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Recto: A recipe in Arabic script. Verso: Three more lines in Arabic script, significance unclear. Underneath, in large letters, is written "bismillāh aṭāl allāh."
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IB II, 6. Letter from ʿAmram b. Yosef to Netanʾel b. Yefet regarding goods sent by Ḥasan b. Bundār. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 1094–97 CE. ʿAmram …
2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion
Autograph texts by Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder. Recto: a draft relating to the copying of the Mishna and the Gemara. On the bottom of …
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Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Sums of quantities of grain (waybāt) given as a loan, partially against security. Muslim names. One tailor (khayyāṭ), one carpenter (najjār). 26 …
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Top of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In the name of al-Ḥājj ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Maḥmūd known as al-Shāʿir (the poet). Several more names …
Literary text in Hebrew on mystical matters: the heavens, the ministering angels, what they subsist on, etc.
Literary text in Ladino and Hebrew. Probably a sermon.
Verso: Contributors list? Abū Sahl: 2. Ibn al-Dimyāṭī: 3. Ibn al-Rav: 1. Ibn Kawjakh: 5. Ibn Shaʿya: 5. Ibn al-Qirqisānī: 12. This is followed by …
Letter of appeal for charity for assistance in moving to the land of Israel.
Legal document (written by Yosef b. Shemuel. AA) . Lease of an apartment of the Qodesh ca. 1194 and 1199. A deed of lease is …
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Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Many of the phrases are legible but the overall content is obscure. Mentions Abū ʿAlī Ṣemaḥ (ابو علي صمح) several …
Five notes on tiny pieces of vellum, ordering the addressee to hand over small sums or certain quantities of oil, soap, wood, vegetables, lemon, or …
Pen trials.
Recto: End of a letter in Arabic script (this text is from the right margin, with some of the beginnings of the lines of the …
Recto: lower part of a ketubba. Verso: writing exercises of biblical verses in various hands. (Information from CUDL)
A fragment from a letter addressed to a notable. The writer sends his wishes that the position of the addressee will continue—a usual blessing when …
Accounts for different days with Hebrew numerals. Late. Esther בייס is mentioned in one of the entries on the verso. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment, probably from a top of a legal deed. Ketubba? AA
Letter from the Nagid Shelomo b. Yosef to the community of Alexandria. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 1470s or 1480s. The letter reports that …
Letter of appeal for charity, probably. Dating: Perhaps 14th–16th century. Few details are preserved. The addressee is referred to as al-sirāj al-qādī (= al-qāḍī?) naṣarahū …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition to a caliph, in a sloppy hand. Lower left corner. Some of the details of the case may be …
Verso (original use): Fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. Refers to Ḥasan b. Ḥayyūn and his cousins who wish the sender to travel with …
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Fol. 6: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (right side of recto). …
Accounts, mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Difficult to read.
Small fragment of an unidentified text in Arabic script. On parchment, writing on both sides. May be literary. On the recto there is mention of …
Minute fragment, probably related to the surrounding orders.
IB VI, 21. Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī (aka Abū Zikrī Kohen). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: first half …
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Receipt or proof of purchase. Contains the glyph meaning "addā" here.
Literary
Jottings in some sort of shorthand, maybe highly abbreviated Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
List of some kind, unclear if the genre is literary or documentary. Requires further examination.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: [14]41 Seleucid, which is 1129/30 CE. The parties are Abū l-Munā and his agent Faraj …
Responsa. One query on the Meaning of the words תשבץ and שש. The answer did not survived. On recto a discussion on the difference between …
IB V, 39f (previously V, 39e). Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso. 15th- to 17th-century based on the paleography. Both sides feature an entry for "מעלמיין". Requires further examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, fragment containing right margin (angle parking) and right part of some lines. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions clove (qurunful). Greetings to …
Recto: Maimonides’ autograph draft of a 3-line poem he composed and included at the beginning of his philosophical work ‘Guide for the Perplexed’. Verso: the …
Draft of Fatimid state correspondence. Addressed to the vizier ("ḥaḍrat al-wizāra") concerning either the appointment of an amir in Yemen, or written by an amir …
[ سيد]ي الاجل
ولما [[تحقق]] عرف المملوك حسن النية وجميل الراي وشريف الاصطناع
رغب الى مكارمة حضرته السامية زاد الله في جلالت…
[ ] my most glorious lord
When the slave [[established]] learnt of the good intention, the kind view and the noble patronage,
he desired to sho…
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Letter from a woman named Harja, in Jerusalem, to her brother ʿAbd al-Dā'im Ibn Firrouz, in Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. See tag for other letters …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Unidentified text in Hebrew that appears to be signed by Avraham Monson (cf. T-S AS 204.256 (PGPID 32076) and T-S 18J3.24 (PGPID 17064)).
Recto is a literary text in Arabic in red and blank ink, vocalized and beautifully written. Verso is an account in Arabic, maybe of collaterals …
Document in Arabic script. Fragmentary (lower left corner). The hand is quite cursive; needs further examination. On verso there is Hebrew literary text.
Very small text in Arabic, perhaps documentary on both the recto and verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Verso (original use): Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. The beginnings of two lines are preserved. كانوا فاما . . . الى …
List having to do with seliḥot.
List mentioning a half dinar, several houses and Umm Fāris. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from the beginning a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in lovely and distinctive handwriting. The writer has been forced to stay in a funduq due to …
Legal document. Fragment (bottom part only). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1435 Seleucid, which is 1123/24 CE. None of the substance of …