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Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script referring to "mawlāya al-Rāb" (=the Rav).
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Legal record (#29) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 7v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 27-29) Folio 7v
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Letter from Mose de Toledo and perhaps one other person, in Gaza. In Spanish. Dating: Probably 15th–16th century, on paleographic grounds (assessment kindly provided by …
Magical spell for separating people. In Arabic script.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions Abū ʿAbdallāh, al-Sharīf, and various dates, weights, and sums of money.
Verso (original use): Fiscal accounting. In Arabic script. Mentions the treasury (bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr): بالنفق من بيت المال المعمور من جملة . . . . …
Fiscal document. Possibly a receipt or a submitting of an account. Needs examination. مبلغ . . . على . . . . المماليك المستخدمين برسم …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Narrating the progress of a construction project in relation to "the breaking of the canal" (kasr al-khalīj). Mentions …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of genealogical list of Geonim of Palestine. In the hand of Sahlān b. Avraham. Ca. 1040. On verso there appear the signatures of Zarʿa …
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Receipt.
Minute fragment from an official-looking document. On verso mentions [...] al-yahūdī al-Afḍalī(?) and on recto mentioned four irdabbs of grain.
Minute fragment. One Arabic word on recto. Two fragmentary names on verso (Avraham b. Shl[...] and Yosef b. Hal[fon?]
Address of a letter sent to al-Maḥalla, to Abū l-M[...].
Bottom of a state document. 4 lines preserved. The first line refers to the execution of an order and the sender's deference to the decision …
Recto: Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The word "al-ijtihād" is legible, but not much else.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Draft of the first few lines. Addressed to a cousin (ibn al-ʿamm). Draft. Dating: late.
List of luxury garments and jewels belonging to or that were sold to various people (headers: "the wife of my paternal uncle... for sale... that …
Literary text, in Arabic script with diacritical marks. Needs examination.
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, along with a couple practice signatures of David Ben-Naʿīm, whose dated documents are from the first half of the nineteenth century. …
Rent receipt for Bū Isḥāq al-Yahūdī. In Arabic script. Dated: 726 AH = 1325/26 CE.
Recto: Letter from the daughter of Rāfiʿ al-Ḥarīrī to the Nagid asking for a new veil for the holidays. Dating: probably ca. 12th century. She …
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Letter from the judge Natan b. Eliyya ha-Kohen. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic (often rhymed), with biblical verses at the top. A request for help, it seems …
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Letter from a Lubavitcher rabbi? Signed and stamped Shneur Zalman Menaḥem the grandson of Ari Leib ( שניאור זלמן מנחם נכד הרב היקר ארי ליב …
Legal documents, one each on recto and verso. Both are from "the capital" Constantinople/Istanbul, both are signed by Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ashkenazi and Yosef b. …
Petition from a woman to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39 CE). Only the top part is preserved. Begins "I already came crying out before God and before …
Letter in Ottoman Turkish concerning a shipment of firewood. Dating: circa 1736 CE or later (per Hathaway) based on the mention of the Ottoman gold …
ʿİzzetlü ve mürüvvetlü peder-i ʿazīzim ḥażretlerinin ḥużūr-ı şerīf[lerine],
derūn üzere selāmlar ve ḫayır dūʿālar olunduḳdan ṣoñ…
To my noble and generous, most honoured, esteemed, noble, dear father, _____________________________
After heartfelt greetings a…
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Original use: Fragment of a chancery document, possibly a decree. In Arabic script with wide line spacing. 7 lines are partially preserved. Later, the empty …
Letter written by Efrayim b. Ishaq b. al-Zulafi in Sicily to Yaʿaqov in Alexandria concerning books. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
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Order of payment written by Abū Zikrī Kohen, instructing Abū l-Khayr to pay money to the bearer of the note. Dated Tammuz 1451 Seleucid era …
Letter to a qāḍī (addressed "al-jināb al-ʿālī"). In Arabic script. Dating: Maybe Mamluk-era. The letter concerns a horse that was purchased for 17 dinars; also …
Writing exercises in epistolary Judaeo-Arabic in which the student repeated a phrase in the heading that had been offered by an instructor in model handwriting. …
Recto: Praises for God in Judaeo-Arabic, in an elevated register. Possibly from the introduction to a literary work. Looks like the hand of Hillel b. …
Draft of the beginning of a bible commentary called ליקוטי הפרדס in which the writer says he will collect insights from אברהם ן שושאן and …
List of Ottoman sultans (אלה שמות מלכי האוסמאנלסים אשר מלכו עד היום). In Hebrew and western Arabic numerals. There is a comment after Sulaymān II …
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Recto: Receipt of rent, in Arabic script. For al-raʾīs al-Dāwūdī, probably a Jewish communal leader, for a stable. The rent is 7 dirhams for the …
Unidentified text in Hebrew, distinctive Ashkenazi and/or Italqi handwriting. May be documentary. Late. Mentions הוצאתי (my expenses?) twice.
Draft of a legal document, or of a letter containing a record of a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Rabbenu Ḥalfon ha-Sar ha-Gadol. Concerning copies …
Ledger bifolium in Arabic dated on the recto's left heading as Rabi' II 1238 AH which is 1822 CE. The scribal hand is highly trained …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the hand of ʿArūs. Mentions mardaqūsh.
Small and stained fragment from a top of a legal deed dated 1443 era of douments = 1132.
Magical adjuration (אשבעית . . . .). Formulary, based on the פל בר פל in l. 2.
Upper fragment: Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic: . . . יקרצני . . . מנהם פאן כאן חרצכם מן אעטיה נסיכאתי ואשהד עליי …
Top of a letter in Arabic script addressed to Sittī al-Wasṭāniyya (cf. T-S 10J11.11 for this as a woman's name). Only the first four lines …
State document, probably. In Arabic script. Dated: 517 H. (This might also be a kharājī date.) The document has a basmala; a block of text …
بسم ا]لله الرحمن الرحيم
]رى ذكره من مزارعي الناحية المعروفة بالجرش(؟)
]واخذها مما استخرجها القاضي رشيد واحضره
]. ورقاع الشيخ ابوا طاهر…
Much damaged fragment from a bill of receipt(?). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya? Mentions [...] b. Khalfa.
Fragment of a letter from Nehemya ha-Kohen, the Pumbedita Gaon, to one of the members of the Babylonian community in Fustat, probably the beginning of …