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Official-looking receipt for Abū l-ʿIzz b. Bū ʿAlī. Unclear for what. Landscape layout. Needs further examination. See also T-S AS 180.126 and T-S AS 181.71.
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Letter from Avraham Maimuni informing the Nasi that a certain document was not found among papers brought forth by a third party and that the …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Lists in Judaeo-Arabic of food and possibly charity-related communal expenses in the year 5560JC which is 1799/1800CE. The lists mention a wide array of food …
Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Hamon of Istanbul to Yehuda al-Ashqar in Egypt. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. For information on …
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Accounts, probably. Needs examination.
Fiscal document with at least three distinct sections. 1) The main text block concerns ships, requisitioning, ḍummān, and the officials charged with transporting crops from …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning quantities of different kinds of sugar, mastic, pepper, and raisins, among other things.
Guardian deed from the heirs of Israel b. Yosef Januni to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1065. Marduk and Yosef, the sons of Israel, probably from …
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Business accounts. In Ladino. Mentioning Candia (Crete) and a fattoria several times in connection with different names, possibly merchants and/or ship captains: Ḥasan al-Ṣawī, Muḥammad …
Late letter in Hebrew addressed to "my father" whose name is lost to damage but features a wide variety of rabbinic honorifics. The first line …
Letter from a teacher reporting to a father that his child arrived at school with a little packet containing some silver (fidda), which the teacher …
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Letter from Yosef b. Natan al-Ḥalabī to Moshe Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper portion of recto and the address are preserved, entirely consisting of …
Late Hebrew letter in a cursive hand. On verso a drawing and few words
Minute fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, very faded. Requires further examination.
Literary text, in Arabic script. The last line on verso "وجنود ابليس اجمعين" is a Quranic verse (26:95) with variation in the last word. However, …
Recto: Brief letter to Abū Zikrī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning small sums of money and transactions in materia medica. Verso: A few lines in Arabic script, …
Formularies for curses.
Draft(s) of legal document(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions a woman named Mudallala and transactions involving property. Needs further examination.
Commercial accounts in Spanish. Dating: perhaps late 15th century, based on the script. Involves Jews. Lists debits and credits ("devo a rebbi Samuel"). Mentions the …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentions R. Shelomo. And "[if you h]ear that the city is good, come, and if you hear that the …
Biblical (book of Numbers). Yemeni hand? On verso there is a pen trial: tajribat qalam wa-ḥibr malīḥ ṭāʾil.
Accounts of purple-cloth merchant Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Mahdawī in Fusṭāṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Collection of Geonic responsa, in the same hand as T-S 16.99, T-S G2.29, T-S 12.169, and T-S 16.310. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Isḥaq b. ʿImrān, probably in al-Maḥalla, to the parnas Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Yahya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic …
In (Your) name, O Merci(ful)
The letter of my lord has arrived, may God prolong your life and make lasting your honor,
strength, health,…
Verso: two different letters, glued together to create a rotulus for the calendar on recto. Both are mercantile letters from the mid-11th century. (II) The …
Recto: Either a contributors list or alms list. In Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably early 13th century. Mentions names such as Nuṣayr, …
Legal document concerning a wife agreement to the reduction of her delayed marriage gift from 70 to 20 dinars and renounces the title of trustworthiness …
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Letter. Very faded. (Information from CUDL)
Cryptic document. Very faded. Names Rabbenu Rosh ha-Seder . . . Moshe ha-Kohen . . . b. M. Peraḥya ha-Kohen. Gives the date Tevet 14[..] …
Recto: part of a rhymed letter in Hebrew. Verso: accounts in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning items such as pepper, mercury, and nutmeg. (Information …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions [...] b. Yaʿaqov; Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammed b. Ḥayyim [al-Nafūsī]; Avraham b. Shemʿaya ha-Ḥaver. …
Letter sent from Acre shortly after it was taken by the Crusaders in 1104, in which a merchant describes to his parents the terrors of …
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Legal document in an idiosyncratic scribal hand. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 19 [I]yyar 5585 AM (1824/25 CE). Stating the amount of money to be paid to …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a certain Abū Ṭāhir containing interesting technical details of the capitation tax administration. The writer heard from Manṣūr al-Dimashqī "may God …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Looks like it might be literary. On verso there is a selection of Hebrew and Aramaic biblical phrases and some …
Letter from Saʿadya b. Avraham, in Ḥevron, to Yeshuʿa b. Yakhin (aka Yeshuʿa b. Thābit), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1080 CE (Gil) or 1075 CE …
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Letter from the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov probably addressed to Ḥananel b. Shemuel. In Hebrew. Probably related to the same communal controversy described in …
Fragment of a Fatimid fiscal report in Arabic script (اطلق سلامة فخر ال… وال… على ال…. السلطانية...). At the top there is an endorsement with …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment. The writer is giving advice that "perhaps will save you and help you in . . . salvation if God …
A few words in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter, unclear regarding what. Four lines from lower left corner of recto (or verso), two lines and a word from upper left corner of verso …
Fragment of a betrothal (qiddushin) deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The groom is probably [...] b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi. The early installment …
Mercantile letter, complete, in Arabic script from Bundar b. Eliya al-ʿAṭṭār to Abū ʿAlī Ismaʿīl b Ḥananya al-Baṣrī (in Fusṭāṭ). Sent with ʿAlī b. Ṭalḥa …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وصل كتابك يا سيدي ومولاي وكبيري اطال الله بقاك وادلم عزك وتائيدك وسعادتك ونعمتك وعدتك
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Order, it seems for a quantity of meat from the butcher.