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Vertical strip from a legal document, maybe a ketubba. Might involve a woman named Sitt al-Nās.
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Recto: Bottom of a note from Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a shipment of pearls. Verso: Legal document, perhaps a draft (no signatures). Hand of Shelomo …
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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 …
Long mercantile letter in Arabic script. Damaged and very difficult to read. Mentions names such as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Qābila ("Son of …
Verso: Megillat Miṣrayim
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Legal document concerning the miller Yefet b. Eli, who undertakes payment of two dinars to his divorced wife, which he still owes her, in monthly …
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Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 47
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Fragment of a letter from Nehemya ha-Kohen, the Pumbedita Gaon, to one of the members of the Babylonian community in Fustat, probably the beginning of …
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Arabic, literary. Poetry.
The end of a ketubba, witnessed by [...]ya b. Aaron, Peraḥya ha-Me[lammed] and Isaac b. [...]. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 …
Letter In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning communal controversy and politics. Mentions an apostate to Islam (al-posheaʿ), the community of Ṣahrajt, a ban of excommunication, a Jew who …
P5: Legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Only a few words are preserved, no details.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very neat hand. The writer complains about something (having to wander abroad?) because he writes that he counts whatever it is …
Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Quite faded. Mentions sal ammoniac and pepper and sugar and meat and a fūṭa. Also …
Copy of a Karaite ketubah. Dated 8 Adar 5400 AM (1640 CE).
Letter fragment from an unknown writer to his son (probably). Written in Judaeo-Arabic. The introduction is preserved, wherein the writer says he is proud of …
Letter in Ladino to Yehuda Gatenio, from a business partner in Alexandria, dated 10 August 1823 (3 Elul 5583 AM). Deals entirely with business transactions; …
Karaite halakhic discussion regarding different types of legal deeds and their use
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment: bottom half only. The sender reminds the addressee to take care of the quicksilver (זאוק/zāwūq) stored in clay vessels. He …
Verso: Four (?) interesting accounts in Arabic script, one mentioning "wāṣil al-ḍamān". Dated: Jumādā II 513 AH, which is September 1119 CE. (Information from Goitein's …
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Decree fragment, one line, in Arabic script. "سعد من وحولها".
Legal document from Minyat Zifta in which a woman, Tujjār bt. Khalaf known as Ibn אלשיגרי, conveys to her husband Bū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Ḥasan …
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. The cantor al-Shaykh al-Makīn (=Abū …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known. Likely a join with ENA 3740.2–3. Mentions people such as Yaʿqub b. Naḥūm. Mentions goods such as …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
12 pages of late accounts. Dated on 1r and 3r as 1267 AH which is 1850/51 CE. The dated heading on 3r mentions Muṣtafa tabiʿ …
Late writing exercises and sums (compare 12369.21, 22, 37, 38, 39).
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Written and signed by Berakhot (b. Shemuel). Expressing thanks to the poet Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo for his “sweet poems and …
Bill of divorce, fragment. Husband: Maʿānī b. Khalaf. Wife: Jamīʿ bt. Barakāt (both families are from Minyat Ziftā, Egypt). Dated: Friday, 29 Sivan 1426 Seleucid, …
Letter from a woman named Harja, somewhere in Syria, to her brother' Hārūn Fayrūz in Cairo. This letter contains an update on her stomach illness …
Small fragment of a ketubba, probably. Dating: ca. 11th century.
Letter fragment in Arabic script, probably commercial. It is difficult to decipher the content. The term "al-mamlūk" (referring to the sender) appears multiple times. The …
Literary text, in Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses the Hebrew language and the language of the Bible. Could be theology or Bible exegesis. Needs examination.
Recto: Legal query in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi addressed to Maimonides, who was active in Egypt ca. 1168–1204 CE. Concerning partners in …
Three legal queries to Yiṣḥaq b. Sason with his responsa. At least one of the cases concerns the maintenance of children
Arabic script (VMR)
Magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic (with some Arabic script and magical symbols). One recipe is for nosebleed and involves writing a spell with the blood on …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known (India trade related?). May refer to owing somebody a rose-colored cooking vessel (? ṭājin warda); something …
Medical recipe. (Information from CUDL)
Karaite agreement regarding a partnership in rural cheese production (אלגבן אלריפי) mentioning the specific type(s) "אלכשכבאן אלכזין". Dated 22 Heshvan 5515 AM (1754 CE). The …
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions: ʿūd rīḥ; 3 dinars and a rubāʿī; Abū l-Ḥasan b. …
Secondary use: Unidentified text in Hebrew, praising somebody: ברב חסדיך ושמרת חסד בלי יוחש שתרבו בדרכי הישרה והאירו מאורי התורה ובנו בתי התפלות וקבעו הזמנים …
Petition to the Fatimid ruler Sitt al-Mulk. Dating (Rustow): 411–14/1021–24. In which the otherwise unknown Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan complains that a local amīr has confiscated …
List of Judeo-Arabic two accounts in a very orderly hand that detail the funds requested from one Yiṣḥaq Ḥefeṣ (l. 2r) and the payments of …
Letter from a man to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 1238–52 CE, as it has to do with the removal of David I Maimonides …