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Literary text in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic, narrating the mutual seduction between a Jewish man and a Christian (enslaved?) woman. There are a few lines in Arabic …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps Mamluk-era. Mentions the city of Rashīd (Rosetta). Narrating a story about the death of a girl and perhaps conflict …
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Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Involves a woman "[sit]ting in the house of her widowhood"; children; and a son named Abū Manṣūr.
Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Mentions a waraqa that is to be sent.
Letter fragment "in the handwriting of Natan ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh (the grandson), written in his name and that of Yeshuʿa b. Yefet; his son Mevorakh …
Begging letter, prefaced with a rhyming poem, from Isaac the blind ("bereft of all the pleasures of the world"), asking for assistance from Ismaʿīl b. …
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Deed of sale for Wahab b. Asʿad b. Naʿīm al-Naṣrānī, in Arabic script. Dated: 18th Rajab al-Aṣab (...). The document is ripped off in two …
Letter from Zekharya b. Ya’aqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Early August 1062. The writer complains about the accusations against …
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Large letter from [...] b. Mevorakh addressed to Nahray b. Nissim (called 'Nahray ha-Rav ha-Muvhaq'). The sender's name is faded. The letter opens with large …
Accounts in Arabic script.
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment (upper left corner). Involving Elʿazar ha-Levi and Abū l-Munā known as Ibn Naṭira, Yefet al-Zajjāj, and Shemuel. May be …
On recto, there are morning benedictions. On verso, there are several lines of Arabic script in a calligraphic but childish hand. Seems to be copied …
Small receipt or order for 1 raṭl of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
Small fragment of a letter or petition in Arabic script. Addressed to an amīr. Only a few formulaic phrases preserved: وغير ذلك يتفضل الامير ادام …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with small business transactions. Regards to [Sitt] Naʿīm and her husband Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan.
Table of accounts and many food items. Dated 1 Sivan [55]94 AM which is 1834 CE. The entries are organized chronologically by weekly parsha readings. …
Recto: Legal query involving partners in the royal mint whose money was stolen. In particular, when one of the partners runs away and hides so …
Verso: The letter was subsequently torn in half, and Moshe's father Abū Sahl Levi wrote his response on one of the remaining halves. Abu Sahl …
Legal document mentioning a certain Ibn Mihnab (?) ("son of the idiot"). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to moving …
Letter from Nissim b. Salāma to his father Salāma b. Nissim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. The writer reports on various financial matters, reports that …
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Fragment of a poetic Hebrew letter. AA
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 …
Letter of friendship (and appeal for financial support) sent by Yiṣḥaq Villareal. Dating: 16th century. The addressee is asked to speak with the sender's brother …
Leaves 1 and 3: text in Judaeo-Arabic, probably an apocalyptic account (prognostications), referring to Zerubbabel, the Arabs, the Byzantines and wars in various places in …
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Court record in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Tuesday, 12 Elul 1515 Seleucid = 10 August 1204 CE. In which Sitt …
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 …
Petition. In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era based on handwriting and format, but that is a guess. The addressee is Shams al-Dīn [...] b. Shams …
Fragment of a responsum or responsa. The JRL catalogue lists the recto and verso with different authors: Asher ben Yehiʾel (ca. 1250-1327 CE) and Shelomo …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: legal document, mentioning Surūr, Abū l-Ghayth and [...] b. Yiṣḥaq; dated Nissan 15[..] of the Seleucid Era (12th–13th century, probably second half of that …
Verso: Unidentified Arabic script, may be documentary.
Bifolio from a fiscal accounting ledger. In Arabic script. About 10 distinct entries, each apparently with its own ʿalāma / registration mark. Cf. T-S NS …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic.
List of commodities and their amounts. Mentions materia medica like sandarac and tutty. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Documenting transactions in nuqra dirhams including one "from my father."
Medical recipes and remedies in Ladino from an extensive chain of joins that suggest the existence of a broader compilation. On the recto there are …
Probably part of a legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Medical (or magical?) prescription. Late. In Judaeo-Arabic. "To release the 'bound' (al-marbūṭ)."
Ketubba (marriage contract). In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. The portion preserved here is mainly the trousseau list. The grand total of marriage payments …
Unidentified text (magical?) in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. The phrase "yā majnūn" appears.
Letter probably from Shemuel b. Eli. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Legal document. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4 Ḥeshvan 4975 AM = 9 October 1214 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides. A Sicilian trader, …
Fragment of a business letter, mentioning Abū al-Muna. (Information from Goitein’s index card). EMS
12 pages of astrological/medical prognostications—horoscopes for male and female. E.g., "Mazal sarṭan lineqeva. La ke su mazal es en sartan sera fermosa de forma y …
Fragment from the publication The Forward discussing fifty-five Jews from the armed forces (the organization of veteran fighters) and one Palestinian, and discussing the sentencing …
List of recipients of charity, including the wife ('bayt') of a warraq (bookseller), and a khayyat (tailor). In the scribal hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe …
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, written in a rudimentary hand. The sender (or the person he is writing on behalf of) wishes to …
Narrow vertical strip from a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi?
Fragment of a legal document mentioning a divorce and Mawlāy al-Nezer.
Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Probably September 25, 1056. The letter contains details about shipments of goods, probably …
[כתאבי יאסידי] אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ערב סכות תזכה ל[ ]
] אנא אהניך במא אשרעת פיה יתן …