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Fragment of the beginning of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). One of the parties is [...] …
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Alphabetical writing exercises on a large piece of paper that was folded into four sections. The paleography and format support a dating estimate of 16th-century …
IB VII, 8. Legal document. Record of release. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar I, 1426 Seleucid. One of …
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Business accounts, mentioning goods from India, myrobalan, and pepper, among many other things. On recto: Letter from Khalfūn b. Benaya(?) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. …
Letter fragment. Wide space between the lines. Only a few words of blessings and honorifics are preserved, including the name Yosef ha-Levi ha-Ḥaver.
Probably a state document in Arabic script. Only a few partial lines are preserved on both recto and verso.
Legal document. Elʿazar b. Yefet sells to Shelomo b. Ṣedaqa his female slave named Ṭāʾūs ('Peacock') and her 10 year old son, named Mubārak ('The …
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A Maimonides autograph of the Guide for the Perplexed. Information from FGP.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely early Ottoman-era.
Interesting portion of a description of the yeshivot of Bavel in epistolary form. Part of a pair with BL OR 10718.7.
Mercantile letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Refers to coming to Alexandria and staying on the Nile or at sea for 3 days. …
Legal document mentioning the Nagid Yehuda b. Saʿadya. There are phrases about a man's legal competence (as in deathbed wills); quotes him as saying "my …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script. Probably fiscal, concerning amounts of produce (e.g., بان عنده ستين اربد غلة four lines from the bottom). Dating: likely Fatimid, …
Fragment (left side of recto, left side of verso) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter giving intriguing glimpses into a distressing situation: mentions the addressee's female cousin …
Family letter from a brother to his sister trying to dissuade her from marrying a certain man whom he describes as being "not a Jew, …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. The two lines on verso are somewhat mysterious.
Letter addressed to a dignitary with a long introduction in Hebrew and the body in Judaeo-Arabic (what remains of this is in the margin). Hand …
Probably a geomancy manual. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal record (#63) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 21v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 25 Nisan 5324 …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Draft of the opening of a petition or official letter. On verso jottings of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
List of books of the bible.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Shemarya the Cretan (אלאקריטשי) and someone making a will. May be …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Fragment (lower left piece). Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David. Also signed by Shemuel b. Avraham. The location, …
Hebrew poetry. Including some alliterative tongue twisters.
Miscellany containing halakhic text(s) in Judaeo-Arabic as well as a section with a date: 5010 AM = 1561 Seleucid = 1182 since the destruction of …
Tiny fragment in Hebrew characters. Might say רבינו היי ורבינו שרירא followed by מסלה אל . . . .
Letter of condolence to Avraham b. Berakaha. In Hebrew. Dating: Catalogued as 18th century. Several other people are named in the letter.
Recto: list of currencies and prices in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Verso: letter in a different hand and ink. (Information …
Enigmatic fragment. Possibly some sort of curse or prognostication. It is written in Judaeo-Arabic. The remaining content entirely consists of sentences addressed to a woman. …
Original use: The beginnings of four lines from a letter to the Nagid. Wide line spacing. Crossed out. Reused on both sides for literary material.
Letter from an unnamed Fatimid official in Alexandria to Najīb al-Dawla. Dating: second half of the eleventh century. 36 lines preserved, written in an elegant …
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Awaiting description (but see description for the whole notebook, Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52, PGPID 33686).
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Letter from Mevorakh b. Yisrael Januni in Palermo to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. July 31, 1052. The writer tries to take care of shipments …
Letter from Yosef b. Ya’aqov al-Itrabulusi from Gabes (Ifrīqiya) to Yosef b. Ya’akob b. Awkal, Fustat. The writer traveled to Qabes after visiting Barqa, Tripoli …
Court ledger. Containing multiple legal records/testimonies. Location: Probably Alexandria, since Goitein identifies the handwriting as belonging to the teacher Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī. One …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE), concerning a business partnership between Natan ha-Kohen and the doctor Mevorakh b. ʿOvadya …
Letter of condolence from David b. Daniel to Abu'l Muna.
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document written on parchment. Dated Ṣafar 261 AH = November/December 874 CE. This is therefore the oldest Arabic …
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Too faded to read much.
Upper part of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. The name and the city of the person making the acknowledgment are given. Needs …
Letter fragment. Contains only opening blessings in Hebrew on recto and the address in Arabic on verso. Addressed to a certain Mūsā.
Account for the export of flax to Sicily. Around 1035. Also mentions camphor, textiles, as well as details about payments. It seems like it is …
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Mercantile account. Some of the entries are headed with the word عدل ("bale") elongated.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with many biblical quotations. Asks the addressee to 'kiss the head of Rabbenu.'
Astronomical text, in Arabic script. Beginning of title on verso "كتاب علم صحيح".
Letter from Shelomo [b. Yosef] ha-Kohen Gaon (r. 1025 CE) to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat. Dating: 1025 CE (per Gil), but this estimate is based …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions labdanum (lādan) twice, once as a "piece" (qiṭʿa) and once in a "pouch" (mizwad).