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Possibly accounts. Faded.
No Scholarship Records
Literary text, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Index of psalms and/or piyyutim.
Accounts. Four pages of daily accounts of five to six laborers. Mostly the same names. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
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IB V, 37, folio 7r. Note in Arabic script. "Send us. . . lemon. . . ḥalāwa. . . obtain for me pomegranate syrup."
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Opening of a letter from the yeshiva, probably fall 1053.
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Draft of a legal document in Hebrew. Dated Ṭevet 5359 AM = December 1598 / January 1599 CE. Location: Cairo (מצרים). Involves Yaʿaqov ha-Levi and …
Official receipt in Arabic. For a physician (al-ḥakīm) possibly named Abū ʿAlī. Seems to be for his rent (ujrat sakn[ih]). May also mentions the ground …
Piyyuṭ fragment in an exquisite scribal hand comprising a portion of the Yom ha-Kippur Amidah (per FGP). The FGP description does not reference two faint …
Fragment of a commentary on Beshalaḥ in Hebrew and Ladino, it seems signed by Yaʿaqov Frances.
Letter from Umm Abū l-Munā to her 'father.' He is sick and she is worried about him. She and her family are also suffering from …
Recto: Digest of a legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: November 1076. Manṣūr b. Khalaf al-Ṣūrī (from Tyre) will partner with Yefet b. Avraham and Shelomo …
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Recto: part of a text on dentistry and oral hygiene, discussing dental caries, dentifrice powder (sanūnāt) prepared from gigantic swallowwort and burnt snails. Perhaps Ibn …
Notebook of scattered accounts, binding intact. Dating: likely post-1808 based on the mention of maḥmudīye coinage on JRL C 100 - 2, which was named …
Legal records or drafts in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly from a court ledger. There are at least two distinct records in at least two distinct hands. (I) …
Legal record (#94) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 32r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 13 Nisan 5326 …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Nearly completely preserved. In Arabic. Dated: 16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 537 AH = 2 June 1143 CE. The declaration is made by …
Small fragment of an Arabic document. Large slanted handwriting.
Medical instructions in Arabic script for weakness of the vision (ḍuʿf al-baṣr).
Accounts.
Draft petition beginning عبد المجلس السامي الاجلي المولوي.
List of many names, paired with numbers, most crossed out. Maybe a collection or a distribution list.
Fragment of a letter to Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef ha-Kohen the dayyan, mentioning Sulayman b. Yosef. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Accounts, listing weights and payments. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Several of the accounts deal with silk. This fragment is …
See PGPID 15879
Bill of release written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The parties are Moshe b. Nissim and Berakhot b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen. AA
Letter/petition in Arabic script. Dating: likely mid- to late 12th century, based on paleographic grounds, the mention of Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Rav who may be …
Fragment from the end of a legal document. Dated: second half of Adar II 1366 (= March 1055 CE), mentioning [...] b. Bahlūl and Yosef …
Draft of copy of a petition in Arabic script addressed to al-Malik al-ʿAzīz Sayf al-Islām Ṭughtakīn, the second Ayyubid amir of Yemen (and brother of …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), based on Weiss' paleographical assessment. Agreement probably between the daughter of Abū …
Probably a list of recipients of communal funds, on a recycled Arabic document (of which hardly anything remains). The list includes the supervisors of the …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (lower left corner). Witness signatures partially preserved. Mentions a sum, "half of which is 1 1/4 dinars." Then the …
Colophon by 'the Baghdādī cantor'; ביד אלחזן אלבגדאדי AA
General power of attorney. The presiding court is Qaraite (per Goitein). Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar II 1396 Seleucid, which is 1085 CE. Abū l-Ḥusayn Manṣūr …
Recto: beginning of an abridged version of al-Rāzī, Kitāb al-ʾasrār (‘Book of secrets’). Verso: a list in a cruder hand mentioning other works by al-Rāzī, …
Letter from a certain Aharon to Eliyyahu the Judge about a lack of success of a collection made for himself. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Responsa of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder - literary collection
Verso: Fragment of a state document, wide-line spacing. Mentions the arrival of a group "wa-waṣalat al-jamāʿa", and maybe barley "al-shaʿīr". Also mentions the beginning of …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Elegant hand. Mentions the town of Ṭanān in the delta and deals with the construction of a dike (jisr) and an irrigation …
Literary text, in Arabic script.
List of names with numbers. "The midwife/wet nurse (dāya)"; "The wife of Ḥabīb"; Simḥa; Eliyya; Tawfīq, etc. On verso there are additional jottings, including a …
Recto: an acknowledgement of debt by Yosef b. Menashshe al-Ramlī, who owes 11 dinars to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef, which he will pay back …
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Small and much damaged fragment from a legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38) under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). There are …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Shelomo ha-Melammed (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to the teacher Abū l-ʿIzz. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning money owed. Mentions Abū l-Munā and Ibn al-Dihqān. (Information in …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the sale of an unnamed item and a document as well as 'the honorable brother' R. Mikha'el (Michael). The recto …
Either legal document(s) or a letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a Sefaradi hand. Refers to firewood, arrangements of labor, and an agreement.
Account of the Qodesh: revenue from rent, ca. 1040. A fragment seemingly belonging to the same record as T-S NS J264a and also written by …
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