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Template or draft of a formula of praise for a legal authority (he is compared to Rabba bar bar Ḥanna), with the space for the …
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Bill of release. Dated: Sunday, 12 Adar II 4826 = 12 March 1066 CE. Goitein describes it as the end of an enormous deed containing …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his 'father.' In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he arrived in Qalyūb. He suffered a setback (izʿāj... qāsaytu shidda...) en …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Might mention the currency jadīd/cedid.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the first few lines and the address are preserved. Dating: Looks late, perhaps 14th century or later.
Possibly a legal document. In Arabic script. Opens with a basmala and "Hādhā...", and then maybe iqrār, followed by استاجر, meaning lease, but the beginning …
State document, Arabic script. Decree of al-Ḥāfiẓ concerning the monks of Mt. Sinai. Al-Ḥāfiẓ orders his military governor of al-Ṭūr, Mutawallī al-Dawla, to extend his …
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Legal document. The beginnings of 8 lines are preserved. Involves 3 dinars, a druggist, and someone named Ṭāhir.
Instructions for how to write a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late, perhaps 15th- or 16th-century. There may be a full date in the upper left corner of the verso: Shaʿabān ____[?]. Some …
Top of a tax receipt. There is a lot of text. Might be from the dossier of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb? Needs examination.
List of food and other items with values in Greek/Coptic numerals underneath. E.g., sesame oil, linseed oil, olive oil, soap, lemon, onion, chickpea, leek, mastic, …
Recto: Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with widened space between the lines.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter to from Eliyyahu b. Zekharya to Yosef ha-Talmid. Mentions the arrival of something. Mentions Alexandria. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Probably a prenuptial agreement or agreement between spouses, since there is a condition …
Prayers in Arabic script. Contains verses from the Qurʾān, precisely the verse 48:3.
Legal record(s). Dated: 1608 Seleucid = 1296/96 CE. The first involves Ḥayyim b. Ḥananʾel, (his wife?) Shamsiyya bt. Ṣadoq, and a delayed marriage payment of …
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. The beginnings of four lines are preserved. Refers to the beginning of the ebbing of the Nile. The rest …
Minute fragment from a letter. Mentions a ship.
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Dating: 1066–1108 CE, but this range can be narrowed further …
Main Points of the Will
of Wuḥsha, the Broker.
To my brother shall be given one hundred dinars
from the objects given to me as securit…
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Bottom fragment - state document, decree, in Arabic script. Four fragmented words reused for a Hebrew literary text. The text may read as "ان بقلم …
Jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
List of interesting laqabs, maybe of state officials, e.g., Humām al-Dawla, Qamr al-Dawla, and Sayf al-Islām.
Letter from Mūsā b. Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥisda, in middle Egypt, to Yosef b. ʿAwkal. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 11th century. One of two letters (see …
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Bifolio from a collection of legal documents from Yemen. The first document on f. 1r is in a different, cruder, hand to the rest, and …
Letter, quoting Proverbs 3:4. This is a letter of appeal for charity. "God {knows} that I have only sent this petition groveling in shame." (Information …
Decree of investiture(?); two lines widely spaced. Contains rhymed prose in praise of someone: "the stars in the sky.......in their rotation like the order of …
Recto: family letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Sarah bt. Maymūn, mentioning Sarah’s cousin, the mother of the writer, Mūsā the ugly (al-kāfūsh?)) and Yiṣḥaq the …
Mostly a liturgical text, but on verso remains of few words from an Arabic document - needs examination.
Probably two fragments from the same document, but too dark to read. Seems like a letter. AA
Literary treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Soteriological: recounting the wars heralding the messianic era, involving Mashiaḥ ben David and Mashiaḥ ben Efrayim. Mentions the Byzantines, the Franks, …
Court ledger in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment of a bifolio; three columns of text are partially preserved. Recto: …
Legal formulary. In Hebrew.
Either a poetic introduction to a letter from the Yeshiva of Jerusalem to the community of Aleppo, or a letter that is in its entirety …
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: probably Mamluk-era. Mentions a funduq. Covered with later jottings, mainly in Arabic script but with some Hebrew script as well. …
Marriage agreement of Perahya b. Natan and Sitt al-Ghiyār, daughter of Mevorakh. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 405, and IV, p. 342, and from …
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Four pages from a Rabbanite court ledger with copies of 17 different legal documents (witness names appear in the hand of the scribe). All are …
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Calendar in Hebrew, badly damaged. The year 5581 AM is barely visible in the upper right corner (1820/21 CE).
Some sort of list in Arabic script. Seems to include names of people and locations. On verso there are a few words in Hebrew script.
Verso: Mercantile account ledger. Mentioning many names and commodities of long-distance trade. E.g., Abū ʿAbdallāh; pepper; Al-Andalusī; saffron; al-Fāsī.
Request for a fatwā (or possibly a petition or official report, or simply a letter). In Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Begins with a taqbīl …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ca. 13th century. The sender expresses his pure love for the addressee, quoting Avot 5:16. Similar content …
Literary text, unidentified.
Recipes in Arabic script, probably medical (one is headed "for urinary retention"). Dating: Late, based on the hand and the paper. There follows a very …
Accounts in Hebrew script. Judaeo-Persian?
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions "the matter of the apostates" (קצה אלמינים); "the response to the letter …
Probably fragment from accounts, mentioning a raṭl of sugar candy (sukkar nabāt) and quantities of ounces of other items including chebulic myrobalan; jottings and writing …
Legal documents (one on recto, one on verso). In Arabic script. Likely deeds of sale, since there appear to be descriptions of properties. Needs examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably 13th-century or later, from a physician or druggist to a respected person named Avraham who also has a son named Shelomo. …