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Likely a tax receipt, maybe involving sugar. Very hastily written.
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Memorial list ('bayt al-sofer'). The part containing the names is torn off. On verso there are biblical verses ('is there no balm in Gilead?').
Minute account fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Medieval-era. Mentions "the shamash" in one of the entries (אלשמאש). Requires further examination.
Letter from a certain Asad to a certain Avraham. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. He conveys his longing (including kissing the addressee's …
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Recto: Bottom of a legal deed, it seems. Reconciliation of some sort. A person declares that if they oppress someone else (אן כנת טלמתך), may …
State document, in Arabic script. Two isolated lines. The first one reads as "والنظر في امرهم بما يقتضي به العناية", "looking into their affairs according …
Power of attorney written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: First decade of Elul 1447 of the Seleucid Era (= July/August 1136 CE). Also …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document written for a woman and signed by Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av Bet Din and Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver (fl. 1150–1181), both known from …
A manuscript of segments of Latter Prophets, with a colophon at the beginning of the book of Ezekiel, which mention its commissioner - Marwān b. …
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Recto: Legal fragment probably in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (whose name also appears three lines from the bottom). Needs examination. NB: this document …
Arabic script (VMR)
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 …
Fragment of two lines from a state document, reused for liturgical text for Shabbat with Judaeo-Arabic instructions. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Small fragment of unidentified text in Hebrew, the penultimate line mentions לשנים רבות. Requires further examination.
Deposition in court on a compound of the Qodesh ca. 1230. Judge Yehi'el b. Elyaqim and Netaniel b. Yeshu'a bear witness that a tabaqa and …
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Tax receipt for the capitation tax of Maʿālī b. [...] in Fustat for the year 525 AH (=1130/31 CE).
End of a fragment, contains only the name of Perahya. The nature of this fragment is unclear and could be an address on a letter …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give R. Yiftaḥ 10 dirhams to cover his support (mezonot) …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. After a long protocol, the writer reports that he met with "Rabbana Ḥesed Mesos ha-Yeshiva" (Ḥesed al-Tustari?) to inform him of …
Half of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Meir Ben-Naʿim to David Ben-Naʿim, appears to be dated August 1823 (Elul 5583).
Letter in Judaeo-Persian. Dating: possibly eighth century. The letter concerns trade in sheep and other items, the ruler (ispahbud) of Tabaristan, cattle, slaves, strings of …
Letter in Judaeo-Persian. נדאשתם דיגר בה דל אז . . . . נמיתואנסתם ברדאשתן . . .
Literary text in Arabic.
Magical instructions and diagrams in Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal document, fragment. Refers to a power of attorney; Eliyyahu; Simḥa ha-Zaqen; and someone's wife Sitt al-Milāḥ.
Letter – 1933CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 20) – in Italian. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / …
Verso: Autograph order from Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) to the cantor Abū l-Majd. Abū l-Majd is to convey the remaining 10 dirhams owed to …
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 …
Verso: Note in Judaeo-Arabic asking the addressee ("Rabbenu") to give the books to Abū l-Barakāt.
Legal document, in Arabic script. A late Arabic, Ottoman iqrār document with a seal. Issued by the maḥkeme al-Ṣāliḥiyya al-Najmiyya, one of the ~15 qadi …
الحمد الله وحده
جرى ذلك
كتبه يحيى بن ي…
Jottings/drafts of an order of payment addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan. The year is written at least once but is difficult to read.
Small fragment of an Arabic document. Large slanted handwriting.
Unidentified List (FGP)
Late accounts, mostly entries mentioning first names.
A curious fragment of a late calligraphic legal document (though the date does not survive), appointing Avraham b. [...] Ashkenazi as someone's agent for some …
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Small fragment of a ketubba, mentioning various sums in dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower half). "... he will/should sell it for him in Tyre and send him the value in the ṣalībī …
….يبيعها له في صور
وينفذ له ثمنها في الصليبي/الصليبية صحبة
الاصطول فقد وكله على قبض
ثمن ماله عند (؟) ابو الفضل بن البصري
عن ثمن سكر…
Prescription or recipe in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely medical or culinary (wa-yustaʿmal al-... bi-ṭabīkh al-ḥummuṣ(?)... wa-l-ʿaṣāfir...). Mentions honey, cloves, milk. On recto there is a document in …
Ketubba. Dated: 9 Tammuz 2191 Seleucid = 18 June 1880 CE. Groom: Yos[ef] b. Sulayman b. Avraham al-Sabari. Bride: Ghina bt. Y[.]ya b. Yahya [...] …
Accounts in the hand of Nahray b. Nissim. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, pp. 303-304.) See PGPID 469 for transcription.
Informal note from Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim to the Nagid (Avraham Maimonides). Identification of the writer is based on handwriting. "They went to the house of …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Trigger: addā. One registration mark; al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-rāʾfa.