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Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Alchemical: dhahab kāmil in shā' allāh.
No Scholarship Records
Record of a debt of 88 dinars to be repaid in seven yearly installments from Kislev 1335 to Adar 1342 Seleucid = 1023–31 CE. Maḥfūẓ …
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Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Abū l-Makārim 5 dinars. …
Legal document. Dated: Thursday, 22 Tamuz 14[60] Seleucid, which is 1149 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. Ḥananya (1140–59 CE). It is crucial to …
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List or accounts, repeatedly mentioning niṣf (‘half’ and also the currency ‘half dinar’) and Ṣedaqa. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. The glyph appears at the top. The hand is skilled and the margins are large, and there is a taqbīl …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وصلت رقعة مولاي اطال الله بقاه
ادام تائيدها ونعماها ومن حسن توفيقه
لا اخلاها وقراتها وفهمت مضمونها وشكرت
الله تعالى …
Literary texts. Possibly a Maimonides autograph. See FGP for identifications.
Small fragment of a letter to Yaakov ha-haver (member of the Sanhedrin) from Yusuf ha-Kohen. (Information from Goitein's index cards) VMR
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Featuring a feather or palm frond drawing on the verso.
Small letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen.
Accounts in Arabic script. In a chancery hand. State document? Some legible phrases: ...maqbūḍa ʿan... ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥanafī... jumlatuhum wa-nuṣf min... al-yahūdī... In the margins and …
Power of attorney (שטר הרשאה) from Rachel the widow of Eliezer Zussman to her son Moses Zussman. Dated Friday 2 Iyyar 5324 (= April 1564 …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso. Medieval-era. In the lower section of the verso, a quantity of "silk" is visible. Requires further examination.
Amulets or magical recipes, at least partially for curing various physical ailments, in Arabic.
Letter in Hebrew. Perhaps a letter of appeal for charity: the writer seems to be describing his poverty and pawning possessions. Scattered phrases: הטורח ואשר …
Partial drawing of a galley, with people on board. Writing above and below picture, including [...]כרג סהמ. (Information from CUDL.)
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions Hārūn Ibn Shamārī (appears also in ENA …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Tuesday, 25 Tammuz 1693 Seleucid = פֿדֿןֿ Hijri (this is confusing notation: perhaps 584 + an implied 200?). In any …
Accounts in Arabic script. Very damaged.
Upper left piece of a document in Arabic script, likely legal. Needs examination.
Petition to an Ayyubid sultan from a Jewish physician. "The slave Makārim b. Isḥāq, the doctor. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. …
المملوك
مكارم بن اسحق المتطبب
يقبل الارض فينهى انه ممن نشا طبيبا ماهرا ف…
Makārim ibn Isḥāq, the doctor.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
(The slave) kisses the ground and reports that he …
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Part of a ketubba for [...] bt. Nuṣayr (נציר) and an unnamed groom. Date and location not preserved. Witnessed by Natan b. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi, ʿAmram …
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Writing exercises based on the first section of the book of Proverbs in Judaeo-Arabic translation.
Legal document, draft or copy. No signatures. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mevasser b. Shelomo al-Ṣayrafī presents an itemized list of goods which he sent to the Maghrib …
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Letter fragment from Daniel b. Azarya (in his handwriting). Expressing his gratitude for a gift he received. (Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 2 p. 699-700, …
Deed of sale for real estate (يحد هذه الدار وحدودها وارضها) in Arabic script. Quite faded. The price is 12 dinars (العين الجيد المصري المحقق …
Begging letter, prefaced with a rhyming poem, from Isaac the blind ("bereft of all the pleasures of the world"), asking for assistance from Ismaʿīl b. …
Leaf from the beginning of Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī.
Legal document (Baker and Polliack call it an 'Ottoman mustarad'). Location: Cairo. Dated 12 Rajab 1023 AH, which is 1614 CE. 4 witness signatures. May …
Business letter in Arabic script from Nissim b. Mufarraj b. Kulayf to al-rayyis Abū l-Faḍl Hārūn.
Fragment of a state document in Arabic script. ENA 2846.1 (PGPID 40432) and ENA 2846.2 (PGPID 40433) likely join; it is unclear if they are …
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. There is a note at the top of recto (part of …
Monumental letter of congratulation after recovery from an illness, written in rhymed Hebrew prose by the court clerk Mevorakh b. Natan and addressed to ʿAzaryahu …
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Top of a deed of acknowledgement (iqrār). In Arabic script. Mentions a property across from the synagogue. At least one name is preserved in the …
Letter from Muslim/Musallam, reporting the arrival of a letter from Saʿadya the cantor and mentioning business matters and a certain Barukh, who is coming to …
Response to the inquiry on the recto, in which the judge replies, “I learned that this girl was engaged several times, but it is not …
Wine poetry in Arabic.
Ketubba. Small fragment (upper right piece. Location: probably Cairo (דסמיכא לפסטאט מצרים). A certain deceased Berakhot (the bride's or groom's father) is mentioned. AA
Receipt of payment for the rent of three stores (ḥawānīt) from a man called Khiḍr Zaytūn in ḥarat al-yahūd, near the waqf of Muḥammad al-Raḥlāwī …
Recto: Account of the qodesh. Dating: no earlier 1155 CE based on the original use on verso (PGPID 11413). Goitein dated it to 1181–1200 but …
Letter/petition for assistance in Judaeo-Arabic. Moderately wide line spacing. The addressee ([al-ḥaḍra] al-ajalliyya) is asked to investigate the sender's situation (yanẓur fī umūrī...).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The 'brother's' ship is still by the lighthouse (manāra) and has not yet sailed because the wind is blowing westward. Mentions a …
Bifolio from a small fiscal register in codex form. Three of the four pages each contain a distinct document/entry, beginning with the trigger "balagha." Presumably …
Technical recipe in Arabic script, likely medical, written on one page of a bifolio of Hebrew piyyuṭ.