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Damaged fragment from a bill of release written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Includes "any document in Hebrew and any document in …
No Scholarship Records
Small fragment from the end of a letter, containing only greetings, but with almost all details missing. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yefet b. …
Fiscal accounting. Seems to regard a construction project for a government building (Dār al-Malik and maybe al-ḥujra al-saʿīda are mentioned on recto) and quantities of …
Three lines in Arabic, possibly from the end of a document. Needs examination.
Unidentified text, in Hebrew script. Probably literary. JRL cataloguing data connects with Gaster Ar. 564 (PGPID 33259), perhaps because the two fragments were stuck together …
Ketubba fragment. Groom: Aharon b. Shemuel. Bride: Mulūk bt. Mukhtār. Dated: 1339 Seleucid, which is 1027/28 CE. Signed by Saʿīd b. Aharon, Yeshuʿa b. David, …
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Note (receipt or order?) mentioning ʿOvadya and Ṣedaqa. (Information mainly from CUDL.)
Kabbalistic amulet.
Tax receipt of some sort for Abū l-Riḍā b. Yūsuf. Trigger: ṣaḥḥ. Needs further examination.
Private accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script listing amounts of money owed to and by various people (for items of clothing?). Barakāt owes 140 dirhams. …
IB VI, 7. Letter from Dāwūd Fāsī to the cloth merchant Abū l-Afraḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes attached to …
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Summary of the extraction and medicinal uses of myrrh gum (from "a type of tree in Yemen"). In Judaeo-Arabic.
Story in Judaeo-Arabic. In part about a trip to Jerusalem and people who erected idols. Someone has identified this as Sefer Yosippon on FGP.
Letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Almost no details preserved.
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Receipt, with a bunch of names of the contributors, dates, and days of the week on both sides. A few Hebrew characters also appear in …
Beginning of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Stating that the two representatives (nuwwāb) of the Gaʾon have fulfilled his order. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
IB V, 10. Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1 Kislev 1456 Seleucid = 30 October 1144 CE. Mentions that tefillin had been sent, …
Recto (secondary use): Hebrew formulary of an acknowledgment of a debt. Dated to the 11th century. (Information from Goitein's index cards.)
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A rental agreement with Joseph ג׳לדיטי, priced in Venetian ducats (peraḥ zahav Veneziano). It is dated לצור according to the Pereq Qaṭan, which is probably …
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Bi-folio, from a book of legal deeds. Here we have a bill of divorce and a bill of refusal for marriage (שטר מיאון)
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Mysterious fragment containing only the remnants of what may be Greek/Coptic numerals.
Geomancy manual.
This fragment contains a poem for marriage and part of marriage stipulations. The groom will not take a second wife (ואנה לא יתזוג ולא יתסרא); …
Accounts(?) in Arabic script.
4 pages from an Arabic literary treatise with huge margins and headers in red ink. These pages include proverbs/sayings, arranged alphabetically. At least one of …
Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company, in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 4 Tishrei 5569 AM, which is 25 September …
Poetic work in Judaeo Persian with the title שחר והשכים. ENA 2627.63-64 are part of the same work
Minute fragment of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Peraḥya, the widow of Yeshuʿa b. Ḥalfon the cantor, confirms to have received from Nadiv b. Meshullam ha-Levi payments of …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script, with testimonies. Might be dated 417 H. Needs examination. Reused on recto for Hebrew liturgy
Receipt of payment, in Arabic script. 1/4 dīnār. Different document on verso, mentions 20th of Ramaḍān..
State document, official correspondence. The ends of 8 lines are preserved. Mentions obedience (al-samʿ wa-l-ṭāʿa li-l-amr), and it seems the sender is asking for orders. …
Letter in Hebrew. Per the identification data on FGP, one of the letters mentions "אגריפון," probably Negroponte (Euboea), and one (folio 17) mentions "קדיאה," probably …
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The name Ṣadoq ha-Levi is mentioned in the margin.
Legal fragment, mentioning Abū l-Karam. (Information from CUDL.)
Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: Letter, 13th century. AA
Segment of a court testimony. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (Date: 1100-1138). Regarding dowry arrangements after the renewal of a lost ketubba. …
Ownership note: Naḥum b. Yosef.
Verso (original use): Letter. Request to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) to write a recommendation to the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva (which at that …
Accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals. (Information in part from CUDL)
Arabic poem, transcribed into Hebrew script. At least some of the originally Islamic elements were kept ("fa-wa-lladhī anzala furqānahu ʿalā l-nabiyyi l-muṣṭafā l-muntajab"). There are …
Letter from Ibrāhīm b. al-Nuʿmān to Abū Nuʿmān(?) Saʿīd b. Dāwūd. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing many details about the pressing of grapes and the making of …
Beginning of the draft of a legal query to the judge Yeḥiel (b. Elyaqim) concerning the trousseau of a woman in levirate status, most of …
Letter from Abū l-Majd to two distinguished addressees. 17 lines of Hebrew blessings are preserved. The lower part, containing the body of the letter, is …
Seems to be a state report on agricultural tax collection. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era based on formulae, names, and handwriting, but this is a guess. Seems …
Magical instructions.
Verso: Notes for drawing up a marriage document. Groom: Avraham b. [...]. Bride; Mubāraka bt. Faraḥ (maybe the same as in T-S Misc.8.97 (PGPID 3922)). …
Official-looking small receipt. Needs examination.