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Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: [4]76[.] AM, which places it in the first decade of the 11th century. Mentions "all of my claims in the …
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Upper fragment: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions business matters, including dealings …
Printed. Ḥumash with Ladino translation and commentary.
Letter mentioning Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn and Abū Ibrā[hīm]. (Information from CUDL)
Bottom part of a communal letter in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides. Refers to an "aforementioned" (al-madhkūra) someone or something. Almost all …
Legal record (#72) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 23v-24r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: final day (סלך/سلخ) …
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A 16-page Ottoman-era notebook with diverse contents. Pages 1–2: Judaeo-Arabic translation of Daniel 1:4–10. "Chief of the eunuchs" is translated as "Sārī l-Aghawāt." There follow …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentioning silk, mercury, and ambergris among other things. Mentions Khiyār.
Legal record (#12) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 1r-v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew with some terms in …
Probably two different Arabic-script documents glued together. On verso there is piyyut. (1) List of notables' names. E.g., the amir Shahīr al-Mulk; the ustādh Murtajā; …
Verso: legal record, unfinished. Concerning a dispute between Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Shelomo Ibn al-Tawwazī and his father-in-law Abū Manṣūr Aharon b. Mevasser al-Zayyāt. Describing …
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Medical text in Arabic, seemingly about the use of animal products.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly materia medica: sharāb (syrup); ṭabāshīr; samgh (=ṣamgh, gum); sabr (=ṣabr) soqoṭrī (=Socotrene aloe). Also mentions [...] b. al-Rūmiyya ('the son of …
Letter. Personal letter in which the writer reassures the recipient that he had acted according to his wishes and delivered five letters to his brothers-in-law …
Official letter from the Yeshiva to a notable whose name is torn away. In Hebrew for the exordium and Judaeo-Arabic for the body. Dating: 11th …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Monograph, Rabbinica. Fol. 1r-1v: specimen writ of divorce, with a few instructions in Judaeo-Arabic. There are two witness names listed: Reʾuven b. Yaʿaqov and Gilʿad …
A damaged leaf from a book of legal documents or monograph.
A letter to Ya'aqov Fransin in Rashid Also mentioned Nissim Faranji. 15th century?
Unidentified, possibly a list. (Information from CUDL)
Bifolio of accounts. Dated on the verso Adar II-Tammuz 5627 AM (March-July 1867 CE). Many of the names are abbreviated beyond direct recognition but a …
Recto: Note to a man with many titles. In the margin there is the actual information: someone had gone to Rashid and Abu l-Faraj and …
Fragment of a letter. Describing how a settlement (על דרך שלום) was achieved or should be achieved with Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Kohen. The sender urges people …
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Medical prescription. In Arabic script. Looks like a different hand than the letter on recto.
Probably a letter fragment in Arabic.
Two copies of letters. (1) From Sherira Gaon and his son Hayye to the Palestinian gaon Shemuʾel b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Little of substance is preserved. …
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Letter addressed to a certain Shemuʾel. In Hebrew. Large but very damaged. Goitein identifies the hand as "European." Mentions Yehoshuaʿ and Moshe. Also mentions a …
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Prayer in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew ending "God the exalted is the one asked to lift the veil of ignorance from us, amen." …
Letter addressed to Yiṣḥaq Yaʿaqov. In Hebrew. Dating: Probably 16th century. Mentions the trade in raisins. Mentions various worries about 'the house' and the need …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Fragment from the right margin. Mentions saffron. Mentions מגיד (Majīd). Mentions the term "muṭarraḥa" (מטרחה) which is …
Petition from Avraham al-Qushāshī to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. He says that he used to work and earn a living like everyone else [but now he is …
Literary fragment.
Small fragment of a state document with a large ʿalāma at upper left. Mentions the name ʿAbd al-Karīm b. al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b. al-Ḥājj [...]. Dating: …
Ismāʿīlī material in Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be the introduction to a copy of the 'waṣiyya' written by al-Manṣūr Billāh Amīr al-Mu'minīn (=the 3rd Fatimid caliph, …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Essentially unreadable without special imaging.
Tiny fragment in calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.
Unidentified text, maybe documentary. The hand resembles that of Maimonides.
Letter from Aharon ha-Kohen b. Namir to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Moshe. The writer informs the addressee that the item he expects is now on its …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (ca. 1100–38 CE). One of the parties is [...] …
Much damaged small fragment from a top of a letter. AA
Verso (original use): The end of one line in calligraphic Arabic script from a state document, perhaps a decree. . ال الديوان عرضا فدل على …
Ketubba written by Yefet b. David
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Location: Fustat. Refers to the ending of a man's period of …
Possibly part of a letter. In Arabic script. The first words of about a dozen lines are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Beginning of a letter from a certain Abū l-Faraj to "the judge" (perhaps Eliyyahu the Judge). Dating: ca. early 13th century. Opening with blessings and …
Account of building operations ca. 1240. Written on a sheet of paper made into a booklet of four leaves, it is a record of current …
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Letter (or petition or report) in Arabic script. Mainly the formulaic beginning is preserved with the sender's prayers for the addressee's longevity.