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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From Yemen. May be late. ENA 3504.2(?), ENA 3504.3, and ENA 3504.5 may all be from the same letter. Needs examination.
No Scholarship Records
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Written by Hananel b. Shemuel. He exhorts the addressee to assist al-Shaykh al-Nafīs, evidently concerning a legal query which the latter …
Letter from ʿIwaḍ to Peraḥya the judge. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, with the address in Arabic script and Hebrew. Written on a very long strip …
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Literary text, if there is a continuation on verso, or could be a note or letter from a jurisconsult. Mentions Muslim, sharṭ al-ākhar, tatawajjahu ilā …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era. Addressed to جناب حضرت الحجب(؟) المحترم حاخام زادة(؟) . . . . اليهود الربان. The sender's name includes …
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and Hiba al-Kohen and a wife.
Letter or petition in Arabic script. Damaged. Legible words include 'al-mamlūk' and غلمانه. Needs examination.
Legal document. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1484 Seleucid = October/November 1172 CE. Reporting that on a shabbat of this month, a quarrel took place between Abū Zikrī …
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Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). The cantor (Abū l-Majd?) is to give Ṭāhir the beadle (al-khādim) 2.5 dirhams. …
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End of a document in Arabic script: وصلواته على سيدنا محمد . . . الطاهرين وسلامه الله . . .
A dense list of names along with numbers, perhaps pledges to charity. Organized by parshiyot. Resembles T-S NS 338.40 (PGPID 25929).
Fragment of two letters in Judaeo-Arabic, one each on recto and verso. The one on verso mentions good news for the addressee, fear of the …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Location: Fustat. Dated: 1438 Seleucid = 1126/27 CE. In which Elʿazar aka Manṣūr …
State document, likely an order in response to a petition or report. Stating that it has been confirmed that Sharaf al-Dawla Mūsā violated and oppressed …
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Page from a Hebrew medical treatise
Recto: State document in Arabic script. Maybe a decree. Only a few words are preserved: ]لى للفراج(؟) للتقضي(؟) . . . . . صولها
IB III, 21. Two accounts of Ibn Yiju written in Aden c. 1140–44/45 about transactions with the nakhūdā Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Katāʾib,. This is …
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Legal record (#23). Divorce settlement. Dated: Same as previous record (Monday, 14 Sivan 1467 Seleucid). Salīm al-Munādī ('the crier') agrees that he owes his daughter-in-law …
Business accounts in both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Very large. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Some names such as Manṣūr al-Farrāsh. …
Ownership note on a codex - the name is Ḥasan b. Mūsā.
Draft of a legal document. Confirming a settlement (ṣulḥ) negotiated by elders. A release by Shemuel b. Aharon for Nissim b. Meshullam and his brother …
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Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Small fragment. There is writing on both sides. There is also a red splotch or drawing in the margin on …
Recto (secondary use): Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Possibly lampooning someone for his poor hospitality.
Court record in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Moshe b. Elḥanan releases his wife Mudallala from the obligation to leave a house of his …
Minute fragment from the end of a legal deed. One of the parties involved named Ya'aqov. Signed by Tamim b. Shm[…]. AA
Recto: Poem. Long Hebrew poem, congratulating Shelomo on being elevated, like a second Yosef, from prison to the rank of the "Deputy of the king" …
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. Dating: May 12, 1052 CE. Business letter with many details about ships going west. The sender reports on the …
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Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya probably to ʿEli b. ʿAmram, mentioning a realease valid in both Muslim and Jewish courts. A third person is asked …
Business letter related to the India trade, mentioning commodities such as pepper, quantities of dinars and ʿAlī al-Fawfalī (a well-known nākhudā from the mid-12th-century) and …
Typical letter formula "وادام تاييدك", in an elegant hand, most likely a draft or writing exercise. Pen trials can be seen interspersed between the two …
Account (draft) of the Qodesh. Dated: ca. 1213 CE, mentions 7 Tammuz 1524 Seleucid in one of the entries on the verso. This account is …
Text is too damaged to identify, but mentions [...] b. Joseph; Saʿīd [...] and some other uncomplete names on verso. AA
Text in Arabic script on one leaf. Order of payment? Ṣuḥḥa li-l-shaykh al-ajall Abū l-Ḥajjāj yadfaʿ l-muwaṣṣilihā...
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer explains that the family has no money for the coming holiday and no wood or oil; …
Accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Containing names of people and their whereabouts and status(?). Dating: 18th or 19th century.
Legal document. Dated: Friday 12 Shevat 5407 AM, which is 1647 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. A woman named Khāṣṣ bt. Shelomo Levi Somekh, the widow of …
Letter from a merchant from South Italy, now probably in Alexandria. Ca. mid-11th century. The writer describes a disaster at sea. The writer started his …
[ ] שוב ב[ ] לאחי [ .... ] זקני אבות [ ]
אלכה לי אל הגדולים ואדב[רה אותם כי המה ידעו] הראשונות והאותיות י[שמ]יעונו וארי[מ…
I faced death and unbearable dangers from the day I parted from my parents, whom I disobeyed. Likewise, when I visited Amalfi, there were diffi…
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State document, extremely fragmented, only a few words readable. Mentions the amir Asad al-Dawla. Or possibly Murhaf al-Dawla Asad.
Unidentified text(s) in Arabic script, at least partially about calligraphy: "al-khaṭṭ wa-l-qalam... yatalāqayā..."
Letter from a woman, in an unknown location, to her brother ʿAṭiyya b. Yehuda b. Sulaymān and to her widowed sister’s son Manṣūr b. Avraham, …
Maimonides autograph.
Accounts containing mostly names and in the left column expenditures for a building. (Information from Goitein's index card.) Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
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Letter expressing regret for having left the service of the recipient Shelomo, a government official. Possibly a draft. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Probably the …
Multifragment. (a) Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. (b) Probably too faded to read. Looks like Judaeo-Arabic, and looks older.
Genealogical lists.
List of items or account in Judaeo-Arabic with quantities underneath, mostly medical substances, foods, and spices (e.g., oil, eggs, saffron, caraway, chicory, lac, chard, colocasia, …
IB VII, 56. Letter from an India trader, probably in Yemen. In Judaeo-Arabic. He recently came from Kullam in Malabar (recto margin l. 15) and …
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IB V, 37, folio 7r. Note in Arabic script. "Send us. . . lemon. . . ḥalāwa. . . obtain for me pomegranate syrup."
One side: A muwashshaḥ by al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭīlī (d. 1126). The other side: More difficult to read, but also contains poetic phrases (ḥumrat al-ward...). ASE.