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Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 20 Shawwāl 864 AH, which is 1460 CE. Involves Yūsuf [...] and Samawʾal b. Yaʿqūb b. Mūsā (=Shemuel b. …
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Letter, or official correspondence dated 909 H. Mentions measure of an unspecified commodity, probably grains, in qinṭār. Ḥasbala towards the end. Needs examination.
Ketubba in an exquisite scribal hand, possibly that of Shalom Sasportas based on his handwriting and the placement of his signature. Location: Ṣafad (צפת). Dated: …
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State document in Arabic script. The first three lines only (kharaja al-amr al-ʿālī al-mawlawī al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-[...] al-nāṣirī zāda allāhu fī. . .). (Information from …
Piyyuṭ in Hebrew; an opening formula of letters in Aramaic; exercises in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Short letter written by Meshullam, the head of family of judges. His son, Sasson, was a judge in Cairo; Sasson had a son called Yiṣḥaq …
Shelomo b. Eliyyahu asks Abu l-Ḥasan to give the (medicinal) syrup that he kindly cooked to the young boy for delivery. (Information from Goitein's index …
Legal document. Dating: Refers to a period of 5 years and then to the end of Iyyār of either 153[.] or 1503 Seleucid. So this …
Latest, most formal, and most perfected, copy of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document, fragmentary, calling for someone to give evidence about a certain person's misconduct and who is subject to a herem (excommunication). (Information from Goitein's …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 551 H = 1156/57 CE. Fragment (left side). Mentions Cairo (al-Qāhira al-maḥrūsa). Mentions the names Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm and …
Table of gravesites in Tiberias, Sidon, Jerusalem, and Hebron. A description of gravesites in Tiberias references the resting place of Maimonides. This fragment may be …
Slip of paper with two lines blessing the recipient with the blessing of Joseph in Genesis 39:2.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic from the middle of the 11th century. Abū Manṣūr Tustarī is named on verso, possibly the brother of Abū Naṣr …
Bottom of a legal document. No details preserved. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1140–59 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …
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Letter from Barakāt al-Kohen, unknown location, to the parnas Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn (= ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen, active ca. 1057–1107), in Fustat. Mainly in Arabic …
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Part of a legal document witnessed by ʿEli ha-Kohen b. [...], Yehoshuaʿ, and Avraham, and attested by the Bet Din: Ṭoviyya ‘the Third’ b. [Daniel?], …
Alchemical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic (mentioning e.g. "restoring the spirit to جسد المغنيسيا") in the margins of an Arabic (philosophical?) treatise.
Small fragment, possibly from a letter or draft. Mentions informing Sayyidnā about something and the sender's desire to serve him.
Unidentified, with biblical citations such as Psalms 137:6 and 41:6. List of piyyuṭim? On verso there are also formulae typical of a petition. Dating: probably …
Recto (original use): Legal document describing a gathering to assess a bride's dowry. Fragment (right side only). Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Probably in the hand of …
IB VII, 68. Letter from a certain ʿEli, unknown location, to the cantor Isḥāq, in Damietta. Addressed specifically to the shop of Abū l-Surūr al-Ṣayrafī. …
Legal document (witness statement), mentioning ‘my husband Yaʿaqov.' (Information from CUDL.) Join: Oded Zinger.
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abū l-Majd is to give someone …
Judaeo-Arabic treasure hunting manual. Needs further examination.
Ottoman-era accounts, might be Arabic but some words have Ottoman Turkish suffixes. Needs examination.
Ketubba, with a stipulation in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Possibly an account Verso: Possibly a letter- needs examination.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involving portions of a house, likely a deed of lease or sale. …
Much damaged small fragment from a top of a letter. AA
Letter fragment. Sent from Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Sayyidnā al-Rayyis (probably Avraham Maimonides) several times. Also mentions a person named Abū l-ʿAlā b. Abū l-Rabīʿ. …
Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Dā'ūd, in Tinnīs, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1055 CE. Regarding the debt and goods belonging to the …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי ורייסי אטאל אללה בקאך וא[דאם] עזך
ותאיידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמתך מן תניס ל[ ] כלון [מן]
אדר ערפך אללה ברכתה וימנה וער…
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Recipe for a certain kind of wine ("al-nabīdh al-mudabbir"). On verso there are calendrical calculations mentioning Tishrei 1423 Seleucid, which is 1111 CE.
Three distinct documents in Arabic script, chopped in half vertically and then probably glued together into a rotulus in order to be reused for the …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Legal testimony. involving Sitt al-Nasab known as [...] and Abū ʿImrān known as Ibn Shumayʿ (?). The ends of the lines are missing, and the …
Literary. Epistle from Plato to Porphyry. In Judaeo-Arabic. On asceticism.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn b. al-Rayyis b. Nāḥūm, in the Rīf, to his brother Abū Thābit, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Concerning the capitation tax …
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Recto: Genealogical list for the daughter of Dosa b. Yaʿaqov (דוסא בר יעקב) and underneath for the family of her son, Mishaʾel b. Yeshaʿyahu (the …
Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār) and a jeweler (al-jawharī)
Business letter in Arabic script. On verso there is a separate text block in Coptic; the response to the letter? Needs examination.
Recto: Mercantile letter addressed to a certain Ibrāhīm. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: mid-11th century (since verso is related to T-S 8J29.5, which is dated 1047 CE). …
Letter from al-Fayyumi b. Saadia, probably addressed to Moses Maimonides.
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. There are many elaborate titles on recto (הנכבד החכם והנב[ון] . . . אלעזיזה . . . [אלתל]מיד אלחכם הירא …
Recto: Biblical verses in Hebrew language written in Arabic script (ṭov lehodot...), headed by a basmala, presumably for liturgical use. A Karaite version of the …