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Legal document. Involves a sum of 5 dinars and people including Wahbān and Abū Isḥāq b. Yūsuf and [...] al-Ṣayrafī. The details of the case …
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List of 20 pledges made in Coptic numerals during 6 weeks [MR Cohen: one week skipped, hence actually encompasses a 7 week period]. Among the …
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Fragment (left side) of a late illuminated ketubba. Location: Cairo. Dating: no earlier than 1703 CE based on the mention of Ottoman [zeri] maḥbūb coinage, …
Upper part of a letter to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on the resolution of a dispute, and then after two years something involving someone's …
Possibly a letter, copy of a letter, or some sort of narrative. In Arabic script. The layout is most consistent with a literary text, and …
On recto there is a long list of items in Arabic script, mostly or entirely materia medica. On verso there are Greek/Coptic numerals at the …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Business letter in Hebrew. Dating: 16th c? On a consignment of semolina. Information from JRL online catalogue.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to some dignitary. Only the formulaic opening is preserved. In the upper margin and on verso there are jottings in Hebrew …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Sedaqa in Tripoli, Libya, to the physician Shemuel in Cairo, thanking him for his ransom when the sender was captured by …
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Magical text, mentioning ‘the people of Babel’ (ahl Bābil) and the Neguš. Magical drawing on verso. Looks like the same hand as T-S AS 145.71 …
Recto: Hebrew-Aramaic legal document, mentioning [...] b. Faraj and [...] b. ʿAmram known as Ibn Ḥadīda. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script mentioning shipments and a …
Fragment of a letter probably addressed to [...]ya ha-Dayyan. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with business matters after the opening blessings. AA
Formal note, in Arabic script. Probably in answer to a question "innaka saʾltanī". Mentions a strong vow "bi-akhaṣṣ al-yamīn".
Legal fragment involving half of a house and Elazar who is known as Manṣūr al-Zajjāj. Needs examination. See T-S 13J3.13 (PGPID 7967) for a list …
Arabic, probably literary. Pinholes at the margin sewn in a non-straight line at unequal distances apart; same holes in ENA 3948.7, ENA 3949.5, ENA 3949.6, …
Recto: unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter. Verso: Pesuqe de-Zimra. (Information from CUDL)
Legal record (#13) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
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Ottoman-era accounts, might be Arabic but some words have Ottoman Turkish suffixes. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter addressed to a certain Seʿadya or the son of Seʿadya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the …
Fragment from a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe probably to his brother Halfon.
Letter in Arabic script with some Hebrew mixed in (בהיכלו). Faded and damaged. A portion of the address is preserved; the sender's name may be …
Recto: short message or formula from a letter, mentioning the name Shelomo. Verso: jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Probably accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Faded.
Small fragment (upper left corner) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Dating: 11th or 12th century. None of the substance is preserved.
Probably a fiscal account.
From a medical treatise in Arabic.
Minute fragment from an account
Recto: Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: probably 11th century. Mentions Ibn al-Samīn and a bale of turquoise-colored (silk?) (fayrūzī al-lawn). Verso: Mercantile accounts …
Responsum? Discussing legal issues with two lines in a different hand at the bottom, including a signature which includes the name Yeḥiʾel.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi.
Literary text or Informal note in Ladino on the verso with a possible signature on the recto "]...ארמנ.. ש.". The Ladino text on the verso …
Letter fragment (right side of recto, part of the address on verso). Someone named [...] b. Dawud al-[...] is named on verso. ASE.
Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Perhaps a partnership agreement. Refers to importing goods or currency and selling …
Legal document in which a deposited estate is handed over to the heirs. Mentions people including al-Dhahabī, Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen (called Zayn), and Ibn Ghazāl. In …
Booklist in Ladino. On the last page of a literary midrashic work in Hebrew. "These are the books I bought here in Patras (Greece), it …
Recto: List of the opening lines of twenty dirges, followed by a note to Bū l-Majd: "O my master the elder Bū l-Majd (=Meʾir b. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions a "copper rod" on the recto and at least one other copper item.
Business account or letter, mentioning several names including some with the title al-haj - needs examination. (FGP)
Letter/petition from Umm Bū l-Munā to a notable. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. She asks/reminds him to send a letter on her behalf with the bearer …
Persian poetry.
Fragment from a middle part of a ketubah containing section from the dowry list. AA
Legal testimony, fragment. Mentions the young ʿEli b. Ḥalfon and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (but not in his handwriting). Dating: ca. 1100–1138, based on the …
Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Fragment (lower right corner). Involving Abū l-Faraj who acknowledges receiving 10 dinars from …
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Various jottings. The top of recto contains a list of writing equipment: "tablet and inkpot and pen and ink (midād) and notebook and codex and …
Letter in which a son acknowledges receipt of a shipment sent by his father, along with the statement, “And paid the dinar for the capitation …
Hebrew poetry.
Small fragment from the end of a legal document signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya.
Recto: Excerpts from Ecclesiastes. Verso: A list of books that the writer was asked to prepare (or obtain?) for somebody. The Talmud, printed in Salonica …