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Haggada with Judaeo-Arabic translation.
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Letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef, Avraham Ibn Yijū’s nephew, to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Introduced with Hebrew citations from Psalms 122:1-2 and 133:1 (mid-12th …
Legal document in Arabic script. Deed of sale (refers to "hādhā al-bayʿ" three lines from the bottom). Involves the daughter of Yaḥyā b. Naṣr al-Kātib, …
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List of names and amounts. Mentions olives; Zayn; Ismāʿīl; al-[...] and his wife; Zayn al-Tujjār. Verso is in a different hand. Mentions Abū Saʿīd (written …
IB III, 53. Fragment of a letter from Peraḥyā Yijū to Abu ʾl-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Written in al-Maḥalla, ca. 1161-72. "Peraḥyā extends to him wishes …
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State document: internal memorandum. Mentions the proceeds to dīwān al-Farjī and the state official Jalīl al-Dawla. Join: Marina Rustow. T-S Ar.31.58 is dated 507. Possibly …
To our lord, the blessings of God be upon him, belongs the lofty resolution concerning that, if God wills.
Praise be to God alone, God bless our …
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Tiny fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter.
Tax receipt (tadhkira) from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on a dyeworks (maṣbagha) in Sinnūris. Dated: 28 Shawwāl 401 (4 …
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Letter from Avraham Kolon (קולון). Probably addressed to Yosef Ardiʿa (ארדיעה) like his other two letters. Dated: Monday, 17 Ḥeshvan [5318 AM], which is 1557 …
A short pious poem (attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib in the literature) in large Arabic script: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رَضيتُ بِما قَسَّمَ اللَهُ …
Note referring to the late "teacher and master Shemuʾel ha-Dayyan ha-Maskil ha-Muflaʾ ha-Ḥakham ha-Meʿuelle Bet Din Hagun Nezer ha-Maskilim." This is probably Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Petition addressed to a dignitary titled Sayyidnā, perhaps Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the bottom 7 lines are preserved. It may have to do with …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions Yosef b. Ṣadaqa.
Letter from Makārim b. Faḍā'il, probably in Qūṣ, to Hibat Allāh (at least a mawlā of this name is respectfully greeted at the end), presumably …
Legal document on parchment, or possibly a letter. The dating is 11th-century or earlier based on the usage of Hebrew "zehuvīm" for dinars. The document …
Halakhic text. Looks entirely literary.
Letter concering the apperance of a prophet, and inauguration of the messianic age in 1226 with the appearance of Elijah, of the messiah in 1233, …
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Verso (original use): Fragment of an official-looking letter, potentially a report. The ends of two lines and a couple words from a third line are …
Polemic against the house of the exilarch. Dating: 1040–41 CE. After a disagreement between Kafnai, Bustanay's father, and his father in law, the head of …
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Fragment (left half of recto, right side of verso) of an 11th-century business letter to Musa b. Yiṣḥaq of Sfax.
Letter in Hebrew. Small fragment from the upper right corner. Aharon the cantor is mentioned. Might be a letter of condolence since the word תנחומות …
Legal agreement on dowry rights. Dated: First decade of Ḥeshvan 1442 Seleucid, which is 1130 CE. Betweeen Sitt al-Kull bt. Berakhot known as Naṭīra and …
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Addendum to a letter from Abū l-Ḥasan b. Makhlūf (cf. T-S 10J17.20 and JRL Gaster heb. ms 1860/5), Abū l-Faḍl b. Yaʿaqov, Abū l-Manṣūr b. …
Small fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Referring to necessity/need (אן אוגבת אלצרורה) and ending ישע רב.
Letter of condolences to Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) on the death of his wife (?), wishing him to find consolation in the marriage …
Lower fragment, recto: Document in calligraphic Arabic script. Maybe a state document. Phrases: وبيعه بالسعر المستوفي . . . حق(؟) فقد سير الغلة صحبته مملوكه …
State document? In Arabic script. There are 4 lines in a very large hand and ~3 lines underneath in smaller letters. Needs examination.
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. C - (fol.2) Tiny fragment of a literary text.
Small and torn fragment from a bill of gift from husband named Abū l-Majd to his wife, probably [...] bt. Saʿadya. AA
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving conflict (shurūr wa-taʿab), two women who have been killed, a settlement of …
Recto (secondary use): Receipt in Judaeo-Arabic written on the back of a fragment of an Arabic-script letter (see separate record). The writer (maybe Shelomo b. …
Legal query involving Sitt al-Ḥusn and the property of an orphan. With responsa from Moshe Maimonides, Sason ha-Dayyan, and Shelomo b. Natan. There is another …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Prognostications? As of July 2025 this fragment is not conserved and can be seen only in Cambridge.
Three distinct fragments: Second fragment: account in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning a turban and Zikrī.
Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. More neatly written than usual and with wide spacing. Mentions gum arabic; camphor; and 80 manns …
Letter from al-Shaykh Manṣūr(?) to his son. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper half only). Contains expressions of longing and various pieces of advice (in the …
Top of a letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi addressed to his daughter or at least to a younger woman in the …
Accounts in Arabic script. On the back of a treatise on the sciences (also in Arabic script).
Letter from Kathīr b. Abū Naṣr al-Ḥazzān, unknown location, to his son Bū l-Ḥasan b. Kathīr, in Abyār. C/o the shop of ʿAmmār al-Yahūdī. In …
Magical spell. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps for striking fear into people's hearts. The beneficiary seems to be Abū Saʿd b. Baldīn (? בלדין). The original …
Accounts, mentioning Abū [...] (Manṣur?) son of the elder Abū l-Fakhr al-Sharābī (‘the wine trader’). (Information from CUDL)
Letter from the muqaddam of Malij, congratulating R. Aharon ha-Qarawi (or: "who is called") Abu l-Ḥasan on God's miracles and Aharon's deliverance from wicked people. …
List of donations collected on the week of Hayei Sarah (recto) and Toldot (verso), October-November 1803 CE (Heshvan 5564). Legible surnames of donors include Frances …
Narrative in Judaeo-Arabic, including dialogue between a man and a woman concerning marriage. Also mentions a female slave. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts, in Arabic script and some Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions materia medica including various types of myrobalan, salt, and olibanum.
Testimony of woman, Sittuna bt. Hayyim, about her husband, Faraḥ b. Bānūqa, who left her "a widow in his lifetime" (ʿaguna). She is indigent because …
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Legal contract concerning the synagogue of the Mustaʿrib congregation in 1544 CE (Sivan 5304 AM).
3 lines in Arabic script. Unidentified.