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Private accounts in Arabic script. Dating: Possibly Mamluk or early Ottoman-era. Mentions several names: Mūsa al-Karakī (كرك in modern-day Jordan), someone with the military title …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Missing its top part. Dated 8 Tammuz יהפך אבלו לששון, but no year is given; likely 14th or 15th century. The sender …
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Letter fragment (lower left corner) in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Mentioning business dealings ("pay him five dirhams... sell the indigo and …
Letter from Yehosef ha-Kohen Av Bet Din b. Shelomo Gaon. In Hebrew. Dated: Shevat 1359 Seleucid, which is Jan/Feb 1048 CE. May be a fragment …
Recto: part of a rhymed letter to Ṣedaqa b. Joseph (אבי עזר צדקה בנו יוסף זקן כל הקהלה), with marginal jottings in Hebrew and Arabic. …
Draft of a bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Abū al-[Man]ṣūr al-Kohen purchases a female slave named Ṭ[...] for the price of 25 dinars.
Order of payment. In Arabic. Dated 7 Rabīʿ II 1239 AH, which is 1823 CE. Issued by the Dīwān Anwāl li-Maṣliḥat al-Ḥarīr, an institution in …
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Verso: Lists of commodities, such as butter, animal fat, mastic, almond oil and white sugar, and their quantities in Arabic script. The lower section is …
Literary text in Hebrew. At the top of verso contains a note (dedication? ownership note? colophon?) naming a certain Natan b. Elʿāzar.
Private accounts. Mentioning bread and lentils.
Accounts, probably for wine sent to the castle (burj), with sums of money in silver of good quality and mentioning the names of Yaʿaqov Ṭayyib …
Small fragment in Arabic. A few words in a chancery hand.
Small fragment, probably literary
A Fatimid decree fragment, possibly of an investiture. Recycled by Efrayim b. Shemarya.
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Jottings in Arabic script in the blank spaces of a page which contains piyyuṭ. "Yā shaykh Mūsā ʿasā.... uktub (or: aktub) fīhā...." Appears to be …
Few faded words, probably regarding a debt
An amulet destined to silence the woman's opponents, particularly Abu al-Surur. The two people in question may perhaps be identified with a married couple mentioned …
Chaotic Arabic text, possibly documentary.
Order of payment, probably.
Document in Arabic script, unclear if it's a piece of an account or an order or receipt. Mentions al-Shaykh Bū Manṣūr b. Bū [...].
Letter fragment Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely late 12th or 13th century. Dealing mainly with business matters. Mentions a silk merchant (qazzāz) and a fuller or bleacher …
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Tiny fragment from the end of a legal document, under the reshut of Shemuel ha-Nagid.
Decree, in Arabic script. 6 lines of a chancery document chopped into pieces and then reused to form quires. The line on fol. 19a has …
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India Book (IB) I, 31b. Remnants of eight lines in the hand of the court clerk Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dated documents 1100–38) consisting mainly …
This is what happened: [Barakāt, the son of Mr. Joseph]
known as al-Lebdi—may he rest in Eden!—[appeared in court] and said to us: “Be witness to…
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Memorandum in the name Bū l-Ḥasan b. Wuhayb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 21 Ramaḍān 544 (22 January 1150). With endorsements/registrations …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals. Late. Mentions Avraham Delarcon(?) and Yiṣḥaq. (Information from CUDL)
State document or letter in huge Arabic script. A portion of one line is preserved: ʿalayka wa-hādha maʿdūd(?)... Reused for piyyuṭ.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Somehow pertaining to Nahray b. Nissim, according to Goitein's note card. See also ENA NS 22.18.
Legal document, draft. In Hebrew. Crossed out. Attesting that Yiṣḥaq Jibālī owes Avraham Khamīs 1000 Venetian ducats (peraḥim zahav banādiqa). There are several signatures including …
Possibly an order or receipt. The header may be "katabahū" and the next line may say "ʿalā ʿadl lāk" (for a bale of lac). This …
Fragment of document(s) in Arabic script. Verso contains the beginnings of two lines in an elegant hand: ḥasala ʿalā . . . Recto is in …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: likely 18th or 19th century. Large and neatly written. Each column is headed by a name.
Private accounts. Sums in dinars and qirats. Mentions a dukkān. Needs examination.
Letter of appeal to the Nagid, Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), asking for financial assistance. Written on behalf of a foreign cloth merchant (qazzāz) named …
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 …
Multifragment. (a) Legal fragment. Involves a woman [...] bt. Avraham and Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammed b. [...]. (b) Tiny legal fragment. Probably a release. There are only …
Hebrew poetry.
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T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
Official-looking document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Upper left may contain a date (Rabīʿ something?); the next line refers to al-taʾrīkh al-madhkūr; there are …
Literary. Hebrew and Aramaic commentary discussing angels.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic. Verso reads like a letter (وان كان شي في . . . ) and it is unclear what recto is.
Palimpsest, Sifra 11d-12c, with 2 Kings 2:4 written in the lower margins in a different hand, over an unidentified Syriac text containing a quotation from …
Receipt from the association "H̱ayrāt Māzūn" specializing in the distribution of bread, for receiving two loaves – March 1956 – Museum of Islamic Art – …
Several of the psalms in Judaeo-Arabic (לא לנו... אהבתי כי ישמע...). 19th century. The paper has red vertical lines, including one squiggly line.