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Accounts in Arabic, reused for Judaeo-Arabic calendrical reckoning.
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IB VII, 5. A note (ruqʿa) with a merchant's disposition for his property in contemplation of death. He specifies that his daughter should not marry …
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Fragment of a letter from Farah b. Yosef b. Farah. Around 1070. Mentions selling linen and other goods including tamarisk seeds and nuts. The writer …
[ ] ענדהא כתאן כ[
במאל כביר אצהר פינה אל[
עטש ואחרץ לי פי אלמוש[תרי
יברד קלבי וכנת אנפדת לך ורק [.... אן]
שא אללה ולעל אן קדרת תא…
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Account of expenditure for the distribution of bread (100 pounds costing 31 1/2 dirhams) and for payments to a nasi, to teachers, and other officials …
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Verso (original use): State document. One line from a petition in Arabic script addressed to an amīr. (Information from CUDL)
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Letter from Efrayim b. ʿAzaryahu to an unnamed addressee. There are 13 lines of eloquent Hebrew blessings and flattery ("my soul is tied up with …
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on a bifolium that is suggestive of the existence of a broader ledger (which is also attested to by this fragment's …
Legal document in Hebrew and Aramaic, with some Judaeo-Arabic. An individual claims that his house was destroyed and that he rebuilt and renewed its interior …
Legal document in the scribal hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Declaration made by a woman named Mawlāt on the occasion of entering …
Letters. Copies. The first letter is in Judaeo-Arabic, from the Shāmiyyīn to the Miṣriyyīn. The second letter is in Hebrew, from the Miṣriyyīn to the …
Letter in Hebrew to Hillel ha-Ḥazzan, the diadem of the cantors. Fragment. It seems that only formulaic content remains.
Letter fragment in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning business mainly in materia medica and/or metals. Mentions antimony (rāṣakht) …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Containing detailed information about medical matters. Maybe a report from a patient to a doctor (begins استعملت). Reused on recto …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning two dinars which the addressee had given the sender; he is to take them back and instruct Abū …
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning someone the sender does not like (לענה אללה) and urging the addressee to come (פאחרץ פי כרוגך …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script to Sitt Nadd, probably from her husband. The writer rejoiced at the news of her deliverance (khalāṣ) (childbirth? or from …
Document in Arabic script, unclear if it's a piece of an account or an order or receipt. Mentions al-Shaykh Bū Manṣūr b. Bū [...].
Letter from Mūsā b. Yiṣḥaq b. Nissim, in al-Mahdiyya, to Ismāʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1030. The writer is looking forward to …
Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. VMR
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Partnership agreement. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 16 Shevaṭ 5567 AM, which is 25 January 1807 CE. This is a more complete copy of the same …
Legal document, probably. Summarizing a dispute involving a young man who demands 3,500 dirhams from his father’s(?) estate (inheritance?). Mentions 'the ledger of his brother'; …
Prayers, probably. For assistance in time of persecution. (Information in part from FGP).
Unidentified text or document in Judaeo-Arabic; maybe a letter.
Fragment from the book of legal formulae, no. 23 (divorce deed). Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Legal document or documents. In Hebrew. Mentions the city of Fez (verso, line 2). Involves a woman and her husband Yiṣḥaq. Mentions the dowry (nedunya) …
State document, in Arabic script with wide line spacing. Needs examination.
Introduction to a literary treatise. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning al-Mutanabbī, the Būyid amīr Muʿizz al-Dawla, and the vizier Abū l-Faraj Muḥammad b. al-ʿAbbās (Ibn Fasānjas).
Recto: unidentified. Verso: opening of a short letter in Hebrew.
Fragment of a letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī. Mentions business with pearls and the coming travel of two people to Ladikya. (Information from Gil, …
] אללה יכתב סלאמה אלגמיע [ ] ברקלואת יאכי לו כאנת קד
] אלסוק פי אול וסקה ואמא אלסעה מא טלב פי ברקלו ול אלי ח[ל]
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Letter(s) from the circle of Mosul Nasis active in the early to mid 13th century in Egypt (cf. T-S 12.654 and the numerous related documents, …
Legal record (#72) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 23v-24r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: final day (סלך/سلخ) …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Sa'adya b. David b. Reuven. The previously married bride is Esther Mas'uda d. El'azar Hakohen b. Aharon. In …
Lists of dates and numbers of unclear significance.
Al-Shaykh Abū Sahl pays his dues to ʿAlī al-Rīfāʿ on 10 Rabīʿ II 603 H. Registration mark at the top.
State document(s) in Arabic script. On recto there are administrative/secretarial notes at the top: yuʿāmal.... mutawallī al-nāḥiyya....bi-ʿadl.....inshā Allāh...It also mentions a government bureau towards the …
Letter from a man from the land of the Persians, who, after the loss of his fortune, had come to Egypt to seek a post …
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Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very vague; mentioning a "tadhkīr." (אלחצרה כלדהא אללה דכרת לי אלתדכיר ולם תדכר אלחאגה אלתאניה רגבת(?) בהא ולכם אלעאפיה ואלראחה סלמכם …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in multiple entries on the recto, but the clearest instance is: Rajab [1]245 AH (1829/1830 CE). Requires further examination. MCD.
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions business matters and a boat. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions payments of dinars.
Lists in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew related to communal contributions that are organized in a format similar to JRL SERIES C 63 (PGPID 31913). In the …
Letter or note, mentioning [...] b. Ḥalfon and a Ḥaver. (Information from CUDL)
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Mentions 1444 of the Seleucid era (= 1132/1133 CE). Involves two people reaching an agreement …
Responsum and the beginning of the next by R. Migash. Published by Amir Ashur in Qoves al Yad 21 (2012), 1-24
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment containing mirror-image imprints of Hebrew text in a late hand. Probably literary, though it is not out of the question that verso is a …
Recto: collection of notes on astral medicine, connecting the human body, physiognomy, hair colour and various bodily functions to the rising of a particular star. …
Most likely a legal document, in Arabic script. Very difficult to read. Contains a date (l.3) Dhū al-Ḥijja 442. Needs examination.
Possibly a fiscal account in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text.