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Letter in Arabic script. There is also some Hebrew mixed in; "the covenant" (البريث) is mentioned in recto line 1, likely as part of an …
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Apparently a small fragment from a medical book, mentioning cartilage, the heart and illnesses. CUDL
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Minute fragment.
Order of payment from Ḥananʾel instructing Abu Naṣr to pay the bearer 33 wariq dirhams.
Accounts in Arabic script. Related to agriculture: the words zirāʿa and fallāḥ appear.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions pepper.
Large account in Arabic script. Unclear for what. Sums of money are listed together with months of the year. The year 497 is mentioned = …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment (right side) in Hebrew. Dating: likely 11th century. Refers to the elders; many people crying out; the ḥaver R. Yos[ef]; and people telling …
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Small Damīra (דמירה הקטנה). Dated: 6 Adar II 1546 Seleucid = 1235 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. Someone …
Possibly a poem, or a poetic letter in Hebrew. Note that the citations in FGP are erroneous and actually refer to T-S 12.322.
Fols. 20–25r: Excerpts from the Passover Haggada. On the first page there are jottings of pious phrases: al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi waḥdahū lā sha{r}īk lahū. See also …
Legal document. Fragment of a ketubba, left upper corner. With ornate decorations. Dated: Adar 1817 Seleucid = January/February1506 CE. (Information from Goitein’s index card and …
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Amorous song in Judaeo-Arabic. Both the speaker (עבדך) and the person (סידי) addressed are grammatically male. There is reference to a beautiful girl only in …
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Account arranged in five columns
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Invitation from the Keter Torah association for the tefillin ceremony of Elijah for ten of the students – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – …
Legal fragment, probably. A few words in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. al-muqīma... ha-kohen ha-mumḥe. On verso there is Hebrew literary text.
Accounts, mentioning [Abū] Manṣūr b. Asad, dates and quantities. Probably dated Wednesday, 5 Shevaṭ [15]26 Seleucid = 7 January 1215. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The whole folio is preserved, but the text is too faded to read.
Receipt in Arabic. Dated 7 Dhū l-Qaʿda 1227 AH (1812 CE). This JRL folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.
Letter, apparently by Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel to the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. Moshe ha-Levi. Dating: approximately 1160–66 CE, based on the years when Netanʾel …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Lists many names. Mostly crossed out with vertical lines. Needs examination.
Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef (of Qayrawān, active 990s–1030s). In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on parchment. Mentions "my partner" Barhūn b. Faraḥ. The left side of the …
Literary text, in Hebrew script. Needs examination.
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Elʿazar Shammāʿ (candle maker or seller) to Abū l-Fakhr b. Abū l-Maʿālī. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Only the opening and the …
Damaged legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Regarding manufacture of wine between [...] b. Yeshuʿa al-ʿAkkāwı known as Ibn Bunān (appears also …
Note in Arabic script. The addressee al-Muʿallim Shams(?) is to give to the bearer a specified sum of silver. Dated, but the year is difficult …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Karo y Frances & Company. A Yehezqel Ḥefeẓ is mentioned in the last couple lines.
Possibly signature practice and the word ve-shalom. Late.
Writing exercises of the Hebrew alphabet (recto) and Atbash alphabetical order (verso) ending with the phrase "מנצפ׳׳ך צופים אמרום". On the upper right corner of …
Part of a ketubba, with no details preserved. Ca. beginning of the 13th century. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely late 12th or 13th century. Rudimentary hand. Mentions Ṣibyān b. Futūḥ; Hilāl; a violent conflict; al-Shaykh al-[Raḍiyy?] Ibn al-Labbān; …
Calendrical text in Arabic script, giving various dates according to the Hebrew and Islamic calendars. Mentioning Tishrei = Muḥarram of 532 AH = 1137 CE.
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Draft, with extensive corrections. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi? This document is long, rich, and damaged. Dating: Perhaps …
Shipment record of goods that were shipped in the ship “Ben Daysur”. Around 1045. Different merchants recorded their shipments, probably from Mahdiyya to Alexandria. Mentions …
שרח אלרזמה אלדי פי בן דיסור
ברכ]ת .:. היא תעשיר
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Letter of condolence on the death of the Nasi and Rayyis Sar Shalom (ll. 7, 38). Addressed to another Nasi (al-Rayyis al-Dā'ūdī), with blessings for …
Legal document recording that the parnas Eli ha-Kohen and his colleague testified in court that three orphan girls had received ten dinars bequeathed to them …
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Recto: poetry or rhymed prose probably by Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī (active ca. 1300). In Arabic script. The content of recto is difficult to figure out …
Letter from Yosef b. Yefet al-Shaʿrānī(?) to his relative Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Abū l-Khayr al-Kohen, congratulating him on the birth of a son. (Information …
Decree, fragment, reused for Hebrew piyyut/poetry. The preserved text reads 'and on his brother' - wa ʿalā akhīhi.
Accounts in Arabic and Zimam-Coptic numerals, medieval-era. Requires further examination.
An autograph responsum by Avraham Maimonides (1186-1237) dealing with wine brought by a Karaite and the injunction about preparation of wine by Jews (rabbanite Jews). …
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Letter from Shūʿā b. Yūsuf. In Arabic script. Short. Fragment (missing the left half of recto and the right half of verso). (Information from Goitein’s …
Genealogies of the family of Elʿazar, the physician and judge (20 names) and of one other family (11 names). Information from Goitein's index card.
Letter fragment from Shabbetay b. Avraham he-Ḥaver (the judge of Minyat Zifta, active 1135–78) to Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver (active 1128–1164). This is the upper …
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Yehuda to the Rosh Kalla ʿEli b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen. Reused on verso for poetic praises in a different hand. (Information in …
Marriage document. A few lines from the bottom. The groom is named ʿEli. Witnessed by [...] b. Avraham and Yehuda b. Shelomo ha-Sofer.