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Medical prescriptions in Judaeo-Arabic, or perhaps drafts for a medical treatise. The text on recto contains many words crossed out and many corrections. The main …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts of a perfumer; list of purchasers of ʿabīr perfume, musk, and salūkha (probably identical with salīkha, an aromatic bark resembling cassia). Names seem mostly …
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Marriage document, bill of conditions שטר תנאים issued in Rashid (Rosetta). Undated, but this document must have been issued at the same time as the …
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Prescription or recipe. In Arabic script. The first words read, "gum arabic and tragacanth and dragons' blood" (ṣamgh ʿarabī wa-kathīrā' wa-dam akhawayn).
Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 5 dinars to the bearer. See T-S AS 179.212 (PGPID 36725) and …
Tax receipt. Trigger: addā.
Many small fragments in Arabic.
State document, in Arabic script. Five faded lines on a small paper fragment. Mentions the state official Fakhr al-Mulk. A Fatimid state official by the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. Dated: Shaʿbān 592 = June/July 1196 CE. Mentions Bū Saʿd.
Letter or legal declaration (aqūl...), written by a certain Shelomo. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. What remains is deferential greetings and praises. Verso: Jottings including the name Shelomo (probably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) and Yūsuf b. Moshe.
Left fragment: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions wine and raisins. Mentions Ḥakīm. The hand is known from many similar fragments (e.g. JRL B 3671 (PGPID 28594)). …
Letter describing a sea voyage from Tripoli to Sicily (CUDL). “Of another Jew we read in a Hebrew letter that in a large ship, in …
Bill of divorce, fragment. The husband's name is not preserved. Wife: Gharb bt. Abū l-M[...] Tamim b. Bishr. Scribed and signed by the court scribe …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Dating: 15th–17th century. Addresses Aharon and Mordekhay, one or both of whom may be the sender's maternal uncle (khālī). …
Calligraphic letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq in Fustat to Yeshua b. Ismail asking whether Nahray b. Nissim had gone to the Egyptian country-side and sold …
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Fragmentary list of contributions, it seems in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, details of about twenty-five preserved: five giving 1, eight giving 1/2, two …
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Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that he approached [Abū] Nāṣr Kātib al-Jaysh (=Ḥesed b. Sahl al-Tustarī?) and discussed …
List of commodities and prices. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi b. Moshe (active 1171–95 CE) and his deputy Shelomo. In Hebrew. The sender is …
IB III, 29a. Poem composed and written by Avraham Ibn Yijū in honor of Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Labrāt Ibn Sughmār. Location: Yemen. Dating: ca. …
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Extensive accounts in Ladino with at least one full date on ENA 3306.8r in the upper left corner: ״27 תשרי [הת]קסח״ which is 27 Tishrei …
Table in Arabic script and other cryptic markings (VMR).
A leaf from a work on sexual medicine & aphrodisiacs in Arabic.
Badly effaced legal document dealing with inheritance and a financial settlement - probably a deed of release. Mentions 40 dinars, Salāma bt. Mubārak, Khalfa b. …
Only a few words in Judaeo-Arabic are legibly preserved, probably from a literary text. (Information in part from CUDL)
One line from a state document, possibly a decree, praising somebody: وابائه(؟) خير(؟) جميل الراي فيك وما عهد من استيقاف(؟) مقاصدك ومساعيك. Reused for a …
Small fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto: late letter, to someone described as ‘a great man among giants’ and ‘the great tamarisk’, who is also praised as ‘[possessing more wisdom] than …
Legal record (#42). Deposition of securities (thabat al-ḥawā'ij). Dated: Monday, 28 Sivan 1467 Seleucid. These valuable items (aʿlāq), some of which are taken from the …
Agreement between Shelomo b. Kathīr and Barhūn b. Sahlān, the husband of his daughter Fāʾiza, in which Barhūn undertakes to redeem the silver vessels belonging …
פאיזה זוגה ברהון בן סהלאן
Letter, calligraphic, to the two sons of Yeshua (one is named Abū Naṣr), probably asking for help. It looks like the sender may have used …
IB II, 50. Memorandum from Khalaf b. Isḥāq al-Yamanī. In Arabic script, with additional notes in Judaeo-Arabic. Ordering pharmaceuticals from Egypt. There is an entire …
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Possibly a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.
Small legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Might join with PGPID 16507. Mentions a period of two years, …
Three small fragments from a legal deed concerning real estate and a husband and wife. Describing various properties and boundaries, mentioning the names Ṣedaqa, Iṣḥāq, …
Small fragment from an official report or petition. The ends of 3 lines are preserved. المملو]ك ينهي . . .
Receipt for someone's capitation tax in Fustat for the year 6[..] AH (approx. 13th century CE). Needs examination.
Recto: List of names on the back of a recycled document in Arabic, such as: Yahuda al-Rūmī, Yaʿacov b. Ṣadaqa, and others. Medieval-era. Requires further …
Torn, small Fragment. On recto list of items, probably from am inventory of a private individual, maybe after his death. Among the items various textiles, …
Blank. May belong together with ENA 2481.21 and/or ENA 2481.22.
Letter in Hebrew sent by David Molina. Maybe a draft. Dating: First half of the 16th century, since David Molina appears also in T-S NS …
Alphabetical practice in Hebrew script.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: first decade of Tammuz 1425 Seleucid = June 1114 CE, with the signing postponed …
List of names in Arabic script. Mentions Abū Naṣr, Abū Kathīr, Ibn al-Makḥūl. On the other side there is Hebrew poetry.