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Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Document or receipt of some kind issued for al-muʿallim Salmūn al-Yahūdī. Dated: 10 Shaʿbān 997 AH = 24 June 1589 CE.There is a signature at …
List of books in the library of Zakkāy b. Moshe who was a dayyan in al-Maḥalla 1127–50 CE.
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Fragment (right side) of a letter in Hebrew. Dating: probably ca. 16th century. (Krakowski and Rustow, Formula as Content, JSS 20, p. 141 n. 34 …
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Letter from Menashshe to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1063. Menashshe warns Nahray that Uqban (b. Salman) who passed away has a daughter, and this …
ואתצל בי יאמולאי ו[פ]את עקבאן רחמה אללה
ואנסא פי אגלה ואן זוגתה אכדת מוכרהא ובאקי
שייה יאכדה אבן עמה ועקבאן רחמה אללה לה
יורש פי אלמהדי…
Legal document fragment, probably late 11th century, since witnessed by Yakhin b. Netanel who also signed T-S 13J5.2 ca.1085. Other witnesses: Shemuel b. Mevorakh; Avraham …
Magical/medical recipes. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly in a Yemeni hand (the text on verso is in a different, clearly Yemeni hand). There are recipes for incense …
Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mamluk-era?
Paraliterary text, in Arabic script. Possibly an alchemical or medical text. The document at the bottom is probably part of a tale.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal record (#54) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 19r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 2 Shevat 53[..] …
State document, in Arabic script. Maybe be an investiture but could be a fragment of a petition (...wa-tadbīr umūrihā...). On verso there is one line …
Document in Arabic script. Fragmentary (lower left corner). The hand is quite cursive; needs further examination. On verso there is Hebrew literary text.
Part of a power of attorney, in which Ḥusayn b. Hillel (known as Qiṭōs), appoints Yosef b. Maḥfūẓ, to collect a debt owed to him …
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Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. "The court acts as the guardian of orphans in securing their late father's inheritance. Date not …
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Letter from Efrayim b. Maymun, probably from Qayrawan, to Ishaq b. Eli al-Majjānī, probably from Al -Mahdiyya. Dating (Gil): 1039. The writer asks the addressee …
כתאבי יאשיכי וגלילי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל <אללה> בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ען חאל
סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק אליך שדיד קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך עלי א[פצ]ל אל…
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Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. Maybe asking for charity or a loan of 5 dinars.
Verso (original use): State accounts in Arabic script. Mentions ṣaḥḥa, followed by two ʿalāmas, one of which is "al-ḥamdu li-llāh walī al-niʿma"; there are state …
Saʿadya’s formulary of legal documents. Discussing the halakha of legal witnesses and testimony, including the table of contents. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from an agreement between husband and wife, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138).
Small fragment in Hebrew. Mentions Rabbenu Yoshiyyahu ha-Paliṭ. Needs examination.
Minute fragment, only few words are preserved. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138).
Letter from Barhun b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī, from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Around 1050. Information about shipments of goods and about the account of …
כתאב[י יאכי ו]אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה
לט (?) כלת מן מרחשון ען סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך קרב אללה …
Last line of a document in Arabic script. The empty space below has one column of Arabic script at 90 degrees to the main text, …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 12th century. The sender was pained by the news from the addressee's letter. "I did not cast it from …
Some sort of horoscope? Elaborate diagrams with Arabic script in black and red ink. Mentions Baghdād.
Petition from a woman to a high dignitary or perhaps to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil himself (one reigned 1200–18 and another reigned 1238–40) in a rudimentary hand. …
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Letter from a father to a son. In Judaeo-Arabic. Also conveying messages from the son's mother about her distress about his absence. There are some …
Legal fragment. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid = 988–1088 CE. A widow named Khazariyya bt. Murajjā sued her three sons — Yosef, Avrahram, and Aharon the sons …
Leaves 1 and 3: text in Judaeo-Arabic, probably an apocalyptic account (prognostications), referring to Zerubbabel, the Arabs, the Byzantines and wars in various places in …
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Bill of sale for a female slave. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 15 Ṭevet 1416 Seleucid = January 1105 CE. Abū Saʿd Ḥalfon (lines 18, 20, …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Listing several books.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves an Abū l-Faraj. Otherwise consists entirely of elaborate release formulae.
Invitation from the association "ha-Fāmt Keter Torah" for the 7th of Adar for the commemoration of the death of Moses peace be upon him – …
Recto is Hebrew piyyuṭ. Verso is headed "qiddush tarḥīm for Avraham ha-Levi b. Yefet ha-Mumḥe." Possibly the same person as in T-S 16.170 (PGPID 3430), …
Top of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Abū Zikrī Zekharya b. Sar Shalom makes a declaration to Shelomo/Sulaymān …
Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic numerals.
Letter Fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic, calligraphically written. Refers to someone's mother; the daughters of Ibn al-ʿArīsḥī; the sender and another man falling sick; and trebuchet stones …
Letter from Herzl to Doctor M.I. Bodenheimer about their negotiations with von Richthofen – 1899CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 245) – in …
Letter of appeal written by Menashshe, the Alexandrian school teacher, to Abu al-Barakat Yehudah ha-Kohen b. Elazar, Thiqat al-Mulk (Goitein translates 'Trusted Servant of the …
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Fiscal accounting document, probably. Large and well preserved. Needs examination. Alt description: Fragment, recto, and verso both contain what look like pen trials (some repetitions, …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Probably Cairo. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century. Mikha'el b. Moshe appoints Refa'el b. Shuʿa Berakha as his agent for …
Letter from a certain Yehuda. Probably a Maghribī business letter of the 11th century. Small piece.
Probably a family letter, consisting mainly of greetings. May mentions Fayrūz.
IB IV, 5 (ח8). Legal testimony. Location: Aden. Dating: ca. summer 1131 CE. Concerns the controversy caused by a Persian Jew, the nephew of the …
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Literary text, probably, in Arabic script. Mentions bi l-naṣr mafqūd and wa intaṣarū.
Draft of a late family letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
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 …
Recto: One line in a relatively small and faded chancery hand interspersed with Hebrew text. May mention 'dīwān'. Reused for Hebrew script on recto and …