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Small fragment from the end of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
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Tax receipt. From the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Join: Alan Elbaum.
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Letter sent by Mubarak b. Musa b. Ibrahim to Rabbi Nissim b. Shela, informing him that he was going to send to Tinnis the goods …
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State document, in Arabic script. Maybe a decree issued in response to a petition. Wide space between the lines. Mentions a masjid in al-aʿmāl al-gharbiyya …
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Accounts in Arabic on a bifolio that was probably part of a broader ledger. Dated Muharram 1237-1238 AH which is 1821-1822 CE. Based on the …
Deed of manumission written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan in which Sitt al-Hasab bt. Shela ha-Levi ha-Sar manumits an enslaved woman, named Salaf, who …
Note addressed to Abū l-Faḍl. Reused for additional jottings.
Accounts of the Qodesh in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Yefet (also called Ḥusayn b. Dāʾūd) along with the parnas Yaʿaqov b. …
In Thy Name, (oh Merciful)!
Record of the expenditures made in the estate of the Synagogue in the year 429
by Ḥusayn b. Daʾūd b. Shekh…
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to David Ben-Naʿim from his brother Moshe Ben-Naʿīm, who signs with the initials MBN rather than his full signature. Dated 30 Kislev …
Fragment from the beginning of a legal deed, probably a prenuptial agreement. In the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Dated: Probably Kislev …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, from David Ben-Na'im in Cairo to his brother Moshe Ben-Na'im in Alexandria. Dated 15 Sivan [5]584 AM which is 1824 CE. David …
Legal document. Dating: mentions a period beginning in Kislev 1[4]14 Seleucid = November/December 1102 CE. Mentioning Alexandria. In which the 'righteous elders' intervene and settle …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Recto is headed "ḥawwāla Ismāʿīl [...]." Verso is formatted in two columns with elongated words heading each entry.
Literary treatise in Judaeo-Arabic on the laws of sheḥita. Discusses among other things the extent to which Arabic parallels are admissible as arguments for the …
Small fragment from the opening of a legal document. On parchment. Mentions ‘[...] the dear elder’ and someone inheriting something from his wife. (Information in …
Small fragment with legal jottings, probably. Mentions al-Iṭrābulsī, [...] b. Natan al-ʿAṭṭār, and [...] b. Miṣbaḥ.
Halakhic treatise on legal deeds by Saʿadya Gaʾon (recto deals with ketubbot). (Information from CUDL.)
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks for help in some tiresome situation. Mentions Khalaf the ghulām of the Rayyis.
Recto: partnership agreement between butchers named Dāʾūd Kohen, Ezra Bargut (ברגות) and Saʿīd b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 16th century. Verso: list of names and numbers, …
Will. Only a few words are preserved. Mentions a woman: [...]āl bt. Shelomo b. ʿEzra, and mentions [...]q b. Ibrahim. Dated: 1369 Seleucid, which is …
List of names and monetary figures in silver kuruş "גרשו" of which the dating is likely 18th/19th-century (post-1703). In the verso list's heading, the word …
Small fragment from an Hebrew letter written in a beautiful square hand in ruled lines.AA
Legal document. Fragment (bottom only). Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dating: Uncertain, but it has to be a year in which 2 Elul …
Writing exercises of the Hebrew alphabet by a student with the surname Mosseri (מוצרי in heading). 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography. The instructor …
Accounts, mentioning various sums of money, chess (shaṭranj), and ginger (zanjabīl). (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter in Hebrew. Probably a draft. Dating: probably late, ca. 14th–16th century. Addressed to a notable named Binyamin, with regards for his sons Yaʿaqov and …
Legal document. Perhaps an inventory of an estate. Refers to witnesses going to somebody's house, and lists numerous valuable items. Mentions Barakāt al-Katnānī (? אלכתנאני).
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Two registration marks; 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi l-muwaffiq li-ḥamdihi' and 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn'. Blank verso. Perforated for binding.
Responsum to Yeḥiʾel the judge. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Book list. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder. Mentions numerous religious books; a commentary of Galen on Hippocrates; at …
Medical recipes. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is probably known.
Bottom of a marriage contract. Dating: ca. late 10th century based on the dates of the witnesses. The dowry is 75 dinars. Signed by: Efrayim …
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Letter in Arabic script. In a chancery-esque hand with a tarjama. Addressed to a 'brother.' Quite faded. On verso, there is the header "al-ḥamdu lil-lāh …
Page from a court notebook dated Thursday, 12 Kislev, 1026, in the hand of Yefet ha-Hazan b. Daud, who signs alone. Sulayman b. Yusuf made …
Upper part of a legal deed (iqrār), an acknowledgment made by both Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Abū l-Faḍāʾil Hibatallāh b. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan and the …
Letter from Abū Manṣūr, perhaps in Alexandria, to his 'brother' Abū Saʿd, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: Probably …
Letter probably to a father. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). "Taʾakhkharat ʿannī akhbār. . . mawlāy al-wālid. . . ." Asks for news …
Responsum? It discusses ritual purity, but the layout looks like a letter. Needs examination.
Arabic document. Beginning with a date in Jumādā I and ending with a signature.
Recto: Legal document from Cairo, dated 1730 CE (1 Heshvan 5491 AM), involving a debt of 5000 diwani medins owed by Moshe Benvenist to Shabbetay …
Two autograph signatures of Moshe Maimonides, written on the margin of a sheet of unrelated piyyuṭim and sundry jottings in different hands (mainly in Hebrew …
Four un-conserved small fragments. One is a remain from a letter to Eli b. Amram. The other 3 are still to be identified. AA
IB II, 12. Letter from Bundar II b. Ḥasan to ʿAllān b. Ḥassān. Aden, circa 1100. (Information from Goitein and Friedman)
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Letter from the teacher Abū l-Khayr, in Minyat Zifta to his brother Abū Naṣr Maḥfūẓ, the brother-in-law of Abū l-Bishr(?) Ibn al-Abzārī(?), in Darb al-Dahhān, …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Reused for jottings in Hebrew on recto and a Judaeo-Arabic note about 'the remainder of [...]' on verso.
Legal document: power of attorney in which Shelomo b. Ḥātim appoints Menaḥem b. Shelomo to pursue his claims against Ḥasan b. Avraham and Shemuʾel b. …
Recto: Petition or report from [...] b. ʿAbdallāh al-Juḥāfī to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Ayyubid-era, based on diplomatic features and the estimated …
Letter addressed to 'Rabbenu [...]' in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a dispute and not being able to put up with a qāḍī (קלת לא נחנא נטיק אלקאטי...); …
Bottom part of an Ottoman-era legal document. Mentions Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad and Jews.