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Draft of praises for a vizier: Sayyidnā [. . . .] Amīr al-Juyūsh Sayf al-Islām Nāṣir al-Anām Kāfil Quḍāt al-Muʾminīn wa-Hādī Duʿāt al-Muslimīn. Written in …
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Poetry and prose about wine. In Judaeo-Arabic. Includes the phrase "just like the Jews do it" and refers to a holiday celebration "on the night …
Legal document, probably. Fragment (upper right corner). Faded and damaged. Opens with a date: Adar II 17[..] Seleucid = 1389–1488 CE (though it is strange …
Petition from the Jewish community of Alexandria to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (1140–59 CE). Complaining about oppressive and fraudulent collection of the capitation tax. …
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A collection of theological questions to the Qaraite scholar Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm al-Baṣīr, active in Jerusalem in the late tenth century. On page …
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Letter to Yosef b. Noah from Luzka, mostly dealing with monetary issues related to the community
Karaite deed of testimony that a husband has delivered a bill of divorce to his wife. Location: Baghdad (l. 7, פה בגדאד) Dated: 6 Iyyar …
Fragment of a legal document (likely a contract of sale for a property) dated 411 AH. Incomplete at the beginning. Interestingly, the year is mentioned …
Legal document. Location: Tehran ('on the river Zu l-Qarnayn'). Dated: Tuesday, 16 Av 5673 AM, which is 1913 CE. Concerning the sending of a bill …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Relatively large and well preserved, probably missing only the top few lines. Seems to be from a family member. The …
On recto a poem. On verso a letter (or rather another poem?) in another hand. Barely legible
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Abū Manṣūr to his 'father' (it seems father-in-law) al-Rayyis Hibatallāh the judge, representative of the Nagid David, in Alexandria: Dating: Based on the …
Late accounts, mentioning Aḥmad, Yaḥyā, Nūraddin, Abū Nāṣir and Muḥammad. The botanical term שמשאר from Persian is mentioned on the recto, possibly materia medica (Steingass: …
Marriage contract between a Rabbanite man Khalfā b. Saʿūd, son of Farajallah b. Nafīs and a divorced Rabbanite woman Fāṭima. The marriage was commemorated upon …
Legal record (#9) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 1r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
Recto is a small fragment of a letter in Arabic script, possibly complaining about someone's obstinacy (taʿannut). Torn and reused for an unrelated document on …
Maimonides autograph of the Mishneh Torah.
Small fragment of a legal document, probably.
Account in Arabic script. State/fiscal?
Letter written in a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic script. Various blessings and Bible citations are rendered in Hebrew script, whereas the main part is …
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 …
See PGPID 24609: Legal document, or possibly a letter describing a legal case. Three continuous fragments from the middle section are preserved. Concerns a woman's …
Literary text on legal procedure, mentioning witnesses.
Hebrew Bible transcribed into Arabic script (Jeremiah 18:17–18; 20:4–6) with Yefet ben ʿEli's commentary and Tiberian vocalization and accents in red ink. Cf. BL OR …
Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Sharaf (סת אלשרף). The part preserved here consists mainly of the dowry list. (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: …
Letter from Yehuda b. Moshe referring to the addressee's fame and stature, expressing a wish to see him, and promising to pronounce the prayer for …
Recto: Letter opening to Joseph the Nagid (יהוסף, probably the Nagid Joseph b. Samuel, from the second half of the 11th century CE). Only extensive …
Letter, with a drawing on verso. (Information from CUDL.) Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe?
Geonic literature. In Hebrew.
Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (1127–39). Dating: 1127–38 CE. Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. …
Memorial list of a Levite family headed by Shela. It is not clear whether the names on verso belong to the same family or not. …
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Little content preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions al-Marjānī and al-Shelishi. Excerpts: ליס ימכן . . . אצחאבנא אן . …
State document. Chancery hand, wide space between the lines. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved: في ظهرها... والروزنامجات... انفاذها لانك
Letter from Yosef ha-Rofe b. Moshe ha-Rofe in Damascus to Avraham Fayrūz b. Moshe ha-Rofe, in Fustat/Cairo. The writer complains about the lack of letters …
Letter from Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. Ḥusayn informs Uruwī that the bearer of this letter brings with him …
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Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Formula of a bill of inheritance. Belong to a book of legal deeds, Another page in T-S J3.15
Accounts. Six small but comparatively well-written pages in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)
Letter from Sulaymān b. Bū l-ʿAlā al-Tājir to Eliyyahu the Judge. Partially in Arabic script, partially in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the beginning and two different addresses …
Probably fiscal accounting. Dated: 575 AH = Accounts in Arabic on recto and verso, probably state. Medieval era. Requires further examination.
Recto: letter from Binyām to Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī concerning business matters regarding commodities such as tamarind (tamar hindī) and pomegranate flowers (jullanār). Mentions people including …
Bottom of a legal document with part of a signature preserved ([...] b. Berakhot) and the validation (qiyyum): תלתא כחדא דנוסחניה וקיומיה . . . …
Bifolium of legal records, one of which is dated 1519 CE (Sivan 1830 Seleucid).
Un-conserved and damaged. Letter from Aharon to his brother Abu Sa’d al-Kohen. AA