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Letter drafts from a certain Shelomo. Rudimentary handwriting. On recto he states that he is unable to come because his father is sick. The draft …
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Letter to “our prince” Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known. After many phrases of blessings and deference, the sender apologetically reports that he …
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The opening of a letter, from a Gaʾon, to Meshullam and Yiṣḥaq, sons of Yehoshuaʿ. There is Arabic text on verso, probably the address, mentioning …
Fragmentary court record mentioning Daniel the Nasi and Yeḥizqiyya Rosh ha-Gola (Head of the Diaspora). Mentions a payment or fine of 10 dinars to the …
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Letter in Ladino on grid paper. From 1886/87 CE if the '647' is the date. Needs further examination. Join by Oded Zinger.
Receipt for the capitation tax of a Jewish person.
Letter from Toviyya ha-Kohen b. Eli ha-Kohen ha-Me'ulle to his brother-in-law, the judge Natan ha-Kohen he-haver ha-Me'ulle b. Shelomo ha-Kohen he-Hasid, regarding various errands concerning …
Legal documents (or copies or drafts) in Arabic script. Recto and verso could be the same document or two different documents. Dating: mentions the year …
Recto: letter in Judaeo-Arabic about a young woman. Potentially the same hand (and/or indirect joins): T-S NS 292.56 (PGPID 24738), T-S 13J7.24 (PGPID 1197), T-S …
Recto: part of a letter in Arabic script. One of the words looks like 'al-dawla.' Verso: unidentified text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Ff. 1-2: Beginning of a letter from a certain Nissim to Eliyyahu b. Zekharya the Judge and to his son the physician Abū Zikrī. The …
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Engagement contract in which Ṭahor b. Yehuda b. Saʿadya ha-Kohen pledges his minor daughter after 5 years to Muhadhdhab b. Shemuel (appears also in BL …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a striking purple ink. Dating: Probably 19th century. Joins: Oded Zinger (the first five pieces) and Alan Elbaum (T-S AS …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Last decade of Kislev 1529 Seleucid, which is November 1217 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. The virgin Sitt …
Letter from Manṣūr Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge (Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rayyis). In Judaeo-Arabic. There are several letters by this writer: see tag. This letter …
Recto: Letter from Ḥayyim b. S[..], in Damietta, addressed to a certain Yiṣḥaq, presumably in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dated: שנת והלך לפניך צדקך, which is …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
IB V, 37, folio 3v. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces …
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Letter from Avraham, son of the Gaon, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the latter's …
Fatimid decree (possibly in the hand of Ibn al-Ṣayrafī himself?). Two lines preserved. See also the separate PGP record for the letter by Yeḥezqel b. …
State fragment of some kind. Small and damaged. Mentions "al-kharājiyya" and may have the ʿalāma "Allāh ʿawnī." Needs further examination.
Folio from a court notebook. Location: Minyat Zifta. There are 3 betrothal (erusin/qiddushin) documents (all edited in Ashur's dissertation) and a 4th document concerning a …
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Legal fragment (lower left corner). Probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Signed by [...] b. Shelomo. Mentions a maṣbagh (dyeing workshop?) in Fustat.
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very neat handwriting and striking arrangement on the page. Possibly of a landlord? The entries have headers …
Family letter in both Arabic and Hebrew (specifically for the יברך את הנערים blessing, cf. BL OR 5566C.13). Mainly the concluding blessings/greetings are preserved.
Minute preprinted document issued in August (Aoút) 1894 CE.
Fragment of a legal Islamic (fiqh) manual. The preserved text is a commentary passage on the Islamic ritual of ṭahāra and ablution. Discussions circle around …
Bill of release. Dated: 15 Kislev 1525 Seleucid = 29 November 1213 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides (with the title "Nagid"). Abū ʿImrān …
Interesting Judaeo-Arabic paraphrase of Genesis 22 (the binding of Isaac). Very small bifolio on parchment with two binding-holes at the fold.
Amulet in purple and yellow ink. Very late. Ashkenazi hand.
Legal document on parchment. Mentioning a ketubba, a woman, Elʿazar traveling to Bilbays, "my son Saʿadya." Refers to a property that is "leased" (muḥtakara); the …
On recto two drafts of a letter reporting about Yiṣḥaq Perdonel, likely a recommendation. Late. In Hebrew. On verso accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (possibly with some …
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 …
Karaite engagement document. Dated: 14 Adar (Purim) 5525 AM, which is 7 March 1765 CE. (Note that the year is covered by a paper flap …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Dating: 800s AH, possibly 823 AH = 1420/21 CE. Needs further examination.
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic, with part of a witness clause preserved.
Neatly written accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. In the first line names Abū l-Faraj al-Ṭaḥḥān. Specific items include lemon, pepper, saffron, mastic, cinnamon, …
Recto: Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Needs further examination. Verso: Informal note (petition?) in Arabic script …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era, based on handwriting, spelling, and vocabulary. Needs examination for content. Quite faded. Might mention a commodity called qiṭmīr. (Information …
Letter from ʿIwāḍ b. Ḥananel, in Alexanria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Second half of the 10th century. The writer reports …
Letter address, in Arabic script. From the head of the Yeshiva (رأس المثيبة) to Ramla. "الرملة يصل ان شا الله". Name of the addressee to …
Certificate of assessment by the rabbinate in Jerusalem for religious instructors – undated – (number 96) – in Hebrew and in English. (information from Ḥassanein …
Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Ṣāliḥ al-Ṣabbāgh, in Palermo, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1050 CE. The sender came to Palermo …
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Contains only a few formulaic phrases from the ending. Mentions Avraham b. [...] (probably the bearer or the scribe).
Letter from Nahray b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim, his paternal cousin, ca. 1055
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כתאבי יאכי וסידי וגלילי אדאם אללה סלאמתך וסעאדתך וכפאיתך מסתהל אלול ערפך אללה ברכתה וא[ס]עד[ך]
בתופיקה אנה אלמאן בדלך ואלקאדר עליה…
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IB IV, 56 (ח63). Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanel, in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Alexandria. The left side of the letter …
Receipt of payment beginning with a basmala. Needs examination.