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Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaʾon (r. 1025–1051) to the head of the Babylonian community in Egypt, Sahlan b. Avraham, thanking him for forwarding a …
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Letter from Shemuel, in Damietta, to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. Faraḥ, perhaps related by marriage through the latter's sister. The handwriting is often ambiguous, so …
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Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures, ca. 1040. A badly damaged fragment of an account written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Work done at …
… rent…
.... compound ..
…to the water carriers … and half a dir…
…its sewer, and transportation of bricks, 5 dir. ...
.... (Dār) a…
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Fatimid fiscal report or account for the fiscal (kharājī) year 417, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Dated: 417 kharājī/419 AH. Document is …
عبد مولانا وسيدنا الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله امير المومنين
صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الاكرمين
ومملوكه حسين…
The servant of our master and lord, the imām al-Zāḥir li-Iʿzāz Dīn Allāh, commander of the faithful,
the blessings of God be upon him and upon hi…
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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Letter in the hand of the judge Shela b. Mevasser on behalf of the community of Alexandria addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, in …
List (fragment) of recipients, including the phrase "he should be checked out" below the name of "the acquaintance of the son of Da'ud" and "the …
Letter from Sitt Dhahab, in an unknown location, to Abū Naṣr b. Karīm, in Qāʿat al-Fāḍil, Fustat. She refers to herself as his daughter. Goitein …
Recto: probably a legal document, mentioning maintenance. Verso: possibly a prayer or sermon (?). (Information from CUDL)
Business letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon. Addressed to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Addressed to someone in Fustat (whose name may …
Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to Shem[arya?], in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Giving instructions about various business transactions, including yeast (khamīra) and perhaps basil …
Legal record (#39). Engagement contract, outline. Extremely abbreviated. "The groom: Elʿazar b. Shemarya. The girl (bride): Khawātī. Early marriage payment: 3(?) dinars. Delayed marriage payment: …
Fragment of a late document in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter. Mentions sesame and the price of 110 gurush per ardab. The mention of the Ottoman …
Family letter. In Arabic script. Begins like a state document with the taqbīl clause. Nearly complete, but faded in places. Perhaps addressed to a 'paternal …
Damaged fragment of a legal deed regarding monetary issues of marriage. Writing on both sides. Involves Salmān(?) b. [...]; the interesting phrase "samāwī aw sulṭānī" …
Legal document dated Av (5)276, written ארע״ה (ie, 1+200+70+5), of Creation (= 1516 CE). The document concerns a trading partnership, and refers to trade in …
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Copious jottings in both Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Some of the Arabic may be state-related. One of the Judaeo-Arabic portions is an order of payment …
A thank you letter to Moshe b. Yosef in Kokizov from Simha Ishaq b. Moshe in Luzk
Letter possibly from the ḥaver Yehoshuaʿ b. ʿEli, in Ramla, probably to Yehuda b. Seʿadya here called Rosh Kalla, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. …
Genealogical lists (medieval).
Business accounts in Arabic script.
Legal document, probably a draft as it appears incomplete at the bottom. Consisting mainly of an inventory of goods and their values, likely for an …
Literary text - some sort of commentary - in a mixture of Arabic (in Arabic script) and Hebrew.
Two lines of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions two ʿatabas (threshold carpets) for "The Gate of the Women" (Bāb al-Nisāʾ).
Letter in which a physician traveling from Cairo to Damascus describes how he was honored by the Jewish judge of Bilbays. The addressee is Shemuel …
Letter fragment (bottom half) in Judaeo-Arabic, addressed to an important person (perhaps Avraham Maimonides). Dated: Middle decade of Elul 1541 Seleucid = August 1230 CE. …
List of communal expenses of various Karaite communities in Poland-Lithuania- Russia region
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is a mirror-image imprint of T-S AS 155.274. (Information in part from CUDL.)
List of communal expenses for the Maghrebi congregation of Cairo (ק׳׳ק מערבים), noting in the heading: "from the hand of ha-r[av] A[vraham(?)] Zaytūn". Dated [5]569 …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100–38). Regarding a partnership. Mentions Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and [...]n ha-Kohen. Written on a Wednesday.
102 minute fragments (6 vellum; 96 paper), of which one is an unidentified text in Arabic (row 5, no. 9), and another is probably a …
Letter draft. Unclear if this is a genuine letter or a formulary/specimen. On verso there are gnomic sentences in Arabic script and in Hebrew.
A flattering letter from an unidentified community of Jews (קהילת היה[ודים]) to a dignitary named [...] b. Aharon. In Hebrew. Dating: 11th or 12th century. …
Illuminated Hebrew alphabet from a children’s textbook. At the bottom of recto there is a benediction: ‘God will protect you from every evil and will …
Small fragment from the top of a letter or petition. In Arabic script. Mentions a "dīwān".
Hebrew poetry.
Small fragment containing Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic literary text.
A page from a volume of the Mishneh Torah, with a note of sale (intaqala bi-ḥukm al-ibtiyāʿ. . .). The buyer is Binyamin b. Saʿadya …
Letter from Yeshuʿa [...]. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably 16th–18th century. Mentions the currency גורושוש; Yiṣḥaq ben Ḥabīb; regards to Yeshuʿa Azulay in the margin. …
Legal documents in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, from the court of Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. Recto: deed concerning the sale of a book that …
End of a legal document concerning the sale of flax, signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq, and Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe. (Information in …
Letter from Saʿīd Bardaʿ, in Algiers (ארגיל), to Daniel Cafsuto (דניאל קאפסוטו) and perhaps his son (? the word looks like ומשרתו) Shemuel Cafsuto. In …
Lists of goods and sums of money. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Likely related to T-S AS 145.241 (PGPID 18215).
Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Cut diagonally across the text to make a rectangle. Mentions a dinar and a sixth, the price …
Official-looking account in Arabic script.
Letter in Ladino, sent from Salonica (שילאניקי) to Cairo (spelled erratically as מישרייאם). To be delivered to ("en mano de") Yiṣḥaq Qatin[?] (אין מאנו די …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions Yosef b. Ṣadaqa.
List of monetary transactions of debts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Some lines are deleted. Bifolio. Mentions Ismāʿīl; al-qāḍī; jujube; quince oxymel (sakanjabīl al-ṣafarjall); rose syrup; Jirja(?); and …