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Fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). On parchment. involving Abū ʿAlī [Ye]fet b. Avraham and …
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Distribution of wheat to Europeans/Byzantines (al-Rūm), altogether 49 households including households consisting of only one person. First item: 'The proselyte--3; his female slave Mubāraka--1/2 wayba.' …
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Fragment in Ottoman Turkish. Only the second half of the text after the basmala is fairly clear in meaning with an invocation for success/divine grace …
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On one of the four pages: two lists of materia medica in Arabic, each headed by a basmala, perhaps medical prescriptions. Ingredients include sarcocolla (anzarūt) …
Letter from Salāma b. Asad the perfumer to Abū Saʿīd al-Afṣī. In Judaeo-Arabic, with some unusual spellings. Dating: 12th century (the addressee is well known …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter to the Nagid (or at least to a dignitary titled [...] ha-Yeshiva, probably the same Yaḥyā ha-Sar named in line 7). The sender asks …
IB III, 40b. Instructions for manumission of a female slave written by Avraham Ibn Yiju. IB III, 40a is the top of the page. III, …
Recto: Legal testimony. Dated: February-March 1160. In the hand of Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av Bet Din(?). Abū al-Surūr Peraḥya b. Tiqva successfully sues for the …
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Letter in Arabic script. Maybe a letter of appeal for charity. Refers to a group of people (dependents?) who are weak and sick and the …
Recto (secondary use): Mentions 16 "golden dirhams" which seems oxymoronic and may help with dating. Also mentions nuqra dirhams.
Damaged fragment with poetical Hebrew verses. Can be from a literary piece of an opening of a letter. 13th century hand. AA
Document of sale dated 430 AH. The sale is between Bandalūs the son of Buṭrus and Baqām the son Kayl the son of Qūrīl. In …
Letter, fragmentary, in which the writer complains that a woman's outfit was incomplete and asks for money to buy flour. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
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Ladino literary work.
Verso with the address on recto: Letter from Mubārak to his 'father' Sason Ibn Sabra. The sender may be Mubārak b. Yisḥāq and the addressee …
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State document, in Arabic script. Mentions a dīwān and is probably dated to the year 427 H. Possibly two different scripts or hands. Needs examination.
Complete letter in Arabic script, with a single phrase in Hebrew (وحق אנא השם). Dating: Likely Ayyubid-era based on the layout and handwriting. Addressed to …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the ashrafī was which first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf …
Interesting accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, partly in the first person ("Friday: baṭṭāl. Sunday: I went out. . . "). Mentions 'ghilmān al-ṣāḥib', provender for a donkey …
Small letter fragment in Arabic. Excerpts: معهم واخرج جملة . . . ها الف و . . . . بذلك حتى كانه حاصل . . …
Letter from a woman named Harja (הרגה), somewhere in Syria, to her mother, the wife of Mūsā Ibn Fayrūz, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, …
Letter from Shelomo b. Netanʾel ha-Shulḥani (the moneychanger), in Fustat, to Ṣadoq b. Levi ha-Levi, president of the court. Dating: ca. 1030, according to Gil. …
Geʾonic responsa. (Information from CUDL)
Unidentified document in Arabic.
Letter from Avraham Maghribī to the elder Maʿānī. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. This is a recommendation for charity on behalf of the bearer, the son of …
Recto: Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter with wide line spacing, with praises for the addressee and good wishes for Purim. Verso: Likely a distinct document, …
Small fragment from an official-looking document (report? petition?). Only a few words are preserved, including ما يوجبه حكم ويقتضيه . . .
List in Arabic script mentioning people (Abū Muḥammad, Dāʾūd, al-shaykh) and also 'the bathhouse and chickens" (ḥammām wa-farārīj).
Fragment from a prayerbook headed "siddur ṣalawāt al-yaḥid mukhtaṣar" (abbreviated book of prayers for an individual).
Decorated Karaite ketubba. The groom is Yeshu'a Halevi b. Ishaq Halevi the cantor. The bride is Ester known as Qamar d. Ya'aqov b. Avraham Halevi.
Letter from an unidentified person connected to Ibn ʿAwkal, ca. 1030. The letter is illegible in many places. Discusses the will of one of the …
Letter from a certain Shemuʾel to Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Maʿālī. Beginning with good wishes for Rosh ha-Shana and recommending a stranger, a certain "Raʾīs" …
Official report in Arabic script. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Mentions jihād and a general (al-amīr al-isfahsalār), probably in the context of the …
Deed of release. Dating: ca. 1232 CE, as the same Elʿazar b. Karmī appears in T-S NS 321.79 + T-S 13J4.5 and T-S Misc.25.2. The …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Only the heading and first lines preserved. Dated: 1391 Seleucid, which is 1079/80 CE. The groom is named Naḥum. Handwriting of Hillel …
Letter from Mūsā b. Labrāṭ, in al-Mahdiyya, to his nephew Efrayim b. Dā'ūd, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Comforting the addressee (upon …
Large letter from "the two congregations" of Alexandria to the Palestinian community of Fustat, and particularly to Efrayim b. Shemarya, regarding fundraising for the ransom …
Legal query addressed to a Muslim jurisconsult concerning the changes in synagogue ritual introduced by Avraham Maimonides. The senders of the query object to the …
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Legal document. Bill of divorce. Dated: 18 Kislev 1341 (26 November 1029). This Qaraite bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Letter from Tripoli or possibly Tyre to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. Dating: 1094–1111, based on Mevorakh's titles. The handwriting resembles that of ʿAmram b. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with an extensive array of calculations and individuals referenced. Multiple dates appear throughout these folios and the clearest reference to a specific …
Family letter in Arabic script. Numerous greetings to various people are preserved (e.g., to "ahl bayt mawlānā" and the sender's paternal uncle Makārim), also a …
Digest of a partnership contract for a period of one year between Abū ʿAlī b. David and Netanʾel b. Nadiv. Written mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, but …
Personal letter expressing desire for a friend to meet with an American Sulaymān Basha, and other personal news – Ismaʿilīya (Cairo) June 18 1948CE – …
Memorial list of the Gaonic family of Evyatar Ha-Kohen, headed 'principals of schools' but including also names of people that were no Geonim, ca.969-1021. (NB: …
Letter in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), apparently a draft. Contains rhymed praises and addresses, among others, Abraham the teacher. It …
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. Possibly mentions "Azharī" in the first row of entries on the recto. Requires further examination.
Minute fragment from a legal deed.
Legal document. In Hebrew. A release/quitclaim given by ʿAmram b. Shelomo. (Information from FGP.)