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Cryptic note addressed to Amīn al-Dawla. Seems poetic, and might mention scorpions (עקארבה). Needs examination.
No Scholarship Records
An ethical treatise in the style of al-Ghazali. Classical ethics with a tinge of Sufism. It is a quote from a Shi'ite text - see …
My son, I adjure you to piety toward God; to faith; to bearing witness; to speaking truth in favor and fury; to moderation between wealth and poverty…
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Recto: Judges 3:11–15, with a number of cases of dittography. In the left margin, beginning of 1 Samuel 13:12. The name Shelomo b. Shemuʾel ha-Levi …
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Legal document written for a woman and signed by Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av Bet Din and Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver (fl. 1150–1181), both known from …
Magical fragment
Legal document written in Damietta Tishrei 1448 (late September 1136) and validated in Fustat in the court of the synagogue of the Palestinians, under the …
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Modern printed edition of the 10th-century History of Armenia by Yovhannēs Drasxanakertc‘i. The text on these pages corresponds to Krikor Maksoudian's 1987 edition, p. 101. …
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1055. Details about business with Abū Sahl ha-Kohen (probably Menashshe ha-Kohen b. Avraham) as well as …
make his honored position permanent
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IB V, 37, folio 9. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 3 ounces …
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Probably a top part from a letter.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
End of a partnership agreement. On parchment. Witness: Tamīm b. N[atan?]. AA/ASE
Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Last 5 lines only. "...If you can find a fat kid or sheep or myrobalan, please send it to me with …
Recto: Upper part of an eloquent Hebrew letter to a distinguished person. The first half consists of hyperbolic, rhyming praises for "Sar Tzeva ha-El, Rosh …
Draft of a Hebrew letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi to a distinguished physician also named Moshe (but probably not Maimonides because Moshe b. Levi …
Astrological or astronomical table.
Letter from the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov probably addressed to Ḥananel b. Shemuel. In Hebrew. Written on a very narrow strip of paper. Dating: …
On recto a legal deed written by Efraim b. Shemarya regarding Avraham b. Shemuel affair (see Goitein, Med. Soc. III, 293-295). Published by Bareket, The …
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Recto: Deed of sale, probably, for real estate. Some of the details of the property are preserved, including mention of a latrine (mirḥāḍ, l. 4). …
Legal document, fragment. Mentions [Avraham?] b. Natan Av Bet Din and seems to be some sort of release. There is a list of items covered: …
Probably literary
Verso: Probably an alms list in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. There are also some names of people who may be contributors. Mentions names including ʿAzīz; Rashīd; …
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Mentions writing a deed of release (shover): והתאזרו במדת דין ומשפט . . . תכתבו להם שובר עד אשר . . …
Bottom part of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, maybe 14th–17th century. Mentions "yā akhī" and "qalb al-kull ʿindak."
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Perhaps a release granted from a man to a woman.
Letter from 1908 CE(?). Requires further examination.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Interestingly, the Judaeo-Arabic does not appear to be in the hand of ʿArūs. Mentions pepper and zerumbet.
Literary text in Arabic script. Includes the well-known story of Ibn al-Sammāk who visited Hārūn al-Rashīd, who was drinking water. Ibn al-Sammāk stopped him from …
Avraham b. Rason buys from Yeshua Abu al-Fadl b. Eliyyahu 9/24 of a sugar factory for 150 dinars. Date: First third of Shevat 1555 Sel. …
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī, in cash, 2 …
List of people of respectable families - The name Mevorakh b. Mordekhai is mentioned, as are the Banu Qarita (Qurayza?) family of kohanim.
Recto: unidentified jottings in Arabic script. Verso: Qiddush for Passover and Shabbat. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Most of the paper is preserved, but the text is too faded and damaged to read much.
Marriage contract (ketubba) stating that the 200 zuz were "established by the holy college" and the dinars bear the sign "of the temporal ruler." Date, …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential. Not much of the content remains. "Take for me the two letters. . ." On verso there is what …
Letter of business in which the writer requests the recipient purchase for him a measure of oil, two ‘futa’ (sari-like cloth), and two dinars of …
Formal letter in Arabic script. Full of eloquent expressions of patronage. Unusual layout. Needs examination for content. Verso, is covered with writing in Arabic script …
Legal fragment. Very faded. Involves various sums/transfers of money.
Responsum (FGP)
Small fragment with writing in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly a letter. Mentioning various sums of money.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment, containing only the opening and part of the address. The sender is M[...] b. Ḥassūn(?).
Tax receipt for Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq, likely for what he owes as the tax farmer of something (min jumlat mā ʿalayhi ʿan [ḍamānih?]...). On verso …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a certain Reuven [Najjar y Feliz?] to Moshe Najjar y Feliz, probably his brother, dated 4 Settembre '56. It deals …
Letter or commercial document in Arabic script that was cut up and recycled for usage in a communal register c. 1798 CE. Mentions the port …
Page from a late Hebrew medical treatise.
Letter – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 109) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / …