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Letter from Ṣamṣām, a prisoner in Nābulus, to al-Qāʾid Muʿizz (according to the body of the letter) or to the heirs of Ṣārim al-Dawla, in …
Au nom de Dieu clément et miséricordieux.
Je fais savoir (au qâ'id Mu'izz), Dieu le protège et l'ait sous sa garde et en son amitié et ne
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Fragment of a letter in Hebrew (upper left corner).
No Scholarship Records
Fragment of a ketubba. Eight lines from the trousseau list, mentioning such things as necklaces of yellow amber (salāsil kārib, which Goitein understands as kahrubāʾ), …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (righthand side). The sender may be Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd (from the Arabic-script address). Mentions the congregation; controversy; Hiba b. Faraj; Abū …
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Letter from Fadl b. Amrūṣ to Nahray b. Nissim. On verso a note by the reciever, in Arabic script, documenting the arrival of the letter …
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Colophon for a Torah. The scribe is Yeshuʿa b. Yiṣḥaq. Dedicated to ʿAmram ha-Kohen b. She'erit ha-Kohen Paqid ha-Soḥarim.
Receipt of rent, late, Ottoman era, in Arabic script. Maʿtūq al-Yahūdī paid two months of rent from Shaʿbān to Shawwāl for the shop he rented …
Letter fragment in Hebrew addressed to a dignitary named Moshe. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century.
Probably a tiny fragment of a late Judaeo-Arabic account.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential. Not much of the content remains. "Take for me the two letters. . ." On verso there is what …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Parties: Abū l-Khayr and Avraham. Dated Iyyar 4[...] AM, so prior to 1240 CE.
Verso: The end of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called "my brother," and he may be an actual brother since the sender …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Mivḥar b. Yefet to Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dating: 1125–50 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that he arrived safely. His maternal aunt …
Leaves 1 and 3: text in Judaeo-Arabic, probably an apocalyptic account (prognostications), referring to Zerubbabel, the Arabs, the Byzantines and wars in various places in …
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Letter/petition from a woman, in Bilbays, to Abū ʿImrān b. Muwaffaq, in Fustat, the square of the moneychangers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th or 13th …
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years …
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Small fragment of a letter in Ladino. Written on grid paper. Dating: probably 19th century.
Small fragment from the bottom of an unidentified Arabic document. Letter?
IB VII, 31. Legal query to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) regarding a man who takes a 200 dinar loan and appoints his parents as …
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Letter from Neḥemya ha-Kohen, Gaʾon of Pumbedita, probably to the Babylonian community in Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1274 Sel. = November 962 CE. Asks for financial …
Probably a legal formulary for drawing up a will.
Possibly accounts. Faded.
Letter requesting financial support for a poor member of the community. (Information from CUDL)
Introductory formula of a responsum, directed at Abraham Maimonides. (Information from CUDL)
Much damaged fragment from a legal deed. On parchment. Mentions the number 34 (part of the year? a sum of money?). Refers to someone [...]ūb …
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the names Hibatallāh and Shams. Dating: Likely ca. 13th century.
Account, containing list of names
Two small fragments of a letter by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, including the phrases, "I took a vow" and "if [al-Shaykh] al-Yesod were not with …
Letter from Abū l-Khayr to [...] b. Shemuel(?) (based on the address on verso). In Arabic script. Dating: Likely 13th century. The addressee is greeted …
Recto: Business/family letter in Hebrew. Dating: Perhaps 16th century or later. The sender mentions someone named Meʾir סאול . . ., and greets his mother. …
Minute fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment from the middle part of a bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faraj; and the daughter of someone.
Letter in Arabic script. Maybe from a parent to a son, with ethical exhortations. "Treat people as you would like (to be treated), and be …
Accounts, faded. May mention maqṭaʿ cloths.
Biblical exegesis. (See Shivtiel/Niessen and FGP.)
Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment (lower right corner). Attesting that a certain person is fit to serve as broker in the market of …
A manuscript which contains the end of Deutronomy, and the haftarot (weekly readings from the Prophets) according to the old Palestinian rite. A dedication colophon …
Recto: Fragment of a letter to a notable, ending with the motto "yeshuʿa qarov." Verso: liturgy in the hand of a prolific scribe (see Joins …
Capitation tax receipt. Needs examination.
Poetry: a leaf from a diwan of Hebrew poetry, with Judaeo-Arabic headers giving the occasions.
Verso and margins of recto: Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
His slave Mubārak ibn Ibrāhīm ibn
Shemu’el
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the presence of my master, the m…
From a medical treatise in Arabic, including various recipes for a medicinal powder (safūf). Headers in red ink.
An account for Yosef b. 'Awkal followed by a short letter, probably to Ibn 'Awkal.
פירוט החשבון של האדון אבו אלפַרַג׳ יוסף בן יַקוּבּ בן עַוְכַּל.
לזכותו י׳׳א משאוי וחצי ומשאוי לאבו אלחַי, ושלח עם יוסף מֻדַלַל
משאוי פלפ…
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Agreement in which Aharon b. Shemarya ha-Kohen and Nisim b. Ya'aqov, who bought half a house from Makki b. Abu Sahl for sixty dinars, rent …
Damaged late letter or draft of legal document. Ishaq Toledano is mentioned. AA
IB IV, 80 (ח90). Letter by Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Damascus (חדרך), to Yeshuʿa b. Moshe, in Egypt. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1145/46 CE. …