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A prayer for Karaite nasis
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Fragment of a family letter in Arabic script. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century, possibly from the circle of Eliyyahu the Judge (based on the …
Letter from Ismail b. Yitzhak ha-Andalusi, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1065. Blessings for the holiday. The writer asks to pass an attached …
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Sugar accounting from the administration of the Ayyubid sultan al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb (al-Dīwān al-Ṣāliḥī al-Saʿīdī ...). The dating is established by comparison with TS AS 183.83 …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely in the same hand as T-S 13J7.24. Describing difficult circumstances: The slave of the king came . . . 30,000 dinars …
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Accounts in Arabic script with Indian numerals, reused for pen trials in calligraphic Hebrew script. Both fragments have the usual holes in the margin, but …
Arabic poetry on longing and estrangement from loved ones with the rhyme (ravī) of ʿaīn.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 29 Tammuz 1590 Seleucid = 11 July 1279 CE. Written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active …
Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1100 CE (Goitein's and Frenkel's estimate). No address. Sent to a "brother." Probably sent from Fustat to Alexandria (though …
Small legal fragment, probably a contract of debt. Mentions al-ʿAlāqma, a town in the area of Bilbays. The debtor is Abū l-Bahāʾ b. Abū [...]. …
Recto: Marriage contract (ketubba), with an ornate heading. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, who also signed as a witness. Location: Fustat. The date …
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Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment that begins with the clause setting forth the wife’s obligations (to serve, etc.) and concludes with a dowry list. A minimum …
IB III, 59. Magical text copied by Ibn Yiju, probably in Yemen around 1135. The text begins with a magical square (cf. sudoku) of which …
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Magical text, likely in the hand of the cantor Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211). See also T-S Misc.11.91, ENA 3211.1 + ENA 3211.2, T-S K1.47
Fragment from the publication The Forward discussing fifty-five Jews from the armed forces (the organization of veteran fighters) and one Palestinian, and discussing the sentencing …
Letter of appeal from a blind (maḍrūr) man Moshe who is unable to work and distressed on account of the capitation tax. Rather than asking …
Commercial accounts in Spanish. Dating: perhaps late 15th century, based on the script. Involves Jews. Lists debits and credits ("devo a rebbi Samuel"). Mentions the …
Appears to be 4 pages of rabbinic literature. Very faded.
74 minute fragments (72 paper; 2 vellum), of which one is part of a letter in Arabic (row 5, no. 1). (Information from CUDL)
Very damaged and faded marriage agreement written by Mevorakh b. Nathan (active c. 1150-1181 CE). Some lines from the dowry list is visible, and also …
Draft of a legal testimony. Involves someone who lives in Damsīs, a woman named [...] bt. Ghulayb, someone who defamed her (shanaʿahā), and "standing before …
Minute fragment with few Arabic words - Needs examination
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic dealing with wheat and perhaps other goods. Dated [5]590 AM in the heading (ש׳ תקץ) which is 1829/30 CE. A few names …
Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār al-Madinī, from Palermo, probably to Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī (according to Gil, but the name of the recipient is lost). …
[ אסל אללה] יגעל עאקבתך חסנה ואן לא יכלאך
[ אהתמא]מך בחואיגי ובגמיע מע יכצני
[ ] גמיע אלוגוה פלא אכלאני אללה מן
[ ] גמיע מן יחתאגך תם ו…
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Letter to Yaḥyā ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic, with an elaborate opening in Hebrew. In the hand of one of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis? (Information in part …
Bifolio from a mercantile account ledger in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Letter from an unidentified man, in Jerusalem, to the Nagid Natan Sholal, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Late 15th century. The sender reports that he …
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Court record. In Hebrew. Location: Crete (Candia). Dated: Monday, 1 Tevet 5275 AM = 19 December 1514 CE. Certifying that the bearer of this document, …
Legal document fragment, perhaps 10th century, likely a release involving Shabbat b. Yeshaʿya and a certian Avraham. Verso contains jottings in Arabic and Hebrew characters.
Awaiting description (but see description for the whole notebook, Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52, PGPID 33686).
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Khayr; Faraj; ʿIwāḍ; some quarter-dinars (? rubāʿiyya); and perhaps a Tāhartī (last legible word of right margin). If the …
List in the hand of the scribe of App. B 25, part 2, and App. B 33, part 1. Distribution of 23 jukhaniyyas to thirteen …
Account in Arabic script with numbers in Coptic alphanumerals. Faded.
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon ha-Kohen to Moshe b. Maṣliaḥ. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he has arrived safely after a terrible Nile voyage when …
Letter from Barakāt al-Kohen, unknown location, to the parnas Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn (= ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen, active ca. 1057–1107), in Fustat. Mainly in Arabic …
Megillat Esther with scattered Arabic text in the margins, possibly just jottings.
Small fragment of a letter written mainly in Arabic script with Hebrew interspersed. Probably a letter of appeal for charity (وينعم كجاري عادته بثمن(؟) يحضر(؟) …
Small fragment from a late family letter, sending regards to some people and mentioning Alexandria.
Letter in Ladino to Avraham from Shemuel b. [...]. Twice refers to a matter of a nursemaid, possibly referred to as a "whore" (אקיליא זונה …
Recto: part of a copy of a replacement ketubba for ʿAzīza bt. [...] and Saʿīd b. Yiṣḥaq. Dated: 5294 AM = 1533/34 CE. Location: Cairo. …
Perhaps writing exercises using a late Judaeo-Arabic letter as the basis? Needs further examination.
Legal fragment. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid = 988–1088 CE. A widow named Khazariyya bt. Murajjā sued her three sons — Yosef, Avrahram, and Aharon the sons …
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The scribe often mixes up emphatic and non-emphatic consonants and omits the lamed of the definite article before sun letters. Dating: …
Verso: In a script different from recto, a page from a magical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic, with a colophon, dated: last decade of Iyyar 4906 AM …
Letter (tadhkira) from ּḤassūn b. Yiṣḥaq, probably to Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majjānī, probably from Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1030 (Gil). The writer lists merchandises and products, …
Business letter in Hebrew. Dating: likely 16th century. On verso there is a note reading "copy of the letters which I wrote to Venice to …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script.
Entry in court notebook (#53). List of expenditures. The occasion is not clear; Goitein's notes suggest that it could have been a funeral.
Bill of sale in which a Nubian female slave named 'Salt' is sold for 15 dinars. Dated 24 Tammuz 1395/ 30 June 1084. (Information from …
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One side: State document. Only a few words are preserved from very widely spaced lines ("...ʿalā l-ḥukm ʿalā..."). The text on the other side is …