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Geonic responsa. (Information from CUDL)
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Tax receipt. Mentions the mustakhdim al-jawālī in Damietta. Dated: 601 AH. Amount: 1.25 dinars. ʿAlāma: الحمد لله وبه استعين. Endorsed across the text rather than …
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 …
Formularies for legal documents, including for a Palestinian-style ketubba. Location: Probably Tyre. Same scribe as T-S NS 243.28. See M. A. Friedman's edition for further …
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Letter from Faraḥ b. Yַūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī in Alexandria to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Menashshe in Fustat. Gil dates the letter to May 1069. …
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Letter fragment in Arabic script. Some of the opening greetings are preserved and part of the address (...dukkān...). It seems to have been reused for …
Letter from Shūʿā b. Yūsuf. In Arabic script. Short. Fragment (missing the left half of recto and the right half of verso). (Information from Goitein’s …
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Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan ('the son of the Nezer') to Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Tājir, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer includes a request for medicinal …
Likely fiscal accounts, in very small writing. E.g. "min māl. . . al-aʿmāl..." and "wuṣūl... dīnārayn..." Underneath there may be a date (560 AH?). It …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Subsequent use: Two legal drafts from the court of the Nagid Mevorakh. Fragmentary and incomplete. #1: Beginning of a statement about a brawl between Shelomo …
Bill of release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). On parchment. Probably connected with the dissolution of a partnership, since the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. There are also two lines in Arabic script.
Karaite marriage contract. Fragment, no marriage gift preserved, dowry items preserved add up to 110 dinars. Mentions a mill, spring in the land of Israel, …
Legal testimony. Very fragmentary. The beginnings of 10 lines are preserved.
Fragment of a commercial account in Arabic. Probably originally a much larger piece of paper. There are two columns of text on both recto and …
Verso contains greetings and the name of the addressee, Neḥemya b. Perahya. Recto also contains the name of the addressee. The letter may have been …
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Fragment of a letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic, praising the benefactions of a group of people (al-sāda). אלא בהם... פאלמכארם תצדר ענהם טבעא ותלקא[...] אלי רצאיהם טועא …
Letter from a certain Shemuʾel to a certain Elʿazar in honor of his wedding. With a long Hebrew introduction of blessings and praises. The sender …
Document in Arabic script. Probably a letter. Very faded. Mentions a boat. Verso may be a distinct document, also in Arabic script.
Letter from Avraham b. Moshe b. Maṣliaḥ to his father Moshe b. Maṣliaḥ. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses transactions of white lāsīn silk. Mentions Abū l-Yumn …
Letter in Ladino. Fragment from the end of the letter. Mentions Damietta, and includes well wishes for numerous contacts and family members.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto (secondary use): Letter from an unknown writer to the brothers Mevorakh b. Saadya (in office 1078-1082 and 1094-1111) and Yehuda b. Saadya (in office …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 18 Shawwāl 549 AH, which is 1154/55 CE (the reading of the decade digit is not certain, but the …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic listing many materia medica and foods. including banana leaf (waraq mawz), "white leaf"; ʿaqīd; frankincense; ointment; chebulic myrobalan; emblic; mastic; something hindī; …
Small fragment containing an unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. There are some legal-sounding phrases and possibly the beginning of a hijri date, but the format looks …
Minute fragment from a the end of a legal signed by Shelomo and David Halevi b. Ya'aqov. AA
Letter fragment, maybe a draft as many phrases are crossed out. Seems to consist mainly of settling accounts -- either commercial or related to an …
Account of the flooding of the Nile. Dated: Elul 1550 Seleucid, which is 1239 CE. The entries are arranged according to the Coptic calendar. See …
Literary fragment containing piyyuṭ in Hebrew and jottings underneath on recto, including "Abū l-Faraj wrote this in the year 1506 Sel. (=1194/95 CE)." Underneath there …
Legal fragment. Testimony of Abū Saʿd b. ʿUlla(?), perhaps that he received the money due him from [... b.] Shemuel. Witness: Berakhot b. Yefet.
Note to a certain Nāsir (al-muʿallim is likely an honorific rather than meaning an actual teacher). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 13th or 14th century. Mentions …
Verso: two different letters, glued together to create a rotulus for the calendar on recto. Both are mercantile letters from the mid-11th century. (I) The …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century.The upper left corner is preserved, consisting mainly of formulaic content.
Verso: Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a distinctive large hand with loops on the ends of the lameds. The witnesses attest "that we know …
Recto: Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Ibn ʿUbayd. Verso: A few lines in Hebrew mentioning the sale of riddles(?). See also the description for …
Literary work. In Arabic script. Probably medical. Discussing various appetites, such as for food and for sexual intercourse.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is Murhaf b. Fāris al-Dawla Nushtakīn "one of the greats of the Ḥāfiẓī regiment" (احد الحافظية …
Calendar in Judaeo-Arabic. Including the date 1429 Seleucid, which is 1117/18 CE.
"Specification of the Distribution of Wheat," upper section of partly effaced list; about forty names preserved, among them that of Maimonides' sister-in-law, the widow of …
Letter from Yosef to Abū l-Fakhr asking him to help contest his obligation to pay the capitation tax of his brother, who was missing in …
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, probably a legal document. Mentions Abū l-Najm Ṣāliḥ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Moshe b. Abū Zikrī to his relative, Araḥ b. Natan, on matters of commerce. Moshe expresses his concern about the fact that Araḥ …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Missing the top of recto and the address on verso. Dating: Goitein dates it to ca. 1210 CE, based on the …
IB V, 34d. ENA 4011.16b (lower fragment): A cheque of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Abū l-Khayr Khiyār is to pay the bearer Dār Rayḥān 2 dinars …