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Partnership agreement dated 1821 CE (Sivan [55]81) between Shelomo b. ידע (?) and Shelomo ha-Levi [here there is an unfortunately placed archival sticker] and Moshe …
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Lists of dates and numbers of unclear significance.
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Small fragment of a power of attorney (שטר אורכתא). Mentioning al-Iskandaranī. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter, consisting mainly of greetings, from Yehuda Levi to his family, including his brother-in-law Sulaymān, his brother Raḥamīm, his cousin Sawād, and the addressee’s sister, …
Bifolium from a halakhic treatise. Likely in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100–38). Regarding a partnership. Mentions Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and [...]n ha-Kohen. Written on a Wednesday.
Verso and bottom of recto: Amulet(s) for Makārim b. Nujūm to give him charm and grace and to silence his enemies. (Information from CUDL.)
May God make eternal the reign of the exalted seat, the [mighty] lord, [(commander of) the armies, sword (of Islam),]
the defender (of mankind), …
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Karaite bill of release of a debt related to inheritance. Not dated but probably 18th century
Receipt for a payment of 13 Kāmilī dirhams. The designation of the dirhams as Kāmilī dates the document to after 1225 CE, during the reign …
Tiny fragment in Hebrew characters.
Non-Geniza. Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo (1755–1826) to the ḥakhams Shemuel Kohen and Yosef Shelomo, in Yevpatoria (גוזלווא). Dated: 1820 CE. Contains an intricate legal …
Letter in Arabic script. Written in a shaky hand. Describing a legal case, involving a Jew and 10 dinars. On verso there are greetings and …
Poem in Arabic and an unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
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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Writ of agency written in Tyre, dated 18 Shevat 4771 (25 January 1011). Ḥalfon b. Moses b. Aaron (Ibn Abī Qīda), the "representative of the …
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Accounts, in Arabic and Coptic numerals.
An appeal to the heads of the Karaite leaders in Lithuania
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Accounts in Arabic numerals and names in Judeo-Arabic – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 99) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad …
Memorial or genealogy list. Naming the members of various families: the house of al-iskāf (the tailor)... the house of Umm ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz... the house of …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small and damaged fragment from the top of a letter. Quotes Isaiah 43 כִּי תֵלֵךְ בְּמוֹ אֵשׁ לֹא תִכָּוֶה. AA/ASE
The beginnings of the lines of an official document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyut (same scribe as T-S NS 111.63 and others?). Might …
Payroll account similar to T-S Misc.8.100, App. B 41, partly in the same hand and noting mostly the same names and sums for the 28th, …
One side: Draft of the beginning of a letter from a wretched prisoner in "the dungeon" (al-muṭbaq). In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly poetry and not a letter. …
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Report or official correspondence in Arabic script. Approximately 5 to 6 lines are preserved. Unclear how much of the substance is preserved. Mentions "وقد طالع …
Literary text in Arabic script. Faded.
Likely the introduction to a literary text, but could be a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document from Thessaloniki, dated May 1722 CE (20 Iyyar 5482 AM). Shemuel Laros aka Bekhor (בכור) declares that a certain Raḥel does not owe …
Qaraite bill of divorce formulary
Accounts in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Listing goods and names.
Marriage contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: 7 Shevat 5480 AM, which is 1720 CE. Groom: Nissim b. ʿAmram b. Shemuel. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Yeshuʿa b. …
Large bifolio covered with various pen trials and writing exercises in Hebrew script. Dating: ca. 12th century. There is one line of documentary interest on …
List. An almost entirely 'egalitarian' list of contributors from the first half of the eleventh century' (Goitein) Forty-four persons pledge 1/2 (dirham), nine parties, of …
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Maḥalla. Dated: 12 Adar 1457 (26 February 1146). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
Legal document concerning a husband who wanted to travel to see his mother and relatives and his wife took him to court for it. He …
Interesting letter in calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic, probably 15th century or later, full of creative spellings, probably from someone whose mother tongue was not Arabic. The writer …
Accounts in Arabic on verso and perhaps recto. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Recto: accounts submitted by Abū l-Barakāt Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to al-Talmid Abu l-Faraj, headed by مملوكه שלמה אמת. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. The …
Beginning of an informal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. It reads, "They sent (or: send) the little paper for al-Shaykh al-Asʿad al-Levi the cantor, the son of …
List, commercial. Late. A variety of the entries list "builders" (בנאין) so perhaps some figures represent construction costs. Dated: [Dhū] l-Qaʿda 933 AH (1527 CE), …
Religious exegesis – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 257) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Beginning of the ketubah of Avraham b. Yosef and Husn. Some of the dowry list is preserved. AA
Ketubba, probably. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Contains a menstrual purity clause. See also record for T-S AS 145.149.
Court deposition in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: 1406 Seleucid, which is 1094/95 CE. Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Menashshe accuses his wife Milāḥ …
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Prenuptial contract on the occasion of a betrothal (erusin/shiddukhin). Groom: Moshe b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Bride: [...] bt. Shemarya ha-Kohen (her name is left blank). Stipulating …
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Accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Bū l-Ḥasan (בלחסן).