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Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The same scribe probably wrote ENA NS 69.20 and T-S AS 156.42, based on the handwriting similarity combined with the …
No Scholarship Records
Resposum in Aramaic, tiny fragment
Responsum of Hai Gaon, on the management of orphans’ property. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment from the lower left corner of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Dated: Friday 21 [...] …
Verso: Amorous poetry in Arabic script and accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning "white" and "red" commodities weighed in ounces, a kind of stone, mercury, and the …
Beginning of a legal document, possibly a will or a deathbed declaration, ‘we the undersigned testify...' Dated: Monday, 6 [...] 1556 Seleucid = 1244/45 CE. …
Deed of sale of a house. Only the recto was photographed. Dating: Likely c.1170 CE, based on the reference to “our [mast]er Sar Shalom, the …
Halakhic work, possibly responsa, concerned with egg white and yolk; citations such as Micah 1:11. (Information from CUDL)
List of beneficiaries of community charity consisting of about 125 names, mostly craftsmen, laborers, and foreigners (from Palestine and Syria). Each name is separated by …
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List of communal accounts dated in variety of places throughout the text, for example the first intact date on the recto is 12 Sivan 5352 …
Small fragment of a legal document, probably. None of the content is preserved.
Ledger of communal accounts and lists. In Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: late 18th- or early 19th-century; the precise date must be written somewhere. …
Astrology or astronomy, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic in a blocky hand and slightly unusual spellings.
Letter in Arabic script. Mentions carrying out an errand for Abū l-M[...], and Cairo. The text on verso is part of the same letter. The …
Verso (secondary use): Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Alexandria.
Letter from "Sāsī" to R. D[...]. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: After 1517 CE (uses the term 'basha' twice), but not long after (Avraham Castro appears in …
A Gaonic responsa on bigamy. Friedman edits the fifth responsum on the bifolio.
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Letter probably in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (d. 1230s) addressed to someone he calls "the great rabbi." In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter consists entirely …
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Bifolio of piyyuṭim. Underneath the piyyuṭ on the righthand page of fol. 1r, there are two columns of private accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The right column …
Legal fragment. Damaged and faded. Concerning the wife of Saʿāda b. Shelomo al-Mawṣilī and mentioning the names of two women, Sittūna and Mudallala. On verso …
Letterbook in Judaeo-Arabic (fragment) likely eighteenth- or nineteenth-century that contains drafts and possibly copies of business-related correspondence. The letters frequently use the phrase "יא אכי/ …
Recto: letter fragment in Hebrew (טובה יתר . . . הראשון ואני במהרה . . . על כבודך . . . שמעתי היה לך צער …
A pair of conjoined (either glued together or never separated in the first place) tax receipts related to a tax farm (ḍamān). Dated: 25 Jumādā …
Fiscal accounts. Many officials are named (ʿIzz al-Mulk, Qamr(?) al-Dawla, Jamāl al-Mulk, Mukhtār al-Dawla, and many more. Also large sums of money. Needs examination.
Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Mentions testimonies and a "father" (ḥaḍrat al-ab al-muḥtaram). Dated: 26 April 1791 CE (٢٦ شهر ابريلس ١٧٩١). (Information in part …
Remains of 28 lines of a list of beneficiaries of charity, each containing the names of 3 or 4 households in receipt of 2, 4, …
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Fiscal account of some sort, Fatimid, dated 533 AH = 1138/39 CE. Small. Refers to the iqṭāʿ attributed to the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ ("al-iqṭāʿāt al-Ḥāfiẓiyya..."). Also …
Letter signed by a rabbi and scholar of the Jewish community in Cairo – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 85) in Judeo-Arabic. …
Part of a trousseau list, no prices listed. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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Fragment from a formula of bill of divorce (get)
Partnership agreement, likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides, involving a certain [...] b. Sulaymān known as al-Ashyāfī (seller of ophthalmics) and …
Accounts in Arabic script.
Beginning of a court record. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Dated: Thursday night, 14 Ḥeshvan 1578 Seleucid = 14 October 1266 CE, under the authority of [David …
Commercial text in Judaeo-Arabic, maybe a letter.
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew to the community of Malīj.
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Small fragment in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel containing praises for God. Likely part of a letter, but could also be a standalone literary …
Fragment of a document in Karamanli (a Turkish dialect written in Greek script). (Information from FGP.)
Private accounts. Dating: 11th–13th century. Some entries deal with the weights of items. The term "וזן" appears repeatedly under the archival tape that was applied …
Sale of a wife's outfit (probably after her death without child, or only bearing a son; the husband sold but had to answer claims; e.g., …
Letter fragment from the Jewish community of Palermo to the Jewish community of Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. May mention [Ḥayyim b.] Yaʿaqov ha-Sef[aradi] (who …
Ketubba. Location: Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1143 CE. Bride: Zayn al-Dār bt. Ḥananʾel ha-Levi. Groom: [...] b. Sahl. Marriage payments: 10 + 25. No dowry. Witnesses …
Piyyuṭim in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Letter to Shmuel b. Yosef
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan 1445 Seleucid = October 1133 CE, under the authority of …
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Letter from ʿAllān b. Yaḥyā, in Alexandria, to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1080 CE. According to Gil, the handwriting is that …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה
וכבת אעדאה מן אלמסתקר ליג כלון מן שבט כתמה אללה עליך ועלינא
באחסן כאתמה…
Judaeo-Arabic biblical discussion/commentary.
Unidentified text with Arabic and interspersed Judaeo-Arabic. Maybe a glossary of some kind. In one place it says עצם (bone) in Judaeo-Arabic followed by the …
A letter to the community of Qal'a about permissiveness in the community.
Colophon of a codex, probably a Bible. Yosef b. Yaʿqov b. Yosef b. Shemarya b. Menahem (the latter three were all judges) buys the codex …
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