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List of payments on certain days of the week and list of names, written by Tamim b. Yosef (was active from the last days of …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of the same scribe as adjacent fragments (see especially ENA NS 76.435.1 + ENA NS 76.435.3).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions silk, 40 dinars, and the mysterious word כצאש twice (once followed by "ghalīẓ"). (Information in part from CUDL)
Writing practice, consisting of Genesis 1:1-5, vocalised with Tiberian vowels in the lines 1-2 only. The text breaks off after בקר in Genesis 1:5, where …
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Late partnership agreement between Khalīfa [...], Faraj Zanzūrī (?), Yiṣḥaq Zanzūrī (?), Avraham Pinto, and Barukh [...]. The partnership is to last for 3 years. …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Legal document(s). Dating: Possibly 1168 CE, based on the fact that the document was written shortly after the pillage/burning of Fustat (nahb/nawba/ḥarīq Fusṭāṭ). On recto, …
Literary text, probably an Arabic grammar text. Mentions فاعل، مفعول، فعل with a few examples from the Quran in the explanation of these phenomena like …
Legal document concerning the marital status of the daughter of Sayf al-Dīn, dated 15 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 808 H. [1406]. [Described on the paper wrapper as …
Letter. Commercial letter from Murjī to his son, Meʾir b. Murjī, listing repayments from various individuals, including Moses [...] and David [...]. Address on verso. …
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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Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (mawlāya al-dayyān) is instructed to give 5 dinars to the bearer Abū l-ʿIzz on a certain date. …
Recto: Letter, copy, to Yehuda ha-Nasi (possibly the exilarch Yehuda b. David b. Yehuda), consisting solely of extensive praises. (Information from CUDL.)
Likely a letter, or possibly a literary narrative, in which a person is describing their tribulations in rhymed Hebrew: אדוני תשורה נאה והדורה . . …
Bifolio from a small fiscal register in codex form. Three of the four pages each contain a distinct document/entry, beginning with the trigger "balagha." Presumably …
Legal document for a partnership between Berakhot ha-Levi b. Shemuʾel and Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ. Dating: 1127–39 CE, as this was drawn up in the court …
Letter from an old cantor to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. He is complaining that his post was taken by someone …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Ibn Abī l-Surūr; Mūsā al-Isfāqusī; Mūsā; Yeshuʿa; "my cousin" (ibn ʿammī); the city of Rashīd; Mūsā b. …
Long fragment of parchment containing recipes involving raisins and honey, in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Needs further examination.
Bifolio of personal accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Many entries crossed out.
Possibly an extremely faded letter or document in Hebrew or Judaeo-Arabic. The name R. Natan appears in l. 3.
End of a legal document; no names preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Bottom of a legal document. Location: Might be Palermo (פלרם), but this word is very faded. Dated: Elul 4904 AM = August 1144 CE. Settlement …
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Mentions Ibn al-Anṣārī and Abū ʿAbdallāh. Needs further examination.
Extensive accounts in Ladino with at least one full date on ENA 3306.8r in the upper left corner: ״27 תשרי [הת]קסח״ which is 27 Tishrei …
Fragment of a report apparently from an army officer to a superior. He describes how "we all went out to Wādī Buṭnān (near Aleppo) and …
Small fragment from the bottom of a letter asking for a reply (and complaining about the lack of reply to a prior complaint). AA/ASE
Legal document. Fragment (upper left corner). The date is mostly broken off. Mentions [...] b. Shelomo ha-Mashmiaʿ (probably the equivalent of Arabic munādī, "crier") and …
Letter from a woman to her husband (ṣāḥib al-bayt). In Judaeo-Arabic. After the greetings, which include wishes for the husband's recovery from illness, she continues, …
I inform you, master of the house, may God always give you happiness, strengthen your well-being,
cure your sorrows, destroy your enemies and…
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Document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, likely accounts. Mentions the date of the 9th of Shawwāl and the name ʿAbdallāh.
Palimpsest, the upper script consisting of a collection of qerovot by Yannai from a 10th-century (?) maḥzor of his work. The under script is the …
Legal document. it seems to be a release. Signed are Yishaq b. Mevorakh, Avraham b. Yeshuʿa, Yisrael b. Yefet, and Hayyim b. Sasson b. Hayyim …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. "The total. . . drugs and silk. . ."
Tax receipt, Fatimid, possibly for the year 414? 11.5 x 10.5. NB: There is a discrepancy between the numbering of the manuscripts and the photos; …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Mentions that all slaughtering in Damsīs has been put on hold; asks the addressee to obtain a fatwā in …
A very damaged fragment. The upper text block is the end of a legal query probably written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (active in the first …
Letter from Avraham Maghribī to the elder Maʿānī. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. This is a recommendation for charity on behalf of the bearer, the son of …
Talmudic commentary? Literary.
Fragment of an official-looking account. Verso may contain the glyph. Pinholes at the margin ~4mm apart. Needs examination for content.
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Ayyash b. Sadaqa in Busir. Probably ca. 1050.
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Left side of a letter in Ladino.
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic.
Magical spells and procedures written in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentioning Islamic content including reciting Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ; and "al-lawḥ al-maḥfūẓ." Also invocations of magical names and …
Halakhic text, possibly by Shmuel b. Ḥofni Gaʾon, mentioning among other things the concept of 'adāʾ al-amāna.' See Goitein and Friedman, India Book I, pp. …