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Amulet for a certain Mordekhai.
No Scholarship Records
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Yemen. There are several dozen names and strings of numbers (in Hebrew characters) of varying lengths after each name. Names include: …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment. The writer is giving advice that "perhaps will save you and help you in . . . salvation if God …
Four lines from the (lower?) left side of an Arabic document. Verso is blank. Needs further examination.
Monograph; formulary of legal documents, including the heading י״א שטר שכירות(?) דבאתי. (Deed of slae of a house) (info from FGP)
Minute fragment from a legal deed probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138), but there is very little text.
Business letter from David b. Abi Zimra. In Hebrew. Dating: 16th century. Needs furthe rexamination.
Forecasts. In Ladino. Foretelling the fortunes of the coming year based on the day of the week of the Copts' Feast of the Cross (ʿīd …
Letter addressed to Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Jarīdī, in Yemen. Needs examination.
Letter in Hebrew to the communal leaders of Sicily (maybe Palermo?). On the back is a writing trial from the book of Esther and some …
Unidentified text, in a faded Arabic script.
Unidentified fragment with Hebrew text and a rectangular design in red and black ink.
Twitch divination (palmomancy).
Recto: Summaries of legal documents in Arabic script. There are at least seven legal records of sale, and one deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) at the …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū ʿAbd Allāh; Abū Manṣūr; brass; Ghālib; Ibn al-Anṣārī.
Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic on recto. Medieval-era.
Unfinished business letter sent by Mubarak b. Natan to Mubarak b. Ibrahim in Tyre, to whom he had already written three letters. (Information from Goitein's …
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Letter from a certain Avraham to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Little is preserved of the content. The third line …
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Two words in Arabic script.
Letter of request for help, probably sent to Abu al-Wahsh. The letter begins with words of praise.
Business letter addressed to Abū l-Khayr b. Mufaḍḍal al-Yahūdī al-Bilbaysī(?), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Maghrebi hand. Dating: Likely ca. …
Large list with entries in Hebrew. 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Requires further examination.
Small fragment, faded and damaged. Probably from a legal deed or letter. Only a few words are legible: פידפעהא ...אלרגוע אלי...
Bifolio from an account book. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions mainly Muslim business partners such as Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar b. Muḥammad and …
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Bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: last decade of Adar 1441 Seleucid = March 1130 CE. Contains …
Bifolio from an Arabic medical treatise.
Booklet made of parchment, containing a calendar for the maḥzors 256 and 257, each year written on a separate little scrap. Beginning with 1095 CE. …
Bill of sale of a slave. In Arabic script. Location: Fustat. Dated: first decade of Ramaḍān 483 AH, which is October/November 1090 CE. Seller: Ḥanūn …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
Ḥanūn ibn ʿAlūn, the Christian clerk in the Dār al-Dībāj, states that: I have sold …
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List of quantities of gold dinar and other currencies (perhaps "wariq" on verso). Medieval era.
Recto: Arabic jottings. Verso: drafts of phrases from the beginning of a Judaeo-Arabic letter above an official-looking Arabic note, possibly an order or a receipt. …
Recto: Settlement made in the court of Fustat between Mufarrij b. Yefet b. Shuʿayb the Damascene and Yaʿaqov b. Yosef the Iraqi. The Dayyan consulted …
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Account in Arabic script, Ottoman period.
Document(s) in Arabic, mostly accounts with a longer entry on the verso that may represent a separate document type. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Reporting on the widow of Tamīm and how she learned of his death. Possibly concerning his possessions/inheritance. On …
Letter of recommendation. In Arabic script. Sent from Damascus to two high-placed addressees (al-majlisayn al-sāmīyayn) presumably in Cairo, al-Majlis al-[...] and al-Majlis al-Nūrī. Dating: Perhaps …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Yerushalmi to Abu al-Mansur Elazar the scribe from whom the writer asks a favor. The letter opens with six lines …
Announcement regarding the program of ceremonies for the Ibn Yuḥay Institute for Culture and Righteousness in which the Minister of Social Affairs, the Chief Rabbi …
Fragment from the left part of a bill of release written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi from 1127–1138, based on his years of scribal activity …
Letter in Hebrew. Mainly complaining about the conduct of a group of wicked people. Needs further examination. Join: Alan Elbaum. On verso there is a …
Technical treatise in Arabic script, likely medical.
A qinna for Tisha b'Av dated 5535 (1775 CE). There may be a faded signature that includes the name Yaʿaqov.
Memorial list. "The first 31 lines list dead notables, l. 32 recto - l. 7 verso add blessings for their living decendants, the last nine …
Page from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise.
Nearly complete letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū l-Ḥusayn Ṣedaqa b. Nissim al-Mukallifī (אלמכלפי ?) in Alexandria. The letter is written on a fragment torn from …
Recto: beginning of a very damaged legal deed. Verso: Birth record for David [...] b. Benyamin known as Ibn ʿAbā[...] Location: Cairo. Dated: Ṭevet 17[..] …
Document in Arabic script, maybe legal. Needs examination.
This manuscript, T-S Ar. 29.190 fol. 9, contains the first part of Palestinian Calendar Manual 1, of which the other text witness is T-S Ar. …
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IB V, 37, folio 16. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 raṭl …
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No fragment found in folder.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Abū Muḥammad.