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Legal document. In Arabic script. Yaʿqūb Balūl al-Khayyāṭ ("the tailor") b. Khiḍr al-Yahūdī who lives in ḥārat al-yahūd owes Shūʿā Zayn(?) b. Ibrāhīm al-Yahūdī a …
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Fiscal account, in Arabic script.
Verso, 90 degrees: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder. Mentioning several scribes and skins (presumably as writing surface). The …
Accounts of small sums concerning transport, including that of six aḥmāl (= twelve aʿdāl). Dated: 441 AH, which is 1049/50 CE. Four pages. Perhaps written …
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Probably a letter. The portion preserved here is a long Hebrew introduction, crudely written, with praises for the addressee. The body of the letter itself …
Fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: Probably 15th–17th century. Mentions names such as Moshe Pereṣ and Shelomo.
9 queries sent from Yemen to Yehoshuaʿ ha-Nagid (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) regarding Maimonides' Mishne Torah. Published Glick, Seride Teshuvot: A Descriptive Catalogue of Responsa. …
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IB I, 20. Verso: The testimony of ʿArūs b. Yosef about Yosef al-Lebdi's partnership with his brother Shelomo al-Lebdi. Dated: 17 Sivan 1410 Sel. After …
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Responsum, dealing with purchases; quoting Leviticus 25:14. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Responsum in the name of Shelomo Kohen b. Aharon Kohen Kanzī(?) Dimashqī. Dating: After 1490 CE. It has to do with a man who …
Bifolium. One page may be a literary text (refers to the bewilderment of intellects) or a copy of a letter. On verso, at ninety degrees, …
Recto: Names of planets in Judaeo-Arabic, scribbled out. Verso: Geomancy markings.
Letter fragment. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the merchants who traverse the provinces (al-tujjār al-mujtāzīn bi-l-rīf). (Information in part from CUDL)
Distribution list in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions: Fuhayd; baʿal ḥalom (a dream interpreter); Abū l-Ḥasan al-Parnas; Maʿālī b. Ghazāl; the daughter of …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. On recto, the name Abū ʿAlī appears. (Information in part from CUDL)
Prescription or recipe either for or by Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-[...]. Ingredients include goat kidney fat, cow brain, chicken fat, and saffron. Quantities are specified …
Letter from Muḥammad and Jamīl. In Arabic script, formatted like an official document. In which they report that they have met with Abū Makhlūf according …
Ketubba. Dated: 1[.]4[.] Seleucid. Groom: Surūr b. Ḥayyim. Bride: Ṣubḥ bt. Yehuda. It is not her first marriage (dower of 12.5 dirhams). Sums of 5 …
Private accounts in Arabic script. Dating: Possibly Mamluk or early Ottoman-era. Mentions several names: Mūsa al-Karakī (كرك in modern-day Jordan), someone with the military title …
Bill of divorce, Qaraite. In Hebrew. T-S 12.54 and T-S 12.70 are two very rare examples of Qaraite bills of divorce. Husband: ʿAmmār al-Khāṭirī. Witnesses: …
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Accounting for an India trader, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions goods such as hyacinth and pepper, and their quantities, and many other …
Will of a notable, dividing his landed property, his flocks of sheep and all the orchards possessed or leased by him between his brother and …
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Note addressed to 'mawlāy al-rashīd' asking him to draw up an account (of money owed) on the sender's behalf for 'al-mawlā al-jalīl al-dayyān.' There are …
End of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi, probably to one of his brothers. Comprising greetings to various acquaintances. Mentioned are …
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Verso: There are at least three different textual units, all in Judaeo-Arabic. The first text block is a list of books: "(1) The book of …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Magical fragment in Arabic script.
Bill of debt, from 1519 CE– this estimate from FGP was proposed by Avraham David on the basis of the coinage mentioned: ""תשעה ושלושים אלפים …
Letter from Moshe Yehoshuaʿ Ashkenazi to Alpalas y Sahalon, in Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 9 Kislev 5480 AM = 21 November 1719 CE. The address is …
Recto: The ends of two lines from an official letter (report or petition). Verso: Accounts in Arabic script.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE), concerning a business partnership between Natan ha-Kohen and the doctor Mevorakh b. ʿOvadya …
Note addressed to Muʿallim Mordekhay. Probably Ottoman-era. It begins, "Why do you say that I went to the synagogue and didn't pray?" (ליש תקול אני …
Fragment from the bottom part of a ketubah with partial signatures and a qiyyum - approval of the signatures. The groom name is Natan. Signed …
IB IV, 23 (ח31). Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Barukh, Almeria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Lucena. Dated: Monday 29 Av 4898 (August 8, 1138). The …
Legal document. Involves a certain Avraham. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Efrayim b. Maymun, probably from Qayrawan, to Ishaq b. Eli al-Majjānī, probably from Al -Mahdiyya. Dating (Gil): 1039. The writer asks the addressee …
כתאבי יאשיכי וגלילי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל <אללה> בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ען חאל
סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק אליך שדיד קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך עלי א[פצ]ל אל…
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Letter expressing regret for having left the service of the recipient Shelomo, a government official. Possibly a draft. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Probably the …
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Legal record (#34) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r-v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
Legal document. Court proceeding. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Shevaṭ 1471 = January/February 1160 CE, under the authority (reshut) of the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi. …
Small fragment of an official document (petition or decree?): والله تعالى وعدل هذه الدولة ما يقوم . . . (Information in part from CUDL.)
Four un-conserved small fragments. One is a remain from a letter to Eli b. Amram. The other 3 are still to be identified. AA
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Recto: bottom of a dār receipt (see tag), presumably for ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Ends with a ḥamdala and taṣliya. Verso:Judaeo-Arabic …
Petition/letter of appeal for help. Mostly preserved, but damaged. Needs examination.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning 'the rayyis' and 'the nasi' (this seems to be what the scribe intends by אלנשאי) and the synagogue. Needs examination.
Letter in Ladino from Shemuel Sidi to his brother-in-law Gabriel Conforte relating to business transactions (17th century). Lines 8-9, 15 mention a variety of individuals …
Arabic script (VMR)
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century. Mentions nutmeg (jawza), aromatic wood (ʿūd), musk, and salīkha (an aromatic bark resembling but not identical with …
Account? - needs examination. No image