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Upper fragment: Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic: . . . יקרצני . . . מנהם פאן כאן חרצכם מן אעטיה נסיכאתי ואשהד עליי …
No Scholarship Records
Description from T-S J1.16: Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand may be known. Each entry is boxed. Each page …
Account for a sale of flax, probably in Tripoli (Libya), 1025. The flax is sold by bale, of unequal weight. The bales arrived to Tripoli …
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Recto: Letter addressed to a sister. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, probably no earlier than 14th century. May mention a man beating a woman (three lines …
Accounts
Un-conserved. Fragment from a letter dealing mostly with personal issue. The writer announced that the news about the French had arrived- might be relating to …
Verso (probably original use): Letter or petition in Arabic script. To a dignitary whose titles are "al-karīm al-akhaṣṣ al-awḥad al-raʾīs al-mufaḍḍal al-makhdūm zayn al-dīn sayyid …
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Letter from Moshe b. Abidirham. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. Concerning philanthropic activities for the benefit of the rabbis of Egypt. …
Statement to the youth of the Jewish community in Cairo explaining the vices of its members, their selfishness, and that the interests of the community …
Letter to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Mentions the amir Sayf al-Mulk and the synagogue of Damīra. Introduced by a quotation similar …
Damaged Arabic document - accounts or trials of the pen. Needs examination.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions aloeswood, lac, pepper, among other items. Written on a small and narrow slip of paper.
Love poem in Judaeo-Arabic in a popular register. Headed "nashīda." The last line refers to "my shafīfa" and "my sirwāl." Needs examination.
Letter, late, in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham [...] to Hayyim [...]. Needs further examination.
Letter from Zakkay b. ʿAzaryahu the Nasi to the community of Damascus. Only the introduction is preserved. This may be a draft that was abandoned. …
Upper part of a will in which the husband of Sutayt bt. Nadiv clarifies that half of the house in which he lives belongs to …
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Note from the cantor Yedutun ha-Levi, Fustat, to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub. Yedutun requests an update on the circumcised boy and the …
ולא שלחתה ואמך בלסאעה תחב תכרג אליך לאגל עאקה כתבך ועמך ע…
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Page from an Arabic medical treatise, citing Ḥunayn.
Recto: Order of payment for 5 11/24 dinars. Verso: probably Arabic accounts. (Information from CUDL.)
Order for shopping? Items mentioned include rose syrup, 1/2 pound; basil seed; another kind of seed; chicken; green almond, 1 1/2 dirham; something large and …
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Letter fragment, probably. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting looks very similar to that of the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov, however Shemuel's other documents …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (FGP). Very damaged.
Lease of a date plantation owned by the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1150 CE and, more broadly, ca. 1128–1164 CE based on the years when the …
(We acquire from Hiba)
. . . . as a complete and solemn acquisition, with an instrument that is proper to acquire with,
(from now on, w…
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From a literary rabbinic work. A haggada?
Letter in Ladino, probably. Needs examination.
Recto is a legal query regarding a sale and interest. Written on parchment. Dating: early 11th century. Verso contains a faded address in Arabic script, …
Deed of lease for an apartment (ṭabaqa). In Arabic script. Dated: 25 Ṣafar 919 AH = 2 May 1513 CE. Lessee: Manṣūr b. Najīb (b.) …
IB VII, 37. Letter addressed to Abū l-Ṭāhir al-ʿAṭṭār (the druggist). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century. Concerning the India trade. Giving details about 15 …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Court record. In Hebrew. Written and signed by Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim (active 1213–33). "When the orphan went out... the craftsmen will examine him... what is …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part only). The name ʿAllūn b. Yaḥyā al-Isrāʾīlī al-[...] appears in the last line of the …
Letter from a certain Abū l-Khayr, probably in Minyat Zifta, to a certain Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary (only the upper margin of recto and the …
Fiscal document with several ʿalāʾim. Needs examination.
Fragment of an answer by the Sura Gaon, likely a general question from the Babylonian Talmud rather than an answer to a specific question from …
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 …
Magical fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic and nomina barbara. Mentioning scorpions and pain/illness.
Legal document dated Monday 14th Iyyar (no year but probably late 12th or early 13th century), about the gift of half a house which Khibāʾ …
Document or text in Arabic script. Resembles a letter because of the diagonal text going three different ways, but it is very difficult to make …
Small fragment of a legal document. Probably containing marriage conditions: "...rather he will live there... unless she consents..."
Possibly a minute fragment from a legal deed.
Accounts in Arabic on a bifolio that was probably part of a broader ledger. Dated Muharram 1237-1238 AH which is 1821-1822 CE. Based on the …
Petition appealing for help from Shemuel ha-Nagid (1140–59). A woman asks him for help paying the capitation tax for her husband, who is in detention …
Legal document. Testifies that a certain woman "has never received a bill of divorce." Mentions Munajjā b. Masʿūd and Abū Saʿīd the khādim, both of …
Poem in elegant Arabic script followed by a curious note: (the poet and/or scribe?) "Mukhliṣ al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Hādī l-Islām Iyādi (?) was …
Complete business letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy Khalila in Fustat. Dated September 1051. (Information from Gil)
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאיידך וסעאדתך לה בקין מן אלול
עליך באחסן כאתמה ותקבל מנך ומנא הדה אלאיאם אלמסתקבלה ותכתב בספר חיי…
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Letter sent from Ṣanʿāʾ to Jerusalem. Dating: probably 19th century. Addressed to Sālim b. Hārūn al-Ḥamdī. It seems to be from his daughter Ghazāl and …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 13 Dhū l-Qaʿda 537 = May/June 1143 CE. It seems certifying a loan or payment of …