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Recto and three lines of verso: Note in Hebrew addressed to some important person. The hand and spellings are very rudimentary. The writer seems to …
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Letter in Hebrew. Late. Very faded. Dealing with business matters. Currency: gurush. The letter's recipient bears rabbinic honorifics and is possibly named Shemuʾel (or this …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A power of attorney appointing somebody to sue someone for a quantity of …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the Qodesh and a funeral. On verso there are a few lines of Arabic script. Needs further examination.
Accounts in Arabic on a large fragment that may originate from a broader financial ledger that is dated on the lower right corner of the …
Arabic script (VMR)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (left lower piece). Mentions Abū l-Najm. Goitein's index card says "perhaps to Nahray (b. Nissim)" but it's unclear on what basis. …
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Letter addressed to a Nagid (Avraham Maimuni or his son David), reporting about payments.
Products and their prices. Mentions silk. Very distinctive hand and ink, familiar from other fragments by the same scribe.
Literary text in Arabic script.
Bill of divorce. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 14 Tammuz 1335 Seleucid, which is 24 June 1024 CE. Husband: ʿAmram b. Khalaf b. Aharon Ibn Asqawī ha-Levi. …
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Probably a letter; most of the script is faded and illegible. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Draft of the opening lines of ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā's Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn. ASE
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Order of payment. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ is to pay the bearer a sum of money. There is additional very faded Arabic text on verso.
Letter in Ottoman Turkish to a state official regarding a rabbi's travels to Jerusalem. Dated: 20 Safar 1024 AH (21 March 1615 CE). In the …
[Devletl]ü sulṭānım ḥażretler[inin?]
[ ]-i bī-şümār ümīdi olunduḳdan ṣoñra, żamīr-i münīr-i mihr-tenvīr ve ḫaṭīr-i ʿaṭīr-i Mü…
[To his excellency] my esteemed lord ______________________
After having set numberless hopes on [ ], the luminous, sun-like…
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Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli or Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Concerning Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen who who bought dyed cloth from Abū …
Accounts in Hebrew script. Judaeo-Persian?
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, damaged and fragmentary. Dating: probably late, no earlier than 14th century, based on format and formulae. Mostly sending regards to various people. …
Legal formulary.
Legal jottings. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Recto mentions possibly a female slave (though al-jāriya can also be an adjective), sending something, 'khidma,' …
Engagement (shiddukhin) agreement between Nissim Zeraḥya and Miryam bt. Shelomo ha-Levi. Dated 1749 CE (21 Heshvan 5510), Rashid. Currency: the gold zeri maḥbūb coin (זהובים …
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: perhaps 16th-century based on the paleography. Requires further examination.
Book list. Published by Alloni, The Jewsih Library, p. 141-142
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Minute fragment. From the bottom part of a late legal document. Signed by Yaaqiv […] and Avraham Sarfati. AA
Formulary for a שטר מכירת חזקה. Late, probably belongs with Bodl. MS heb. d 66/100 and is therefore c.1750s.
Letter from the physician Abū Zikrī, in Jerusalem, to his father Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Abū Zikrī reports that his masters, the princes al-Malik …
Letter. Damaged and faded.
State document, in Arabic script. Decree of Ṭalāʾiʿ, the vizier of al-Fāʾiz, concerning the monks of Mount Sinai. The vizier Ṭalāʾiʿ orders that the tax …
Long business letter mainly in Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably Ottoman-era. At the top of recto there is a summary of accounts with R. Avraham during …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Bottom only. Dating: Ca. 10th century, based on the signature of Ḥabīb b. ʿAday, who also signs T-S 16.189. Other witnesses …
Marriage contract (ketubba). One of the very few Byzantine ketubbot to have survived. Location: Mastaura, on the Meander River (in Asia Minor). Dated: Friday, 4 …
4782 of the Creation of the World, by the reckoning
current in the city of Mastaura near the r…
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century, based on the regards to Eliyyahu the Judge. Same hand as T-S 10J15.23 and T-S NS 163.86.
Account book of Yeshuaʿ b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī containing payment orders. Dating: ca. 1048 (Gil). (Information from Gil) NB: in l. 11 below, it is probably …
שרח חסאב אלשיך אבו [ ]
קבץ ש דינ כה דינ [ ]
דלך שכה [ ]
וקיר [ ]
לה מן דלך צו דינ תנקץ [ ]
ולהא צרף תולתי תכון אלגמלה [ד]ינר [ ]
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State document, fragmentary. Three and a half lines preserved, difficult to glean context, mentions taking permission, "لانه حين اذن". Reused for a Hebrew text, on …
Fragment of an official letter (report or petition?). In Arabic script. The ends of two lines are preserved. Phrases include: lil-khidma bi-l-thaghr... bi-ḍawāḥīh... Reused on …
Formulaic phrases from petitions and letter to dignitaries.
Informal note addressed to a certain Wuḥaysh (al-muʿallim Wuḥaysh ḥarasahū Allāh). In Arabic script. Possibly asking him to convey something to someone else. Additional jottings …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer mentions Minyat Zifta; urges the recipient not to delay with something; mentions the wālī, the qāḍī and the mushrif; mentions …
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Detailed accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late, 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. One entry: "al-mutaʾakhkhir ʿalā arbāb al-jawāmik..." The year is then given but is …
Letter from Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, to Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majānī. Dating: ca. 1045 CE. Barhun deals with buying and selling goods in …
כתאבי יאסידי וריסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואצרף אלאסוא
ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכנרריה לי בקין מן אייר ערפך אללה ברכתה וברכה
מא ילי…
Small fragment from the end of a ketubah. One of the witnesses is Yehezkel. AA
Recto: Draft of the beginning of a letter to Daniel b. ʿAzarya the exilarch. Verso: Praises for God in Arabic, with biblical verses in Hebrew …
Letter/petition from Moshe b. ʿAmram b. Ḥalfon he-Ḥaver to a highly placed courtier in Fustat titled Zaʿīm al-Mulk, in Fustat. The addressee may in fact …
Piyyuṭ, calendar calculations, and draft of the opening lines of a letter/petition in Arabic script to Saʿīd al-Dawla.
Letter from unknown writer, unknown location, to his 'brother,' in Fustat. The address is almost entirely gone, but one of them is named Bū Saʿd. …
Letter sent by Abu al-Barakat to Abu Nasr, asking him for 3 dirhams to hire a riding beast and asking another 3 dirhams from the …
Verso: Four (?) interesting accounts in Arabic script, one mentioning "wāṣil al-ḍamān". Dated: Jumādā II 513 AH, which is September 1119 CE. (Information from Goitein's …
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Documenting transactions in nuqra dirhams including one "from my father."
Opening of a letter from the yeshiva, probably fall 1053.
Personal letter to Kẖawaja David al-Jalālī from a person named Elli Ġozlān in it asking for him to fetch some of books and discussing commercial …