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Recto: Letter likely addressed to one of the later Maimonidean Nagids (14th or 15th century). The sender asks for permission to release a vow about …
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly mercantile. Refers to awaiting the arrival of the caravan.
No Scholarship Records
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Calendar. Late. Colorful floral illustrations, with the text in circular medallions. The surrounding fragments are either from the same calendar or very similar ones.
Letter in Ladino. Dated: 10 Nisan 5528 AM = 1768 CE. The writer's name is Yedidya Tariqa and his location (Chania = כאניה) is listed …
Accounts
Small and faded fragment of a legal deed regarding a lawsuit by the 'great elder, the haver' Dosa b. [Yehoshuaʿ(?)] of a shipment of musk …
Probably a court record in Hebrew. Late. The verso bears a potential filing note regarding the "case of Raḥamīm גרגיס (surname), in the matter of …
Possibly an account - needs examination.
Legal document in which an old woman, appointed by the court as guardian of her grandchildren, receives cash and items left by her son for …
Letter from the judge Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Kohen, apparently in or near Ashqelon, to ʿAmram b. Yefet (aka Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAmmār b. Ḥusayn), apparently in …
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Minute fragment from a legal deed.
Legal document concerning a settlement of 17 dinars belonging to ‘my son Sālim’. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information from …
Probably a letter of appeal for charity. From a certain Yefet. In Hebrew.
Letter in Hebrew. Mainly complaining about the conduct of a group of wicked people. Needs further examination. Join: Alan Elbaum. On verso there is a …
Letter of appeal from Bū Saʿd al-Baghd[ādī] to two people. The Hebrew introduction and a few words of the Judaeo-Arabic body are preserved.
Mysterious document with multiple text blocks, all quite faded. It may begin on verso and continue onto recto. At the top of verso there is …
Minute fragment from a court record involving Avraham b. Nathan. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). AA
IB VI, 50. Letter from an unidentified sender in India to an unidentified addressee in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century. The fragment begins …
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Possibly an Arabic letter. Recto is quite damaged. Verso may contain the address: Mentions al-Shaykh al-Ajall Abū ʿAlī b. [...] and al-Shaykh Abū l-Khayr Dayyān. …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Two fragments from the right side. Concerning a release granted by a creditor to Abū …
Small fragment of an Arabic state document.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Dated first decade of Kislev. Mentions Rosh ha-Qehillot. No …
Fragment in Arabic, medieval-era. Perhaps documentary, requires further examination.
Letter from Yehuda to Sulaymān and ʿAzīz. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Looks no earlier than 14th c, but this is a guess. Yehuda is spelled יהודא. …
Damaged and torn, only a few words remain, but seems to be from a ketubbah. AA
Letter from the head of the Gola concerning the calendar. Describes his opinion about the need to shorten two months (to 29 days) and explains …
. . . that we and all Israel be [one] band [in all] months and all festivals. This custom has been followed by our fathers and by the yeshivot until …
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Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era.
Verso: Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 (Khan reads 26 Dhū …
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Two words in Arabic script.
Commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd (or Ibn al-Ḥamīd) and brazilwood. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Prologue to a book, in Arabic script. Mentions the term 'ikhtilāj' (twitch).
IB VII, 48. Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "1200 Malikī dinars. . . I was distressed by (the state of) those poor children. . . " …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Abū Saʿd; a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ; and someone's maternal grandmother. Probably …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda (the famous one?), the paleography may make it possible to rule out this connection. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Shavuʿot and previous …
Multifragment. (a) Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. (b) Probably too faded to read. Looks like Judaeo-Arabic, and looks older.
Fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be a biblical concordance and dictionary.
Poem, of documentary interest. In Judaeo-Arabic. Exhorts everyone who wants their sins forgiven to make a pilgrimage to the shrine at Dammūh. Goes on to …
Legal document describing how a person took an oath upon the holy Torah. Abū l-Makārim is mentioned and a fine of 5 dinars to the …
Letter fragment, probably. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting looks very similar to that of the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov, however Shemuel's other documents …
Possibly a tax receipt. Quite faded.
Legal document written in Damietta Tishrei 1448 (late September 1136) and validated in Fustat in the court of the synagogue of the Palestinians, under the …
Booklet of psalms and other liturgical text. On fol. 3v, righthand side, there are various jottings, including one phrase that looks like it is from …
List of the Islamic months in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Document with list of names, either with remarks such as ‘will testify’ or with numerals, mentioning Ibn Zurayq; Abū l-Surūr Ibn al-Kohen, Khallūf and Sitt …
Receipt of rent/wage, in late Arabic script. Needs examination.
Legal documents from 17th century Egypt, regarding a widow named Riqa (ריקא), the daughter of Ḥanan She'eltiel. The document on the verso is dated 3 …
Accounts with a wide variety of names mentioned, possibly a communal list. Dating: 19th-century based on paleography and lined paper. The names of those mentioned …
Legal document. Dated: Nisan 1456 Seleucid = March/April 1145 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Abū l-Maʿānī acknowledges that he has …
State document, in Arabic script, wide spacing, maybe a petition. Mentions a wazīr but the portion of his name is cut off in the lacunae. …