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Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script.
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Legal formulary of Saadya Gaon (Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq). Gives a sample deed drawn up in Baghdad(?), 1270 Seleucid (959 CE). Information from FGP.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso: Fragment of an official Arabic document, possibly a petition or decree. The ends of three lines are preserved. Unclear if any of the substance …
Probably part of a letter; some of the lines are crossed out. (Information from CUDL)
Arabic script (VMR)
ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related legal acknowledgments (iqrārs) in Arabic script, all dated 909 AH (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., …
Part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender refers to being captured or imprisoned twice and then to ransom (קד אסתפכית פדיון). Might be a …
Accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals.
Very short note from Elʿazar to R. Yosef: "I need the silver very much, please send it with the bearer." Verso has a few letters …
Small fragment with a few words in Arabic script.
Accounts in Arabic, 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Requires further examination.
Fragment in Arabic script. Unidentified. Probably a literary text. Isolated words and phrases are legible: bi-l-malik Hārūn... ʿalaykum... alladhī... al-mustariqīn al-samʿa (this is what the …
Two fragments of a letter of appeal for charity, in Judaeo-Arabic, in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. Quotes biblical verses and includes a prayer …
Small fragment of an Arabic document.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. What remains is deferential greetings and praises. Verso: Jottings including the name Shelomo (probably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) and Yūsuf b. Moshe.
Letter addressed to a certain Yehuda. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. "If we could share in your pain, we would do so." Mentions Ṣadaqa and Abū …
Account of the Qodesh: revenue from rent, ca.1040. The upper part of a leaf, writtten by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. (Information from Gil, Documents, …
dinars …. that I collected for the month of Ṣafar of that year
from Dār b. Ḥasan al-Ṣabbāgh: The room of Sahlān, 9 dir.
The room of Waḥ…
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Business letter from [...] b. Yeḥezqel or possibly b. Yaḥyā. Fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions indigo (nīl) and bamboo chalk (ṭabāshīr) and a merchant named Yiṣḥaq.
Literary. Likely from Kitāb Adab al-Quḍāh of Hayya b. Sherira Gaon. This section discusses the relationship between the judge and the the people appearing the …
Writing exercise. The instructor wrote out the Hebrew alphabet in model handwriting for a student to practice. The student's surname is listed on the right …
Bifolio with letter formularies or copies in Hebrew. One of them, on behalf of "so-and-so the captive," mentions Palermo, Constantinople (קוסטנטיפולי), Barqa, and apparently Qayrawān …
Bifolio of accounts (sums collected) in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Many names and numbers listed. Several freedmen appear …
Minute fragment from an opening of a letter
Letter from Yeshu'a b. Ismāʿīl al-Mahmuri, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Mentions the safe arrival of (probably) relatives to Fustat; a female slave who …
בש רח
תקדמת כתבי לחצרה מולאי גדול החברים אטאל אללה
בק[א]ה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמתה אעלמת מא וצל
אלי מן שדה אלוחשה אסל אללה קרב אלגמע עלי…
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Commercial letter in Arabic script. Long and damaged. Dating: likely 16th century, as it mentions the ashrafī (used from 1425 onward but replaced by other …
Fragment of right side of a marriage contract between Yefet and [...] bt. Shelomo.
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Letter in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu probably addressed to Moshe Maimonides (active ca. 1168–1204 CE), based on the importance of the addressee and …
Bifolio containing mainly literary text(s), discussed in Fenton, Deux traites des mystique juive, 143. On verso, righthand page, there is also a note stating "my …
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning names such as Bū Naṣr Ṣedaqa; Abū l-Bishr Azhar; Abū Yaʿaqov; and al-Ḥakīm
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Legal document(s) or draft documents in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in two different sections, with a gap in between. The lower section mentions Efrayim, a power of …
Letter from a certain Yūnus, en route from Damascus to Cairo, to the amīr Sinbāy, in Cairo (Ṣalība street). In Arabic script. Dating: Mamluk-era. The …
سم الله الرحمن الرحيم
سلام الله تعالى ورحمته وبركاته وازكى تحياته على خدمة الامير سنباى
سلم الله تعالى والسلام على خدمة سيدي برهان وعلى ا…
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Letter from the Nagid Natan Sholal ha-Kohen, in Fustat/Cairo, to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Before 1502 CE and perhaps after 1498 …
Letter probably from one of the later Maimonidean Nagids (less likely Avraham Maimonides himself). In Judaeo-Arabic. There is an 'emet' motto at the top, with …
Letter from Salāma b. Nissim b. Isḥāq al-Barqi, from Busir, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, around 1053. The writer is in Busir for the business …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה [בקא]ך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמתך
מן בוציר ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך שדיד קרב אללה אלא[גתמ]אע…
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Letter from an unidentified man, in Fustat, to his brother al-Musāfir al-Kattānī ('the traveling flax-merchant'), in Aṭfīḥ. The writer urges the addressee to come back …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Fragment (bottom only). Wife: Naʿama bt. Menashshe(?). Signed by Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq and ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen.
Debt contract. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: First third of Elul 1446 Seleucid = September 1135 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ …
Beginning of an unidentified document in Arabic script. On parchment. Legal?
Magical invocations of angels and possibly even the devil (!) (Abū Murra, cf. BL OR 5566B.30). In Arabic script. One section seems to be for …
Bifolium from a larger work in Arabic script. Unidentified. Possibly a collection of poetic texts or letters
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on goods that arrived and prices (incl. mercury) and goods that were sent with the bearer of this letter (incl. …
Letter written by a woman, introduced by Psalms 41:2, asking for assistance in a legal battle concerning the rights to a house. Both fragments at …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. Mentions three days and (in the margin) news about the collector (al-jābī).
Recto: Unidentified text in Hebrew, maybe literary or a letter. Mentions Rabbi Moshe. Verso: Abbreviated version of Avraham Ibn ʿEzra's poetic dispute between animals and …
Petition addressed to a dignitary titled Sayyidnā, perhaps Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the bottom 7 lines are preserved. It may have to do with …
Lists of names according to different households/families. In the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi (late 12th to early 13th century). Many different names. An intriguing entry …