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Receipt of payment, or accounts in Arabic script. Saʿīd b. Ibrahīm pays ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd. Dated 14(?) Dhū l-Qaʿda 700(?). Needs examination.
No Scholarship Records
Booklist in Judaeo-Arabic. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic dated on the verso's heading as Jumada I[ or perhaps II?] of the year 1238 AH which is 1823 CE. The structure …
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Drafts of legal documents in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). In Hebrew. Recto and verso are closely related to each other. …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Fragmentary.
Part of a letter, mentioning Abū l-ʿIzz and the sum of 10 dirhams. A note, in a different hand and ink follows and refers to …
Very damaged small fragment from a list or account. Mentions Abū ʿAlī, Abū l-Faḍl, and al-Ḥakīm.
Draft of a letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman era. Contains formulaic opening phrases followed by a list of commodities and prices ("raisins, the price …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Portions of the last 8 lines are preserved. Includes the phrase "I would have made him vow." Regards to all of …
Small fragment with text in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter.
Recto: Piyyut, (probably a qina) Hebrew poetry. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. (Information in part from CUDL)
List, mentions several commodities and their quantities like lemon and flour.
Text in Hebrew, probably a letter. Written on parchment. Describing a man who was robbed on the road. The robbers even took the document/letter (הכתב) …
Business letter from David to Shemuel in Alexandria discussing among other matters the delay in delivery of a deposit sent forth by the addressee. Written …
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Small receipt or order for 4 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
Accounts or shopping list in Judaeo-Arabic. "Green fūl" appears in the upper right.
Fragment from the end of a letter in Arabic. Including greetings for Bū Naṣr(?).
Accounts, possibly. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions al-Shaykh Yūsuf and the name Naṣrallāh.
Accounts. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310– d. 1355 CE), possibly a recommendation for Yosef al-Ṣabbān (the soap boiler).
Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen to the two brothers Avraham and Yiṣḥaq/Isḥāq Ibn al-Ḥakīm ("the physician"). Identification of the sender based on his distinctive …
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Commentary on Isaiah in Yiddish (?).
Table of names and numbers in Judaeo-Arabic.
One side: A prayer in Hebrew (each phrase begins תתברך) in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. The other side: Judaeo-Arabic poetry, also in Nāṣir's …
Draft of a note or draft in the hand of Avraham b. Moshe b. Maymūn (Abraham Maimonides, r. 1205–1237) addressed to Yehuda Hakohen (b. Tuviahu) …
Arabic legal deed confirming the sale of half of a house from a father to his son, and the son's daughter. The sale was made …
Minute fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu? Mentions the month of Iyyar and the city of Bilbays.
Letter reassuring the correspondent about the affairs of the family – 1935CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 159) – in Arabic. (information from …
Verso: Fragment from the bottom of a document, maybe an Ottoman-era legal or official document.
Beginning of a calligraphic letter in Hebrew rhymed prose by Shemuel ha-Levi b. Eli, the gaʾon ("head of the academy of the diaspora") in Baghdad …
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Fragment of a letter from Yusuf b. Eli Kohen Fasi, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Mentions dinars that should be exchanged, and that several …
סיידי ומולאי [אטאל א]ללה [בקאך] ואדאם תאיידך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ונעמתך מן אלאסכנדריה לט בקין מן תמוז ואל<חאל>
סלאמה ואלחמד ללה רב [אלעאלמין] ת…
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IB VI, 35. Fatimid petition to al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from India …
العبد المملوك
موسى بن صدقة التاجر اليهودي
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا
وسيد…
Mūsā ibn Ṣadaqa, the Jewish merchant.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The benedictions of God a…
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Late account in Judaeo-Arabic in a difficult cursive hand. Several names appear in the right column: al-muaʿllam Muwwafaq, Saʿīd Qa...(?), ʿAbd al-Daʾīm Nīṣī...(?), Yosef Delano(?), …
Court record written by Shemuel b. Avṭalyon (active in Fustat ca. 1007–55). Dealing with a dispute between Yeshuʿa b. Ghulayb ha-Kohen and Yoshiyya b. Maymūn. …
Unidentified document type, in Arabic script. Mentions a date 24 Ramaḍān, the year is cut-off. Could be literary.
Document in Arabic, possibly. Extremely damaged and faded. The word صراف might appear in the first legible line. Requires further examination.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script, either state or legal.
Minute fragment, possibly with remnants of ink/writing on the recto.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 11 Iyyar 1437 Seleucid (1126 CE). Change of a will signed by Ḥalfon b. …
Two fragments of the same legal document, dated 1532/1220-1221. The physician Abū l-Maḥāsin Yefet b. Yoshiyya and the sugar merchant Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū l-Maʿānī …
A damaged bill of divorce (get). The woman’s name is Sitt al-Sada. Only the last two digits of the year is preserved: [..]82. AA
Literary text in Spanish.
Tax receipt? Mentions: ...al-yahūdī... bi-ḥudūr...
Record of writ of release. End of a legal document concerning Abū Maʿālī and financial matters (?), signed by Hillel b. Yosef and Shelomo [b. …
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Collection of Geonic responsa copied by Menashshe b. Ya'aqov (Date: 1116-1132). Published Wertheimer, קהלת שלמה, p. 42-44; Ginzei Yerushalayim, 42-44. AA
IB I, 22. Draft of an oath to be taken by Yosef Lebdi in which he enumerates his assets. Due to the litigation between Yosef …
Joseph b. David—may he rest in Eden!—will swear, on behalf of David, the son of his brother Solomon—may he rest in Eden!—
that he never ch…
Letter from Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108) to his son Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. Hillel al-Baghdādī. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic. In which …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. Mentions a ruqʿa and Barakāt and Bahram and Sulaymān