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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic on verso. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The addressee is Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Hibatallāh b. Q[...]. …
IB VI, 29. Fol. 3: Legal document. Left side of an agreement with a wife that she would receive the rent from the middle story …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic(?) numerals.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Currencies: riyal, fundukli, maḥbūb, qurūsh. The mention of Ottoman fundukli coinage makes it possible to date this fragment as post-1725 CE.
Letter from the Gazan judge Elʿazar b. Zekharya ha-Kohen to ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen, in Fustat. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. early 12th century. …
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Letter fragments. Six small pieces of a letter from [...] ha-Yerushalmi b. Ḥalfon ha-Ḥazzan, in Jerusalem. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Information from Goitein's note card.
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Legal document, concerning the will of [Avraham] b. Peraḥya [Yiju]. Dating: probably 1160–65 or 1160–69 CE, as it was drawn up under the authority of …
Literary? Late and very faded
Verso: probably a legal document, mentioning Yefet Sar [...] and Abū l-M[...]. Reused on recto for a Hebrew prayer. (Information mainly from CUDL)
Recto: excerpts of Arabic poetry, transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. The poem beginning in line 6 is credited to Qays b. al-Mulawwah (Majnun Layla) in some anthologies. …
Late accounts listing a wide variety of names and corresponding numerical sums. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Some of the names listed …
IB IV, 28 (ח29). Fragment of a partnership agreement in which one of the partners is Abū l-Saʿd Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. Location: likely Lucena. …
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Tadkhira (business memorandum) regarding amounts of money and items such as saffron, probably written by Abū Zikrī Kohen. Addendum to the India Book.
Drafts of piyyutim.
Legal fragment. The beginnings of ~11 lines are preserved. Mentions various valuable items, such as a jūkāniyya. Possibly a dowry list?
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. This small piece that survives includes a recommendation for the bearer (". . .the need, urgently urgently urgently. . .") and …
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter in Arabic script.
Fragment of a letter to a notable. In Hebrew. Mentioning good news for the addressee, and the king. Might be a letter of congratulations on …
Not digitized?
Minute fragment of an Arabic document.
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to pay the bearer, the judge, 10 dirhams out of the rent of the …
Megillat Evyatar, probably composed by Evyatar Gaon and was read in synagoges. Probably was composed in 1094. (The scribe might be Shmuel b. Ya'aqov- a …
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Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Mentions "11" and "40". Few strokes in Arabic on verso but the document is too fragmentary to glean any content.
Literary. Epistle from Plato to Porphyry. In Judaeo-Arabic. On asceticism.
Small scrap with both Hebrew and Arabic characters, may be documentary.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (and eastern Arabic numerals). Dated: 5582 AM = 1821/22 CE. Headed: "The expenses (maṣrūf) of the Sephardic [congregation] מצות for the year …
Letter from ʿIwāḍ b. Isḥāq b. al-Zayyāt to the family of Abū l-Khayr b. Isḥāq b. al-Zayyāt (presumably his brother). It mainly has to do …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Spanish hand? May mention the head of the yeshiva, as well as [Qaṣr] al-Shamʿ.
List of names in Hebrew and some Ladino, accompanied by numbers and other notes (often with the word הדלקה). Some of the names include: Gikatilla, …
Fragment of a document in Arabic script. Maybe a letter or legal. Mentions a quantity in artāl (last line).
Verso: Letter of appeal for assistance in Arabic script. الشيخ الجليل . . . ادام . . . والخوف والقلة Recto: Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic.
Mercantile letter. Very faded. Mentions Aden in l. 7 and ʿAydhāb in l. 10. Later (l. 18) reports that Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī traveled this year to …
Hebrew poetry.
Small fragment of trousseau list of the bride Zayn bt. Yiṣḥaq. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 132, and from Goitein's index cards)
Court notebook. Recto, left side: Court record. Dated: Thursday, 8 Iyyar [probably 1411] Seleucid = 19 April 1100 CE. The year is not named, but …
Betrothal document, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 9 Shevat 5530 AM, which is 1770 CE. Groom: Ḥayyim b. Eliyyahu ha-Rofe b. Elishaʿ ha-Rofe. Bride: Raḥel …
Fragment of a treasure hunting manual in Judaeo-Arabic.
Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if private or official.
Poem אברך אל אשר יצר יצורים ואודהו. According to the colophon on verso, the poem is in honor of Elʿazar b. Yosef ha-Levi and was …
List or table in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (these might be two different documents).
Recto: liturgical text in Hebrew. Verso: unidentified text in Arabic, possibly a letter, but almost nothing preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Letter of appeal or recommendation for charity, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a large square script in a crude hand. Confusingly, there are two addresses. …
IB II, 60. Bill of sale for the purchase of a house by Maḥrūz. Constructed from three fragments: T-S NS 184 52, T-S NS 184 …
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Business letter dealing with spices. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is likely that of Yedutun ha-Levi. (Goitein, too, flagged the script as familiar.) The letter is …
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Accounts, mentioning numerals and currency such as dinars. Dating: 11th or 12th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter to a woman (possibly from her son in law, as it mentions her daughter), and the instruction to come quickly if she wants to …
Large bifolio covered with various pen trials and writing exercises in Hebrew script. Dating: ca. 12th century. There is one line of documentary interest on …
Upper fragment: Letter addressed to Abū ʿAlī, probably Yeḥezqel ha-Levi (his name is written in the margin), in Alexandria. What remains from the letter contains …
Verso: fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Similar content as recto. Ordering pepper, a raṭl of marjoram (bardaqūsh), a qadaḥ of anise (anīsūn), a …