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Draft of a letter or petition. In the hand of Shelomo b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active until c.1231). The first page is missing. Verso …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto is a legal query regarding a sale and interest. Written on parchment. Dating: early 11th century. Verso contains a faded address in Arabic script, …
Book list. Published in Allony, The Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, 238-240
Letter fragment (part of the right of recto, part of the right of verso). The remaining text on recto is almost all formulaic. On verso, …
Letter of censure to the community of Malij and its leader the cantor Elʿazar b. Yehuda ha-Kohen.
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Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic work mentioning the names of many parshiyot.
Maimonides’ Mishne Tora, Qiddush ha-Ḥodesh 10:5. (Information from CUDL)
Arabic, literary; at least in part medical.
List in Judaeo-Arabic, mentions Badr al-Dīn in the heading. 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography.
State document, perhaps. In Arabic script. Fragment: Bottom only. Contains the end of a prayer for the amīr al-mu'minīn (wa-sallim taslīman) and a ḥasbala.
Legal record (#61) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 60-62) Folio 16r
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Verso: Note in Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to urgently deliver the שתייה, perhaps the equivalent of sharāb or medicinal syrup. There are also two lines …
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite damaged. Mentions silver, including half-silver pieces (nuṣf fiḍḍa) and nuqra. Mentions the carobs of Umm Surūr.
Letter from Sahlān b. [...] to Abū Zakariyyā. Dating: mid-11th century. Regarding a silk binding that a Spanish person gave the addressee with instructions who …
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Verso: Legal document. Oath by Mevorakh b. Naḥum (or possibly Ibn Naḥḥās) concerning payment for a house, of which Abū ʿAlī retains the right to …
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Deed of sale of a property on recto, with multiple related addenda documents on verso. Dated 2 Muḥarram 777 AH on recto (1375 CE). In …
[ ] its witnesses ... drawn up f[or] [ ]
[ ] well-protected al-Qāhira, in Ḥārat Zuwayla, in the lane with no outlet known as the ‘bl…
Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Asking for help and reminding the addressee of a promise. Mentions a group of people who should "put an …
Accounts in Arabic and some sort of shorthand. On verso there are also a few lines in Hebrew script.
Table of contents for an eclectic literary work in Hebrew, perhaps on divination with stones? Not typical geomancy, as the patterns consist solely of arrangements …
Fragment of an effaced court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Ṭevet 1417 Seleucid, which is December 1105 CE. Among other matters, Ḥalfon b. …
Accounts. Mentions [...] al-Iṭrābulusī and someone (ʿAbdallāh?) the ṣāḥib of something.
Tables in Coptic numerals. Resembles, but probably isn't a join for, T-S Ar.39.380 (PGPID 20917).
Bifolio of accounts. Two of the four pages have Judaeo-Arabic accounting in a rudimentary hand. These mention Ibn Ghulayb; Ibn Saʿadya; Ibn al-Dhahabī. One of …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Peraḥya. Fragment (upper left corner). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Yefet …
Marriage contract. Location: Cairo. Date is missing. Groom: Natan ha-Kohen b. Shela ha-Zaqen. The trousseau list may be found in ll. 6–13. (Information from Goitein …
Poetry, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. A few lines in a very rudimentary hand.
Beautifully illuminated carpet page consisting of a menora and six-pointed stars, followed by alphabetical exercises from a children's Hebrew textbook. The consonants alef to he …
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Letter from David ben Naʿim to Moshe ben Naʿim, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 27 Tishrei 5585 AM, which is 1824 CE. Discusses various business …
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Densely written in four columns. Many women are named (Umm Saʿīd... imraʾat X... al-Naṣrāniyya....).
List of names and numbers. In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Ibn al-Qaṣīra; Sitt al-Dār; Umm Tujjār; the orphan girl of Bū Saʿīd; Nisāʾ; al-Parnas; …
Fragmentary scrap that contains multiple hands. The recto has been identified as a responsum, whereas the verso is a short note to Abu al-Ḥasan (or …
Small fragment of parchment with the name Bū Faraj on verso.
IB I, 23. Draft or notes of court proceedings (legal document) regarding a sale of half a house for 300 dinars. Abu Sahl, Menashshe b. …
Beginning formula of a legal document, dated 23 Ḥeshvan 1440 Seleucid (= 19 October 1128 CE) in Fusṭāṭ, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe …
Medical recipes.
Beginning of a letter. None of the content is preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Nissim b. Shelomo to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Seems to be complaining about the difficulties faced this year: "...we have …
Minute fragment containing legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentioning Yiṣḥāq b. Moshe and 27 dinars.
Legal document. Small fragment containing some of the last few lines, with a witness signature: Avraham b. Menaḥem (in lousy handwriting).
Legal document. Mutual release from claims upon the dissolution of a partnership between Saʿīd b. Saʿadya and Shemuel b. Avraham. No details of the partnership …
Verso, left: beginning of a genealogical list for "the house of the learned judge": Saʿadya and his six sons, beginning with Shemuʾel the judge (al-dayyan …
State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions a price, 90 pieces of gold, and "what we have observed is rightful". Reused on recto for Hebrew …
Probably a formulary for writing Hebrew letters to important people. Fragment.
Accounts in Arabic, perhaps related to the neighboring shelfmark T-S AS 207.184. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.