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Letter fragment probably addressed to [Avraham b.] Natan ha-Sheviʿi Ḥemdat [ha-Yeshiva]. With a poetic Hebrew introduction and Judaeo-Arabic body. In the margin refers to receiving …
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Letter sent by Yaʿaqov b. Nissim to his brother Abu al-Khayr. The letter contains an account for raw Susa cloth, sent from Fustat to another …
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Writing practice.
Judaeo-Arabic poetry or songs, in a low/folk register. Some of the lines refer to lovesickness, another refers to "like what the Jews do... on Shavuʿot..." …
Subsequent use: Two legal drafts from the court of the Nagid Mevorakh. Fragmentary and incomplete. #1: Beginning of a statement about a brawl between Shelomo …
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Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Phrases from the letter: ויגיתהא . . . אפעאלהא אלי . . . אלשריפה . . . תשועת עולמים …
Large legal document. Fragment (right side only). In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Mentions a codex; a partnership (sharika); payments in installments. Names listed …
Four pages from a Rabbanite court ledger with copies of 17 different legal documents (witness names appear in the hand of the scribe). All are …
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Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Merkado Karo and Shimʿon Frances (of Karo y Frances & Company). Fragment: missing the lower part.
IB VII, 38. Letter from a man, in Fustat, to his brother, probably in ʿAydhāb. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender urges him to return quickly; their …
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Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Yosef ha-Kohen b. Eli Alfasi, Tyre. Around 1067. Abu Yaakov Yosef b. Eli ha-Kohen is on a ship on …
My letter, my lord and master—may God lengthen your remaining [days] and make permanent your well-being and happin…
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Panegyric poem in Hebrew, written in two columns. This is probably the header of a letter of which only two words are preserved in the …
Recto: deed of sale in Hebrew for a compound in Damascus (a large and small house) at the Market of the Jews, for 280 ʿAzīzī …
Verso: Various jottings in Arabic script. There are eight renditions of an ex libris (min kutub) for Murhaf Ibn Munqidh. There is also a snippet …
Verso, and possibly part of recto (original use): Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Dating: Probably first half of the 11th century. Mentioning quantities of goods …
Accounts.
Letter from ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen, in Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 1050 …
Account of a businessman. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
List of commodities and weights - needs examination. Image not available.
Astrological text in Judaeo-Arabic. One of the horoscopes predicts something about a dark woman with pimples (bathr) on her face and getting enchanted (wa-lā budd …
Two or three amulets containing remarkable illustrations: a demon with a tail, tutu, scepter, horns, and curly hair; a seated woman; and a man being …
Receipt, but needs identification for typology. Contains a basmala, and an ʿalāma (الحمد لله حمدا يرضيه). Mentions "al-dīwān" and beginning of a date "bi-tārikh al-khāmis.......arbaʿ …
Recto: About seventeen Hebrew verses, likely from a superscription of a letter, in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE). Verso: Treatise ending …
בכתב ידו של נתן בן שמואל החבר
An extremely faded document in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, complaining about his bad fortune. Mentions al-Shaykh al-Thiqa and Ibn al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Abū l-Faḍl b. Nuʿmān. AA
IB IV, 31 (ח39). Letter from Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi known as Ibn al-Lukhtūsh, probably in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, probably staying somewhere …
Small fragment, literary
Letter in Spanish with columns of numerical calculations at bottom that appears to be dated 5 Tamuz 5437 or July 5 1677CE (the "4" is …
Recto: The Book of Gathering the Winds. In Hebrew. See Goitein's index card for more information.
Letter to a Rosh Kalla, mentioning a certain Yehuda. Mentions the arrival in Damsīs of the representative (nā[ʾib]) of the amīr Muẓaffar(?) al-Dawla. (Information in …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Business letter in Arabic script from Abū l-Surūr b. Abū l-Munā (a Jewish man, which we learn in v5) to Abū l-Majd b. Abū l-Munā …
Letter of appeal for charity. Fragment (upper part only). The op line is in Arabic script (the address?), and the rest in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender …
Legal deed in large square thick letters
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl, the mother of al-Rayyis Abū Manṣūr, Abū l-Faraj Ṣabbāgh, and Abū l-Ṭāhir Ḥarīrī.
Legal query from Shelomo b. Yaṣliaḥ to the Sahlān b. Barhūn ha-Ḥaver (titled Rosh Kalla). It is a veiled complaint about a cantor, clad in …
A letter from Yeshu'a Yosef b. Moshe to Avraham b. Moshe
Marriage document, bill of conditions שטר תנאים issued in Rashid (Rosetta). Undated, but this document must have been issued at the same time as the …
Legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi. Dating: 1100-1138. Left side of inquiry with regard to an inheritance of a quarter of a house. …
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Family letter from a son to his mother. Nadiv b. Saʿadya is mentioned, as are greetings to family members such as Abū l-Wafā, Abū l-Faḍl, …
Draft or summary of a legal document describing the boundaries of a property, apparently in an exclusive neighborhood. South: one house known by the name …
An order for various amounts of bread, oil, wood, lemon and cheese. On a small piece of parchment. (Information from CUDL.)
Certificate in the hand of the judge Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Kislev 1473 Seleucid, which is December 1161 CE, under …
Incomplete Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 14 Adar 5403 AM (1643 CE). Bride: Qamr bt. Shmuel ha-Rofe. Groom: Shelomo b. Shemuʾel ha-Levi. The groom's monetary contributions …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic: names, numbers, some crossed out. Names: Makīn; Abū Saʿd; Abū l-Faḍl; Moshe; Abū l-Majd; Abū l-Riḍā. Dating: probably late 12th or 13th …
Business letter from Mukhtār b. Yaʿaqov sent to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions previous correspondence and different business matters, and names such as Abū …
Mostly pen trials in Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, and Ladino. Two names appear: Nissim Mulaykha (? מוליכה) and Yiṣḥaq Binyamin.
Letter from the copyist Shemuel to the notable Yeshuʿa. In Hebrew. Asking for a gift. During the six months in which Shemuel has stayed “here,” …
Deed of lease. Lessee: Tamīm b. Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf al-Yahūdī who lives in Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn. Lessor: the former agent/administrator of the properties of the Qodesh …