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Accounts of many names and corresponding monetary values, perhaps payments. Dating is 18th- or 19th-century based on the mention of Ottoman kurush. The word "leather" …
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Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Tuesday, 25 Tammuz 1693 Seleucid = פֿדֿןֿ Hijri (this is confusing notation: perhaps 584 + an implied 200?). In any …
Epistle of R. Sherira Gaon. See PGPID 23194 for full list of joins
Accounts of a druggist. In Arabic script. Items include tamarind, various pastilles (aqrāṣ), chebulic myrobalan (kābulī).
Fol. 1v: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In which a woman releases Ḥalfon b. Yosef and his wife …
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Legal record (#6). Divorce settlement. Dated: Monday, 20 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. Abū Saʿd al-Zayyāt b. Khalīl attests, acting as agent for his sister Sitt al-Fakhr, …
Likely a letter fragment. Mentions someone who "dispersed" a group of people; Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥalabī and Ibn [...]; a prayer for God's vengeance; the phrase …
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Letter in Hebrew (probably), but very difficult to read. Needs examination.
Letter from an otherwise unknown Avraham b. Yosef to the relatively well-known Abū l-Faḍāʾil Ḥayyim b. Ḥananel, who was the son of the judge Ḥananel …
List of expenses on food and crockery made on a journey. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
ב . .וק
א> א וט עת
ווזוז ז ה נוק א …
Letter in Hebrew addressed to a notable named Yaḥyā b. Menashshe (יחיה בן מנשה). Likely a letter of appeal for charity. Written in beautiful square …
Account probably concerning an inheritance or a dowry. (Information from Goitein's index cards
Cryptic marginal jottings on a page of piyyuṭ addressed to a certain Rabbi Ḥalfon: יא מולאי רבי חלפון ג הכרה(?) פי כל אנסאן חדית(?) אלזלל …
Recto: order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, instructing Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay Abū l-Barakāt (dated 7 Nisan 1450 = 1139 CE). (Information from …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably the same scribe as T-S 13J34.5 (Alexandria, 1090 CE), T-S 13J35.5, and T-S AS 117.131 (PGPID 38280). Mentions Avraham the …
Table of contents of a volume of responsa.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower part only). Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century, based on handwriting. Addressed to a woman. The sender mentions the number …
Recto: Letter fragment from Khalaf b. Mubārak al-Ḥazzān or al-Jazzār. In Arabic script. Only the basmala, tarjama, and part of the first line are preserved. …
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Legal document. Dated: Sivan 1411 Seleucid, which is May/June 1100 CE. Ghanya bt. Ḥusayn and her divorced husband Hillel b. Faraj agree that their little …
Letters of the gaʾon of Baghdad Shemuʾel b. ʿEli. See description under Yevr. III B 1131, and see ENA 4011.74.
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Monograph; probably from a formulary of legal documents, including sections on harshaah and gifts in contemplation of death. (Information from Brody catalog via FGP.)
Fragment from the top of a deed of sale. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Location: Bilbays. Dated: 20 Adar II 1535 Seleucid = …
Accounts.
Literary, Arabic. Concerning calendar or astronomy.
Hebrew poetry in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu.
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Faded document in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter.
Letter from Avraham Maghribī to the elder Maʿānī. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. This is a recommendation for charity on behalf of the bearer, the son of …
Letter (opening only) from Shemuel b. Eli gaʾon in the hand of his disciple Yosef b. Yaʿaqov rosh ha-seder. Mentions one of houses of the …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written on parchment. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 1140–59 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Groom: Abū Karam b. [...] …
Letter from a certain Yosef to Yiṣḥaq he-Ḥaver, in Valencia (בלנסיה). In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is Egyptian rather than Spanish (per Amir Ashur) though the …
Petition to Saladin from ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Yaḥyā, the Jew, a resident of Malīj, in the province of al-Gharbiyya, in the Delta. Dating: ca. 564–89 …
المملوك
عبد الباقى بن يحيى اليهودى
المقيم بلمليج
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Legal document in which Ḥusn bt. Yaḥyā ibn al-Zūrīqā, wife of Abū Naṣr Shelomo b. Saʿadya b. Hallun declares that she has received a full …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions many names, mostly Muslim.
Letter fragments. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a few words in vocalized Hebrew. Addressed to 'my son.' The sender reports that the late ḥaver (mawlāy al-ḥaver, may …
Minute fragment from a ketubah, which can be dated to 1178 onwards thanks to the remains of the immersion clause which started to appear in …
Account of three weeks worth of expenses. 1448 wariq (silver) dirhems in total
Upper part of a letter to a dignitary ('al-sayyid al-fāḍil'). In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably originally a long rotulus. Resembles T-S 20.145 + T-S AS 153.176 + …
Responsum or responsa. Naming specific people instead of the usual "Reʾuven" and "Shimʿon" or "fulān." At least on verso, the case has to do with …
Recto, with the address on verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic from an unidentified sender (his name might appear in the address) to Abū l-Riḍā Nissim b. …
Colophon by Berakhot b. Eliyyahu b. Zekharya (aka Shelomo b. Eliyyahu). On the other side of the page are some pen trials.
Recto and verso are two different letters of excuse, written with petition-like language. They might be two versions of the same letter (only the left …
Letter from an unknown writer, either in Gaza or near Jerusalem, to Yishmaʿel, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. The …
Letter, two fragments of a single letter, in Arabic script.
Recto: Report or official correspondence, possibly. In Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions "the great resolution" …
Torn fragment of a business account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Note in which a scribe asks "Sayyidnā al-Rayyis" to be permitted to copy an Arabic translation of the tractate 'Hullin.' (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Petition in Arabic. T-S Misc.34.5 (4r) includes the opening formula: "المملوك يقبل الارض". There are 12 folios under the shelfmark T-S Misc.34.5– three of which …
Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the synagogue and Ibn al-Siqillī. Ends, "And God knows" (ואללה אלעאלם).