had a good reason for his tardiness this week, and please forgive him.
Two fragments from the bottom part of a late bill of appointment. Dated: Monday, 25 Ṭevet (year missing). One of the parties is Ḥayyim.
Popular literature in Judaeo-Arabic. Humorous rhymed prose. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century.
Ottoman-era rent receipt, in Arabic script. Mūsā, the Christian, pays the rent for a stable.
Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138)