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Official document of some kind. Abū Naṣr al-[...] may owe 6.25 dinars. There is a date (Dhū l-Ḥijja something), but the year seems to be …
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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 …
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Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Avraham Dayyan from Binyamin de Curiel and Avraham Crespin. These men are known from other fragments. Dating: probably 18th- …
List of approvals
Small fragment of a note or order: אללה תופיקה ינפד לי . . . ואן כאן צחבתה . . . ושלום
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century. Mentions: Yehuda; a boat; Abū Mūsā. Written at the beginning of Sivan. Holiday blessings …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (vertical strip from the middle). Dating: Likely 11th century. The sender is in Jerusalem ([min al-musta]qarr bi-l-Quds ʿamarahu Allāh). Mentions …
Legal record of an inheritance, issued in the court of R. Levi b. Ḥabib in Jerusalem in September 1532 CE (3 Tishrei 5293), for the …
Bifolio of accounts. Mentions many names, including Sitt al-Bayt and 'the house of al-Fāris.'
Recto: Legal document. Fragment of a shīmmūsh, or court ledger. Mentions Sar Shalom; possibly [...] b. Sālim. In the hand of Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya? Verso: …
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State document, chancery hand with elegant line spacing, in Arabic script. Mentions "mamlūkuhu" and "khidmatihi". Needs examination.
Letter in Arabic script. Possibly making excuses for not having come to the addressee. On verso: "Fakhr al-Dawla," perhaps the addressee. In which case the …
Legal document, quite faded. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. Concerning the purchase and subsequent dedication of a property in the town of al-ʿAlāqma (near …
Unidentified text in Arabic script, potentially documentary.
Order of payment issued by “your friend Abū l-Faraj" to the elder Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, instructing him to hand over 122 dirhams to the unnamed bearer. …
Letter from ʿAwāḍ b. Ḥananel from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060. In the handwriting of Avraham b. Abi al-Hayy and concerning business …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Account in Arabic script, Ottoman period.
IB VII, 31. Legal query to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) regarding a man who takes a 200 dinar loan and appoints his parents as …
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Tax receipt (tadhkira) from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on a dyeworks (maṣbagha) in Sinnūris. Dated: 28 Shawwāl 401 (4 …
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Recto: unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning olive oil (zayt ṭayyib). (Information in part from CUDL)
Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: Letter in Ladino from Masud Bonan to Judah Asio, Cairo 1764. AA
Fragment from list of court records written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138), one involving Khalaf al-Levi b. Yeshu'a. AA
Letter from Salāma b. Yeshūʿa and Maḥfūẓ b. Yūnus (or maybe Būlus), in Balaqāṭar (unidentified village perhaps in southern Anatolia), to Abū Sahl Yaʿqūb b. …
Fragment from the middle of a legal document in Arabic script. Involving a deceased father. Mentions the "majlis al-ḥukm" of "our master [...]." Needs further …
Fragmentary scrap that contains multiple hands. The recto has been identified as a responsum, whereas the verso is a short note to Abu al-Ḥasan (or …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Conveying a report of a communal conflict which took place in the beginning of the thirteenth century, during the tenure of …
Recto: Hebrew prayer. Verso: last lines of an autograph responsum by Maimonides, and part of a liturgical text in Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based …
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IB VI, 31 (ח71). Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon Sijilmāsī, in ʿAydhāb, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: 25 Iyyar [4900] AM, which is 14 May …
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Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document for Moshe b. Nissim Ṭawīl and Simḥa bt. [...] ha-Levi known as al-ʿAjamī, dated August 1818 CE (Av 5578). Verso: Halakhic …
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Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions various weights and someone named Jaʿfar.
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Dated 505 H?
Legal record (one large piece and 5 smaller pieces) mentioning a wālī and a girl. Very damaged and difficult to figure out the story. Some …
Letter from Shemuel b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he sent all the money that Sālim b. Khaṣīb(?) owed to Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn, namely …
Two folios from a literary codex containing an interesting set of prayers in Judaeo-Arabic for the Muslim caliph ʿUthmān as well as the amīr Abū …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic. Needs examination.
Order of payment. In Arabic script (one line) and Judaeo-Arabic (three lines). The addressee is to give the bearer a sum of money.
Long letter to Ishaq Noah b. Avraham in Kokizov. The writer is mentioning the communities in Jerusalem and Damascus, and referring to the observation of …
Tax receipt for the capitation of Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadaqa in Fustat for the year 526 AH. Amount: ½ dīnār (the lowest rate). Jahbadh: Hibat Allāh. …
Small fragment of a commercial list, contains items such as coral and silk
Responsum concerning orphans, describing a loan from orphans that is taken orally without an oath, and a statement that orphans who are in debt because …
Upper left corner of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār).
List of expenses (מצרוף) in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating is 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography. Requires further examination for content.
Petition in Ottoman Turkish from a merchant named Mūsa to "an unnamed Ottoman official, quite possibly the governor of Egypt." Dating: mid-sixteenth century (per Hathaway). …
Sulṭānım ḥażretlerinin ḫāk-ı pāy-ı şerīflerine ʿarż-ı bende-i bī-miḳdār ve zerre-i ḫāksār budur ki ben ḥaḳīr…
This is the petition of the worthless slave, who is but a speck of dust, to the noble dust under t…
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Letter, unclear whether official business or private correspondence. Referring to the addressee's request concerning Bū Saʿīd. On verso there are drafts of documents including the …
Letter addressed to Natan b. Yiftaḥ (possibly the same as in ENA NS 19.7 (PGPID 11579)). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning a circumcision conducted by the sender, …
Money order of the Qodesh. Ca. 1162-63. The judge Shemuel b. Saadya ha-Levi wrote and signed an order to pay 9.5 dirhams to the children …
The collectors of the Estate of the Jerusalemites shall pay to the children
of Hiba, the brother of Abū (I)sḥaq al-Mukārī, 9 1/2 dir.
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Distribution list for public charity. In Judaeo-Arabic, transitioning to Arabic script on verso. Dating: Perhaps ca. 13th century, but that is a guess. There are …