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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to 'the father' Abū Sahl. The writer reports that a sick man is in dangerous condition (al-marīḍ ʿalā khaṭar (or conceivably …
No Scholarship Records
Secondary use: Letter fragment or draft in Judaeo-Arabic. The portion on recto has an agitated tone, mentions a sum of money, Munajjā, swearing by God …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Asking for a favor of some kind in a roundabout way. Needs further examination.
Official report to a superior concerning the ḍamān in Damīra. Complete. The writer, in deferential chancery style, reports to a superior authority on matters relating …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Unusual format and line justification. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. Mentions the pressing [of the grapes?] and …
Bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Dating: ca. 1100 CE (based on Med Soc II, p. 601 n. 18). The name of the enslaved …
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Recto: Unidentified text in Arabic script. Verso: Might be two distinct fragments. The upper one at least is. a panegyric (madḥ) by al-Buḥturī: بَرقٌ أَضاءَ …
Letter fragment addressed to the Nagid [Mevorakh] b. Saʿadya. Very faded. Refer to illnesses (amrāḍ. . . maraḍan. . .). Needs further examination. Reused on …
Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Ishāq b. Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār rents a house from 1 Muḥarram for four dinars, “pays in advance.” (Information in …
This is what Isḥāq ibn Saʿīd the Jew leased [ ]
all the house that belongs to her, in her ownership and possession [ ]
its boundary…
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 6 Elul 5576 AM, which is 1816 CE. Groom: Refael Tortos b. Merkado. Bride: Esther Tantan (? תנתן) …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender insistently urges the addressee to act according to his request, "because the muqaddam thinks he is like an angel …
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Involves a supervisor of construction (al-mutawallī lil-ʿimāra); something valued …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely an 11th-century family and/or mercantile letter. There are congratulations for a bride (al-ʿarūsa).
Recto: Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 23 Shevat, 1208 CE. …
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Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Perhaps a settlement between an abusive husband (...lahā bi-ḍarb wa-qaṣd...) and a …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Alexandria.
Bifolio of mercantile accounts. Dating: probably 11th century. The hand may be known (Nahray b. Nissim?). Mentions names such as Abū Isḥāq (Ibrāhīm) b. Farrāḥ; …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya, in Tinnīs, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: 7 December 1060. Among many other matters, Nissim reveals …
מן תניס ל'ב'י' כלת מן טבת ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך אן כתבת אליך כתב אן
גיר ה[דא] א…
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Recto: Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Needs further examination. Verso: Informal note (petition?) in Arabic script …
Unidentified text in Arabic, probably literary.
Letter from Shemuel Gaon b. Hofni to an unknown Aluf (אלוף). October 1008. Information about copies of two of the Gaon’s books. The person who …
Interesting fragment with a Judaeo-Arabic midrash about Moses quoting Isaiah 63:12, Deut. 3:26, and Exodus 34:6. (Information in part from FGP.)
Letter fragment in Arabic script.
Marriage contract between a Rabbanite man Khalfā b. Saʿūd, son of Farajallah b. Nafīs and a divorced Rabbanite woman Fāṭima. The marriage was commemorated upon …
Literary. Bifolium in Arabic script of Kitāb al-Shihāb, a collection of sayings ascribed to Muḥammad, by Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Salāma b. Jaʿfar al-Quḍāʿī (d. …
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1060 CE. A complaint about Avraham b. Ya’aqov who …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר גדול הישיבה ואדאם עזה ותאידה
וסעאדתה ונעמאה מן אלאסכ<נ>דריה אעלמ[ה] מה גרם החטא ודלד אן
אלשיך רב אברהם בי…
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Dating: 1066–1108 CE, but this range can be narrowed further …
Main Points of the Will
of Wuḥsha, the Broker.
To my brother shall be given one hundred dinars
from the objects given to me as securit…
Narrative poem in Judaeo-Arabic involving a certain Abū l-Riḍā, told in rhyming hemistichs. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. A lament at his prolonged absence …
Accounts in Arabic script. Listing some names, commodities (mainly food and drugs), and sums of money. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. An upper entry on the recto mentions someone with the title "Kapitan." Requires further examination.
Interesting legal document probably from 1682 CE (at least after Adar 5442) involving a businesswoman apparently named Mazal Tov and at least two famous rabbis, …
IB V, 21. Recto: Letter in poetic Hebrew, addressed to Rabbenu Yehuda (=Abū Zikrī Kohen) asking for help, because "bread has run out."
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On vellum. Dating: First half of the 11th century, as it mentions the ship of Ibn Daysūr (cf. Bodl. MS heb. d …
Two court records in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. Recto: bill of release from Abū l-Munā …
Possibly a document of sale "البيع المذكور بينهما على". In Arabic script. Involves the amīr Hilāl and a sum of money. Needs examination.
Recto: Letter from Abraham Sagis (סאגיש) in Safed to an individual in Egypt who had previously studied with the sage Moses di Trani in Safed. …
Unidentified text. Strokes on verso suggest that it could be accounts. Faded Hebrew script on recto.
Letter from a certain Simḥa, who was in charge of a building. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1200 CE. He reports that the upper floor (the …
Extremely faded Hebrew text.
Recto: Fragment of a state document, possibly a decree. 2 lines preserved. In Arabic script. Some phrases read as "yanālu aṣḥābuhu mimman yaḍumm... wa-akhdh...", "wa-l-muṭālaba …
Record of statement of release issued by the court of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides (1205–37). Dated: Monday, 15 Iyyar 1538 = 3 May 1227 CE. …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan from Jerusalem to Ismail b. Yitzhak al-Andalusi from Fustat. Yisrael b. Natan expresses his worries because of the absence in …
Probably from a book of legal formulas, citing a legal deed
Letter addressed to a dignitary (מושב שרינו, verso l. 4). In Judaeo-Arabic. It is exceedingly faded. The largest block of still-preserved text, at the bottom …
IB II, 53. Letter of thanks from Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Menashshe to Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq. Fustat. Dating: ca. 1120s or, more broadly, ca. 1100-1138 CE …
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Letter fragment, possibly. In Arabic script. Verso blank. Pinholes at the margin approximately 4mm apart. ASE/MR
Recto: Legal document written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Dated: Iyyar 1456 of the Seleucid Era (= May 1145 CE). Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. …
Legal document mentioning ‘our lord, the great Nasi’ and Sitt al-Hanāʾ (cf. T-S NS 226.12 (PGPID 4242) and ENA 3778.7 (PGPID 11352)). Dating: Likely early …