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Document drafts and writing exercises. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Among the jottings there are the beginning of a deed of sale, the beginning …
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Recto: Letter from an unknown man to a communal authority. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer is seeking help in a convoluted case involving marital trouble and …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Fragment containing some geomancy markings.
Recto: document listing various items of clothing and textiles, including Tinnīsī and Sicilian ones, and their values. Verso: phrases from a legal document mentioning [...] …
List of donations or communal payments in Judeo-Arabic for the Maghrebi congregation of Cairo (קק מערבים). The heading may be dated as [5]565 (1804-1805CE) but …
Deed of sale. Location: Ḥamida/Ḥamuda, Yemen. Dated: 24 Av במ״ד, which is likely 2044 Seleucid = 5 August 1733 CE. The parties include [..] and …
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A list of clothes and household utensils returned by a divorced woman to her ex-husband, Naḥman, after she had taken them to the house of …
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Judaeo-Arabic translation of Genesis 16 (the story of Hagar).
Table with names organized according to the weekly parshiyot. Among those listed are: Yiṣḥaq Qudsī, Nissim and Shaʾul Bienveniste. Based on the paleography this document …
Single account that was likely part of a broader list. The unit ardab may be mentioned.
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. The sender intends to travel to Barqa. Mentioning Yosef b. Shāhūn. Reused on recto for Psalms 30:1-13 …
Accounts for the distribution of bread for the same period as in T-S K15.25 (1241/42 CE), for the thirteenth through the eighteenth weeks of the …
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Ethical exhortations attributed to Talmudic sages. Late.
A letter from Abū Zikrī in which he informs al-shaykh al-rashid al-Shemuʾel (aka al-Samawʾal) that upon returning from traveling, he was informed that he held …
Letter from David Ḥazzan, in Jerusalem, to Eliyya Levi, in Fustat/Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer describes the difficult financial state of himself and of …
Recto: Unidentified state document in Arabic script. A scribe-in-training has practiced copying the text in between the lines. A few lines from the bottom it …
Petition or report or draft of one, in Arabic script. Strings of titles. There are alternating lines of light ink (bigger letters) and dark ink …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Involves Yeshuʿa and [...] b. Natan.
Small receipt or order for 1 raṭl of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
Legal document in Hebrew. Late. Involves [...] b. Shemuel ha-Levi and the payment of the ketubba.
Fragment of Saʿadya Gaʾon's treatise on biblical hapax legomena (Kitāb al-Sabʿīn Lafẓa).
Recto: Letter opening or draft. In Hebrew. Filled with honorifics lines of poetry for a dignitary (ha-paṭish ha-ḥazaq, ẓofnat paʿneaḥ, etc.).
Ketubba, well-preserved with an ornate border. Location: Banhā, Egypt. Dated 8 Kislev 5_17 AM, with a value "שע" for the hundreds place that must be …
Dialogue between the Misri (the man from Old Cairo) and the Rifi (the man from the countryside). Literary, probably late, very colloquial. The writer is …
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Kabbalistic medallion containing the names of the sefirot.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter of appeal for charity. From Yeḥizqiyyahu b. Shelomo ha-Ṣarfati ("the Frenchman") to Yosef ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Long letter containing rhymed prose and biblical quotations. In …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Maghribī hand. Dating: ca. 11th century. Mentions "not fearing anyone" (laysa khawf min aḥad). Merits further examination.
List of debts. Written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. AA
Petition from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī to Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin). In Arabic script. Has a tarjama at the upper left; 4 lines of introductory blessings; …
Small fragment from a letter, reporting that the sister (or other female relative) of the writer has died, as well as someone named Ḥabība. (Information …
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Digest of a bill of sale for an enslaved woman named Tawfīq, a minor. Seller: …
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Recto: Draft of a legal document. Involves Abū l-Maʿālī; Rabbenu Yeshʿyahu; 400 dinars; a period of 3 years; a house; Hebrew and Arabic documents; a …
Medical recipes: Judaeo-Arabic on one side, Arabic on the other.
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). On parchment. Bill of compromise. No names preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
List of names and sums. On the back, list of names and weights of a commodity. Names on recto include Sulaymān; Yefet; Manṣūr al-Raqqāq; [...] …
Rental contract in Arabic script. Lessee: Sālim b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abū l-Ḥasan the baker (? al-khabbāz). Lessor: Barakāt b. Abū l-[...] the Jew. The …
Account in large Arabic script. Saffron (zaʿfarān) appears. Weights are given in arṭāl and awāqī. Other items may be textiles with the unit of adhruʿ …
End of a petition from someone identifying himself as a certified hazzan to two people in Cairo requesting their assistance. The writer refers to someone, …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Late, Ottoman era. Probably a waqf document with five signatures at the bottom in swirls. A marginal note says two …
Pledges for ransom of captives. A pledge-drive (pesiqa) for the man from Antioch for the ransom of his children. In four columns divided further into …
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Recto: Letter (or copy of a letter) in Hebrew, mentioning Hamadan in the antepenultimate line, and perhaps written there. The scribe signed his name, but …
Letter from Hārūn b. Yaʿqūb, in Tiberias, possibly addressed to Mūsā b. Ismāʿīl b. Sahl. Dating: Likely 11th century. Dealing with the indigo trade. Needs …
Recto: Unidentified writings in Arabic script, maybe accounts or scribal practice. Verso: Fragment of a legal deed of acknowledgment (iqrār), involving a debt. The beginnings …
Letter mentioning a certain Shela b. Ḥalfon. (Information in part from CUDL)
Three minute fragments, two of which are blank. The third retains a few letters in Hebrew script on the recto and verso.
A list of names with Arabic numerals- probably an account of debts?. Late 18th or early 19th century based on the names mentioned and the …