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Unidentified document in Arabic. Dated: Jumād[a] I 1219 AH (1804 CE). Requires further examination.
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Petition in the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā, possibly in Alexandria, addressed to a judge, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Makhlūf was active ca. …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Ṣafar 605 AH = 1208 CE. Needs examination for content.
Legal document. Extremely faded. Fragmentary (upper left corner). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. The portion preserved here consists of the identification of the party or parties and …
Letter regarding business from Mūsā b. Nissim b. Surrī to Abū ʿImrān. On verso another, unidentified text is written. May have been sent from Qayrawān, …
Medical prescription. In Arabic script.
Letter, fragmentary, in which the writer complains that a woman's outfit was incomplete and asks for money to buy flour. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender beseeches the addressee to send him the remaining 35 dirhams he is owed from the sale of an animal. He …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Refers to a period of a year and a half and a trust/security (amāna).
Poetical letter of greetings in Aramaic addressed to Rabbi Shemuel and mentioning the 'Nasi and Gaon of Tiberias.' On verso a poem is written in …
Letter from Yaʿaqov Ibn ha-Nagid to a notable named Shelomo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein's index card identifies the sender as "Yaʿaqov b. David Maimonides" …
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Letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids addressed to a certain Avraham. In Hebrew. With an undeciphered motto in the header …
Beginning of the draft of a legal query to the judge Yeḥiel (b. Elyaqim) concerning the trousseau of a woman in levirate status, most of …
Writing exercises in a chancery hand. "على العادة في مثله واما ما ذكرته" and "من ان مال الحمل بلاعمال التي مشارفها ". This may have …
Fragment of a bill of divorce (geṭ). The formulary and handwriting resemble T-S 13J6.28 (14th century). Location: Cairo. The husband appears to be named שבריה …
Verso (probably original use): fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small vertical strip from the left side. Mentions [Avraha]m b. Yiṣḥaq and a niṣāfī (a …
Accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Bū l-Ḥasan (בלחסן).
Verso (probably original use): Letter or petition in Arabic script. To a dignitary whose titles are "al-karīm al-akhaṣṣ al-awḥad al-raʾīs al-mufaḍḍal al-makhdūm zayn al-dīn sayyid …
Epistolary introduction to a medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. "Your letter arrived, O brother, inquiring after the books of Galen... and the Alexandrians..."
Magical instructions in Arabic.
Accounts in Arabic script. On verso, in Hebrew script, the name Mūsā b. Ibrāhim al-Kohen.
Business letter in Ladino from Yehuda Pariente to Yehudah Gatenio, dated Kislev 167 (= 5567) of the Era of Creation (= 1807 CE). Mentions people …
Literary text in Arabic script. On parchment. Appears very old (e.g. resembles T-S Ar.53.33). Technical instructions of some kind.
Employee identification card in the name of ʿEzra Mūsā Dayyan – April 20 1939CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 194) – in Arabic. …
The scorpion amulet attributed to Yehuda b. Yeḥezqel. Belongs with ENA NS 73.12 and T-S AS 143.26.
Literary text, in Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses the Hebrew language and the language of the Bible. Could be theology or Bible exegesis. Needs examination.
Mercantile account in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. 11th century?
Jottings including drafts of phrases from letters in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, a fragment preserving only the margin of recto and part of the address on verso. Sent either to or from Alexandria. The …
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A qiyyum (approval of a legal deed) signed by [Moshe Sofer] b. Yiṣḥaq Ḥaver and Eli Ḥaver b. Amram and others.
Letter addressed to a father. In Arabic script. Dating: late Mamluk or Ottoman-era. The sender asks if someone has sent money, because if not, he …
Literary text in Judaeo-Persian.
Long letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era, based on paleography. Quite faded. Mentions wheat repeatedly. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts, or a collection or distribution list. Long vertical page. Each entry occupies a whole row. Many entries are crossed out. Numerous names are listed, …
Small fragment of a business letter, probably. In Hebrew.
Document(s) in Arabic on recto and verso, medieval-era. On the verso there is also a remnant of a text in Hebrew or Judaeo-Arabic. Requires further …
Arabic, literary. Very faded.
Recto: Draft of a legal declaration in which Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-ʿIzz b. ʿImrān the Jew swears on the head of the sultan al-Malik …
Medical treatise in Arabic script.
Legal query to Hodayahu ha-Nasi who lived around Avraham Maimonides' time. See a parallel in T-S 10G5.3 (PGPID 39379). The question deals with a last …
Fragment of a business letter, probably 11th-century, as it mentions Barhūn and Nahray. Difficult to read due to ink smudging; needs further examination.
Bifolium of Judaeo-Arabic poetry. Shows signs of having been bound into a book cover (glue stains, leather).
Formula of a bill of inheritance. Belong to a book of legal deeds, Another page in T-S J3.15