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Legal query, draft, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Regarding the money left by a dead husband. In the margin: "As …
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Fragment from a ketubba. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Faraj. Signed by Efrayim b. Ṣadoq (active late 10th century) and Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. AA
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Recto: Letter from a man of Qayrawān, perhaps in Jerusalem. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is an eloquent letter of appeal for charity. He says he has …
From the top part of a bill of divorce (get). The husband's name is Ishaq b. Avraham. The date is only partialy preserved: [..]67, from …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document or letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Minute fragment. Some partial names have survived: al-Jubaylī, the in-law of Yaʿqūb b. [...]. AA
Letter fragment. Only the basmala and first line on recto are preserved. Reused for other jottings.
Letter addressed to the chief justice (Qāḍī l-Quḍāt). Only the first 4 lines are preserved.
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Probably a commercial receipt for Abū Zikrī (Yehuda b. Yosef Kohen?). Needs examination. See T-S Ar.34.5 (PGPID 20576) for a list of similar documents.
Literary.
Recto: Instructions in Judaeo-Arabic for the preparation of drugs (appears to be from a booklet of recipes), mentioning pure rose water. (Information from FGP.) Verso: …
Bottom part of a legal deed from Alexandria dated 487[.] to the creation = 1110-1119. Signed by Avraham b. Ya'aqov (who might well be Avraham …
Possibly too fragmentary to identify. Hebrew script. Join: Ezra Chwat. Unclear if it is a literary text or letter. The speaker says "I was in …
Tax receipt, Fatimid, issued in Fusṭāṭ in the name of Saʿīd al-Afṣarī. Hint of a date at the bottom (23?).
Literary. The book of Numbers with targum.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda very early in his public career, when he was Av Bet Din, to a notable in Fustat, ca. 1025. He …
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Very faded Arabic text, probably literary.
Left fragment: Magical text with the header ללמטלקה = for the divorcee
Probably a liturgical piece with a few words of Arabic (probably not a document).
Drafts of phrases from the opening of a letter, in Arabic script. Surrounded by various jottings, including one naming the amir Sayf al-Dawla Ibrāhīm(?). There …
Upper part of a tax receipt, containing only the endorsements / administrative markings.
Legal document dated Av (5)276, written ארע״ה (ie, 1+200+70+5), of Creation (= 1516 CE). The document concerns a trading partnership, and refers to trade in …
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Letter from Hillel b. Hārūn, in Tyre, to [... b.] Khālid(?), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. The sender's cousins, the children of …
Lower part of a fragment of rhymed lines in colloquial Judaeo-Arabic ("fī kull ḥāra... wa-kathura al-shaṭāra... laqad jā' khaḍāra...") The penultimate line mentions al-kanīs wa-bayt …
Letter from Mūsā b. Hibatallāh al-Yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib ("the Jewish doctor") to an unidentified dignitary. In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century based on …
Recto: poetic letter with an acrostic spelling ‘Ḥalfon ben Mevoraḵ (מבוכר), Saʿadya ha-Mumḥe’. Evidently a line is in the wrong sequence in the poem, which …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Looks like it is dated 7[..] AH = 14th century CE.
Minute fragment, maybe an order for 8 raṭls of something but too damaged to be sure.
Fragment of a ketubba. Containing mainly part of the dowry list. May be in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Between the lines and upside …
Verso, fol. 2: Fragment of a decree or petition, probably provisional because of the semi-professional hand. Requires further examination.
Small fragment with texts in Hebrew script on the recto and verso, possibly documentary. Medieval-era. The recto mentions the name David, a thousand of something, …
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Drafts of documents, possibly in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Part of verso is in a different hand. (Information from CUDL.)
Four tiny fragments, on vellum. Fragment No. 1r – two pieces from the same text. Deals with the obligations of the groom toward his bride. …
Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Phrases from the letter: ויגיתהא . . . אפעאלהא אלי . . . אלשריפה . . . תשועת עולמים …
Recto: Petition, probably. In Arabic script, in a Fatimid chancery hand, with huge space between the lines. Portions of two lines are preserved: ...ʿalā yadih …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Mentions routine groceries such as olive oil, sesame oil, linseed oil, soap, …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a disorderly scribal hand. Dated 16 Dhu l-Qaʿda __45 AH, which could be 1145 or 1245 given the mention of Ottoman …
Hebrew poetry and sundry jottings. Maybe a join: T-S Ar.30.189 + T-S Ar.30.217.
Large table of names in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals. One of the columns is headed "al-mustakhraj." Needs further examination.
Letter in Arabic script. Chancery report? 4 lines preserved. Very faded. Reused on recto for prayers for ʿAravit and Minḥa with Judaeo-Arabic heading. (Information from …
Letter from Hilāl b. Yosef to ʿArūs b. Yosef detailing accounts for the export of five qintars of wool worth thirty dinars from Alexandria to …
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Minute fragment of a text in Judaeo-Arabic, discussing and/or translating the Book of Exodus. The scribal hand is likely 18th- or 19th-century based on the …
Fiscal account, probably.
Letter from Musa b. Abu'l-Hayy to Evyatar ha-Kohen Gaon, ca. December 1094.
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Responsum. Long and narrow strip of paper, containing a responsum regarding the property of orphans. It seems that the ruling is not to deliver the …