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Mercantile letter. The sender is in Asyūṭ or near there and mentions goods which are in demand there. Mentions waiting for a caravan. Needs further …
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One side: Draft of the beginning of a letter from a wretched prisoner in "the dungeon" (al-muṭbaq). In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly poetry and not a letter. …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With substandard orthography (CUDL), "in a known script with known atrocious spelling" (Goitein), mentioning people including Avraham and Abū l-Ḥusayn. Mentions arriving …
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IB V, 35. Unusual order of payment of Abū Zikrī Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a Hebrew 'emet' and Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals in the upper …
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Memorial list. Merovrakh ha-Dayyan, Natan ha-Dayyan...
Letter from Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen, in Ashqelon, to the parnas ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh. Written in both Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Contains a request to …
End of a letter/petition (wa-l-masʾūl min tafaḍḍulika.... min faḍlika wa-iḥṣānika...). In Arabic script. Dated: 947 AH, which is 1540/41 CE.
Large table of names in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals. One of the columns is headed "al-mustakhraj." Needs further examination.
Genealogical list of Nesiʾim. Names include: Neḥemya b. David; [...] b. Baradoy(?); Shelomo b. Ḥisday(?); Bustanay;
Letter addressed to Abu al-Ḥasan Ali b. Ishaq, dealing with business affairs. Ibrahom is mentioned
Recto: Hebrew blessing; probably the closing line of a letter. Finishes with: u-lehistofef be-beto amen sela, followed by a diamond pattern of four dots. Verso: …
Legal query concerning an orphan girl. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th century (the precise date can likely be established based on the references in the document). …
An appeal to the Karaite community of 'New City' (עיר חדשה) which is likely "Nowe Miasto" in modern-day Poland. This fragment's provenance ties back to …
Letter from a certain Shemuel to an unknown addressee. The sender reports that he received 11.5 dirhams out of the silver that he had 'transferred' …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Commercial letter, probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat. The addressee is Abū ʿImrān Mūsā, possibly Moshe b. Abū l-Ḥayy Khalīla. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. The …
Torah, Samaritan script, Genesis 36–37.
Accounts, probably. Needs examination.
Letter in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Dating: Ca. 1026 CE (per Gil). Referring to a speech made by Abū Isḥāq …
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One side: Rhymed text (-hū) in Hebrew. The other side: Rhymed text (-hū) in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.
Legal record (#20) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 6 …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Much of it seems to be an apology. Mentions coming to Cairo and a qāḍī. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter fragment (right side) in Hebrew. Dating: likely 11th century. Refers to the elders; many people crying out; the ḥaver R. Yos[ef]; and people telling …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Large and well preserved, merits examination.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Conveying a report about something. Mentions the house of ʿAzīz al-Dawla and the house of al-Ṣāḥib. Reused on verso for …
Page fragment from a collection of Gaonic responsa, per Amir Ashur's description in FGP and Ktiv. Requires further examination.
A leaf completely filled with mostly unconnected Arabic letters. It does appear to say things once the letters are connected, but it would take a …
Scrap of a letter, only few words preserved.
rom a formulary of legal documents, including the beginning of the section on ketubah. (FGP)
Dowry list for the marriage of Bū l-ʿIzz b. Mūsā and Najmiyya bt. Yosef b. [...]. List of items with Greek/Coptic numerals. Some Arabic notes …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic in a crude hand. Addressed to a community or group of elders (שיוככם שצ). The sender reports that he …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 8 Tammuz 1451 Seleucid = 25 June 1140 CE. …
Legal document in Hebrew and Aramaic, with some Judaeo-Arabic. An individual claims that his house was destroyed and that he rebuilt and renewed its interior …
Verso: Jottings and probably some accounts in Arabic script (mentions something embroidered / muṭarraza). The main text on recto is piyyuṭ.
Qurʾān 2:255 in large calligraphic script. Described in Connolly and Posegay, "'An Arabic Qurʾān, That You Might Understand.'"
Letter by the son of the judge (dayyan) of Minyat Zifta to a certain Peraḥya, requesting his intercession with a certain sayyidnā David. Dating: If …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script, with an addendum on the back concerning the same case. There are also notes in the margin …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Contains the phrase, "inform her that we will not kill her or sell her." The context is too faded to read. …
Copy or formulary of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, damaged, almost entirely consisting of honorifics and praises. Might name somebody titled Zayn al-Dīn (unless that is …
Document in Arabic script. The name al-Mu'ayyad fī l-Dīn may appear. Also: "Inform me who. . . in the neighborhood. . . or if he …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is a complete and well-preserved letter, which is rare …
Recto: unidentified text in Aramaic, probably liturgical. Verso: letter or state document in Arabic, including blessings for a dignitary. (Information in part from CUDL)
Late letter in Hebrew from a certain Yahuda b. Shimʿon addressed to Yaḥya and "the people of his house." Needs examination.
Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, likely by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, to a judge, perhaps his father ([al-Shaykh] al-ajall al-amīn al-makīn. . . al-dayyan al-aṣīl).
Much faded and rubbed. Seems like liturgical instructions?
Letter to the Gaon, probably from Aleppo, complaining that the Gaon is paying too much heed to those who slander the writer, approximately 1035. Verso: …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Bill of divorce, badly damaged. Dating, 16th-century or later based on the paleography. A small remnant of the date is visible in line two "[ה]עשרים …
Recto: Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions 'your slave' (likely the sender) and 'all of the policemen/infantry' (al-rajjāla jamīʿuhum). Verso: too faded to …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly recorded by a bookseller and, based on one type of coinage in use, the yüzlük ("יוזליס" l.3r), the document dates probably …