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Small fragment with both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. One of the Judaeo-Arabic sections lists the names al-Shaykh al-Makīn and Abū l-Munā, which are familiar from …
Verso (original use): Petition. The bottom 10 lines are preserved. The petitioner puts himself forward for government employment: المحقين مرسوم بالعناية وقبول الامول(؟) في . …
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Printed. Ḥumash with Ladino translation and commentary.
This fragment contains a poem for marriage and part of marriage stipulations. The groom will not take a second wife (ואנה לא יתזוג ולא יתסרא); …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Listing mainly foods, such as sumac, ṭaḥīna, meat, and pomegranate. Written on a bifolium, on the bottom right …
Prescription in Judaeo-Arabic. Two words in Arabic script underneath: yustaʿmal...
Commercial accounts for Abū Yaḥyā Nahray (b. Nissim). Heading: מערפה מא וצל ל . . . . אבי יחיי נהראי. On verso: حساب نهراي ايده …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From the circle of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis. Extremely faded. The beginning and ending are missing. All of recto and part of …
(1-5) . . . and in the sukka. . . the conflict broke out, and they erected mangonels against the city. On the day of Simḥat Tora they took the …
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Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen, asking Abū l-Khayr Khiyār to pay out the price of the gypsum (3 dinars) to the bearer …
IB III, 46. Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Ibn Yijū to his brother Peraḥya b. Yosef Ibn Yijū, in the Perfumers' Quarter in Fustat. Dating: …
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State correspondence, probably from a lower state official to a higher subordinate because a rescript (tawqīʿ) is mentioned in the last line, but it could …
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Letter from Avraham Maghribī to the elder Maʿānī. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. This is a recommendation for charity on behalf of the bearer, the son of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand may be known (that of Nahray?). Mentions a shipment from Būṣīr to Fustat. Mentions sums …
Accounts on the recto and verso, related to sales and expenses of raisins (zabīb). Dating is 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography but the …
Verso (original use): State (fiscal) document in Arabic script. Mentions 300-something al-kharājiyya (a year? in which case this would be ~1009 CE at latest). There …
Letter, fragmentary, from Tyre in Hebrew and Arabic, including a Passover greeting and mentioning Mevorakh ha-Kohen b. Natan (active during the 1130's and 1140's in …
Informal note from Abū l-Majd and Abū l-Faraj to 'the kind brother' (al-akh al-shafīq) Abū ʿAlī and to Abū Manṣūr. In rudimentary hand and spelling. …
Letter fragment (part of the beginning). "...before reading it, and [the slave] thanked God for the health of his master. The slave had gone up …
Legal document or possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 15th or 16th century. Involves Alexandria, a certain Yeshuʿa, a sum of money, and …
Recto: Praises for the King Don Pedro, in Hebrew, followed by some Hebrew poetry. In a fifteenth- or sixteenth-century Sephardi scribal hand. Verso: Fragmented instructions …
Legal case from 1100. Shemuel b. Natan he-haver - a well known figure in the Jewish court - now appears as a litigant and sues …
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Small fragment from an engagement deed, written under the authority of Netanel Halevi, based on the phrase נסיכנו ונשיא אלהים ב[תוכנו]. AA
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Minute fragment from a the end of a legal signed by Shelomo and David Halevi b. Ya'aqov. AA
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment. Perhaps a business partnership agreement. (Information from CUDL)
Liturgical instructions in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Probably a marriage contract (ketubba), mentioning quantities of dinars. Hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? (Information in part from CUDL)
Literary text in Spanish, in a Castilian hand. Legible words include "contraparte" and "a pagarle." Dating: 14th century. Information kindly provided by Lluís Sales i …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment from near the beginning. 3 full lines are preserved, and portions of another ~8 lines. The content is quite obscure. …
Agreement contract for the printing of a book of sermons and exegesis on the Torah between the owner of a press in Jerusalem and Rabbi …
Small fragment from the top of an official-looking document, with an ʿalāma at the top and reference to tax farming (ḍamān or ḍummān).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto is extremely damaged/faded, while verso is mostly legible. The hand may be known. Recto mentions ʿImrān; a woman; legal proceedings; corrupt …
Literary text (but framed as a letter responding to questions). In Judaeo-Arabic. Discussion of the four primary causes of damage: ha-shor, ha-bor, ha-mav'eh and ha-hev'er …
Letter from Faraj, the emancipated slave of Barhun al-Taharti, Qayrawan, to Yosef b. Awkal and his two sons.
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Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 4 Ṣafar 735 AH = 4 October 1334 CE. Sitt al-ʿAdā(?) bt. ʿAbd al-Karīm confirms to have received from …
State-issued receipt in Arabic. From the first administrative section of Egypt: "Qism al-Awwal Qalyubiyya" (there were 24 administrative sections). Dating: the end of (غاية) ___(month …
Letter drafts in Arabic script. Late.
Legal document or account in Arabic script, referring to "every month in the name ʿAbd al-Raḥīm" and payments. On verso there is piyyut. (Information in …
Verso (original use): Unidentified document in Arabic script. Possibly the bottom of a tax receipt or other state document.
Receipt. Some letter or petition-like text on the other side (al-ḥāja dāʿiya ilā...).
Order of payment in Arabic script. Mentions a name, 5 dinars, and a date. Additional jottings on verso. Probably belongs with T-S AS 151.132, T-S …
Accounts. 7 pages. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Legal document from Cairo, dated 28 December 1812 CE (25 Tevet 5570 AM) in which David Dayyan b. Avraham declares that he owes 12000 silver …
A long letter from the communities of Poland and Lithuania to Shlumiel b. Shmuel.
Legal document. Small piece from the end of a legal document. Probably from a draft. On verso only the validation phrase, in a different hand. …
Recto: halakhic query, probably addressed to a member of the Maimonides family, probably Avraham Maimonides. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Efrayim b. Sulaymān to [Abū] ʿAlī al-Kohen. (Information from CUDL)