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Minute fragment of a letter of appeal for charity. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Might be related to T-S AS …
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Verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting and spelling addressed to 'my mother' (yā sittī) Sitt Ghazal. After the blessings, the writer says he/she received …
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A draft version of the same legal query to a jurist (istiftāʾ) as in T-S Ar.41.105 (edited by Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents, …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
ما يقول الشيخ الامام العالم العامل الزاهد الورع الامين عماد الدين
اقضا قضاة المسلمين مفتي دولة امير المؤمنين وفقه الله ل…
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Receipt of payment, or accounts in Arabic script. Saʿīd b. Ibrahīm pays ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd. Dated 14(?) Dhū l-Qaʿda 700(?). Needs examination.
Legal document from Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the elder Sulaymān and Abū l-Bahā. It is dated but the date is lost. (Information from CUDL.) Power of attorney. …
Small fragment, literary
Letter from al-Sharīf Ḥasan to the qāḍī Ṣanīʿat al-Mulk. In Arabic script, with diacritics and vowels, calligraphic. Dating: Perhaps 13th to 15th century, on paleographic …
Engagement (shiddukhin) agreeement between Avraham b. Yosef Mammon/Mammūn and Bayda (?) bt. Moshe ha-Levi known as ʿŪraybī. Currency: reales. Dated 4 January 1797 CE (6 …
Page from the record book of the law court of the Yeshiva, perhaps Yoshiyahhu Gaʾon. From the same ledger: ENA 4010.28, ENA NS 8.15, and …
Arabic script (VMR)
Letter written on behalf of and signed by the Gaʾon Sar Shalom b. Moshe ha-Levi ("Head of the Yeshiva of Ereṣ ha-Ṣevi"). In Hebrew. Dating: …
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Letter with a special request from the addressee to report about his illness. [An assumption that he was ill after not having heard from him …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in a Spanish hand to R. Yiṣḥaq al-ḥaver al-jalīl. The sender was in great anxiety until Abū Zekharya b. Yūnus and Abū l-[...] al-Khaybarī …
Recto (secondary use): Legal agreement. Yosef b. Saʿadya al-Anṭākī stands security for Ibrāhīm b. Azhar. Mentions Nuṣayr b. Fahd. (Information in part from Goitein's index …
Bottom of a legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Also signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya. One of the parties is Abū …
Letter reassuring the correspondent about the affairs of the family – 1935CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 159) – in Arabic. (information from …
Verso (original use): Unidentified document in Arabic script. Accounts of some kind?
Probably a partnership agreement. Entirely in Hebrew. Phrases: ולסחור בממו[נו]... בדרך כל הסוחרים הכשרים...
Letter in Hebrew, with an extensive Judaeo-Arabic note, in a different hand, in the top margin. Mentions a pinqas. Written on Thursday, 8 Tishrei (unclear …
Marriage contract, possibly. Only a few words of the inscription at the top (mentioning rejoicing and the Nagid) and the first line of the document …
Small fragment (upper right corner) from a court record. In Hebrew. Dating: Probably 16th century. Involves [...] Pordonil/Fordonil (the family is sometimes called Perwho owes …
Letter, possibly a draft, from a certain Avraham to an addressee whose name is not preserved. The content is not clear, but the Pasha and …
Some Arabic words on the bottom of a piyyut - needs examination.
Quittance for Saʿadya b. Avraham ha-Levi on 4 dinars he had owed. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: last decade of Iyyar 1489 Seleucid = May 1178 …
Letter conveying instructions from the Nagid on behalf of a female orphan, evidently the response to a petition. She has lost most of her father's …
Short letter or note, mentioning quantities of money. Bottom of a letter concerning a legal case between Saʿadya and his brother-in-law ʿAlī concerning 30 dinars …
Unidentified Arabic text, probably literary. Used in a book binding.
Letter in Arabic, possibly from 'your father Futūḥ' (this appears at upper left a few lines down from the top) to an unidentified addressee, it …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is in Fustat, writing with four days remaining in the month of Tamuz. Dating: Likely 12th or early 13th century. …
Letter addressed to Elʿazar ha-Kohen, whose name is prefaced with a string of honorifics typical of the late 12th or early 13th century. The sender …
Recto: Literary text in rhymed Hebrew lines. Verso: Draft of the beginning of a letter in unusual Arabic script with balls at the tops of …
Only few words. Might be from the end of a legal deed, but too little remains. AA
Letter from Eliyyahu b. Zekharya, possibly in Bet Guvrin (verso, l. 16), to a certain Shemuel, in Jerusalem. The letter is in Hebrew for the …
Fragment of power of attorney signed by four persons including the judge Shemuel b. Saadya (in office 1165-1203) and deputy judge Jephthah b. Yaʿaqov (in …
Illustration, possibly a landscape scene with a figure floating in the sky. Requires further examination.
Two contrary depositions in court concerning a sum of 47 dinars, a female slave, and an apartment. Mentions Abū al-Munajja Thiqat al-Mulk Sulaymān b. Sahl …
קטינה ודירה
A list of about 40 contributions. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
A Geonic responsum. AA
Draft of a letter in Hebrew, ca. 1043, from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Shelomo b. Yehuda, the Gaon of Jerusalem (r. 1025–1051 CE). Efrayim requests …
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Page of the account book of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Abū Yiṣḥaq; Abū Saʿd; Ibn al-Ḥarīrī.
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew apparently addressed to the brother-in-law of the writer. The addressee is asked to purchase a servant girl for the …
Minute fragment of a letter. Verso reads like a prayer to God for forgiveness.
Fragment of an Aramaic literary source.
Recto: verses in Arabic expressing the book owner’s intention to not lend his copy to anybody without making a written note of it. The first …
Some jottings in Arabic on verso - needs examination.
Late Arabic Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions al-Muʿallim Ibrahīm b. Amīn and Khwājā Yūsūf. Name of the notary at the bottom of the …
Illegible. Hebrew script, extremely faded. One word is והוציאם, and at least some words are vocalized.