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Recto (secondary use): End of a letter or note in Judaeo-Arabic. Includes greetings and mentions Sitt Rayḥān.
No Scholarship Records
Fragment from the top of a deed of engagement (shiddukhin). Fiancee: Sitt al-Ḥusn. Mentions wine and pressing.
Reused for an account (see separate entry).
Tax receipt for Khalaf b. Yaʿqūb. See ENA 3945.9 (PGPID 10485) for a list of related documents.
Small fragment from an official report or petition. The ends of 3 lines are preserved. المملو]ك ينهي . . .
List of quantities of dinars, most entries are crossed out. Medieval-era. Rudimentary hand.
Mentions silk in at least two entries.
End of a Fatimid petition fragment, in Arabic script.
Cf. JRL SERIES B 5682, ENA NS 73.12, and T-S AS 143.2
Decree, probably. Only a few enormous words are preserved, including ʿalayhi. Reused for poetry in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: The ends of two lines from an official letter (report or petition).
Shemuel (active from the end of 12th century – ca. 1249).
Describing various "degrees" (darajāt) and naming celestial entities such as Cancer and Saturn
His father was upset that he entered the service of "someone like the ghulām"; Manṣūr will explain everything when he arrives. […] He has sent with Manṣūr a mould of cheese worth 2.5 dirhams, and he has equipped Manṣūr with funds to keep the cheese well-oiled en route lest it dry out. He complains about the lack of sustenance in Damascus. […] He is worried that his enemies will gain the upper hand over him (he may have seen this in a dream?
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Recto: Some sort of incantation invoking God's power and entities such as Metatron. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. There are three entries in purple ink. Late, probably 18th or 19th century.
Two bifolios of a very cryptic register in Arabic script. Some entries contain partial dates. Needs examination.
There are only about 6 entries. On verso there are Hebrew pen trials.
List of names and sums, some are related to different houses. See also ENA 2591.14–15 (PGPID 662).
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Letter from an in-law probably to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, entreating him to divorce his wife (Sitt Ghazāl).
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This document consists entirely of expressions of grief in eloquent Hebrew.
Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Same addressee as ENA 2855.21.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. ENA 3928.9–13 may all be from the same ledger.
Beginning "awrada al-shaykh X. . ." and ending with a date. Needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. An upper entry on the recto mentions someone with the title "Kapitan."
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the formulaic ending is preserved. Regards to Abū Zikrī b.(?) Sar Shalom.
Small fragment from the end of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b.
Rashid (Rosetta) is named at the bottom in connection with David Enricos(?) (אינריקוש). Needs examination.
20 pages, mostly sermons. At the end various list and accounts. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue.
Recto: Letter criticizing someone's behavior, also cryptically referring to the engagement of a woman. Greetings to Abū l-Wafāʾ.
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Large, filling four columns. Consists entirely of columns of names with eastern Arabic numerals.
Several names are mentioned. Dating: Mentions the end of Ramadān 556 AH = 1161 CE.
Capitation tax receipt for Khalaf b. Yaʿqūb. See ENA 3945.9 (PGPID 10485) for a list of related documents.
In Arabic script. Each entry is headed with an elongated horizontal line from the word above.
Document, entitled ‘list of registers’ (ṯabt al-dafātir), followed by names, such as Ibn Ḥātim.
End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Seeking guidance from a higher authority.
End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Sayyidnā and (possibly in the address) [...] b.
Likely a small fragment of a decree. A few enormous words in Arabic script. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
End of a fragment, contains only the name of Perahya.
Minute fragment from an end of a legal deed with the signature of Yefet b.
Istanbul is possibly mentioned in the final row of entries on the recto: אצטנבולו. (MCD with information from CUDL)
Small fragment from the end of a letter: لا احتاج الوصا على ذالك انا اخصكم باتم اسلام
معطفه) for fulāna bt. fulāna, ending "quickly quickly quickly."
Reused on recto for a tax receipt (see separate entry).
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
قد كان عبد الحضرة السامية الاجلية الشيخية الـ…. ـية ثبت اللـه مجدها
واهلك عدوها وضدها … على مشارفتها في يحا[ …
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Medieval-era. One of the entries is "blacksmith" (חדאד). Requires further examination.
State document in Arabic script, the ends of three lines are well-preserved. Medieval-era.
Specifying a term of months that ends Shawwāl 503 AH, which is 1110 CE.
Recto: Fragment of a ketubba. End of the 13th century. Payments: 10 + 40. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Opens with "send it" (yusayyirhā) and ends with ושלומך יגדל נצח סלה.
Medical text in Arabic script written on the back of a page of Hebrew piyyuṭ. One of the entries is about choking (ikhtināq).