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Official correspondence or state document, in Arabic script, late. Two big fragmentary lines with faded text. The first line begins as "يذكر السيد المذكور". Needs …
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Incomplete late legal document in which Yaʿaqov Maṣliaḥ acknowledges that Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm (fl. 1785-1825 CE) has invested 2000 medins with him.
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Small fragment, faded and damaged. Probably from a legal deed or letter. Only a few words are legible: פידפעהא ...אלרגוע אלי...
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentioning people including Abū Zikrī, Peraḥya, the wife of Menashshe b. David, and Ibn Yehuda. Mentions Byzantium (bilād …
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Possibly business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter in the hand of Maimonides (ca. 1168–1204 CE), with a medical recipe consisting of (iron) water, lentisk and spikenard, and a mysterious mention of …
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Formulary in elevated Hebrew for a letter to a dignitary: לצפירת תפארת נטע מפואר מושל בן מושל ארי בן ארי בן אבהן(?) ר פל בן …
Only few words. Might be from the end of a legal deed, but too little remains. AA
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions several month names; Yaḥyā; Gharīb.
Marriage document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (active 1066–1108). Fragment from a left side of ketubba de-irkesa (כתובה דארכסא), a ketubba written as …
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Letter from a file of Avraham Maimonides' court, written to the Dayyan Nissim in al-Maḥalla, written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Instructing the addressee not to …
Badly rubbed and faded business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions sending something to Alexandria and inquires about the price of שרב (wine? medicinal syrups?). (Information from …
Arabic poetry.
Late account i Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions ʿAzarya and Ḥasān and Shelomo the currency fulūs and possibly קרונה.
A ketubah. Image not availabe.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto and verso: Letter to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Politely disputing a quotation used in his sermon on the preceding Saturday, the topic of which …
There are 4 documents sharing this shelfmark. 538/1: Ownership notes for a copy of the legal code Aderet Eliyyahu by the Qaraite hakham Eliyyahu Bashyazi …
Decorated Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Hayyim b. Avraham. The bride is Esther d. Ya'aqov Halevi.
Fragment of a Hebrew literary source.
Letter or letters. Unusual format: it appears that a first letter ends and a second letter begins — perhaps these are letter copies in an …
State, document in Arabic script, probably a petition. Sort of a rudimentary hand. The petitioner renews the taqbīl, "al-mamlūk yujaddid ta[qbīl]."
List of names and numbers for Parshat Vayeṣe, perhaps donations. Dating: late, probably 18th or 19th century.
Verso (earlier use): Deed of sale for a house in New Cairo. In Arabic script. Recto (later use): Deed of acknowledgment, likely related to the …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon ha-Kohen to Moshe b. Maṣliaḥ. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he has arrived safely after a terrible Nile voyage when …
Faded text, lists some sums or commodities in halves "niṣf". Needs examination.
Legal document, probably a bill of release. Fragment: lower left corner. Dating: Early 13th century. In which Shela b. Berakhot acknowledges that he has no …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (ca. 1100–38 CE). One of the parties is [...] …
Letter to Abū ʿAlī al-[..]n b. Sahl. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Dealing with business matters, probably. Mentions the Fayyūm (line 1 of verso).
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: May 14, 1238. Written in the hand of Solomon b. Elijah (identified by Goitein), teacher and court scribe. Concerning a …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Large and almost completely preserved. Location: Tyre. Dated: Thursday, 12 Kislev 4784 AM, which is 28 November 1023 CE. The scribe is …
Small fragment of an unknown nature. Very cursive hand and much faded. Dating: a partial Hijri date possibly appears in l. 6 of the recto: …
Bifolio of accounts (sums collected) in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Many names and numbers listed. Several freedmen appear …
Letter, fragmentary, from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Ḥaver b. Amram in Fustat written in his own hand. Eli Ha-Kohen expresses his anxiety …
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Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman era.
A letter to Shmuel b. Aharon
Minute fragment of a legal document in Hebrew dealing with payment of a debt (פרעון). The paleography supports a dating estimate of late fifteenth- or …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni hand. Partially vocalized. Unusual layout, with a very large text block in the left margin at a right angle to …
Probably literary
Verso: Account in Arabic script, listing mainly items of clothing. Headed by the glyph followed by 'al-mamālīk al-ʿazīza.' Subsections are headed by 'al-wāṣil' and 'waṣala.' …
Court record in Hebrew. Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Nisan 5285 AM = 19 April 1525 CE. Signed by three known figures: Yisraʾel b. Yeḥiel, …
Draft or beginning of a legal document. In Arabic script. "This is a release between me and Umm Abū Manṣūr regarding the dwelling in the …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Sahlan b. Avraham, end of 1042. Detailing "the peace" and the settlement between the Shelomo and Natan b. Avraham …
Possibly poetry, in both Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: looks old, likely 11th century. On recto there is a refrain ״אין שאלה״.
Writing exercises based on the first section of the book of Proverbs in Judaeo-Arabic translation.
Accounts. Many names are mentioned.
Calendar fragment[?] for the year 53__ which provides a possible range of 1539-1638 CE. Although the text from the first line is incomplete, the exact …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. There may be the remnants of a letter on one side.
Two fragments from an official-looking Judaeo-Arabic letter to a certain community or communities (אחינו אנשי גאולתנו). On verso refers to "our dear one our scribe" …