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Recto: Ottoman-era manuscript title page (?) in Judaeo-Arabic with an owner's stamp. Verso: Arabic-script text dated 19 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1094 AH (9 December 1683). Needs …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of an account - needs examination.
Responsum in the autograph of Maimonides, ca. 1168–1204 CE based on the years when he was active in Egypt.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. There is an additional note in Judaeo-Arabic signed by Shelomo [b. Eliyyahu?], perhaps describing the contents of the account. Dated: Tuesday, 9 …
Legal fragment.
Fragment (last part) of a court bill in the hand of Daniel b. Azarya. (Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 2, 715, #390) Verso: Arabic document, …
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Detailed astrological table in Judaeo-Arabic. Gives the auspicious days for such activities as "demanding rights," "imḍā' al-dīwān" (?), and going to the bathhouse. ASE
Beginning of a legal document in Hebrew, drawn up in Egypt in Ṭevet 13[..] Seleucid = 988–1087 CE.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a woman [...] bt. Natan and a man who has been …
IB VI, 18. Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī (d. ca. 1149). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions goods such as garments and soap. Contains …
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Letter in Ladino, nearly complete but with numerous lacunae, from a mother to her daughter, addressed to her son-in-law Yaʿaqov Reshit (?) in Saida. The …
[א]י די שאלוד [. . .] לאש קואליש נואיבש אוייגאמוש
[א]ינביאשטימי א . . . . קינו וינו . . לא קורטינא אי
[ ] .…
Unidentified text in Arabic with interspersed Judaeo-Arabic script probably in the same hand. Needs examination.
Letter; from Maʿānī b. Abū Maslūk, mentioning a certain Isḥāq. (Information from CUDL)
IB VI, 22. Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to an unknown recipient (the address is cut off). Deals with the Indian Ocean trade. Includes commercial …
Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Moses, trustee of the Yeshiva. (Information from CUDL). Should be added to India Book V. …
Minute fragment from a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Only a few formulaic words from …
Panygeric prasing the leaders (negidim) of the Jewish community. Mentioned are Elʿazar, Yefet, and ʿUziel and later also ʿOvadya. There is also a single line …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Last leaf only. The writer is begging for an urgent loan or gift of 5 dinars, on Sunday. A sum of 20 …
Letter from Avraham b. Yaʿish, in Constantinople/Istanbul. Dating: Probably Ottoman era; Avraham David suggests 16th century. He refers numerous times to the holy congregation(s) and …
Small fragment (from a letter?) with a few names, including Abū Naṣr al-Ṭabīb (the physician), and Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen.
Accounts
Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Farrāḥ, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, 25 August 1056 (Gil). Mentions that Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ (here called Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣāʾigh) …
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List of donations (?) for the end of Adar of the year of "ezreinu" (perhaps 70+7+200+50+6 = [5]333 = 1573 CE. But everything else in …
rom a formulary of legal documents, including the beginning of the section on ketubah. (FGP)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly of a druggist. Mentions kohl/antimony and sugar.
Account for Nisan and Iyyar 1493 sel. ca. 1182. The usual items for accounts from Abu'l-Bayan are included in this one. There are 22 apartments …
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Letter of appeal for charity addressed to Rabbenu Ḥananel. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The writer has been paralyzed (marīḍ bi-l-fālij) for two and a half …
Letter mentioning a number of names (although most are broken off after Abū) such as al-Najīb, Abū l-Makārim, Abū Isḥāq, Maʿānī b. Nuʿmān (מעאני בן …
Business letter from ʿUmar b. ʿIwaḍ, in Qalyūb, to the notary and qāḍī Ṣadr al-Dīn, at the Dār al-Wakāla in Fustat. Discussing a shipment of …
God is the best of helpers.
Your servant Omar b. ʿIwaḍ serves the high seat of our master
and lord, my master Ṣadr al-Dīn, may God let hi…
Deed of release. Location: Cairo (where Avraham b. Natan was judge). Date not preserved. Yefet b. Marwān releases the clothier (al-bazzāz) Abū l-Faḍl Yosef b. …
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An account in Judaeo-Arabic with many abbreviations related to amounts of medieval currency such as nis[f] din[ar].
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper part). Dating: Ottoman-era. Addressed to Sulaymān Maymūn al-Qazzāz(?). Asking him to purchase the headdress (kūfiyya) they had previously spoken …
Table of names in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals.
Responsum regarding a cantor who mistakenly called to six readers instead of seven in Shabbat Hodesh. Published Glick, Seridei Teshuvot, II, p. 894-888.
Epistle of Yehuda ha-Levi to Rav David Narboni. (Information from Joseph Yahalom via FGP.)
Cryptic fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems literary.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 962 AH, which is 1554/55 CE. (Or possibly just 960 AH.) Involves ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAlī b. …
Legal document(s), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Describing the features of a house. (Information in part from CUDL)
A memorial list . Published by Abraham David, “A Memorial List of Sages of the Palestinian Yeshiva,” Shalem, vol. 1 (1974): 75-80 (Hebrew)
Geomancy manual.
Damaged fragment from the top of a letter in Hebrew. Addressed to a dignitary. על יד כל [נביא] וחוזה . . . ואדירינו ונכבינו . …
Literary. Fragment of a haggada.
Accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. Familiar from other fragments 11th century? Densely written.
Letter of a father to his son Ibrāhīm in Damietta, to be delivered to the shop of Dāʾūd al-Ṣabbāgh or Surūr or Yaʿqūb the Jews …
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Legal fragment. In the late hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066-1108) or the early hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). [...] b. …
Receipt, of ground tax (ḥikr) for a flour mill owned by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sammāk in the Jewish neighborhood of Cairo. The payee is ʿĀbid(?) Ḥamza(?) …
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" …
IB II, 12. Letter from Bundar II b. Ḥasan to ʿAllān b. Ḥassān. Aden, circa 1100. (Information from Goitein and Friedman)
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