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Responsa collection.
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Piyyuṭ in Hebrew. On one side the margin was reused for private accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Conveying a report of a communal conflict which took place in the beginning of the thirteenth century, during the tenure of …
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Small fragment from an account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Verso: The letter was subsequently torn in half, and Moshe's father Abū Sahl Levi wrote his response on one of the remaining halves. Abu Sahl …
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Piyyuṭ in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Looks like biblical excerpts with Arabo-Hebrew headers and then translations in Arabic written in Arabic script. Merits examination.
Very important legal document consisting of two depositions held in the synagogue of Syracuse, dealing with a lawsuit against Eliyyahu b. al-Harrar, who was accused …
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Tiny fragment of an Arabic-script document in a chancery hand. Mention a sum of X-hundred dinars and the phrase "...which are mine, and that..." (allatī …
Writing exercises and alphabetical practice in list format with a wide a variety of subject matter. The student practiced Hebrew letters, Jewish legal formularies, and …
Lower fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with a poem in Hebrew mourning separation and praising the addressee (אהה עלי אחים אשר היו אגודה והפרידם זמן …
Letter to Abū ʿAlī. In Arabic script, in a crude hand. Only the beginning is preserved.
Headed 'Still owed by the people,' this is the upper part of a long list of persons who had not yet made good their donor …
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Legal document. Bottom part only. Someone releases Sitt al-Ḥusn from all claims. Signed: Mordekhay b. Moshe ha-Kohen.
Letter in the hand of Daniel b. Azarya (Gil) to ʿEli b. ʿAmram. Daniel b. Azarya refers to notebooks of responsa (including some by Samuel …
Letter fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). He says that the Nagid had issued a letter/document …
Letter from the widow of the cantor Ben Nahman to a Gaon concerning the difficulties she is having with the son of her late husband …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū l-Ḥusayn b. Hārūn (?).
Accounts. Note in the volume at JTS says these two fragments were detached from one another in 1965.
Legal testimony, fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Business letter in Hebrew and Arabic script to Abū l-Ḥasan Binyamin requesting the dispatch of merchandise to Qalyub, including medical supplies, via a ghulām, and …
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Piyyut.
Verso: Court record. Dated: Sunday, 12 Ḥeshvan 1461 Seleucid, which is 1149 CE. Incomplete. In which Sayyid al-Ahl testifies that he heard Abū l-Faraj ask …
Letter from the judge R. Hanan'el b. Shemuel to Moshe b. Peraḥyā Ibn Yijū in Alexandria. AA
עבדו חננאל
סיבת משלוח הטורים האלה לכבוד וכו' היא בראש ובראשונה ברכה על הנצר האציל שלו, התלמיד המפואר ר' יוסף, שמרו צורו. המקום ברוך הוא יזכה…
Verso: Fragment (right side) of a legal document in Hebrew. Dating: first half of the 11th century. In which Muḥsin b. Ḥusayn Peqid ha-Soḥarim, the …
Verso: Accounts with various types of coinage and goods mentioned. Likely dating to the sixteenth century on the basis of numismatic evidence. Two of the …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Upper right corner.
Phrases from the opening of an Arabic letter to a brother. Underneath there are jottings of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On the …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? No names preserved. Warns someone about paying something and may mention the Gaon or at least …
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Opening of a letter in poetic Hebrew to Ya'aqov b. Binyamin.
Letter in Arabic script, maybe official. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. Needs examination for content. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text which …
Hebrew writing exercises and parts of Arabic documents - needs examination.
Possibly a legal document. Very faded. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl al-Maghribī, something ʿarabī (a hijrī date?), and possibly someone named Ḥananya.
Official correspondence in Arabic script. Maybe a petition (at least in the sense that the sender is buttering up the addressee and asking for a …
Letter fragment from an unidentified sender, in Damsīs, to Abū l-Faraj Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, likely in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: first half of …
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Inventory of the books and furnishings of the Iraqi synagogue. (Cf. previous fragment.) Abū l-Faraj b. Abū Saʿd al-Miṣrī takes over the service of the …
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Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl al-Makhmūrī (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1060. The writer is interested in buying tin because it is in …
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Informal note. In Hebrew. "Yiṣḥaq ha-Rav sent to your holy presence." There is nothing more.
Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, asking for the addressee's help in sending something to the writer with the bearer Abū l-Faraj.
Marriage contract (ketubba) from Tyre, ca. 1079. Preserves the full name of the groom, Thābit b. ʿEli, and a notable phrase for the promise of …
Fragment from the bottom of a bill of release. Only a few letters from the signatures are preserved, including the name Tamīm. AA
Legal document or documents (there is text on both recto and verso). Mentions the groom ʿOvadya b. Ḥalfon.
Informal note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Waliyy al-Dawla. The addressee is to give the masṭara (ruling board) to the bearer to bring back to …
Marriage contract in the hand of Yefet b. David. Location: Fustat (a previous PGP description said Jerusalem). Dated: 4 Ḥeshvan 1341 Seleucid = 14 October …
Legal deed. In Arabic script. Dated: Jumādā II 993 AH, which is 1585 CE. A landlord, called only al-Faqīr ilā Allāh, settles accounts with his …
Verso: Record of the donation of one quarter of a compound by Sitt al-Naẓar bt. Ḥalfon to the qodesh. Dating: ca. 1161 CE. She also …
(1-4) Sitt al-Naẓar, the daughter of [Ephraim] Ḥalfōn, dedicated one quarter of the compound that is in Mahra, leading into the darb, (Dār) S…