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IB VI, 19. Letter from Moshe b. Yefet to Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen (apparently a merchant trading in the East). Dated: Monday, 8 Adar I …
Collect 20 mithqals from the price for yourself and take what remains from the sale to buy a silk outfit from the master who made the silk outfit for…
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Recto: document mentioning Malīj and Fustat. Verso: letter referring to a letter for ʿAmmār al-Sharābī and requesting a liturgical poem (rahaṭ). (Information in part from …
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Tiny fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter.
Story (ספר חסות) from Yemen about the relationships between the Jewish community and the Muslims. Describes the protection that the Jews received from Muhammad, concerning …
והאדה כתאב אלדמה אלדי אדם אלנבי מחמד עלא בני אסראיל ע"אל ורחמת אללה
וברכאתה.
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List of names and numbers (donors list? distribution list?) in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Bū l-ʿAlāʾ and Ibn al-Ḥāshir ("son of the tax …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: [14]59 Seleucid = 1147/48 CE. The century digit is missing, but can be filled in based on the reference to …
Hebrew poetry (rahaṭim).
Fragment from a woman's deathbed will. This was mistakenly attributed to Maimonides by Ratzhaby (Sinai 111, p. 214). On verso there is a list of …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Folios from an interesting theological text on the classification of knowledge (ʿilm), and some points on creation. Needs examination for …
The main text consists of prayers in Judaeo-Arabic. The blank space on verso was reused for a medical recipe and an account in Arabic script.
State account of some kind, headed "72 ghulāms(?)... for each of them in a day...," and underneath entries such as "1/6 + 1/8 irdabb." On …
Bill of sale for a house. Faded. Location: Damascus. Dated: Late Tevet 4874 AM = early January 1114 CE (beginning of second line one can …
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Small folio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Alexandria. Very faded and damaged.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: likely 11th century. The name of the addressee may be Abū l-Faḍl Sahl b. Saʿd …
A folio from the commentary (sharḥ) of ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq b. Ibrāhīm al-Andalusī al-Muznī's "risālat al-sabʿīn" or a folio from another work that refers to his …
Poetry in both Hebrew and Arabic.
Verso: Petition or report to the Fatimid vizier al-Afḍal (r. 1096–1121) regarding a government appointee reporting for duty or fulfilling an order. Including a raʾy …
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Letter to the judge Moshe b. Labrāṭ. Dealing with a lawsuit of al-Mufaḍḍal Netanʾel against his paternal cousin [Musa]llam b. Moshe Ibn Ḥirbish and emphasizing …
Bifolio of accounts, mentioning quantities of dirhams and names such as Ibrahim al-Kohen and Abū l-Ḥasan. Very crude hand. (Information in part from CUDL.)
List in Arabic script written in a formal style. One line has the name Bū l-Maʿālī, and the rest are months (al-Muḥarram, Ṣafar, Rabīʿ I, …
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script.
Very dark. Poetical Hebrew, might be from an opening of a letter. Reference to רבנו ע"ה. AA
List of names, including Abū l-Munā, Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Ḥajar, Abū ʿAlī b. Saʿāda, Abū ʿAlī b. Makḥūl, Ibn al-Marjānī and Abū Zikrī al-Kohen, probably …
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions sending a legal query to al-Rav Rabbenu Shemuel, shares in a house, and people who are distressing the writer.
Legal record. Location: Damietta [אי כפתור]. Dated: [2]7 Tishrei 1467 Seleucid = 25 September 1155 CE. Somebody testifies that as he was returning from the …
Small fragment of a legal deed written on parchment. Probably regarding a debt from an husband called Sahlān to his wife, but too little text …
Writing exercises in Arabic script for a learner, likely related to chancery training given the content of the phrases and the hand. The phrase on …
On verso book list written by Yosef b. Yaaqov Rosh Haseder. On recto Biblical commentary
Four slips of paper in Italian, possibly comprising accounts or receipts. Mentions the names Filippo and Niccolo. Needs examination.
Legal record (#1). Partnership dispute. Involving the partners Abū l-Ḥasan Nānū al-Tājir and Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm. Abū l-Ḥasan presented a document stating that Yaʿqūb owes …
Possibly a tax receipt or similar document. Rajab 606 AH?
Instructions or mnemonics for calendrical calculations. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the year 1521 Seleucid = 1209/10 CE.
State document, unknown date. Fragment of an Arabic petition (to ". . . al-ʿālī al-mawlawī al-sulṭānī. . ."). The titles suggest a date in the …
Possibly an official document in Arabic script, but the hand is crude. Could also be an IOU with a layout reminiscent of state documents. Concerns …
Account in Hebrew, a list of debtors. The currency given is peraḥim. Many of the debtors are women, including gentile women. Dating: Likely 15th–17th century. …
Top of a deed of acknowledgement (iqrār). In Arabic script. Mentions a property across from the synagogue. At least one name is preserved in the …
Letter from Shemuel b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he sent all the money that Sālim b. Khaṣīb(?) owed to Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn, namely …
Chancery document. 6 lines preserved from the bottom (including ḥamdala and ṣalwala: والحمد لله وحده وصاواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه المصطفى والد الطاهرين وسلم تسليما). …
Recto: business letter from Abraham Monsun to David, in Egypt (16th–17th century). Edited by Assaf in 'Texts and Studies' (1946: 206-8). Verso: calculations, probably accounts. …
Court case brought before Shemuel ha-Nagid (1142-1159). Dated: Monday, 21 Sivan 1467 Seleucid, which is 1156 CE. Concerning a disagreement over financial matters between Menashshe …
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Fol. 1: Letter fragment, possibly. Mentions 3 dirhams. Accounts on verso. Needs examination.
Responsum. Index of Geonic responsa and their subject matter, numbered and organised by authority or questioner where known (‘questions of the people of Wādī al-Qarī …
Part of a letter(?) in Arabic script. On verso there is a liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Verso (original use): Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The address is missing, so this sender/recipient identification …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Yosef b. Khalfa (ca. 1050s–60s), sent from or to Fustat. Quite faded but could likely be read with effort (and multispectral …
Page from the record book of the law court of the Yeshiva, perhaps Yoshiyahhu Gaʾon. From the same ledger: ENA 4010.28, ENA NS 8.15, and …
Verso: Opening of a letter from Sherira Gaon sent to Qayrawān. Dating: ca. 970 CE. This is a continuation from the first part of the …
State document in Arabic script. Portions of four lines are preserved; damaged. Mentions the majlis al-khidma of an amir [...] al-Dawla. Reused on recto for …
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there are jottings of Arabic ḥamdalas.
Recto: Fragmentary legal document. (Information from CUDL. Join: CUDL.) Verso: Interesting letter or literary narrative in Hebrew. Contains phrases such as: "... to judge the …