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Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic script. الله تعالى في ذلك... قد تعطل شغله في هذه... قليل جدا وقد...خمس احمال صحبة اصغر مماليكه.
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Andalusian Hebrew poetry, including a muwashshaḥ with a kharja partially in Arabic, mentioning 'the lions of Seville in the garb of a merchant.'
Letter addressed to 'Rabbenu [...]' in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a dispute and not being able to put up with a qāḍī (קלת לא נחנא נטיק אלקאטי...); …
Ledger bifolium in Arabic dated on the recto's left heading as Rabi' II 1238 AH which is 1822 CE. The scribal hand is highly trained …
Letter written by the assistant of the Nagid Ishaq Sholal to Alexandria. Dating: early 16th century. Written during a period when the Nagid was "in …
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Petition from Ṣāliḥ al-Khaybārī, a Jew from the community of Baghdad, to the Fatimid amīr Tāj al-Dawla. In Arabic script. Ṣāliḥ petitions regarding a miserable …
رجل …
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Autograph letter by Avraham Maimonides to Moshe b. Peraḥyā Ben Yiju, the muqaddam of Minyat Ghamr and Minyat Zifta. Dated: 20th day of the Omer …
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Hebrew poetry.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. There is an additional note in Judaeo-Arabic signed by Shelomo [b. Eliyyahu?], perhaps describing the contents of the account. Dated: Tuesday, 9 …
Fragment of a petition, or draft. Nothing is preserved except for the identification of the petitioners: al-ʿabīd al-mamālīk jamāʿat al-yahūd, i.e., a group or community …
Tax receipt?
Small fragment of a legal document, probably a ketubba.
Court record in the handwriting of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dated: Thursday, 21 Ṭevet 1357 = 2 January January 1046 CE. Manṣūr b. Mukhtar and his …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Literary
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Very faded.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Debt contract. Debtor: Ṣibyān b. Abū Ṣaʿd Efrayim b. Ṣibyān ha-Kohen. Creditor: Abū …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 18th or 19th century. Needs further examination.
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. All are in Arabic script. Top right and top left belong to a similar work. Bottom left is …
Fiscal document, reused for the Talmud commentary of Rav Nissim Gaʾon. Needs further examination. T-S Ar.47.55 was published by Sheraga Abramson, Rav Nissim Gaʾon, pp. …
IB I, 29. Court proceedings in which the two brothers, Abū l-Faḍl Shela (for this identification, see T-S 10J21.11 | PGPID 2956) and Maʿālī, the …
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Accounts, in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Sorted in three columns: ʿidda, arṭāl, thaman. Mentions different dates in the month of Shaʿbān of an unmentioned …
Text in an unidentified Romance language in Latin script. Needs examination.
Medical treatise in Arabic script.
Leaf 1 and f. 2v: poem written to a man called Shemuel. F. 2r: pen exercises. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter (possibly a copy, as it is blank on verso and is set out more like a page of text than a letter) sending greetings …
Minute fragment from a the end of a legal signed by Shelomo and David Halevi b. Ya'aqov. AA
Accounts in Ladino dated in the first line of the recto as 8 Elul 5588 AM which is 18 August 1828CE. There are many detailed …
Possibly a legal text. Mentions sums of money including silver and 50 gold coins. Hand of Shelomo b. Yehuda? Very faded. Needs further examination.
Arabic script (VMR)
Literary text, in Arabic script. Mentions the fall of Adam from heaven on a particular mountain and a mythical golden sparrow in heaven. The narrator …
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic referring to 'our rabbi Maṣliaḥ' and possibly a location (Minyat [...]).
Very damaged fragment of a ketubah. The bride's name is Husn. AA
44 pages of a literary treatise, at one point at least citing a work by Isaac Luria (p.6).
Petition. In Arabic script. From Yaḥyā al-Tājir. The nature of the request is not clear, nor is it clear how much is missing from the …
Marriage contract. Location: Abyār. Dated: Friday, 4 Ṭevet 4831 AM = 10 December 1070 CE. Groom: Fuḍayl b. Yosef. Bride: Sittūnā bt. Ṣāliḥ. (Information from …
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Small fragment of a letter/petition. Recto is probably the tarjama: [aṣghar] mamalīkihī Hibatallāh b. Bū Naṣr. Verso is probably part of the address: hadrat... (Information …
Letter in which Abu al-Barakat b. Tayyib apologizes for not having sent a certain sum owed by Abū l-Ṭāhir. He mentions that his son is …
Memorial list. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
בית בן ברוך ישראלים אלקאבלה בית אמהא
ברוך וח יפת וח שארית הלל וח נתנאל
Unidentified text in Arabic script; may be discussing eye diseases. There also appears to be a numeral. Needs further examination.
Dream interpretation. In Judaeo-Arabic. Information from FGP.
Legal document. Dating: Approximately 15 weeks prior to Ḥeshvan 1451 Seleucid, which is 1139 CE. Concerning a debt of 90 dirhams to be paid in …
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Legal record (#15) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 13-15) Folio 4v
Minute blank fragment
List (fragment) of recipients of charity, mentioning someone who "lives in the golden stone" [this cannot be the correct translation] and also an orphan Ibn …