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Marriage contract (ketubba). Groom: Yiftaḥ. Ten dinars are mentioned, and this seems to be the entire obligation. Dated: 24 Adar II 1551 Seleucid, which is …
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Letter from a physician to a Kohen expressing thanks for condolences. At the end he writes a prescription for the growing of hair on skin …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals. Dated Tuesday 20 Dhū l-Qaʿda 919 AH, (1514 CE).
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Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary. Mentions a few sums in dinars.
Formulary for legal deeds, with quotations from responsa (frequent quotations of Binyamin Zeʾev - 16th century) followed by or with full description of the deed. …
Arabic script (VMR)
Document in Arabic script. Small fragment.
Epistolary writing exercises in Arabic, 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography.
Letter fragment in Arabic script, probably commercial. It is difficult to decipher the content. The term "al-mamlūk" (referring to the sender) appears multiple times. The …
Accounts in Hebrew script. Late.
State document in Arabic script. Dating: Likely Ayyubid or early Mamluk-era, based on hand and layout. Very difficult to read, and the substance is unclear. …
IB VI, 46. Legal document. Partnership. Dated: 1215-1216 CE. This fragment emerged from the court of Avraham Maimonides. The partners ʿImrān Moshe al-Iskandarī b. Bū …
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IB II, 61. Letter from Ḥalfon and Bundār b. Maḍmūn, in Aden, to Sulaymān b. Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1150 CE. In …
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Small receipt in Arabic script, unclear what for.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps ca. 13th century. Mentions [Kāti]b al-ʿArab; a matter that was only resolved by bribing one of the eunuchs; the Nagid's …
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Informal note addressed to a certain Abū ʿAlī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Verso is a draft of recto. The addressee is asked to go to the sender's …
Fragments of responsum by a Gaon, dealing with children of female slaves.
Small and damaged fragment from a letter, probably relating to business. A reference is made to the Sicilian. Dating: probably late Mamluk or Ottoman era. …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: refers to "the end of year '4"; "1 Ramaḍān of the year '4" and "year '5," …
Legal query concerning some property a man wants to sell or inhabit. The writer asks for some Arabic document establishing the man's rights to the …
Letter sent by Abu al-Barakat to Abu Nasr, asking him for 3 dirhams to hire a riding beast and asking another 3 dirhams from the …
Business letter from Moses Ḥadād to Shim'on Frances in Cairo, with European numerals. Dated Shevat 5567 AM (1807 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Legal document, probably 11th-century, attesting to the sale of half of a vineyard to a certain Sha'ul. The other half of the vineyard belongs …
Letter fragment. Introduction in Hebrew, body in Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains. With an unusual Hebrew introduction: נפש אשר עצ . . . .עלתה …
Karaite partnership agreement in a shop between Shelomo b. Aharon Miʿmār and three orphans left by the deceased community man Yeshuʿa Qayīm. Dated 28 Av …
Petition. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The petitioner seems to be a female slave (and not just a figurative slave/mamlūka): "wa-tunhī al-mamlūka annahā …
[العبدة المملوكة فلانة بنت فلان من ناحية فلان]
بسم الله الر[ـحمن الرحيم]
تقبل الارض بالمجلس الـ[ـشريف الـسامي الـ ]
وتنهي المملوكة ا…
Accounts in Arabic script which list monies (given in Greek/Coptic numerals) owed to (ʿinda) various people, such as Ḥayyim (حايم), Makārim, Yūsuf, Maḥāsin, Abū l-Faraj, …
Note or letter from Shimʿon Ben-Nāʾīm (נאיים) addressed only to someone or some institution with the honorific title "jināb al-muḥtarim". Dated: 15 ___[month] 1284 AH …
The text is responding, in the fragment extant, to two arguments that were made by ben Meir against the Babylonians at the time of the …
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Original use: Brief fiscal document in Arabic, mentioning a dīwān, a person's name, and several numbers. Reuse: Prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be the same …
Fragment from the end of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Few details preserved. Involves [...] b. Yiṣḥaq …
IB II, 38. One of two (now three) copies of a poem by Avraham ben Yiju, praising Maḍmūn and cursing his enemies. Written in Aden. …
ולה איצא ימדח סידנא מצמון נגיד עם יי
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Bill of divorce (get). On vellum. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: Monday, 10 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 1143 CE. Husband: Abū Naṣr b. Dinar(??). Wife: …
Ketubba (marriage contract). Fragment written in a calligraphic hand. Dating: probably late 10th or 11th century. Mentions the name חביבה מפרג כהנה. Witnesses: Natan b. …
Accounts written by ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Recto seems to contain conventional business accounting. Verso mentions plaster and nails and the statement "the roof ot he …
Geonic responsa, quoting R. Ḥananel. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Part of a text in Judaeo-Arabic, discussing a divorce document and the settling of the dowry with Yaʿaqov, the ex-husband. (Information from CUDL.)
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Drawn up under the authority of the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh (ca. 1112–26 CE). It is …
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Invitation from the Jewish community of Maḥallah al-Kubra for a visit to the synagogue of "Ḥayyim al-Amshaṭī" – 5 April 1950 – Museum of Islamic …
Recto: Legal document. Dated: Elul 1525 Seleucid = August/September 1214 CE. Abū l-Makārim gives eight pieces of clothing to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal as collateral for 4 …
A leaf from a printed siddur including the services for the 10th of Tevet.
Receipt of some sort for Sitt al-Ahl bt. […] al-Yahūdiyya for something (ḥikr payment?) for the 1/4 dār al-muntaqal ilayhā min (another?) Sitt al-Ahl bt. …
Literary text in Judaeo-Greek. See bibliography on FGP.
Business letter from Shmuel b. Yeshu'a to Ishaq b. Avraham
Document in Arabic script. Very faded. Needs examination.
Bifolio. Original use: Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Several entries list the value of ruqʿas (orders of payment?) either "in my hand" (bi-khaṭṭī) …
Petition from the wife of Ṭayyib b. Musallam al-ʿIblānī, a Khaybarī Jew, to the caliph al-Mustanṣir (r. 1036–94), seeking the restitution of money taken from …
Document in Arabic script, calligraphic. Likely a state document. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. The word "aʿrāḍ" appears. Needs examination. On verso there …
Letter sent by the Adath Sefardim congregation of Safed to Avraham b.(?) David Naḥmias in Alexandria. Dated 22 Elul 5685 AM (1925 CE). At first …