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Copy of an opening of a letter from Sharira Gaon and his son Hai, to Ya’aqov b. Yosef b. Awkal. Mentions letters and answers that …
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Detailed inventory of the estate of a very wealthy person, including a debt of 125 dinars to tax-farmers. Dating: ca. 1145 CE. Mentions names such …
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Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe some sort of formalized accounts. There are four distinct entries each beginning "wa-waṣala lahū." Reused on recto for …
No Scholarship Records
Accounts in Hebrew and Arabic script, mentioning names such as Abū l-Barakāt, Abū l-Makārim, Abū Saʿd, and quantities of currency. On verso jottings written across …
IB VI, 55. Letter from a certain Yosef, in Aden, to Yosef Ibn Shanju, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Early 16th century, based on the …
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Beginnings of two legal documents and one responsum. The legal documents are from the rabbinical court of Nagid Avraham Maimonides, and the responsum is addressed …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Two fragments edited by Israel Lévi (1900b), current location unknwon. Re-edited by Bornstein (1904) 87-9. Lévi reports having bought them at the great Exposition in …
Fragment from a page about the halakhot and formulae to recite for valid qiddushin.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic. Dated: 13 Rabīʿ I 591 AH = 25 February 1195 CE. Made by two brothers, ʿAlī and Nāṣir b. …
Possibly a letter or collection of formulae. (Information from CUDL)
Mercantile letter fragment mentioning Yehuda b. [...], previous correspondence and quantities of dinars. Dating: 11th century. On parchment. (Information in part from CUDL)
Possibly one line of a state document. ""al-[...] bi-waliyy wulāt al-[...] ... istiḥqāq...""
Letter/petition from a woman to Yakhin Rosh ha-Qehillot. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). She asks for help for her son, …
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Small fragment with the name Makārim b. Maʿālī, another incomplete name ([...] b. Shelomo), and mention of a monthly (payment?). probably from a sketch for …
Accounts and other jottings in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Right side of recto: calculations in Greek/Coptic numerals. Upper left of recto: list …
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Note in the binder at JTS says ENA 3948.3 and ENA 3948.4 were detached from …
Letter from Shelomo b. Ḥayyim b. Shelomo to Avraham ha-Sar b. Natan ‘the Seventh’. Dating: Ca. 1100 CE. Information from CUDL. There is a rhymed …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. The sender complains that people are “opposing me by submitting responsa to the head of the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, likely 16th century, concerning shipping. One of the entries is headed "the ship of Ḥamza Rayyis arriving from Istanbul." Cf. T-S J1.41 …
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). Mentions Armenian bole (ḥajar armanī) …
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. From Yehuda b. Shelomo, the cantor of Damsīs, to an unidentified addressee, who is asked to …
Recto: commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "That man... to you, you said to me several times... I don't know what he needs, and if he asks …
Halakhic work by Hananel b. Shmuel the judge
Recto: letter in Arabic script. May refer to black silk (al-ḥarīr al-aswad). Reused on verso for probably a liturgical text with Judaeo-Arabic instruction יקול. (Information …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe ben Naʿim in Alexandria, to his father Me'ir ben Naʿim and to Se[nyor] David ben Naʿim in Cairo. The …
Accounts. Mentions Abū l_Faraj and Ṭayyib. Mentions sums in dinars and dirhams. Mostly crossed out.
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions prices of different commodities in dirhams and their measure. Headed by the glyph and including diagrams (a rectangle, a triangle …
Letter from Yosef Ibn al-Ashqar to 'the officials of the treasury.' In Hebrew. Dating: second half of the 16th century. Concerning a wikāla containing multiple …
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Dense jottings in both Hebrew and Arabic script, including phrases from letters.
Verso (original use): Bottom of an official letter in Arabic, possibly a petition ("...wa-lahā ḥarasa Allāh ʿizzahā raʾyuhā al-mawaffaq al-kāshifa in shāʾ Allah"). Ends with …
Letter in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides, it seems conveying greetings for the holidays.
Document or notes in Arabic script. Perhaps a draft of a letter or petition. Needs examination. On the other side there is Hebrew literary text. …
Legal declaration (moda'a) in which a man declares that any release or compromise he will do in the future is invalid because he is coerced …
A letter from Yosef b. Eliyyahu Qaraj to Yosef b. Ishaq
Letter from Yehoshuaʿ he-Ḥaver b. Eli, Caesarea (Ḥaṣor), to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. Dating: ca. 1098. Apparently written after the Fatimids had reconquered Palestine. …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding events that happened in the court of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (1127-38) and perhaps some dispute over the distribution of 20 dinars. …
Unidentified text, in a faded Arabic script.
Piyyuṭ. A marginal (ownership?) note reads "Yehuda b. Menaḥem (may he rest in Eden), the judge of Denia in al-Andalus."
Part of a legal document witnessed by ʿEli ha-Kohen b. [...], Yehoshuaʿ, and Avraham, and attested by the Bet Din: Ṭoviyya ‘the Third’ b. [Daniel?], …
The scholar and hazzan Shela ha-Levi gives a loan of 552 dirhams to the silk weaver Efrayim b. Sedaqa, to be paid back in three …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the opening greetings are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. The name [...]r b. Dā'ūd appears in the address. The body of the letter mentions pullets (farārīj) and a …
Unidentified Hebrew; Arabic jottings in the margin, including one document draft mentioning Ibrāhīm b. Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Yahūdī. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Letter, possibly from the physician Abu Zikri (identification based on handwriting and style), to unidentified addressees "who are to me like my parents." Fragment. The …
פלו כאן לי קדרה אלחק מטלוב מא קעדת
פאיש ל[. . .] אדיתהא מן אלגרץ אנא סאלתהא
[. . . . . . . .] אלי א…
Letter fragment from the cantor Yefet b. ʿAmram b. Moshe ha-Mumḥe known as Ibn al-Jāzfīnī, in the Rīf, to the elder and cantor Yakhin b. …
List of names in Arabic script. Most of them crossed out. On verso a few Greek/Coptic numerals. Needs further examination.