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Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Ḥaver (judge active in Fustat, 1150–81) to Shabbetay b. Avraham (judge in Minyat Zifta, 1135–78). Concerning (1) a muqaddam who …
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Small fragment, probably ca. 14th century or later, containing only the phrase "al-mamlūk Mūsā."
No Scholarship Records
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely late 12th or early 13th century. The sender asks the addressee's forgiveness. Mentions his father. On verso …
Recto: Pen trials in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, including a draft of letter text to 'the dear brother' mentioning Alexandria. Verso: Grocery list or account in …
Letter in calligraphic Arabic script. The sender's name probably appears at upper left. He is writing from Jerusalem (al-Quds al-Mubārak, 6 lines from the bottom). …
Accounts with calculations via long sequences of Hebrew alphanumerals. The subheading lists a day of the week. Dating: late, probably late Mamluk or Ottoman era. …
Legal document. Transfer of money to the poor of Jerusalem, 1085 CE. Shelomo b. Hayyim, one of the leaders of the Palestinian Jews, had forwarded …
In Thy Name, oh Merciful!
Solomon, the son of His Honorable and Great Sanctity, our Master and Leader, Ḥayīm, “the seventh of the ḥavūrā”,…
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Responsum from the court of the Baghdad Gaʾon Shemuʾel b. ʿEli. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1478 Seleucid (1166 CE). Concerns inheritance issues between Yosef and Maʿālī and …
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Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, likely by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, to a judge, perhaps his father ([al-Shaykh] al-ajall al-amīn al-makīn. . . al-dayyan al-aṣīl).
Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter mentioning Mūsā b. Burhān, Faraḥ the writer's brother-in-law, Abū l-Faḍl, and someone titled Sayyidnā.
Letter from Barukh b. Yiṣḥaq to Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef b. Shemuel, in Fustat. In Hebrew, with the address in Arabic (in Arabic script). Barukh asks …
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Calendar in Hebrew for 5582 AM. The calendar retains a reference to the calendrical correspondence of Rabīʿ I 1243 AH which is 1827 CE.
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and al-Andalus.
A letter from Avraham to Shlomo b. Aharon
Unidentified text in Latin script. Literary? Spanish? Ca. 16th century?
Fragment of a deferential letter in Judaeo-Arabic preserving only the beginning and the address in Arabic script. The writer seems to be Abū l-Ḥasan and …
Folio from a book of astrological prognostications in Arabic script. Mentioning things such as Palestinian oil and soap, lightning, and the Byzantine emperor.
Petition from a woman to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39 CE). Only the top part is preserved. Begins "I already came crying out before God and before …
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides concerning the permissiveness of Qaraite, Muslim, and Christian wine. Avraham Maimonides is referred to as "Nagid" in l. 2 …
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Accounts in Judeo-Arabic that list a wide array of individuals and quantities which may indicate payments given the recto's heading "עלם אל מדכול מן טיבית" …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Responsum of Maimonides. Blau edition #308
IB VI, 28. Business letter in the hand of Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundār, in Aden, to ʿAydhāb, mentioning Yīṣḥaq al-Nafūsī and Hiba Ibn al-Dabbāgh …
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Accounts in Arabic on recto, medieval-era. The verso was reused for Hebrew-language piyyut liturgical poetry.
Receipt for 24 dirhams.
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. Some of the entries in Judaeo-Arabic mention colors of cloth: black, crimson, etc.
Letter addressed to "the noble amir" (al-amīr al-ajall). In Arabic script. The letter is on recto, with two lines continuing onto verso. The letter mostly …
Probably a draft of a letter in Hebrew in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212) containing praises and blessings for a notable …
Letter from Saʿīd Bardaʿ, in Algiers (ארגיל), to Daniel Cafsuto (דניאל קאפסוטו) and perhaps his son (? the word looks like ומשרתו) Shemuel Cafsuto. In …
Astronomical text, in Arabic script. Beginning of title on verso "كتاب علم صحيح".
Recto: letter from the 16th century, mentioning the names Abraham Ibn Ṣūr, Reuben the Babylonian, Abraham Nuniʾel (נוניאל), Faraj Allah the proselyte, and Yequtiʾel. Verso: …
Letter sent from Sicily by a widow to her son, Abu Sulayman Dawud b. Na'aman in Barqa, asking him to take care of his brother …
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Letter that mentions Avraham Maimonides - it seems that the writer asked him a question regarding legal procedure and now he is asking the recipient …
Fragment from the top of a petition. May be addressed to Saladin (al-Malik al-Nāṣir). Reused for Hebrew seliḥot.
Various jottings, including the draft of the beginning of a letter to the judge Yiṣḥaq ( "know that I miss you...")
Fragment of a letter from Yusuf b. Eli Kohen Fasi, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Mentions dinars that should be exchanged, and that several …
סיידי ומולאי [אטאל א]ללה [בקאך] ואדאם תאיידך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ונעמתך מן אלאסכנדריה לט בקין מן תמוז ואל<חאל>
סלאמה ואלחמד ללה רב [אלעאלמין] ת…
State document, fragment of a longer text, dismembered at the collesis. What has remained is wa-mā tawfīqī illā bi-l-lāh. Possibly Ayyubid (tawfīqī billāh was an …
Official-looking letter in Judaeo-Arabic with wide line spacing addressed to a dignitary known as Sar ha-ʿEda Peʾer ha-Kohanim. The hand may be known. Dating: 11th …
Ladino literary work.
Marriage agreement between a Rabbanite husband and a Qaraite wife, with a 30 dinar fine to the poor if one transgresses the religious practices of …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe?
Letter from Nissim b. Avraham to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Dating: ca. 1050s. About a consignment of silk that was about to reach Fustat, owned …
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Release after the remittance of a debt (piqadon), from mid-January/mid-May 1045, Jerusalem. The releasing parties: Mevasser b. Shela al-'Amtani and his wife Ghāliya bt. Ashlimon …
Accounts, on both the recto and verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Persian.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (Date: 1100-1138). Fragment (upper right corner). In which Ṣedaqa ha-Meshorer ('the singer/poet') makes a declaration in …
Legal document, possibly a partnership. Dating: the paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th- or early 17th-century. The document details commercial arrangments between a certain …