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Fragmentary legal testimony in Hebrew. In which Yeshuʿa b. Manṣūr ha-Kohen declares that his wife owes no debts to him.
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Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The first few lines and the last few lines are missing. Somebody forfeits …
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Quran. Bifolium from a codex. Containing part of Sūrat al-Maʿārij (70) and Sūrat al-Nūḥ (71).
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 8 Rabīʿ I 405 (6 September 1014). Written …
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Fragment of a trade letter in mixed Hebrew and Arabic script (Arabic for sliding blessings only) requesting a suftaja. Gil attributes tentatively to Daniel b. …
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Fragment from the top of a legal document. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The honorifics from a few partial names are visible, one reads as: …
Magical amulet, including a portion for binding the demon Ḥayimun.
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Refers to Isḥāq Ibn al-Wakīl "and others out of those who were present." The sender along with "the witnesses" reports …
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, written in a rudimentary hand. The sender (or the person he is writing on behalf of) wishes to …
حضرته الاجلية ما سبق به كريم وعدها له ما اظن انـ[ـه] تخفى
عن حضرته المحروسة جائحة عبدها ياخذ جميع ما قد كان
يحصل له وقد عزم على العود الى…
Fiscal accounting. Might be dated 454 AH. Reused on verso for a medical prescription in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL.)
7 fragments. Fol. 1 a receipt in Ladino, "de el Turco Musa(?)," Shimʿon, and an "anillo" (אנילייו) "ring" as part of the transaction. Fol. 2 …
Ketubba. Groom: Sahlān b. Avraham, the leader of the Babylonian community in Fusṭāṭ. Bride: Esther bt. Yosef b. ʿAmram the judge. Location: Fustat. Dated: 26 …
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Technical instructions of some kind in Arabic.
Recipe, probably, in Arabic script. Mentions "sharāb khāṣṣ". Needs examination.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Late legal document, regarding provisions. A person called Makhlūf is taking an oath. Location: Marrakesh (מראכש). Dated: 28 Tammuz (5)561 (לצאתם) AM = 9 July …
Letter fragment, faded, mentioning Nissim. Wide line spacing. Greetings also to "hadrat ha-Rav ha-Rav ha-Muvhaq" and "all his students and servants." Reused on recto for …
Medical. From a work on materia medica, listing simple medicaments, their function and use (from CUDL).
Recto: two alchemical recipes, the first on the use of a water derived from a preparation of tutty (an oxide of zinc), which is left …
Maqāma, probably. The speaker "came from Seville in a ship." Needs further examination to determine if this is a known or new text. Beautiful Arabic …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Barely legible short note. Verso: Jottings. - needs examination.
Recto: letter in Ladino. Verso: accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Official receipt in Arabic script. On verso, personal accounts? Needs examination.
Brief letter from Abū l-Surūr to a faqīh. Dating: ca. 12th century. Letter of appeal for charity. The sender is in hiding from the capitation …
Letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, in Sūsa, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1052 CE. The letter mentions the connections that Nahray …
כתאב[י יא]סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ותאיידך ונעמתך
וכאן לך [ול]יא וחאפצא פי גמיע אמורך ואצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן סוס…
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Small fragment from a piece of official correspondence: wa-qad sayyara ilayhimā min al-[...]....
Karaite bill of release, mentions Farja[llah] Ḥakim ben Mordekhay Ḥakim and Elʾazar Rofe.
Literary text. In Arabic script. Leaf from an Arabic work on horoscopes/prognostications in a beautiful naskhī script. The horoscopes/prognostications are predicted for each day of …
Letter of Avraham b. Simhon, Ifrīqiya, to Yosef b. ʿAwkal. (A large hole from line 11 to line 22 has obliterated much of the letter.)
Letter from Daniel Levi Mondolfo to Avraham Krispin. In Ladino. Dating: 18th or 19th century. The sender signs his name in both Hebrew script and …
Draft of one line of an opening formula of a legal deed. AA
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic regarding sums of money owed by Umm Waḥsh. There are also jottings of accounts in Arabic script, probably the earlier use of …
Legal fragment in Arabic. Refers to [...] al-Tājir and a legitimate receipt of a sum of pure silver.
12369.7 and 8 are drafts of several Judaeo-Arabic letters and documents by Yisrael al-Gevili (אלגוילי) writing in Cairo it seems circa 1755/6 CE (the lower …
Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script, the script may be Yemenite. Line 4 uses the common honorific יצ׳׳ו. Requires further examination
Small fragment of a legal document. Mentioning Abū l-Fakhr al-Kātib... a man known as Ibn Ayyū[b]... and a woman known as [...]. On verso there …
Commercial accounts. Late, 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. A variety of names appear in the entries, but very few are complete due to …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe or Hillel b. ʿEli? Mentions Avraham b. Shemaʿya.
Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh. Only formulaic content is preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Writing exercises of the Hebrew alphabet.
Letter in Arabic to a certain Amīr [...] al-Dawla wa-[...]hā, perhaps reporting on business setbacks and the imposition of a new tax. The sender begins …
T-S AS 167.65 is a Judaeo-Arabic version of Judas's betrayal of Jesus and Jesus's humiliation (e.g., אלהואן אלצאיל) and his imprisonment, mentioning "those who were …
Letter fragments in Judaeo-Arabic. לא תעמלה . . . קליל מא לי שגל אלא אתרקב אל . . . אלנאס ענכם . . . . …
Letter in Judaeo-Persian. Dating: Late, probably. Needs examination.
Recto: Legal testimony. Dated Sunday, 2 Shevaṭ 14[..] Seleucid (or 146[.]?). The protagonists are Abū l-Fakhr and Abū Saʿd b. Naḥman. The witnesses state that …
Letter from Moshe b. Elʿazar the teacher (ha-Melammed) to Elʿazar the scholar (ha-Talmid). In Hebrew (for the introduction and address) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). …
Legal document concerning a deceased person (perhaps related to a dispute over the inheritance) and making reference to an orphan, a widow, and a mother. …
Fragment in poetic Hebrew, possibly from a letter. Might also be a literary text. Refers to the arrival of a letter or letters, "signs and …