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Business letter in which the sender writes that he is concerned after meeting in Qus a business relation to whom he was able to sell …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (FGP). Most of a family letter conveying concern for the recipient and many other people and requesting news. ASE.
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T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
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Medical recipes. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is probably known.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions silk, 40 dinars, and the mysterious word כצאש twice (once followed by "ghalīẓ"). (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. The Arabic document is the first page of a letter. The formulaic greetings extend to three lines from the bottom, …
Cover page for accounts of the Iraqi synagogue for the year 501 AH (1107/08 CE) submitted to Mevorakh b. Saʿāda al-Isrā'īlī al-Mutaṭabbib Rayyis al-Yahūd (=Mevorakh …
Two sets of bifolios from an ʿilm-i ḥal manual in Ottoman Turkish. Dating: possibly sixteenth-century or later (per Hathaway). In the introduction to her edition, …
Ḳurʾān oḳumadan rukūʿ
itse, tekrār dönüb,
Ḳurʾān oḳuya ve yine
rukūʿ ide ṣoñra
sehv-i…
If you bow without reading [a chapter from] the Qurʾān,
then go back
and read the Qurʾā…
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From a woman, maybe to her son. She mentions that she has been sick (כונת וגעה) and worried (משגולה אלקלב) because she …
Short note to Saʿadya ha-Dayyan in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Avraham Maimonides? Reporting that a certain affair was concluded successfully.
Letter(s) in Ladino, with occasional sentences in Hebrew. The sender of the main letter has had an attack of "mal de ojo" (evil eye? or …
Literary text in Ladino.
Legal document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 22 lines are preserved along with part of a witness signature at the bottom. The first line …
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. …
Verso: Notes for drawing up a marriage document. Groom: Avraham b. [...]. Bride; Mubāraka bt. Faraḥ (maybe the same as in T-S Misc.8.97 (PGPID 3922)). …
Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if private or official. Mentions dates and names. Needs further examination. Reused on recto for a miscellany in Hebrew. (Information …
Letter in Ottoman Turkish. Dating: 1594–1689 CE, based on the legible numerals 10[..] AH, but probably toward the beginning of this date range per Hathaway …
Devletlü ve saʿādetlü sulṭānım bender-i Dimyāṭ mültezimi faḫru’l-emāsil ve züḫrü’l-aḳrān çavuş bey efendim ḥażretleri[nin ḫāk-ı pā…
My honoured and esteemed lord, the tax farmer of the port of Damietta, the pride of the exemplary and first among equals, his exce…
Inventory of the possessions of Ibn al-Tawwazī. Listing 20 items adding up to nearly 9 dinars. Neatly written and well preserved.
Verso (original use): Small fragment of an official-looking Arabic letter. Parts of four lines are preserved. May mention Barqa (unless this is something like "bi-riqqihī"), …
]علي بربـ[
]لى برقة ويقطع البلاد
]اث الله عليه محابة(؟)
ـ]ـن فاعلمهم ان العذر (الغدر=alt) بين
Geonic text discussing legal deeds, formulae, and validation procedures. The joins are from FGP attributed to Simcha Assaf and Ezra Chwat.
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of an internal government document, possibly fiscal ("māl ḍamānih li-shuhūr sana..."), dated 412 AH (1021/22 CE). Reused for Hebrew …
Recto: Account of the qodesh. Dating: ca. 1119–20 CE. Accounting written on the verso of a letter addressed to Judge Avraham b. Natan. The accounting …
. . . . of blessed memory, for Av, Elul, Tishri, Marheshwan,
… nightwatch, and 2 dir. due for Nayrūz, and for nightwatch. C…
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Pre-nuptial agreement, written following the betrothal and shortly before the marriage itself. The groom’s name is Shelomo. The marriage gift is 10 dinars. (Information from …
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. The sender's name appears in the upper left corner but is very faded (Khalfūn?). He mentions having left …
Ketubba, with a stipulation in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Arabic script. Reporting on a dialogue between the sender and someone else about someone who hasn't received a payment, and how the sender …
Note in which the cantor (hazzan) asks for "Hoshanot" (הושענות) to the seventh day (of the holiday of Sukkot). Verso: Piyyut. Example for Hoshanot. (Information …
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Piyyuṭ in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Ledger of the Yemenite Yeshiva in Jerusalem. No image
Tiny fragment in Arabic script, with wide line spacing and chancery script. Official Correspondence. On verso, there is mirror image text, probably from a letter …
Verso (original use): Part of a Qaraite ketubba. Bride: Naʿama bt. Nisi b. Yaʿaqov. Groom: Barakāt b. Daʾūd. The betrothal deed for this couple is …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known from the India Book IV documents.
Legal record (#56) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 19v-20r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 5 Shevat 5323 …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Business letter, fragment. In Ladino. Mentions "las naves" (the ships).
Very faded fragment from the beginning of a letter in to ha-Dayyan ha-Maskil (who is named, but the name is very faded - Zekharya?). Reused …
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi (1160s CE). On the back there is a draft of a piyyut.
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. The last three lines of the main document are partially preserved (... 14[..] Seleucid... on the Nile... …
A brief narrative of the calendar controversy of 921/2 appears within a treatise or manual in Judaeo-Arabic on the Jewish calendar, which was composed and …
Table of names in Arabic script, most entries circled.
Verso: Addendum of a letter from a judge in Fustat to his wife in Alexandria, encouraging her to buy a robe and advising her about …
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Account for the export of flax to Sicily. Around 1035. Also mentions camphor, textiles, as well as details about payments. It seems like it is …
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Book list in the hand of Shelomo ha-Levi, mentioning, among other items, Mishna tractates and their gemara (occasionally specifying the type of script), a commentary …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with calculations that draw on both the Hebrew alphanumerical and Arabic numerical systems. The paleography suggests that these accounts date to the …
Legal document. Dated: Av 1452 Seleucid = July/August 1141 CE (month based on the phrase יהפך לשמחה). Involves 16 dinars; possibly silk which was purchased; …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The goods listed include several garments, some of silk. Values are given in terms of the currency "ḥarf." This term for a …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Possibly an account and some jottings
Letter fragment addressed to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Regarding a very poor man. Mentions the word me'uḥar three lines from the bottom, which …
Verso: Jotted accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals.