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Tax receipt, Fatimid. Trigger: addā. One registration mark; al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-rāʾfa.
Fol. 2: Quranic fragment or copy. First two verses of Sura Yāsīn (36:1-2). Basmala written in red ink on the margin.
Recto: Legal document (left side only) written on parchment by a Muslim notary, apparently in an official government office in the Sharqiyya district in lower …
Account, maybe official/fiscal. Mentions names including Bū l-Faraj b. Maḥfūẓ.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Also used for pen trials.
Recto: Legal document. Location: Alexandria, based in part on the names of the people involved. Dated: 22 Sivan (4)802 AM = 15 June 1042 CE. …
Nuḥaym ibn Maymūn and Khulayf ibn Furaḥ Zibrij presented themselves at the court of law in the week in which Surūra, the daug…
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Accounts and calculations in Ladino, sixteenth-century (based on the paleography and post-1497 coinage in neighboring shelfmark). A variety of individuals are referenced along the right …
Small fragment of an engagement or betrothal contract in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE).
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 4 Ṣafar 735 AH = 4 October 1334 CE. Sitt al-ʿAdā(?) bt. ʿAbd al-Karīm confirms to have received from …
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Letter, probably addressed to a high state official, but could also be an excerpt from a literary text. The sender mentions an accommodation provided by …
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Medical recipes in Arabic. ENA 3918.6v begins with several different remedies for lice (qaml) of the hair, beard, and/or eyebrows. ENA 3961.3 cites Galen and …
Piyyuṭ in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. Identified by Amir Ashur.
Verso: Medical prescription in Arabic script.
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition or other formal state correspondence. The beginnings of 8 lines are preserved, mostly consisting of honorifics for the …
شعبان بن عبد الله ابو بكر الكرمي
محمد بن محمد التركماني
بسم الله الـ[ـرحمن الرحيم]
صلوات الله وبركاته ونو[امي زكواته وافضل سلام…
Possibly a prayer or a narrative; mentions words such as allahumma, al-shayṭān, Mīkhāʾīl.
Verso: Record of the activities of the qodesh in the late 10th and early 11th century up until 1034 CE, written ca.1040 CE. Join was …
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Letter fragment from Mubārak b. Isḥāq (=Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The hand does not appear to be the …
Account. Revenue from rent ca. 1230. A record of revenue listing 27 tenants of the qodesh. The first part is canceled by a stroke of …
Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. Small fragment.
Rabbinica, (Monograph); discusses the law of loans, quoting Samuel b. hofni and Dosa b. Saadia. (FGP)
Recto: Legal note in Judaeo-Arabic about the collection of payments from al-Zakiyy, mentioning a jābī and a ḥawāla (aḥāla ʿalayhi...). Dating: refers to Dhū l-Ḥijja …
Scorpion amulet.
Fragmentary court record(s). The main entry involves an Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon and Netanʾel and family relationships (someone refers to "my sister"). The text at 90 …
This is a commentary to BT Bava Qamma in the hand of Ḥananel b. Shemuʾel, not a legal document. AA
Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Late. Signed: Natan ha-Sofer b. Avraham.
Unidentified. Scattered words mostly in Judaeo-Arabic; may be pen trials.
Literary, Hebrew.
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Rudimentary hand. Mentions oaths and trying to get out of them. On verso there is a mysterious text in Arabic script …
Probably literary
Fragment of a poetic letter in Hebrew. The beginnings of 21 lines are preserved. Good candidate for a join.
Collection of Geonic responsa copied by Menashshe b. Ya'aqov (Date: 1116-1132). Published Wertheimer, קהלת שלמה, p. 42-44; Ginzei Yerushalayim, 42-44. AA
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. May be related to flax (l. 1)
Large cluster of 14 bifolios with accounts and lists in Ladino. These folios may have all be part of the same ledger given the sewing …
The text is responding, in the fragment extant, to two arguments that were made by ben Meir against the Babylonians at the time of the …
On recto poetic lines in Hebrew, can be from a a letter to person named Halfon, or a dirge or other poem. On verso liturgy.
Commercial accounts headed `for Wednesday and `for Thursday, in some cases listing specific ships. Dated 18 Shawwāl 947 (זמץ) AH = 15 February 1541 CE
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Tiny fragment of a legal document mentioning Ḥiyya ha-Kohen b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq, a Qaraite in Jerusalem, to the brothers Yiṣḥaq and Binyamin b. Yosef in Warjalan, July 1039.
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Official receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Dated: 556 AH (or kharājī?); if AH, this would correspond to 1160/61 CE. For Bū l-Ḥasan b. …
Original use: State report or petition. In Arabic script. Nearly four lines are preserved, wide space between the lines. Refers to the arrival of a …
Translation of Numbers 1–3 (somewhat jumbled up) into Arabic, in Arabic script. Mostly a translation, presumably Karaite, with occasional transliterations at the beginnings of verses.
Fragmentary list of sums received and final expenditures, including a Passover gift. Hand of Yefet b. David.
Fragment from a legal document, probably a deathbed declaration. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves a woman named Sitt …
Legal documents, drafts recto and verso, in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Concerning a gift given to a young woman named …
Recto: Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely sent to Avraham Maimonides. Contains a tantalizing glimpse of drama: "'I said to her, 'I heard …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Perhaps a letter of gratitude; the sender is very deferential. On verso there is Hebrew poetry (with several lines crossed …
Letter fragment, or maybe drafts/formularies. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Almost the entirety of what is preserved consists of flattery and blessings.