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Legal document. Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Peraḥya, the widow of Yeshuʿa b. Ḥalfon the cantor, confirms to have received from Nadiv b. Meshullam ha-Levi payments of …
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Letter of recommendation for a poor man from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides.
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Recto: Letter or essay regarding the proper authorities to consult when learning the art of ophthalmology; the author of this fragment seems to be a …
Minute fragment with a doodle or illustration of some kind on the recto. The verso may contain the Hebrew letter ע, but the text(?) is …
Letter conveying greetings and relating that the community is expecting word from or about Yiṣḥaq who was obviously expected to come and visit. (Information from …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic from Musa to his brother Meir ha-Sar ha-Adir ha-Dayyan ha-Mufla. Only the upper part of recto and the address are preserved …
Legal record (#82) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 28v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 29 Av 5325 …
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Accounts with Arabic numerals, highly detailed and well-preserved. All of the columns list sums in Ottoman kurush (ق symbol) which helps to date this document …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition fragment, asking for a rescript. Preserves the closing invocations and the inhāʾ formula.
This is the beginning of a very fragmentary letter which mentions a certain al-Dar'i (Dar'a is a town in Morocco). It is possible that the …
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a letter, or possibly a magical text related to verso: wa-yaʿ[..] al-baḥr li-dhālika wa-hāja wa-lā yastaṭīʿ aḥad ʿalayhi. . . …
Ketubba. Dated: Friday, 19 Adar 2203 Seleucid = 18 March 1892 CE. Location: Al-Maḥābisha in northwest Yemen, also known as Quzayyiz, near the lake or …
Account book in Arabic script, dating to the period of al-Ḥākim. Dates range from Ramaḍān 387 to Jumādā I 393 = 997–1003 CE. There are …
Recto (secondary use): Note in Hebrew with a few words of Judaeo-Arabic interspersed. The sender urges the addressee to send אלמלגמה quickly. This term may …
Recto: Document in Arabic script. On verso there is literary text in Hebrew; the hand looks late.
Recto: Legal document. Dated: Elul 1525 Seleucid = August/September 1214 CE. Abū l-Makārim gives eight pieces of clothing to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal as collateral for 4 …
Document in Arabic script, probably accounts. Formal letter or official correspondence on verso. Needs examination.
Distribution (or possibly donations) list. Headed, "the wheat named for the poor." Names include: al-Kohen [...] and his brother [...]: 1 irdabb; al-Shaykh al-Saʿīd al-Kohen …
Literary work in Judaeo-Persian. Perhaps related to the stories of Genesis?
Legal document, in Arabic script. The verso has annotations of the transactions being executed. Recto mentions two people and also "nails and iron." Verso mentions …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
A letter of appeal to the community of Constantinople asking to help an orphan young lady. Written by Aharon b. Shelomo.
Letter fragment (lower right corner of recto). The subject matter is obscure. The writer writes, "I have witnesses for that, and before me. . . …
Another fragment from ENA NS 18.17a, not a direct join Description from PGPID 15840: Quittance from Ulla b. Tahor (or Tahor b. Ulla - his …
Letter draft probably from Efrayim b. Shemarya probably to the Palestinian Gaon Shelomo b. Yehuda. (Identifications are according to Bareket.) In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender defends …
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Bottom part of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions various sums of dirhams. Mentions a woman (al-mamlūka) multiple times. Needs further examination for content.
A manuscript of segments of Latter Prophets, with a colophon at the beginning of the book of Ezekiel, which mention its commissioner - Marwan b. …
Letter from an unknown person to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1060 (Gil). The fragment contains several details about shipments of goods and money as well …
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Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic paramedical treatise on the virtues of various kinds of animal substances. ¶ . . . grind it …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Verso (original use): Beginning of a Fatimid petition to a caliph. Extremely torn and fragmentary. Mentions a caliph by name, "wa sayyiduna al-Imām", but the …
end of a legal document signed by: [...] Mevorakh, Hillel b. Zadoq, Hiyya b. Ishaq, Frihuna b. Yeshu'a Probably from 1150–1160.
Literary work. In Hebrew. Identification is difficult, but it does not seem to be a letter as catalogued.
Fragment from the top of a legal document. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The honorifics from a few partial names are visible, one reads as: …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Short letter from David b. Daniel.
One side: Names in Judaeo-Arabic, including Isḥāq b. Bahā b. Bahā the uncle (ʿamm) of Manṣūr. The other side: Accounts in Arabic script, naming Rashīd …
Probably accounts or a fiscal document. Needs examination.
Letter in Ladino to Yehuda Gatenio, from a business partner in Alexandria, dated 10 August 1823 (3 Elul 5583 AM). Deals entirely with business transactions; …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps dated 1818/1819 CE ([5]579 AM). The letter recipients are Menaḥem Barakha and Barakha Goren, sender: Shelomo Sonino. Requires further examination for …
Recto with the address on verso: letter from the Babylonian Gaʾon Neḥemya ha-Kohen to Nissin b. Binyamin, in Sfax. Dated: Kislev [12]74 Seleucid = October/November …
Fragments of a commercial letter in Ladino. Mentioning R. Sason; Shemuʾel b. [...];, Avraham כיתאריש(?); the addressee's sister Doña Zahra (the same as in T-S …
A petition to the wazīr al-dawla al-ʿuthmānīyya, to alleviate excess taxed and burdens from the Qaraite community, in relation to their cemetery. Signed by 6 …
Fragment of a bifolium from an Arabic literary work mentioning Amir al-Mu'minīn, very damaged. Some strings tied to the extremity of the page (not the …
Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document for Moshe b. Nissim Ṭawīl and Simḥa bt. [...] ha-Levi known as al-ʿAjamī, dated August 1818 CE (Av 5578). Verso: Halakhic …
Legal formularies. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Likely belongs with ENA 3755.6.
Legal document, in Arabic script. Rental agreement for a small house (duwayra; diminutive of dār). The renter is Badr. b. ʿAlī al-Tinnisī(?) and the rentee …