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Piyyut.
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a letter mentioning the elder Manṣūr. Dating: Probably 13th or 14th century, based on hand and typical abbreviations (mam[lūk], makh[dūm], sh[aykh]). (Information in …
Letter fragment addressed to a communal leader, a ḥaver. In Hebrew. Regarding a matter of inheritance (‘they are orphans and a widow’) and the writing …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From 'their brother' al-Mumḥe Ibn al-Shofeṭ to Surūr and [...] Ibn Ṭaybūs(?). Also mentions the names Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan and al-Kohen al-Dimashqī …
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Letter mentioning Abū l-Faḍl, Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Kurazī (?), Abū Manṣūr al-Tabib, Abū l-Ḥasan and the elder Jalāl al-Mulk (here not used as a title …
Legal document. Only a few lines from the introduction are preserved. The date is not preserved. The handwriting is very similar to that of the …
IB II, 30. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: mutual assistance. Aden, ca. 1136.
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Verso: tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on a dyeworks (maṣbagha) in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Undated. The date on the receipt, …
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Letter fragment (part of the right of recto, part of the right of verso). The remaining text on recto is almost all formulaic. On verso, …
IB VI, 51. Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. Dating: Mid-12th century. In Hebrew (for the …
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Recto: Fragment of a recycled document in Arabic script, wide line-spacing. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter to from Eliyyahu b. Zekharya to Yosef ha-Talmid. Mentions the arrival of something. Mentions Alexandria. (Information in part from CUDL)
F. 1v: the first page of a text with magic names for each month (of the Muslim year), supposedly revealed to the sons of Israel …
Official document (receipt?) of some kind. In Arabic script. Mentions wuṣūlāt/receipts and the sum still owed.
Minute fragment, mostly blank but with potential writing/ink along the verso edge.
Ketubbah – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 203) – in Hebrew and Aramaic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza …
Legal document concerning the rent of a qāʿa in Ḥārat Zuwayla. In Arabic script. Dating: ca. 16th–18th century. Involves Ibrāhīm b. Ḥūr al-Yahūdī and a …
Letter in Arabic script. Dated: 29 Dhū l-Qaʿda 12[.]0 AH, which is 1796 CE at the earliest. This date may in fact belong to a …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving 120-some dinars; mentions Barakāt(?) al-Ṣayrafī al-Levi and Sitt al-Jamāl
Recto: Unidentified text in Arabic script. Verso: Might be two distinct fragments. The upper one at least is. a panegyric (madḥ) by al-Buḥturī: بَرقٌ أَضاءَ …
Letter in Spanish from Abram Nunez (?) to Sehid Barda, Cairo, dated 1712 CE (4 Nisan 5472 AM). The letter is on Page 1 and …
Letter sent from Damira by Abu al-'Ali ha-Kohen to Tiqva b. Yeshua, asking him to inform the Nagid about trouble that had occurred in Damira …
Minute fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Maybe a letter. Mentions someone called al-Yamanī.
Letter. Possibly from Naṣr or Nuṣayr (v19) to some dignitary (sayyidnā, Mordekhai ha-Zeman). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Dating: Late 12th century, based on the mention of …
Mirror-image imprint of a tax receipt, probably from a nearby fragment.
Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Apparently a partnership agreement in a business involving a "large furnace" (al-kur al-kabīr) …
Alms distribution list. Headed 'by the order of our master' (ʿan amr sayyidnā), presumably the head of the Jews. The next line mentions New Cairo. …
Several lines in Arabic script. Poetry? Needs further examination. Piyyut on the other side.
Recto: Fragment of a legal document, referring to "his son Avraham b. Mevorakh" and various items of silver. Verso: Glossary to Halakhot Gedolot
Interesting Judaeo-Arabic paraphrase of Genesis 22 (the binding of Isaac). Very small bifolio on parchment with two binding-holes at the fold.
Letter from an unknown man. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a blocky hand and with אללה spelled אלי. He alludes to a terrible misfortune afflicting him. "If …
Minutes fragment, some from legal documents, but too little remains. AA
Fol. 1: Jotted accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late? Mentions fulūs. There are also jottings in other hands including poetic blessings in Hebrew for the new Nagid …
List of contributors. Dating: From the time of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides (1205–37). Four pages of names, largely identical with those in contemporary lists, with …
Verso: On verso there is a list of names and Greek/Coptic numerals, with R. Avraham as the title at the top; likely a contributions list.
Letter fragment (lower right corner of recto, upper right corner of verso) . Very few words remain. ASE.
Minute fragment from the end of a legal deed. Very damaged. Only some signatures preserved: […] ha-Levi b. Avraham, Yehuda b. Moshe ha-Mumḥe. Reused for …
Probably a dirge written by Anatoli (probably Anatoli b. Yosef who was active in the forst two decades of the 13th century in a memory …
Fragment of a tax receipt, probably.
Letter in elegant Arabic script and style. The continuation seems to be praising the eloquence of the addressee, and it cites two lines of poetry …
Minute blank fragment
Receipt on behalf of the elders of Jerusalem. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Recto: Budget of expenses for food on the two days of ʿUnṣura (Shavuot). Verso is in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. It may be related. …
Lower fragment: Possibly an address of a letter. To Yehuda b. Peraḥya (Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva Rosh ha-Nedivim) b. Ḥalfon. On the other side, there is a …
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A late letter from a mother to her son Yosef b. Ghunaym (may appear also in T-S 28.10). Among other news she informs him that …
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