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Letter from Barhūn b. Yisḥaq al-Tāhartī to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: 1045–96 CE. The sons of the late Nagid, who are owed favors, have asked …
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Recto: autograph medical recipe in the hand of Moses Maimonides, prescribing an emetic and other drugs. The ingredients used include sticky sugar, lemon juice, oxymel, …
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Fragment of a letter or responsum. This portion consists entirely of citing and expounding biblical verses.
No Scholarship Records
Arabic poetry and/or sayings. Includes "ليس المقام بدار الذل من شيمي ولا معاشرة الأنذال من هممي," which can also be found in T-S Ar.30.134 and …
Private/mercantile accounts. Many names are preserved. Dating: one entry mentions "beginning with 1 Dhū l-Qaʿda 579" and another entry mentions "until the end of al-Muḥarram …
Letter from a man to his son Shelomo Skandari. In Hebrew. Dating: End of the 16th century, according to Avraham David. The addressee spent time …
Fragment of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Very faded.
Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen to the two brothers Avraham and Yiṣḥaq/Isḥāq Ibn al-Ḥakīm ("the physician"). Identification of the sender based on his distinctive …
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Bill of sale dated December 481/1088 (original document), in which Khulayf b. ʿUbayd b. ʿAlī sells a house to Hārūn b. Khulayf b. Hārūn, the …
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Poem in Hebrew in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. May address the city of Tyre and its sages.
Table including many numbers. In Arabic script. Accounts?
Bifolio of mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Large and well-preserved. Dating: 11th century. Merits further examination.
Mainly copious pen trials. Verso also has drafts of phrases from a letter written in an elevated register.
The Arabic title page of the Quran with al-Zamakhsharī's commentary, edited by William Nassau Lees (وليم ناسو ليس الايرلندي), printed in Calcutta, 1856.
Letter by Sahlan ha-Mumḥe (b. Avraham) discussing the meaning of difficult words in a piyyut by ha-Qalir. In Hebrew with the address in Arabic script.
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Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides, r. 1205–1237 CE. Mostly in Arabic script with a few words in Hebrew. Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm is …
Letter from Shelomo Barukh, in Damietta, to his uncle Shemuel ha-Levi, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Friday, 29 Adar I 5559 AM, which is 6 …
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A formula of a letter to a notable
Small fragment with Ladino. Letter?
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involves Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshāṭī (here spelled אלאמשטי). Mentions large sums of money ("200" and "80 dinars") and the children of …
List of payments received in Judaeo-Arabic. Accordingly, each entry relies on the phrase "קבץ מן / قبظ من" (l.1r, 4r) and the coinage in use …
Two records of a legal transaction involving Sitt al-Sāda bt. Abū l-Surūr Ibn Maṭrūḥ, mentioning al-shaykh al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl, and Yosef. Written and signed (both …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: Fuḍayla(?) and maintenance (mezonot); a deposit for Ibn Samīna(?), followed by the (currency?) term Yūsufī; Bint Mufliḥ; Bū l-Majd; a ruqʿa …
Receipt in late Hebrew script. Mentions Miṣrayim (Cairo). The first line is a name: Moshe(?) Mizrāḥī, with the latter word more clearly rendered. The middle …
Official report in Arabic script. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Mentions jihād and a general (al-amīr al-isfahsalār), probably in the context of the …
Petition in Arabic script concerning a governor, a bishop and monasteries. In the formal third-person address, the writer apologizes for sending the request in writing …
Memorial list or genealogy. In Hebrew.
IB III, 49. Letter by Yosef Yiju, in Mazara, to his sons Perahya and Moshe, in Fustat or Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: Fall …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Late. Dated: Looks like 5334 AM, which would be 1573/74 CE but the third digit is not clear (alternate …
Magical document with a humanoid figure and Greek alphabets.
Recto: Bible in Hebrew language, Arabic script (Arabo-Hebrew). Bible: Michah 6:6 – 8; Hosea 6:6; Proverbs 21:3. On verso there are Hebrew jottings from Jeremiah …
Minute blank fragment
Account of the qodesh, ca. 1120. Revenue from different people is listed, mostly without specifications. The sums seem to represent money of the qodesh deposited …
…. the sugar-refineries, 17 dinars. Paid for the slave girl
…. Abū ʿUmar, 7, 71⁄2
…. dir., 2 qīrāṭs and 7 .... the tenant, the hired wo…
Legal document or receipt, late, in Arabic script. Dated: Shaʿbān 14 __78 AH. The dating is likely 1178 (1765 CE) or 1278 (1862 CE). The …
Recto: Possibly an account in Arabic and Greke/Coptic numerals. Quite faded. Verso: A block of text concerning transactions and containing a date and a sum. …
Strip from the right part of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) dealing with …
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Dāwūd b. Yehuda ha-Kohen asking him to read out a letter of condolence—enclosed with the present letter—to Moshe ha-Kohen …
לך יי הוחלתי אתה תענה יי אלהי
אלממלוך שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין ס'ט
אל הדרת יקרת צפירת כגק מרנא ורבנא דוד הכבן החבר
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, etc.
But for thee, O Lord, do I wait; it is thou, O Lord my God, who wilt answer.
The sl…
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Letter from Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Ṭuviyyahu, probably in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), in Fustat. Recommending his nephew Avraham b. Moshe for charity. …
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 …
minute fragments
Bifolio containing mainly literary text including masekhet avot. There are also several blocks of Arabic text, including some literary text and (on recto) many drafts …
Recto: Possibly a letter fragment. There are three different sizes of writing, in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to a scholar ('ha-gadol ba-talmud') and the year …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic for materia medica. Items include ʿanzarūt, sandarūs, shurb. All crossed out with vertical lines. Handwriting of Abū Zikrī Kohen?
Verso and bottom of recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso is headed: "inventory of that which I brought with me to Būṣīr." Mentions names such as …
Fiscal document. Challenging to read. May mention sugar. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. For the community's expenses on the synagogue quarter. Dated: 427 AH, which is 1035/36 CE. (A previous PGP entry said 1427 Seleucid …
Medical recipes/prescriptions. The usual pinholes, but this time they've been made in conservation tape. Same goes for ENA 3927.3.
Decorated, torn Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Yeshu'a b. Yosef and the bride is Esther known as Karima d. Shlomo