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Letter of appeal for charity. Addressed to Efrayim he-Ḥaver ha-Meʿulle. EMS
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Mysterious fragment containing a mixture of Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and magical symbols. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century. The Judaeo-Arabic is extremely cursive and reads …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso (original use): Bottom of a document in Arabic script, ending with a ḥamdala. Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions …
Accounts in Arabic.
Letter written by Nissim b. Ḥalfon on behalf of Mardūkh b. Ṣalaḥ Tāhartī (Gil) and sent from Alexandria to Abu Isḥāq Barhūn b. Ṣalaḥ Tāhartī …
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Fragment of a letter, comprising the upper left corner. Medieval-era. The recipient is addressed in line 1 as "mawlāy al-shaykh al-jalīl." Requires further examination. MCD.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment (upper left corner). Dating: Probably Mamluk-era, based on hand and abbreviations. Addressed to 'the seat (moshav = majlis) of our …
Title and introductory page (recto) for the ophthalmological work Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn by ʿAlī ibn ʿIsa al-Kaḥḥāl (d. 1038 or 1039 CE). The manuscript was copied …
Letter from Ṭayyib b. Mūsā (or Ibn Majjānī according to Sabih Aodeh), possibly in Jerusalem, to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEzra b. Ismāʿīl (or ʿAwda b. Ismāʿīl …
State document, unknown date. Fragment of an Arabic petition (to ". . . al-ʿālī al-mawlawī al-sulṭānī. . ."). The titles suggest a date in the …
Recto: Draft of a will. In the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (this should be checked). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 4 Elul 1561 Seleucid = …
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Letter fragment from Abū Manṣūr, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the closing greetings are preserved.
Legal document regulating the share of profit and loss to a traveling party of four to Syria after one of them is prevented from traveling …
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IB II, 32. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Yefet, Aden, to his brother-in-law Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen settling the estate of Jewish traders who …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Mentions Salīm and a bukhnuq.
Beginning of a marriage match agreement drawn up in the presence of witnesses and written three times, the last version written in the shape of …
Recto: Letter opening, fragmentary, in Hebrew in which the writer praises the recipient. Some faint Arabic text is preserved in the top margin; the names …
Draft of a legal document. Mentioning the death of someone's son Abū l-ʿAlā; the late Nagid; and an orphan, Saʿadya b. Saʿadya. (Information in part …
Extremely faded letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī. It will be mostly illegible without the aid of multispectral imaging. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very little content preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dated: Rabīʿ I 8[.]2 AH, perhaps 822, which would be 1419 CE. Many of the sums are in …
Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya to ʿEli b. ʿAmram in Fustat. Mentions a ban of excommunication against Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya, who among other …
List of names. Faraj b. Nisun(?), Shelom b. Yisra'el, Binyamin b. Simḥa, etc.
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably from Maḍmun b. Ḥasan in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju. May be a second copy of ENA …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Probably a will (refers to the testator, hādhā l-mūṣī). The sums, probably of will distribution, are half …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Tripoli, Lebanon. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on parchment, in a scribal hand, in a narrow column on the verso of a page of piyyuṭim (in the hand …
Accounts. Mentions someone called 'al-ḥikrī,' i.e., the collector of the ḥikr (ground rent) tax (cf. T-S K6.44).
Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy to Nahray b. Nissim. Mentions goods and prices. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #457) VMR
[אטאל אללה בקא סידי ומולאי גד]ול הישיבה ואדאם עזה ותאיידה
[ ] אלול כתמה אל[לה] עלי[נא ועליה בא]חסן כאתמה ען …
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Outline for a marriage-related document, probably. Groom: the cantor [Abū l-Ḥasan?] b. Naḥman the cantor. Bride: the widow [...] bt. Saʿadya. In the hand of …
Business accounts in a common hand (previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef).
Very damaged text in Hebrew characters, unidentified, possibly legal. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Decree, possibly of al-Malik al-Ashraf. Partially transcribed by S. M. Stern (NLI ARC. 4°1656, File 507).
Court deed. Beautifully written. Fragment (first few lines only). Dated: Tishrei (during the holiday of Sukkot) 413 AH, which is 133[4] Seleucid, which is late …
Record of testimony about a deposit of a modaʿ, with only fragmentary date surviving. Dated Elul 14[..] Seleucid = 1088–1188 CE.
A letter to Ya'aqov Fransin in Rashid Also mentioned Nissim Faranji. 15th century?
Verso: Draft (probably) of a petition. In Arabic script. "The slave... wishes to maintain the traditions... we wish to maintain our traditions and the traditions …
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Involves a declaration made by Netanʾel.
Bottom of some sort of declaration, in Hebrew. Late. The undersigned seem to be pledging allegiance to a certain authority and agreeing to whatever he …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Quite faded.
Private accounts, likely of a moneychanger. In Arabic script, but consisting mainly of sums in Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions monetary terms such as nuqra, ʿayn, wariq, …
Recto: Letter from Abraham Sagis (סאגיש) in Safed to an individual in Egypt who had previously studied with the sage Moses di Trani in Safed. …
List of names and accounts(?) in Hebrew script on blue paper. Requires further examination.