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Family letter from Meir b. Hillel b. Sadoq to his son. The letter reflects the personal and economic distress of the writer, who was far …
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Treatise and/or exercises on prosody (ʿarūḍ), with a sample verse scanned on recto.
No Scholarship Records
Draft of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely from an elder brother to a younger brother. The sender is very worried about his mother's illness …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions mastic at the top of verso. Needs examination.
Prayer for the current incumbent of a distinguished family of Kohanim, Moshe ha-Kohen (lived around 1200), opening with a prayer for his ancestors and other …
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Literary text. Late. Boxed with double red lines.
Possibly a fragment of a writ of appointment in Hebrew (FGP). Excerpts: בך בחרתי והסכמתי ממרו[. . . .] להור[ות] בתורת סיומי ולהבינם [. . …
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involving a debt. Mentions 'our master the Gaʾon' (Maṣliaḥ) twice; …
Fragment only shows mirrored script. Probably from a legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Late accounts, mentioning Aḥmad, Yaḥyā, Nūraddin, Abū Nāṣir and Muḥammad. The botanical term שמשאר from Persian is mentioned on the recto, possibly materia medica (Steingass: …
Upper part of a Qaraite legal document. Dated: Tuesday, 23 Tishrei 5408 AM = 22 October 1647 CE (not 1787 CE as stated in Ktiv). …
Medical treatise. Red ink.
Small fragment - needs examination.
Letter mentioning [Abū] Zikrī and illnesses. Small fragment. (Information in part from CUDL)
Arabic poetry.
Verso: Order of payment from Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Abū l-Bayān is to pay Maḥfūẓ al-Khādim various sums of dirhams for various things: 6 for …
A Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Aharon b. Binyamin Halevi and the bride is Esther b. Avraham the physician. Dated 15 Kislev 5399 …
IB II, 45. Letter from the scribe of the yeshiva to Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundar. Cairo, ca. 1128-39.
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Recto contains piyyuṭ. Verso contains instructions in Judaeo-Arabic for certain prayers to be said in the synagogue. May mention jinn in the bottom line.
Accounts in Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Very rudimentary hand. There may be someone called 'the elephant.'
Fragments of bills of divorce. T-S 10J3 ff. 2-11. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
List of Jewish and Muslim names in Hebrew script followed by what are likely alphanumerical figures connected to accounts. The dating for this fragment is …
Recto: Letter from Abū Sahl Levi to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. He has sent: parchments (ruqūq), scissors (miqaṣṣ), a belt (zunnār), a razor …
Bill of release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower left corner). Dated: 1428 Seleucid = 1116/17 CE. Almost none of the content …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: 13 Shevat 5501 AM, which is 1741 CE. Scribed and signed by Eliyyahu Rofe Ḥazan known as Ẓaʿir/Ṣaʿir. The document …
Fragment of a Fatimid state document. Reporting that an official document belonging to an unnamed person (the -hū of kitābuhū) and dated 4 Rajab 523 …
Accounts in Arabic.
Fol. 7v: Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 15 Jumādā II 423 AH = 29 May 1032 CE if read correctly. it. Reused (a century …
State document in Arabic script. Mentions Arslān b. Khuṭlukh of the 'old' Ḥāfiẓī regiment (ṭāʾifat al-ḥāfiẓiyya al-qudamāʾ"); the estate/town (ḍayʿa) known as Sumusṭā in Middle …
].بو الارسلان بن خطلخ من طايفة الحافظية القدما
] واجبة في الضيعة المعروفة بسمسطا من الصعيد الادنا
على حكم الاستمرار بها..وفي السنة
من…
Verso (original use): Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (bottom only). The sender apologizes profusely for an unspecified failing and goes on at length about his …
مه…[ ]سمى لو كان[ ]غير
مولاي الشيخ وارجو الا يتجرد منه كتاب في شي منك هذا فوالله
ان كنت الا على النار والله ما اردت الا احرق راسي كل…
Letter to a Nagid, mentioning Ibn Sharwīn and a youth from Mosul. The handwriting is known from the circle of Mosul Nasis from the early/mid-13th …
Magical text in Arabic script. Small fragment. Written on parchment.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Concluding words only.
Petition fragment (upper left corner). The ends of 5 lines are preserved. The addressee is called 'nuṣrat al-mujāhidīn' among other titles. Dating: Ayyubid or Mamluk. …
Legal fragment. In the (hurried) hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves someone of the Ibn Shamlaṣ(?) family (the same name appears …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: end of Sivan 5582 AM, which is June 1822 CE. Dissolution of partnership and settling of accounts between …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Last leaf only. The writer is begging for an urgent loan or gift of 5 dinars, on Sunday. A sum of 20 …
Informal note (petition?) in Arabic script addressed to "al-Shaykh al-Rayyis al-Muwaffaq." There is a version of a raʾy clause (والراي ما يراه المولى). The sender …
Acknowledgement of the receipt of an amount for a period of use – January 31 1944CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 263) in …
Letter. Dating: Probably late 11th or early 12th century. The sender congratulates the addressee(s) on the holidays and reminds them of a promise they had …
Letter addressed to Avraham ʿAmram. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Draft, abandoned mid-line.
Legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Fragment (lower right corner). Involving Abū l-Faraj who acknowledges receiving 10 dinars from …
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Letter from Ḥananel (حاننال), it seems in Tyre (recto, l. 3), to an unidentified addressee, in Fustat. In Arabic script. A vertical strip from the …
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Letter from Salāma b. Abī l-Ḥayy to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal. The writing place is unknown. Mentions several partners of b. Awkal and it …
Letter from an ardent supporter to Daniel b. ʿAzarya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1055 CE (per Goitein). This is the first leaf of a longer …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic (upper margin only on recto, address only on verso), from Ḥasan b. ʿAmram to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with one phrase in Arabic script (a formulaic blessing/prayer). Little of the substance of the letter is preserved. The sender expresses longing …
Karaite deed of testimony that a husband has delivered a bill of divorce to his wife. Location: Baghdad (l. 7, פה בגדאד) Dated: 6 Iyyar …
Karaite agreement regarding a payment for two apartments (תבקתין) in a house. Date: 27 Shevat 5446 AM (1686 CE). ʿOvadya Feyruz receives a payment of …
Qurʾān: sūrat al-fātiḥa.