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Account, listing names with numbers. Probably 14th century or later (among other reasons, since "son of" is written with a nun sofit). Some of the …
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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. …
Fragment of a legal deed. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dates: 1100–38 CE). Probably a deed of a gift, involving Abū l-Jūd, Ṣedaqa, and …
Literary.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentioning expenditures in quantities of dirhams for hired workers such as inspectors (mufattishūn), muʿarrifūn(?), …
Statement that a legal transaction (qinyan) was made by the Egyptian cheesemonger (al-jabbān al-miṣrī) Abū l-Faḍl b. ʿIwaḍ known as Ibn al-[...] that he commits …
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Calligraphically written. The subject matter is communal strife; some wicked person is stirring up trouble, and the results are government decrees …
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Note from a communal official probably addressed to Avraham Maimonides, requesting guidance regarding distribution of funds. Mentions the shammash, the gabbay, and the ḥazzan. Most …
Epistle from Avraham b. Shabbetay, the Ḥaver of Minyat Zifta, to the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh, congratulating the recipient for his success in dealing with …
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Small fragment in Hebrew script. Possibly literary.
Informal note addressed to Abū l-Faraj. Mainly in Arabic script, with several words in Hebrew (in Hebrew script). The sender is making a request concerning …
IB II, 44. Memorandum from Yosef b. Avraham to Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī. Aden, 1130s. See also Moss. IV,84.2 (PGPID 36651). In the margin: من عدن الى(؟) …
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Small fragment of a business letter in Arabic script.
Order of payment (حوالة) in Arabic script. The "judge" (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 5 dinars to the bearer. On verso, in Judaeo-Arabic, the name …
Mercantile letter. Dating: Probably 11th century. The sender's hand may be known. His relationship with the addressee is very strained. He complains of his bad …
Letter from Mordechai b. Yizhaq Shraga Feivish, perhaps in Rafah, to R. Yom Tov the Av Beit Din of Cairo, probably Yom Tov Israel Cherezli …
Lower left corner of a fiscal document in Arabic script. Related to agrarian administration. On verso there is piyyut.
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Minute fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a table listing names and grave locations in Nāblus (Shekhem) and perhaps other cities. A few partial gravesite entries are visible alongside an …
Verso: Either a prayer addressed to God or a petition addressed to a dignitary. In Arabic script. "... allahumma... ...asʾaluka an tushaʿshiʿa lanā ḥayāt al-[...] …
Small fragment of an official document, maybe a decree: الخراجية على نص من نسخ . . .
Legal record (#74) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 25v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 1r: …
Family and/or business letter addressed to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely late 12th or early 13th century. The sender is sick and throws up …
Fragment from the bottom of a power of attorney. May mention Aden (first line). Mentions the date 5 Ṣafar 584 AH = 5 April 1188 …
Two bifolios of a notebook containing various types of text in a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic (in Arabic script). The first page includes a …
Judaeo-Arabic literary work, very damaged.
Accounts in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew script. At least in part concerning wine making (al-nabīdh... al-muwallad...).
Accounts for the sale of tin (qaṣṭīr). Mentioning Nahray b. Nissim. A total number of 3,500 (a weight?) is mentioned. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Leaf 1: end of a discussion of the cycles of each planet and their astrological importance, followed by a description of each of the planets. …
Draft of a legal document written on a long vertical strip of parchment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Describing a …
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The following sale was effected with one hand clasp: 6 ⅔ out of 24 common, undivided shares in the old building consisting of t…
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Fragment of a Qaraite ketubba. Bride: [...] bt. Sahlawayh b. Ḥayyim. Groom: Ḥesed (presumably Abū Naṣr al-Tustarī). (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. C - (fol.2) Tiny fragment of a literary text.
Personal letter from Jerusalem – February 6 1953 CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 118) – in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …
Probably accounts. Rudimentary hand.
14 pages of a Persian treatise on poetic meters and general eloquence. The text of the treatise may be found on pages 3–4 and 7–18. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen? Dating: 12th century. Mentions people such as Abū l-Qāsim, al-Neʾeman, al-Ḥemdat and Shemuel al-Ṣiqillī. Mentions commodities such …
Commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates. Mentions drunkenness.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
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Letter fragment, faded, mentioning Nissim. Wide line spacing. Greetings also to "hadrat ha-Rav ha-Rav ha-Muvhaq" and "all his students and servants." Reused on recto for …
Recto: liturgical text, including Psalms 136:9 and Exodus 6:1. Verso: accounts in Arabic in red ink. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Latin script.
Halakhic text, possibly a responsum, concerning a man marrying a woman who then ‘hates’ (divorces) her. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning items that were sent with Abū Surūr and others with Makhlūf al-Nafūsī (for Sibāʿ) and others with ʿAṭāʾ b. Hilāl. Dated: …
Letter from Kathīr b. Abū Naṣr al-Ḥazzān, unknown location, to his son Bū l-Ḥasan b. Kathīr, in Abyār. C/o the shop of ʿAmmār al-Yahūdī. In …
Text in Arabic, continued on verso, mentioning ʿUmar b. Saʿīd and ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿUmar. Verso: names of months, in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL.)
Notes for the drawing up of legal documents. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto is for a deed involving something "being handed …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133/34 CE. Bill of release between a woman, [..]ma bt. Abū …