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Openning of a letter to a notable. The name remains blank to be added later. AA
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A small piece from a letter mentioning the elder Abū l-Ḥasan al-Levi, written in the hand of Hananel b. Shmuel. AA
Verso (original use): Tax receipt, Ayyubid? For [...] al-Yahūdī in Cairo. Needs examination.
Legal fragment. Probably a partnership agreement in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Refers to a period of two years and various mutually agreed upon …
Legal document. Fragment (upper right piece). Location: Damascus. Concerning the cantor [...] b. Meʾir and his qualifications for ritual slaughter. He undertakes not to slaughter …
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List of expenses - perhaps for building? In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: the year was recorded in the recto heading l. 2 but some …
Accounts, mentioning Shemuʾel ha-Levi b. Menashshe and Abū Saʿīd al-Rubbān. Accounts are in dirhams and fractions of dirhams. Commodities referred to include wood, oil, almonds, …
Letter from Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq, a Qaraite in Jerusalem, to the brothers Yiṣḥaq and Binyamin b. Yosef in Warjalan, July 1039.
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Legal query sent to Rosh ha-Seder regarding an owner of a house who left to another land without paying his kharāj (AA)
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Small fragment of parchment with a few words in Arabic including al-rābiʿ.
List of names with Coptic numerals. Names include Faḍl Allāh; Dāʾūd; Ibrāhīm; al-Rashīd Ibn Iṭfīḥī; Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd. Resembles T-S NS 297.31 (PGPID 24869).
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Lease contract for an entire top-floor apartment rented by Abu al-Ḥasan Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Menashshe. from Abu al-Fadl Mevorakh b. Yefet. The place is described …
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Recto (secondary use): Pen trials including five lines from the opening of a letter/petition to the physician (al-shaykh al-ajall al-ḥakīm Abū l-Makārim) reminding him of …
Fol. 3r: Remnants of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter in Arabic script. May be addressed to a jurisconsult regarding a legal opinion, ending "wa-huwa wa-raʾyuhū abṣar." The sender and addressee are Jewish, based …
Letter from Ascalon to the Nagid in Egypt concerning a dispute in the community over synagogue expenditures, 1st half of the 12th century.
. . . not for renovations, but to buy mats for the synagogue on which the congregation can sit. The answer of the congregatio…
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Account. Containing one word in Arabic and many lines of Coptic numerals.
Letter from a father, probably in Fustat, to his son Isḥāq b. Saʿīd, probably in the Rīf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 14th century. The handwriting …
Letter from Natan b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Sefaradi, in Jerusalem, to Shelomo b. David Ibn al-ʿArīshī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address written both in Hebrew …
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Small fragment of a letter in Hebrew to a notable. The address mentions 'our rabbi Yosef.' The hand might be known. Dating: likely 11th century.
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Involves a supervisor of construction (al-mutawallī lil-ʿimāra); something valued …
Verso: fragment of an account mentioning, at top, the end of the month of Shaʿbān 403; below, after a blank space, a payment of 102⅓ …
واخرها شعبان سنة ثلث واربعمية
من العين ماية ؟
ثلث
الناىب … الدعوة …
حسبني لحكم العزيز حسابا في الشهر اربع ماىة
نصف وثلث
من ج…
Piyyut.
Two pieces of one ketubba. Bride: Umm al-Faraj, the virgin. Groom: Toviah b. ___. The dowry list includes a gold drop choker (worth 5 dinars), …
List, commercial. In Judaeo-Arabic. Sums given in dirhams. Very faded. Mentions pepper.
Fragment of a legal document on parchment. Dating: likely 11th century. Mentions: someone called בר/כר אבן כודין...; "the inheritance of his father Ṭayyib"; testimony regarding …
A few enormous words in Arabic script, likely from a decree. It is a title and a name, perhaps Thiqat al-Dawla Ḥammād b. ʿAlī. Above …
Verso: Note in bad handwriting headed עת לעשות וגו׳. In the right margin the name Abū Saʿd appears; this might be the sender, or it …
Leaf probably originally from a larger quire. On recto there is a poem in Hebrew. On verso there is a dedication (mostly in Judaeo-Arabic) stating …
Partnership agreement between Eliyyahu Palombo, Yaʿaqov Reqaḥ, and Merkado Ḥūba(?) (חובה), from Cairo, dated 1796 CE (Av 5556 AM). The main text of the document …
Piyyuṭ with ownership note: Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel he-Ḥaver b. Muʿammar(?) Sofer
Letter from Salmān b. [...] to [Abū Sa]ʿīd Khallūf b. Zikrī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). Dating: Probably first half of the …
Three fragments of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Probably from Mivḥar b. Yefet to the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. The scribe is identified based on handwriting …
Recto (original use): Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script.
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Involves Yeshuʿa and [...] b. Natan.
Panegyric to Rav Ḥananel, perhaps on the occasion of the birth of a son. Quite faded.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Small fragment, very faded.
Esoteric text in Judaeo-Arabic. May be magical ( "indeed you will be able to do whatever you wish to Khalaf b. Moshe") and/or for treasure-hunting …
Horoscopes.
Letter from a brother (probably) to a sister. in Judaeo-Arabic. Meditating on suffering and isolation and distance and "the fear due to this matter is …
Small fragment of a document in Hebrew or Judaeo-Arabic, maybe a letter.
Letter mostly consisting of praises for the addressee, then a request for personal assistance. The writer is Avraham ha-Yakhini (f.3, l.12), in Istanbul, to ʿAzarya …
List of names and numerical figures on recto, with accounts continued on the verso in a more concise format. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.