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Business accounts in Arabic script and a few Greek/Coptic numerals. Listing various textiles/garments and prices in dirhams. Also mentions the ruqʿa of the banker (al-ṣayrafī).
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Minute fragment from the beginning of a letter to a notable.
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew jottings. Dating: Maybe 13th or 14th century based on handwriting.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. The upper portion of recto may be a list of customers and their orders, as various names …
Report or petition fragment, addressed to a higher state official regarding the matters in southern Upper Egypt, contains the taqbīl clause towards the end. The …
للحضور صحبة النايب مقتفي؟ الرجال…. ريب؟
وعبد الغني وان رفعت الرخصة لهم وكثر طمعهم وقل بذاك عدالتهم؟
والمملوك يشكر الانعام عليه بخروج الا…
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Letter addressed to R. Yiṣḥaq by way of Binyamin ha-Zaqen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Repeating a request that a cantor leave the capital for the writer's village …
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Accounts(?) in Arabic script.
Mysterious table in Hebrew. Lists the various tribes of Israel and gives the date of birth and age at death.
Letter in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya addressed to the Gaʾon [Shelomo] b. Yehuda (r. 1025–1051 CE). In Hebrew. Mentions a woman named [...] …
Letter signed by Shelomo, to his father Eliyyahu the judge, asking him to purchase something for the writer (perhaps some sort of covering (ghiṭāʾ)) and …
Codex containing 'the eight books of the Prophets.' With a dedication note. Raḥel bt. Shelomo who is connected somehow (דמתחכים?) to Ḥadīd b. Ayyūb b. …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions caraway (كراويا) and polypodium (اشتيوان).
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Somewhat unusual formatting. Listing various garments and transactions on behalf of various people. Mentions people such as …
Copy of three court records concerning a dispute over a wall between two houses. The latest one is dated to Nisan 1413 Sel. (March 1102 …
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Judaeo-Persian
IB II, 25 + 26. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: two fragments. Aden, 1134. See also T-S AS 173.380 (PGPID 38566).
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Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Unusual format (written like a letter, with text going up the margins of recto and onto verso). Unusual hand, too (distinctive …
Minute fragment preserving three words in Judaeo-Arabic, likely from a letter, praising the recipient's good deeds.
Letter to a doctor of general clinic under the supervision of the Agudat Israel explaining that the treatment of the patient will be completed with …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No names preserved. Release from legal obligations in a business relationship involving …
Letter, possibly a draft, to a certain Sulaymān, inquiring about various business transactions and whether the addressee had taken the two copies of the Halakhot …
Responsa, Miscellaneous; recto: unidentified Judaeo-Arabic text; verso: geonic responsum concerning a bailee who attempts to cheat the depositors heirs (Hebrew + Aramaic). (Info from FGP)
Query and responsum of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder, dated in the final line of recto to 1207 CE (Shevat 1518 Seleucid אתקיח).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Organized by parasha of the week. Names include "the father of al-Ḥakham Hiba," Nāṣir, and Yosef ʿŪdī.
Recto: Letter draft in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing his trademark phrase "when I had turned toward health." He says many …
A long letter from a Yequtiel b. Siman Tov to his mother. He intended to go from Alexandria to Constantinople, but was tempted by his …
Bifolium from a court ledger. The dates range from Adar II through Sivan of 1410 Seleucid, which is 1099 CE. At least one is in …
Letter from Yūsuf b. Q[...] al-[...]ān to Abū l-Faḍl [ʿAṭallāh?] b. Yaʿqūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very rudimentary hand. The writer is in distress for some reason, …
Fragment from a large letter of introduction from the people of Granada (גרנטה) ‘the city of our master Shemuel ha-Nagid and his son Yehosef’, signed …
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions soap, sumac, wood.
Personal letter in Hebrew. Fragment. Recto consists of blessings. Verso mentions ha-Sar ʿOvadya, "your relative," and that he should be told something to do with …
4 pages from the medical text of the infamous medieval Persian polymath Muḥammad b. Zakarīyyā al-Rāzī (d. 925 or 935 CE) entitled al-Ḥāwī fī-l-Ṭibb. The …
Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Ṣāʿid b. Saʿīd, in Mirbāṭ (in present-day Oman), to Abū l-Surur Faraḥ b. ʿAbbās al-ʿAsqalānī. In Arabic script. Dating: probably 12th …
Accounts in Arabic script. Unclear if private/mercantile or fiscal. Needs examination.
Recto: testimony within a legal document or a letter, concerning financial matters (power of attorney) and mentioning Abū l-Ba[rakāt?]. Verso: probably small fragment from a …
Marriage document. Karaite deed of betrothal of Amat al-Waḥid אמה אלואחד daughter of Ḥalfon and Ḥaifon ha-Levi ben Daniel b. Bundār. Early 11th century, Cairo …
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Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Mentions a sum of 66 dinars and travel. Needs examination.
Ketubba (marriage contract). Location: Rashīd. Dating: Although it is extremely damaged, a year is legible in line 2 as 548_ / 5408 / or 5418 …
Jottings in Arabic script in the blank spaces of a page which contains piyyuṭ. "Yā shaykh Mūsā ʿasā.... uktub (or: aktub) fīhā...." Appears to be …
Document in Arabic, medieval-era. Two partial lines of text are preserved. Requires further examination.
Recto: Instructions for drawing up a bill of divorce. Hand of Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi? In Judaeo-Arabic. Listing various scenarios. Of note, Qūṣ and Aswān …
Recto: Fragment of a letter from Shemuel Gaon b. Hofni to one of the main members of the community in Fustat. Dated: Av 1319 Seleucid, …
Late legal document in Hebrew regarding a partnership (one of the partners is named Faraj). It refers to the quppah of the synagogue of the …
Letter fragment from Abū Manṣūr, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the closing greetings are preserved.
Interesting calendrical tables including calculations for mahzor 269, along with "I wrote this for myself, Shelomo."
84 pages of a book of segulot.
Ketubba fragment preserving the name [...] b. Ḥalfon.
Recto: End of a letter, or letter draft, from Abū l-Ṭāhir to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). All that remains is 4 lines of flattery …
Accounts mainly in Ladino, written in the same hand but not necessarily from the same notebook (the pages are not all the same size, and …
Possibly a Maimonides autograph.