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Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand.
No Scholarship Records
Legal document dealing with inheritances, apparently of two women, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Letter to David Ben-Naim in Alexandria from his father Meir Ben-Naim in Cairo. Dated 26 Heshvan [5]580 AM (קף) which is 1819 CE.
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Medical. From a work on materia medica, listing simple medicaments, their function and use (from CUDL).
Dense jottings in both Hebrew and Arabic script, including phrases from letters.
Letter(s) and poetry ending with "ḥayyīm" in each line. Dating: late 18th or early 19th century. Most of the fragment contains literary-seeming Hebrew text, but …
Document in Arabic, perhaps accounts. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter from Ṣamṣām, a prisoner in Nābulus, to al-Qāʾid Muʿizz (according to the body of the letter) or to the heirs of Ṣārim al-Dawla, in …
Au nom de Dieu clément et miséricordieux.
Je fais savoir (au qâ'id Mu'izz), Dieu le protège et l'ait sous sa garde et en son amitié et ne
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List of sundry expenditures made for the Nagid, mentioning items for his kitchen and marking prices using Coptic numerals. Dated to the early 13th century. …
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Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is a mirror-image imprint of T-S AS 155.274. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentioning goods such as pepper (filfil), oil (dihn), cumin (kammūn), bitumen (qifār), brazilwood (baqqam), sugar and syrup …
Leaf from a medical work, which discusses preparations of ointments, including one to to treat scrofula and bubo, a lead ointment to treat ulcers, and …
Recto: The ends of 3 lines in Hebrew, possibly from a letter. Verso: The name صادوق/Ṣadoq written in Arabic and one other word.
Legal document giving the testimony of Shelomo (aqūl anā shelomo....), and mentioning Elʿazar and Yeshuʿa and release formulae. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Sayyidnā. Mentions a copy; confirming something; Rosh ha-Dor(?); a request; an orphan boy (al-ṣabiyy al-yatom); and Sar ha-[Sarim?], i.e., …
Bottom of recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Listing sums in dinars. The remainder is literary.
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Legal document in Arabic. Dated in the final line. Requires further examination. (VMR)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions Tamīm, al-qāḍī ṣāḥib al-dīwān, Abū Zikrī, and the king. Needs further examination
Formulary for legal deeds, with quotations from responsa (frequent quotations of Binyamin Zeʾev - 16th century) followed by or with full description of the deed. …
Verso: Document in Arabic script, some sort of an agricultural account or survey. Mentions al-maydān al-baḥrī, potholes for sowing, pomegranate and, olives. "fī l-maydān al-baḥrī... …
Letter of appeal from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in the synagogue of the Jerusalemites in Fustat, to a communal dignitary. The letter is signed and …
Possibly a tax receipt. Quite faded.
Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script. May be literary. Might be a prayer with an apostrophe to Muḥammad (yā Mūḥammad...). Probably not a state document …
Large list in two columns, covering both recto and verso. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Giving names of houses, their owners or tenants, numbers, …
Letter, likely a draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Verso (the first part of the letter) mentions the arrival of the …
Letter from the lepers of Tiberias to Shemuel b. Ezra (Jerusalem?), approximately 1030.
ומ[ ]לה זכה [ ] הוסר והחלים מן הש[
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Bottom of a family letter, written in a very rudimentary hand. Greetings from various people.
Beginning of Avot.
Legal document. The hand of the scribe is probably known (Hillel b. ʿEli?). Fragment (long vertical strip). Involves: [Hiba]tallāh b. Mūsā; a power of attorney; …
Letter fragment in Arabic script in the margin of a Coptic New Testament. "اعملوا/تعملوا معروفكم الى اورشليم وان كان ينبغي ان امضي انا ايضا الى …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Dated: Adar [...], under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). One of the parties …
Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArus b. Yosef. Mentions Yosef; alum; barley; Saʿīd; and the term dār several times.
ʿAlāma from a state document: al-thiqa bi-l-lāhī waḥdahū
Petition to an Ayyubid sultan, possibly Al-ʿĀdil I (13th century), opening only. On verso there is a piyyuṭ, possibly for Yom Kippur. (Information from Khan …
[ ا]لهمام ناصر الاسلام غياث الانام سيف المومنين سلطان جيوش المسلمين
خليل امير المومنين وادام قدرته واعلى ابدا كلمته وانفذ احكامه
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[ ] the heroic, the helper of Islam, the succour of mankind, sword of the believers, sultan of the armies of the Muslims,
the friend of…
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State document, Fatimid. Mentions "al-khidma" and "al-muṭāʿ" or maybe "iqṭāʿ" (but less likely). Just a few words preserved in each line and difficult to glean …
Texts in Judaeo-Arabic, maybe from a letter.
Accounts in Arabic on recto with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era.
On recto two lines in Arabic, possibly mentioning numbers of dinars. Reused for Hebrew-script (literary?) text on both sides.
Long letter from one government official to another. In Arabic script. The name Abū l-Ṭāhir appears in the address (likely the addressee). It seems that …
Recipes for effecting desired results with Psalms (shimmush tehillim).
Legal fragment. Damaged and faded. Concerning the wife of Saʿāda b. Shelomo al-Mawṣilī and mentioning the names of two women, Sittūna and Mudallala. On verso …
Legal document in which Shimʿon ha-Levi agrees to rent his wife a place to keep her belongings separate from his; Shimʿon also takes over her …
הסכם בין בעל ואשתו
Capitation tax receipt for the Jewish teacher Khalaf b. Ghālib in Fustat.
Accounts in Arabic on recto and verso, perhaps private records given the usage of Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Both sides of the document are well-preserved. Requires …
State document. Response to an endorsement on a petition. A multi-handed internal memorandum. Contains endorsements or minutes (or clerks' notes) that haven't yet been deciphered; …
Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon [our lord Muḥammad, his prophet, and save him]
The servant and slave
. . . ibn Fatḥ
The inst…