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Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Possibly part of a partnership agreement. On verso there …
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Letter to the Nubian eparch Īsū in Ibrīm from the qāḍī Abū l-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn al-Fātiḥ. The qāḍī is writing from Aswān, where he has …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Yoshiyahu ha-Nasi to a dignitary whom he addresses as "Sar ha-Teʿuda" and "Nagid Ereṣ Yisraʾel ve-Yehuda." Dating: probably 13th century. After …
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Commercial receipt (min dār al-[...]). See tag. Dated: 484 AH? Appears to be for al-Saʿd or Abū Saʿd. (FGP description: statement of debt issued by …
Letter fragment or petition, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a fight with Abū l-Najm in which the sender was possibly wounded (וגרחת ובלג בי אלעטאים) and …
Letter fragment (upper part) from Avraham probably to his elder brother (called 'father' but, later, 'from your brother'). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably 15th–17th century. …
Tiny fragment in Hebrew characters.
Letter or letters in Judaeo-Arabic. At the top of recto, probably requesting letters from the addressee, which are "as if I saw your face." The …
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 …
The upper part of a short Judaeo-Arabic letter in the handwriting of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Written shortly before Hannuka. Moshe asks the recipient, probably …
יוריכם סו למען שמו ומי
שעשה נסים לאבותינו בימים
ההם יעשה עמכם נסים ונפלאות
לטובה כענין שנ עשה עמי
אות לטובה …
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Legible phrases: "...idol worship... I have no way to... all kinds of death... he behaved excessively... and peace. וחי בהם (Leviticus …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary hand previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions people such as 'the woman' (al-sitt); …
Literary text. In Hebrew. Ashkenazi hand. Late.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Mentions the date Av 1425 Seleucid = July/August 1114 CE. This is a post-divorce settlement. …
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Accounts.
Letter fragment addressed to the Gaon Shelomo (b. Yehuda?), or conceivably his son). In Hebrew. Only the beginnings of four lines from the beginning are …
21 pages from a large ledger recording donations from the early years of the 19th c. See tag for several other shelfmarks containing pieces of …
Literary text in Arabic script with at least one word in Arabo-Hebrew (طهورا = טהורה).
Quran. Containing part of Sūrat al-Shuʿarā' (26:13).
Recipe, prescription, or possibly an itemized order of materia medica. In Arabic script.
Account? - needs examination. No image
Literary text in Spanish.
Recto: Letter from a teacher to a parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely late 11th or early 12th century, based on the mention of Abū l-Bishr …
Testament with a list of books including a complete Bible, individual biblical books, and works by Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni and Saʿadya. (Information from CUDL)
First line of an official letter. Begins, "The noble letter/document (al-kitāb al-mukarram) [reached] the slave of your excellence...." On verso there is a different Arabic-script …
Legal fragment. Involves Faraḥ; [...] b. Surūr Ibn al-Ḥaṣīra; preparing something for (trading in?) the Maghrib. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli.
Private accounts written by Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1058 (Gil). Details several small amounts of money and their sum – 250 dinars. There is …
[ ]נה בידי מן [. . . .] דינ
בוציר ⳽ דינ
אבנה ⳽ דינ בידי יעקוב [ ]
ספר ק ק דינ מרדוך ה וסדס וחב…
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Unidentified document(s), maybe legal or official or simply accounts. Dated: Thursday, 13 Shaʿbān 632 AH = 3 May 1235 CE. Several names are mentioned, but …
Petition copy or draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely early 17th century. The document is difficult to understand, as the first page is missing, and the …
Small fragment in Ladino, probably from a letter.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Missing its top part. Dated 8 Tammuz יהפך אבלו לששון, but no year is given; likely 14th or 15th century. The sender …
Instructions for writing legal documents, in particular those dealing with debts, with formulaic examples in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document probably relating to the sale detailed on recto (PGPID 8226), which is a deed of sale for 1/3 of a house dating to …
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T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
Small and faded fragment from a ketubah.
Fragment of an agreement for a planned engagement. Location: Cairo. Dated: Nisan 1502 Seleucid = 1191 CE, or perhaps 15[4]2 Seleucid = 1231 CE. The …
Fragment of a letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions R. Nissim. There are a few words in Arabic script on verso (possibly from another fragment that …
Two lists in an unusually large cursive script with a postscript in another, small and neat script. a) The superscription 'I[n Your] N[ame]' shows that …
Letter from Maʿtūq to his son David, his wife Marḥaba, Saʿādat, Qamr, and Hanā(?). The writer apologizes for not being able to make it to …
Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Probably mentions daftar towards the end of recto. Needs examination.
State document, administrative accounts. The right halves of 14 lines are preserved. Mentions someone's servants (wa-ghilmānuhū), half of something, and installments (aqsāṭ). The months Ramaḍān, …
Form of excommunication in Aramaic. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 599)
IB VI, 31 (ח71). Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon Sijilmāsī, in ʿAydhāb, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: 25 Iyyar [4900] AM, which is 14 May …
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A letter from Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl, probably in Fustat, to his father Ismaʿīl b. Faraḥ in Alexandria. Ca. 1057. Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl writes that he …
Fragment of a note which on recto contains only formulaic praises and on verso contains an enigmatic sentence (something about "every Jew") and the name …
Prayer in Judaeo-Arabic
Two pages containing an end of a responsa, a legal query and the beginning of the responsa. Possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon. AA .
Table in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Chancery hand? Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: letter to the Nasi Shelomo (probably Shelomo b. Yishay, mid-13th century). Verso: accounts in Arabic script with Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)