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Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Ḥujayj b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is known from other early to mid-11th century …
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Family and/or business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a woman (e.g., lā tadhkurīh lī wa-lā tasʾalīnī [ʿanhu]...). Mentions prayer; "al-Shāmiyyīn" (probably referring to the synagogue); …
Letter to a judge (shofeṭ), apparently in Damīra, mentioning Abū l-Munā b. Abū l-[...] (the addressee?). (Information from CUDL)
List of commodities, such as dishes and veils, probably part of a trousseau list. Includes a white head scarf, black and white cloth, embroidered sleeves, …
List of the positive commandments. Late.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. ENA NS 12.25 consists of two fragments that do not immediately look like a join but do appear to belong together. Mentions …
Letter in Arabic script. The addressee is asked to send something (dirhams?) with the bearer. On verso there is piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL)
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Legal document. Dated: Sunday, 23 Av 1402 Sel. (10 August 1091). Testimony confirming that a freedwoman named Mubāraka, originally from the lands of Rūm (Byzantium), …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Left fragment: Magical text with the header ללמטלקה = for the divorcee
Karaite agreement regarding a payment for two apartments (תבקתין) in a house. Date: 27 Shevat 5446 AM (1686 CE). ʿOvadya Feyruz receives a payment of …
Letter from an unnamed business agent (fattore), in Egypt, to his employer Yosef Naftali. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. The addressee …
Some Arabic jottings on verso, may be documentary.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration marks - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran and al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn.
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Only the opening pleasantries are preserved.
Minute fragment from a list of court procedures written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138). Hardly any text survived. AA
Order of one pound of meat from al-muʿallim Ṣadaqa (cf. T-S AS 177.468).
Responsum and the beginning of the next by R. Migash. Published by Amir Ashur in Qoves al Yad 21 (2012), 1-24
specimen letters for various occasions, in a late hand. (Data from FGP)
Court record involving Yehuda b. Nissim al-Tūnisī (cf. T-S NS 226.98 (PGPID 24425)) and Yosef b. Abū l-Bishr known as Ibn al-[...]. The actual context …
Three drafts of legal documents. (a) Recto: פוטיתי bt. Eliyya, the divorcee of Yosef b. Elʿazar and the mother-in-law of Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq appears before …
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Recto: Draft of a letter. In the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā. Probably addressed to Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, and related to T-S 8J40.1 (PGPID …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 25 Adar I 1453 Seleucid = 22 February 1142 CE. Husband: Surūr b. Sibāʿ. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl …
Letter from Abū ʿAlī to Abū l-Ḥasan. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a crude hand. Few details are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Literary text on legal procedure, mentioning witnesses.
Page from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise.
Fragment of a letter or petition. In Arabic script. Six lines, fragmentary, difficult to read. Some words read as lil-haṣr(?), thaman(?), ʿadlhā wa-ṣadaqāthā (appealing to …
Small fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso contains mirror image text from another (or the same) fragment, also from a Judaeo-Arabic …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems to be stuck onto a second piece of paper. Mentions 10 of something (dirhams? dinars?) belonging to the addressee.
Letter of an unknown welfare official reporting to a superior. He alludes to the plight of an orphan girl (1-6). He asks the recipient to …
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, …
Part of a rhymed letter. In the top right-hand corner is a note of the name Shemarya the teacher. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with several addressees, among them [ʿAbd] Allāh (?), Abū Saʿd, and Ṣedaqa b. [...] ha-Zaqen.
Informal note without the names of the sender or addressee (as was common in notes exchanged between friends). In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a long vertical …
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Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Concerns someone ha-Zaqen ha-Levi titled Rosh ha-Qahal and someone's mother and sister.
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew apparently addressed to the brother-in-law of the writer. The addressee is asked to purchase a servant girl for the …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Janūn to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal and his son Yosef. Concerns shipments of wax and honey, as well as textiles. …
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Letter from a woman to a certain Yosef written in the hand of Shelomo ha-Melammed b. Eliya. The woman calles herself "his mother" but it …
Small fragment probably of a letter. Wide line spacing. Could potentially be literary, too. מא . . פי נפסה ואלחדתאן ובואיקה פי עקבה אנמא עלם …
Complaint related to inheritance – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 145) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq …
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 …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, the first line mentions al-Shaykh Bu-al-Farj. Late medieval or early modern, 14th-16th-centuries.
Letter from a certain Meʾir to his 'friend and brother' Abū ʿImrān ('ha-talmid ha-navon'). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender's hand is familiar from other documents (distinctive …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right piece). In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: first half of the 12th century. Some phrases …
Title page (verso) and opening lines of an instructional manual in accounting: كتاب اللباب في الوفق والعدد والحساب. The work's author is محمد بن الحسن …