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Text in Judaeo-Persian. Biblical commentary? There is also some ink transfer from another fragment.
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A curious late fragment in an uneven scribal hand and imperfect Hebrew. "I heard from the Rav Yeḥiel Adhan, from the inhabitants of Sale, that …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer defends himself for having to refuse a request of the addressee (he cites a version of a couplet of Arabic …
Family letter. In Arabic script. Almost all of what remains (the first 8 lines) consists of formulaic expressions of longing. The sender informs the addressee …
Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355) to a certain Rabbenu Avraham "the diadem of [...]." Yehoshuaʿ informs Avraham that …
Informal note in Arabic script. (Addressed to a dignitary according to the Baker/Polliack catalog, but this does not seem to be founded.) "By God, man, …
Torn late letter. The writer informs the recipient of his "his sadness and afflictions... in the land of Egypt." Later in the letter, the sender …
IB VI, 36. Letter from Yūsuf b. Ibrahīm to Abū ʿImrān Ibn Nufayʿ. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Long …
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Opening of a letter from the yeshiva, probably fall 1053.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment of a letter in Ladino. Written on grid paper. Dating: probably 19th century.
State document, in Arabic script. Decree, interspersed with Hebrew text on recto and verso. Only two legible words are preserved.
Letter from Hilāl to his brother Abū l-Majd (aka Meʾir b. Yakhin). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century, as these figures are known from …
Accounts of a perfumer; list of purchasers of ʿabīr perfume, musk, and salūkha (probably identical with salīkha, an aromatic bark resembling cassia). Names seem mostly …
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Right half of the end of a letter by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. Mentions: the coats (al-shuqaq); his …
Literary, Talmudic.
Document in Arabic script, calligraphic. Likely a state document. The beginnings of 4 lines are preserved. The word "aʿrāḍ" appears. Needs examination. On verso there …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Maybe a legal document on recto and records of payments on verso. But needs examination.
Literary. Eshkol ha-Kofer by Yehuda Hadasi. Dating: Possibly 15th or 16th c. Information from NLI.
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Describing the transactions related to a house originally belonging to the amīr Iftikhār al-Dawla Mubārak al-Afḍalī al-Juyūshī. The final transaction recorded …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Yeshuʿa ha-Sar. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Draft, probably. Only formulaic content remains. In the upper margin there is a …
Statement originally accompanying a will belonging to Abu al-Baqa. The will has not been found, but from this document it is clear that it comprised …
Letter fragment in the hand of Daniel b. ʿAzarya or his clerk. Conveying communal news and mentioning Abu ʿAlī and enemies. Should be checked against …
Legal document. Only portions of the last few lines are preserved. The name Abū ʿAlī may appear. Location: Fustat. Signed: Yosef b. Menashshe. Apparently written …
Memorial list. Mentions: Elʿazar, his son Yosef; Elʿazar, his son Ṣedaqa (ha-)Rofeʾ; a woman named Barijyya; Saʿadya; Shelomo; Yosef.
Letter from Elʿazar b. Shelomo b. Yehosef Gaʾon son of Gaʾon. In Hebrew. Dating: first part of the 12th-century, based on the sender's known genealogy …
Recto: Petition in Arabic script. Much of it is vague and allusive. Refers to the addressee as "al-mawlā" and refers multiple times to the sulṭān. …
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Small fragment of a ketubba. Arabic jottings on verso. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Writing exercises. "وفيما انهاه العبد غني عن الاطالة والاطناب". The last attempt has been circled. Verso: "بالعزائم في طلباته".
Marriage contract of Hayyim b. Moshe and Aziza b. Shelomo. Dated July 1492 (24 Tammuz 5252 AM). Location: נקאוץ "on the water springs," likely Naqāwūs …
Legal document, maybe a release. In Arabic script. Three fragments comprising the lower right piece of the document. Dated: 96[.] AH = 1552–62 CE. Listing …
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. There is a very polite opening with expressions of love for the addressee, it seems leading into a request (which …
Very faded and damaged letter, from Yosef b. Ya'aqov to Avraham b. Hasan(?)
Several small fragments. The first is the end of an extremely faded legal document; the singatures of several witnesses are preserved.
Literary text, on vellum. There is an ownership note mentioning Elʿazar b. Efrayim.
Accounts.
Verso (original use): "Commercial receipt" for ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Letter, in Arabic script. Mentions the date 416 Kharājī, a land (ḍiyāʿ), cattle (mawāshī), and the absence of a shepherd. Also mentions that this document …
Much damaged and dark. Commodities are mentioned. On verso in a different hand in Judeo Arabic. Might join with T-S AS 152.417. AA
List in Judaeo-Arabic of at least seven of the "blemishes" (ʿuyūb) a woman can have, such as a bad odor, a propensity to sweat, a …
Recto: A theological/philosophical discourse (transcribed by Zachy Ben Hamo on FGP). Verso: Possibly a fragment of a late Hebrew letter.
Two fragments of a very faded family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 13th century or later. The hand is reminiscent of that of Maimonides but …
Fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, begging indulgence for any errors or hastiness.
Beginning of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Iyar 1510–29 Seleucid = 1199–1218 CE. Left incomplete. On the other side there is a poetical letter …
Letter from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the Ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem. (Information from CUDL)
Two fragments of a legal document. In Hebrew. Mentions the date 1301 Seleucid = 989/990 CE. However the document itself is probably dated [474]9 AM …
Letter from Avraham Hamān and Gavriel Ḥefez to Karo y Frances & Company. Dated: 1 Elul, 5568 AM, which is 1808 CE. (Someone wrote the …