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Synagogue accounts. Dating: 18th or 19th century. Probably headed Seder Balaq rather than Seder Kalla (as the Baker/Polliack catalog has it). List of names and …
No Scholarship Records
Palimpsest. This parchment contained an Arabic legal document, which was scraped. The part on recto refers to [...] b. Yaḥyā al-ʿAfṣī (the gallnut merchant) and …
Letter sent from Qayrawān by Yosef b. Khalfa to Khalluf b. Faraḥ b. al-Zarbī, probably in Fustat dealing with goods and their prices in Palermo. …
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Four lines of an official letter in Arabic script. Mentions the amīr Shihāb al-Dīn (last line). Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic halakhic discussion.
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IB ח94. Draft of a letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, apparently in Damascus, to R. Ḥiyya. Dating: Ca. 1145–46 CE. This document was not …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter, poetic, contains mostly blessings, ending 'to our fourth (= fourth of the yeshiva) rabbi son [of ...],' that is, Masliah Gaon. ENA 2806.5–7 are …
Jottings of documents - needs examination.
Colophon or ownership note on a book cover. 'This booklet belongs to Yiṣḥaq b. Ghālib ha-Ḥazzan (the cantor).' Dating: first half of the 12th century, …
Lower fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with a poem in Hebrew mourning separation and praising the addressee (אהה עלי אחים אשר היו אגודה והפרידם זמן …
Table of Greek/Coptic numerals.
State document, chancery hand with elegant line spacing, in Arabic script. Mentions "mamlūkuhu" and "khidmatihi". Needs examination.
Letter opening, preserving only the shawqiyya, from Seʿayda b. Isḥāq to a certain respected Elʿazar.
Letter of appeal for charity. From Yeḥizqiyyahu b. Shelomo ha-Ṣarfati ("the Frenchman") to Yosef ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Long letter containing rhymed prose and biblical quotations. In …
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Unidentified document in very crabbed Arabic script. Might be repetitions of the same phrases over and over again, or possibly a magical text. ASE/MR
List of items including 'Iraqi purple (dye)'.
Fragment of a document in Judaeo-Arabic. Contains legalistic language but is written in a crude hand - possibly a copy of an original document. Refers …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Handwriting of Avraham Maimonides. Addressed to al-Shaykh al-Melammed Tamīm(?). Telling him to ask (yataqaḍḍā ilā) Maḥāsin al-Ṭabīb to attend the court …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi (active late 12th and first part of the 13th century). Gives a very detailed report …
Recto: Very brief letter of appeal. "May [God] except you, my lord, last year you gave us a dinar, the price of two robes (maqṭaʿayn). …
Segment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Mevaser. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's years of service as …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment.
Minute fragment in Hebrew script, medieval-era. Possibly documentary. Requires further examination.
Letter from Abū l-ʿAlā b. Hiba Abū l-Ḥasan(?) to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr al-Mafjār (?) mentioning a letter that contained information regarding a mysterious …
Letter from Shemuel b. ʿEli gaʾaon, Baghdad, with opening praises, copied in the hand of his disciple Yosef b. Yaʿaqov rosh ha-seder. (Information in part …
Petition from an Alexandrian coppersmith. Dating: Fatimid-era based on structure and paleography but could be Ayyubid. The titles of the addressee match that of an …
Fragment of a letter to Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef ha-Kohen the dayyan, mentioning Sulayman b. Yosef. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Qiddush for passover and calendrical mnemonics.
Literary work in Arabic script. Lexicographic? Citing aphorisms and verses of poetry, and seems to be explaining the usage of aʿwar.
Several alchemical recipes written at all angles to each other.
Letter 3 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letter 3 responds to a letter from …
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Letter addressed to Abū l-Khayr b. Nissim. Small fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Not much is preserved beyond the opening salutations. …
Letter from Malkiel Ashkenazi to his brother Moses in Egypt. Family letter from Malkiel Ashkenazai fro Hebron (mid. 16th century) to his brother Moshe in …
Minute fragment from a ketubba. Bride: Sitt al-Milāḥ. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1442, 1443, 1448, or 1449 Seleucid, so 1130–32 …
Very small note, faded and difficult to read. Might be related to illness judging by the words مريض and سرعة. Verso blank.
Megillat Miṣrayim
Top of a document in Arabic script, very faded/damaged.
Upper right corner of a deed of lease.
Invitation from a charitable institution and the Jewish union in Egypt for attending a course of the educational committee and the institute at al-Ẓāhir Square …
Legal formulary of Saadya Gaon (Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq). Information from FGP.
Various jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script including ad raft of a legal declaration (aqūl wa-anā...) in Judaeo-Arabic, made by [...]r ha-Kohen b. Eliyyahu [... …
Bill of release. Dated: Tammuz 1411 Seleucid = June/July 1100 CE. On parchment. Written by Hillel b. ʿEli, who signed the document together with Yiṣḥaq …
Probably the end of a legal document, with signatures by Saʿadya b. Nathan, ʿAmram b. Yefet and Isaac ‘the pauper’ b. Abraham. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment from a letter, probably in the hand of Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov ha-Ṣarfati (the French). AA
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Rayyis Abū l-Riḍā; the word pig (khinzir); and greetings. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Small fragment from the top of a letter, from Manṣūr b. [...].
Fragment of a deed of gift, given in Ramla, approximately 1030.