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Document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). At the bottom there appear the names Mufarrij …
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The main block of writing is a folktale in Judaeo-Arabic about a very poor man ("who worked for two dirhams each day") who came home …
Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script, medieval-era.
Page from a Judaeo-Arabic treatise on the virtues of gems and magical spells to do with them and Arabic letters to inscribe on them, for …
Late family/business letter in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting addressed to 'my father.' Mentions Sulaymān Abū Asʿad in the opening line.
Capitation tax receipt for Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam(?) in Fustat for the year 520(?) AH.
Legal/official document in Arabic script. Drawn up in the majlis al-khidma of an amir with grand titles (...majd al-khilāfa ʿizz al-dīn jamāl al-umarāʾ fakhr al-mulk …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
حضر مجلس خدمة الامير المقدم الامير الامين مجد الخلافة عز الدين جمال الامرا فخر الملك
سيف الدولة…. العميم صنيعة امي…
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Letter fragment from a group of Byzantine Jewish captives being held for ransom in Egypt (probably Alexandria), to the Nagid Yehuda b. Seʿadya. In Hebrew. …
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Petition to an Ayyubid sultan, possibly Al-ʿĀdil I (13th century), opening only. On verso there is a piyyuṭ, possibly for Yom Kippur. (Information from Khan …
[ ا]لهمام ناصر الاسلام غياث الانام سيف المومنين سلطان جيوش المسلمين
خليل امير المومنين وادام قدرته واعلى ابدا كلمته وانفذ احكامه
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[ ] the heroic, the helper of Islam, the succour of mankind, sword of the believers, sultan of the armies of the Muslims,
the friend of…
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Small fragment of a legal document, probably. Thin vertical strip preserving the first word (or few letters) of each line. Cut into a vertical strip …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Some names are listed: Manṣūr Saʿadī, Aḥmad Bu-Beys[?], Budeyr al-Ashrek[?]. This document is from a larger set of accounts and is …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a ḍamān, a ruqʿa, a letter sent with the son of the Qāḍī of Qalyūb (probably), excuses bad manners by appealing …
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State document, unknown date. Fragment of an Arabic petition (to ". . . al-ʿālī al-mawlawī al-sulṭānī. . ."). The titles suggest a date in the …
Magical formulary in Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic.
State document, probably a report, in Arabic script. Mentions the Nile flooding "wafā al-Nīl al-mubārak", and begins with a Quranic verse (32:27). Only four lines …
] "به زرعا تاكل منه انعامهم وانفسهم افلا
يبصرون" ا]لطاهرة على سائر الدول بوفا النيل المبارك
و]القتها من عارض بقصة وافته منه فيه هالك…
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Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment. Mentions Yūsuf (l. 1), a ship, a commercial partnership (ṣuḥba), and a qāḍī (l. 3). On verso there is …
Verso: writing exercises in Hebrew and Arabic, and the beginning of a letter in Arabic script. The Judaeo-Arabic jotting in the upper margin is in …
Verso: Fragment of a state document, medieval-era. A partial date is legible in line 1 as Dhu l-Ḥijja but most of the year is missing …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 18 Shevaṭ 1405 Seleucid = 7 February 1094 CE. Declaration by the beadle Yosef b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, that he …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Mentioning many names: Abū ʿAlī b. Barukh; Moshe ha-Kohen ha-Zaqen; Avraham ha-Zaqen. Also mentions Fustat. Probably …
Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: 16 Elul 1355 Seleucid, which is 13 August 1044 CE. Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David; also …
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Late Hebrew document. The bottom part is torn so no signatures or date are preserved. Dating: 18th or 19th century based on the currency. Agreement …
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 1r: …
Recipe or prescription in Arabic. Items include "half a cup" (nuṣf qadaḥ) of something; three ounces of sesame oil (sīraj); and chebulic myrobalan.
Minute fragment of accounts, possibly dated in the ninth century Hijrī on the recto (סנת לטץ) but there may be a fourth letter after לטץ. …
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1011 CE. Mentions the deaths of Shemarya b. Elḥanan and the cantor Palṭiel, as well as the …
Legal fragment, with release formulae. The party mentioned is Sitt [...].
Fragment with Hebrew text. Magical? Mentions love and destruction and [...] ben Yisra'elit.
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter addressed (in Arabic) to Abū l-Ḥasan Bishr b. Hilāl al-Baghdādī. The writer refers to his illness ([mā] anā ʿalayhi min …
Damaged fragment in poetic Hebrew, probably from top of a letter to a notable who is also a kohen. Very large. AA/ASE Excerpts: תשיתמו לשרים …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quotes the Talmudic saying "a prisoner doesn't free himself" (אין חבוש מתיר). (Information from CUDL)
State document, in Arabic script. In chancery hand. Probably a letter fragment. Only the basmala from the verso and the address from the recto are …
First-person business accounts in Arabic script. Mentions several names and commodities. Refers to "the wax/candle sellers from ʿAsqalān" (al-ʿasāqila al-shammāʿīn).
Recto: Small fragment of an Arabic state document. The ends of two lines are preserved: انه كان . . . السامية حرس الله ايامها. On …
Legal fragment mentioning people such as Abū l-Barakāt, Peraḥya b. Binyamin the elder, and the elder Abū Yaʿqūb. Also mentions 3 qinṭārs of something, maybe …
India Book (IB) I, 31a. Legal document: testimony about the will of Yosef Lebdi. This fragment, written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. …
Testimony given before us, the undersigned [. . . that]
Joseph Lebdi—may God be pleased with him!—son of R. David [before he set out on the voya…
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Fragment of a petition/letter. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi? Written on behalf of a woman (al-mamlūka, l. 5). Addressed to a notable …
Verso: Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 (Khan reads 26 Dhū …
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Fragment from the lower left corner of a state document, or possibly a legal document concerning state affairs. Mentions 'government crops' (al-ghallāt al-sulṭāniyya) and the …
Monograph; from Saadias formulary of legal documents (near end); published by Ben-Sasson in Shenaton Hamishpat Ha-Ivri. (Info from FGP)
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the Qodesh and a funeral. On verso there are a few lines of Arabic script. Needs further examination.
Small horizontal strip of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) in which Yosef b. Yoshiya ha-Levi makes a …
Court notebook. Recto, left side: Court record. Dated: Thursday, 8 Iyyar [probably 1411] Seleucid = 19 April 1100 CE. The year is not named, but …
Minute fragment with only few words.
Homily. In Hebrew. Probably late. The text has been crossed through. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On vellum. Dating: First half of the 11th century, as it mentions the ship of Ibn Daysūr (cf. Bodl. MS heb. d …
Legal fragment in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (ca. 1150–81 CE). In which Abū l-[...] appears before the court -- possibly in the Palestinian …