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Amulet for the boy Shabbetay Refa'el Ḥayyim b. Simḥa. In Hebrew. Probably late.
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Prayers in Arabic script. Late.
Copy of the story of Natan b. Yiṣḥaq the Babylonian, from 'Akhbar Baghdad.' In Judaeo-Arabic, in the hand of Natan (ha-nezer) b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 …
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Letter rom ‘your servant Seʿadya’; mostly consisting of a long Hebrew introduction, with some Judaeo-Arabic in the margin. On verso there is Psalms 78:62–65: (Information …
Letter to “our prince” Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known. After many phrases of blessings and deference, the sender apologetically reports that he …
Legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. Fragment (lower part only). Dating: Perhaps 10th or 11th century. Mentions Avraham, Moshe, Yosef b. Aharon, and Yosef b. …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably an appeal for charity. בעץ מן תצדק... ואנא ואללה האלך צאיע... לי מא יקום בי למא... וקלה חילה...
Mercantile letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Refers to coming to Alexandria and staying on the Nile or at sea for 3 days. …
Recto: Letter addressed to a certain Abū l-Ṭāhir. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Fragment (top part only). Mostly formulaic expressions of deference (taqbīl) …
Probably a legal document. On parchment. Mentioning Mufarraj b. Yiṣḥaq and Yosef b. ʿAzarya. Arabic jottings below. (Information from CUDL)
List of valuable items in Judaeo-Arabic. Headed "thabat mā fīhā." Items include: a maqṭāʿ cloth of fine mulḥam; a cushion; two sewn thawbs; a mayzar …
IB II, 28 + 29. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: safe conduct and assistance for brother. Aden, ca. 1145. Join: M. …
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Elegy by Yedutun ha-Levi for his father Abu Sahl Levi, ed. Elizur.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 21 [...] 1369 Seleucid, which is 1057/58 CE. Involves Yisrael ha-Shulḥani, Nissim b. Maḥbūb, and Ṣemaḥ b. …
End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The letter was written on the sender's behalf by the scribe Yūsuf. Mentions al-Quḍāʿī ('the healer of stomach trouble') …
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Fragment of a legal query. Involves a gentile.
Letter from Seʿadya b. Avraham to his 'brother' Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Seʿadya has been worried about Ṣemaḥ's travel, because he is inexperienced in …
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Letter of condolence from Abū Naṣr to his brother's son ʿImrān. In Arabic script. Aodeh notes that the introduction contains formulae similar to those in …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as Abū ʿAlī; [...] al-Bukhtaj; Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Pinḥas; [...] al-Sharābī; Abū l-Faraj; a parnas; and Aharon. …
Small fragment from a letter. Mostly polite phrases, none of the substance is preserved: אלא מואצלתי באלכתב אליהא . . פצעב דלך עלי ועז כתירא …
Contract of sale written on parchment, dated Ramaḍān 372 AH, between Minā b. Jirja and ʿIsā b. Ismaʿīl. (AP)
Top portion of a court record from the court of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205-1237), who held the title Nagid after 1213 CE, specifically (l. 4). …
Bottom of a legal document. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 504 AH = June/July 1111 CE. Appears to be a conversion certificate for a Jewish man and …
Letter from the office of a Nagid of the Maimonides family. Dating: 13th–15th century. Fragment (upper left corner). Probably addressed to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Refers to …
Several fragments of a legal document. Details are difficult to extract. Mentions an inheritance and involves a woman (possibly Siwār, but this could also be …
Letter from Elḥanan b. Ismaʿīl al-Tāhartī and Barhūn al-Tāhartī (Fustat) to Nahray b. Nissim and ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa, ca. 1050. In the hand of Elḥanan …
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כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמתה מן אלפסטאט יום אלאחד וסט אל[עיד]
אלמבארך אללה יערף מולאי ברכתה ען סלאמה…
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Accounts in Arabic script. Unclear if private or state. One entry in the right column of T-S 12.109v refers to the ḥikr (ground rent) in …
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Late.
Recto: Legal deed. Location: Qalyūb. Dated: Tuesday, 7 Adar 1505 Seleucid, which is 1194 CE, under the authority of the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. In …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (narrow strip from the middle). Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 14[..] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 1088–1189 CE. Names mentioned include Yefet, …
Accounts. Needs examination.
Medical prescription or recipe. In Arabic script. The first item is hiera picra (ايارج فيقرا). Also uses pulp of colocynth (shaḥm ḥanẓal). There are 3 …
Business letter in Arabic script. Somewhat crude hand. The sender urges the addressee to purchase 1/2 dinar's worth of Aleppan textiles and 1/4 dinar's worth …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions iron (ḥadīd) and lead (raṣāṣ). Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef?
Note in Arabic script, or a verse of poetry. "مررت بهم دهرا قالها وحزبي....".
Jotted accounts in Arabic in the lower margin of a literary text in Hebrew. Mentions Abū l-Ḥusayn; two dinars and a qirat; and two rubāʿīs …
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with pepper, clove, and lac. Instructing the addressee to sell goods in Fustat. Possibly in the handwriting of Avraham …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on vellum spanning two leaves (and three pages) that already contained literary text in Hebrew. The first page of the letter …
Fragment of a marriage-related document. In Judaeo-Arabic. These are the scribe's notes for drawing up a proper document, containing the details of the early and …
Small fragment from a letter in Arabic (ونعماه وتمكينه . . . )
Kitāb al-Sheṭarot (the book of legal formularies) of Hayya Ga'on b. Sherira Ga'on. Per the Bodleian catalog, the copyist or owner is Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel …
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Ketubba, the signatures section is torn away. Dated: Thursday, 1 Nisan 5583 AM = 13 March 1823 CE. Location: Cairo. Groom: Yosef b. Moshe Shtiwī. …
Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355 CE) dealing with the capitation tax and with the kashrut of meat, first half of the …
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Bill of release written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The parties are Moshe b. Nissim and Berakhot b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen. AA
Minute preprinted document issued in August (Aoút) 1894 CE.
Letter fragment (upper left corner). In Arabic script. On verso a few words in Judaeo-Arabic.
List, neatly written, of 26 people pledging gifts of 5 to 60. The ten most generous donors remain anonymous, the relevant entry being 'mattan,' which …
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A catalogue of a private library, including titles from rabbinic and medieval Judaeo-Arabic literature.