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Tax-related accounts in Arabic script. The word "al-mustakhraj" appears at least twice. Needs examination.
No Scholarship Records
Much damaged list of names, amounts and some commodities such as silk. Mentions [...] b. Mardūkh.
Late accounts, fairly well-preserved. A partial year is visible on the recto _٧٧(?) or the scribe may have intended the ligature under ٧٧ as the …
Small fragment containing Hebrew literary text.
Letter opening from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1020 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1015–1025 CE, based on the years when Yoshiyyahu …
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Fragment from a collection of legal formularies in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). The document on recto concerns the manumission of an …
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Letter of condolence in Judaeo-Arabic, containing lines typical of dirges in Hebrew.
Fragment of a legal document, involving someone named Salāma. There may also be citations from rabbinic sources. (Information in part from CUDL and AA.)
Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic with some western Arabic numerals. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century.
Deed of sale. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Heshvan 5294 AM = 20 October 1533 CE. Yaʿaqov b. Moshe בכוש and his brother Efrayim …
Minute fragment probably from a top of a letter to 'Our Nagid'. Only partial words preserved. AA
Small fragment from the lower right corner of a letter or petition.
Unidentified, faded document in Arabic script.
Medical treatise in Arabic script.
IB III, 16. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in Mangalore, dated July-August 1148. The letter contains information about their …
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Responsum. In Judaeo-Arabic (mainly). Written on a bifolium. Regarding the leasing of a synagogue to a certain Abū l-Munā. The legal authority who wrote this …
Verso: formulary for reports of death in which the names of the deceased, the heirs and the witnesses are left blank. In Arabic script. Dating: …
The slaves report the death of so-and-so, the son of so-and-so, the Jew, on such-and-such a day of such-and-such a month,
in such-and-such a year…
Recto: Letter from a son, in Qūṣ, to his mother, presumably in Fustat. Written in Judaeo-Arabic and a cipher (lines 7-12; noticed by OZ; probably …
Letter from Eliyya ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov al-Siqillī to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq Al-Mutaṭabbib Ibn Furāt, in Ramla. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic with the address …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Musa b. Abu'l-Hayy to Evyatar ha-Kohen Gaon, ca. December 1094.
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Literary texts. Possibly a Maimonides autograph. See FGP for identifications.
Tiny fragment in Hebrew characters. Might say רבינו היי ורבינו שרירא followed by מסלה אל . . . .
Letter in Arabic script, likely mercantile. Needs examination.
Bottom of a court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Signed by him and also by Ḥalfon b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Dating: 1127–38 …
Possibly a letter (FGP). Late fragment filled with Hebrew text on both sides, most of which consists of praises for somebody. Sherira Gaon is mentioned.
List of parshiyot and dates in a calligraphic hand with artistic markings.
Ottoman-era accounts.
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script, with testimonies. Might be dated 417 H. Needs examination. Reused on recto for Hebrew liturgy
Beginning of a petition to the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim.
Letter or petition. Fragmentary. In Arabic script. Heavily reused for writing exercises on recto and possibly also between the lines of the original document. From …
Verso (original use): Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Very faded. Spanish/Maghribī hand. mentions Fez.
Bottom of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to one of his brothers.
Tax receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 7 (?) [month not preserved] …
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Letter (headed "tadhkira"/memorandum) from Hibatallāh b. Khalaf al-Ḥamawī to Barakāt b. Khulayf, complaining that he couldn't sell the resin and mentioning a transport by the …
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Printed. Daniel with Ladino translation.
Arabic script (VMR)
A few unidentified lines in Arabic script. The main text is Hebrew piyyuṭ, possibly in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan.
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 12th or 13th century. The sender greets the addressee and says he was only prevented from kissing the addressee's …
These two fragments are covered with sundry jottings in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, some of them phrases from legal documents and letters. One of them gives …
Letter sent by Mubarak b. Hanina to Abu Yusuf Yaʿaqov b. Musa, giving details about persons who perished or survived an earthquake, most probably in …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentioning pepper and Abū Naṣr. Needs futher examination.
Letter sent by a young weaver to a woman, probably his aunt, reporting that he is looking for a place to stay and for work. …
Seliḥot.
Letters in Hebrew. Narrow vertical strip. Only the beginnings of the lines are preserved. Recto: Mentions Sar ha-S[arim]. Verso: Communal letter, written in a different …
Table of gravesites in Tiberias, Sidon, Jerusalem, and Hebron. A description of gravesites in Tiberias references the resting place of Maimonides. This fragment may be …