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Three minute fragments, two of which are blank. The third retains a few letters in Hebrew script on the recto and verso.
Arabic script, much of the text is faded but portions are legible in red ink. Vertical lines are visible on the recto and verso that …
Legal note. About money taken from a tailor. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the use of the ashrafī which was first minted …
Account in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script - needs examination. Join: Amir Ashur.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic probably from Ibrahim to Hayya ha-Kohen the teacher in Palermo (i.e. same writer and addressee as T-S 8J16.25). Nothing of substance …
Letter from an Alexandrian judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1180. Full of interesting details about the tensions in the community during the early years of …
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The Case of the Great/Fat Eunuch: five-part join of a court record from Fustat in the hand of Yefet b. David dealing with a case …
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Recto: Legal document, probably a deed of sale for an enslaved person. This can be deduced because a seller certifies that something is free of …
Letter from Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī, in Busir, to his cousin Barhun b. Salih, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and …
כתאבי יאכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך
וסעאדתך מן בוציר ען סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך קרב אללה אלאגתמאע
בך עלי אפצל אלאחואל מ…
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Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably relating to the 12th-century India trade. Mentions Abū Manṣūr; Amīn al-[...]; the Kārim convoy and whether something …
Recto: Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) from the Mamluk period in Arabic script written on paper, by al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm b. ʿAfīf b. Sulaymān al-Yahūdī. Involves sums …
Fragment of an official letter (report or petition?). In Arabic script. The ends of two lines are preserved. Phrases include: lil-khidma bi-l-thaghr... bi-ḍawāḥīh... Reused on …
Business letter or official correspondence in Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century (paleographic dating). Written in a chancery hand with very large space between …
فاما ما اتمنته في معنى التمر والصباغ [------]ـين
صحبة المندوبين عليهما فمنها صح بلا عنبار
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Letter addressed to a jurisconsult, containing six questions with the answers on the reverse side. One of the questions deals with a father who died …
End of a fragment, contains only the name of Perahya. The nature of this fragment is unclear and could be an address on a letter …
Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār Madīnī of Palermo, Sicily, to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Menashshe al-Ṣayrafī (Fustat). Ca. 1060. The sender, who is writing from …
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כתאבי יאסידי ומולאיי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך ונעמתך מן אסכנדריה
לט כלון מן רביע אלאול ואלחאל סלאמה ועאפיה וללה אלחמד דאימא
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Court document. Financial settlement between a husband and his wife? All the parties are Jewish. Dated: 26 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1056 AH, which is 2 February …
A pair of conjoined (either glued together or never separated in the first place) tax receipts related to a tax farm (ḍamān). Dated: 25 Jumādā …
Fragment of a letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310– d. 1355 CE), possibly a recommendation for Yosef al-Ṣabbān (the soap boiler).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Drafts of a testimony to the effect that Yeshuʿa b. Shelomo ha-Levi is a genuine Levi and that he used to be called up to …
Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic script (al-jumla...).
Recto: Draft of the opening lines of a letter addressed to a certain Abū l-Faraj. Dating: ca. early 13th century. The hand is very cursive. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Organized by parasha of the week. Names include "the father of al-Ḥakham Hiba," Nāṣir, and Yosef ʿŪdī.
Small fragment from a letter. Mostly polite phrases, none of the substance is preserved: אלא מואצלתי באלכתב אליהא . . פצעב דלך עלי ועז כתירא …
Letter fragment, probably. In Hebrew. Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era. Only the first few words of 12 lines are preserved. Seems to contain praises for somebody …
Later to Dov Ber Hakohen
Leaf from a literary work in Hebrew, mentioning bodies, sins, and Mars.
Letter from Natan ha-Kohen ha-Mumḥe b. Mevorakh (a.k.a. Wahb b. Barakāt), in Ashqelon, to the parnas ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (a.k.a. Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. …
Fragment of a circuit judge's report about actions with estate of Abū l-Fakhr in Damīra, written December 1258 CE (late Tevet 1570 Seleucid). Abū l-Fakhr …
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Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Mentions a waraqa that is to be sent.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known (India trade related?). May refer to owing somebody a rose-colored cooking vessel (? ṭājin warda); something …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Small fragment from the top. mentioning [Saʿa]dya ha-Kohen, [...] b. Saʿīd, and …
Medical recipes in Arabic script.
ENA 4011.19a (upper fragment): Marriage contract (ketubba). Dated: 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133/34 CE. NB: This fragment was previously dated Ḥeshvan 1435 Seleucid (unclear why …
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Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: mentions the end of Dhū l-Qaʿda 563 AH = 1168 CE. Seems to be a commercial contract involving a …
Piyyuṭ in Hebrew; part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Rent receipt in Judaeo-Arabic documenting that Yaʿaqov Maṣliaḥ has paid three years' rent for his ṭabaqa in advance, from July 1819 through July 1822 (Av …
Ketubba fragment. The groom's name is Nissim. The payments amount to 100+ dinars.
Letter in Ladino.
Business accounts
Recto (secondary use): Power of attorney (שטר אורכתא) in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). A certain Yaʿaqov appoints Abū Saʿd b. …
Letter from a woman named Harja, in Jerusalem, to her brother ʿAbd al-Dā'im Ibn Firrouz, in Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. See tag for other letters …
State document, very damaged. Mentions an Amīr "al-Amīr", but rest of the name is not very legible. Also mentions "al-dawla al-zāhira".
Legal document, part of the court register of the Jerusalemite synagogue in Fustāt. The parties involved are Shelomo b. Kathīr and Barhūn b. Sahlān the …
Astrological text in Judaeo-Arabic with an interesting geographical section, describing the different locations under the influence of Leo, including "the lands of the Turks" and …
Letter, copy. Written in poetic Hebrew. Possibly a letter of appeal for help, since the author describes his woes. Join by Dr. Ezra Chwat. See …