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Verso: Mercantile account, different from recto, and seems to be in a different hand. There are two sections at 180 degrees to each other. Itemizing …
No Scholarship Records
Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a qāḍī and camel drivers. The sender is preparing for the winter. They ask ʿAbd …
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List of expenses regarding building according to date? ENA 4047.3 is related.
Letter addressed to the Nagid Yehuda b. Saʿadya, expressing a declaration of fellowship. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) For the Arabic document on verso, see …
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Letter of appeal for charity/help from a man who is housebound on account of his illness and poverty (wajaʿ, ḍuʿf, ḍīq ḥāl). Mentions Yiṣḥaq ha-Rav, …
Letter, possibly. In Hebrew. Describing trials and tribulations and mentions fugitives.
Letter from Efrayim b. Nissim, apparently in the Rīf, to Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, Fustat, ca. 1040. (Gil)
[אטאל אל]לה יאכי וסידי בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וכאן לך פי גמיע
אמורך וצל אלי יאסידי כתאבך מע [ ] גמיע מע דכרת
[תד]כר אן קד דפעת אלי…
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Recipe, potentially a medical prescription. Mentions licorice and dates and quantities measured in ounces (ūqiyya).
Minute fragment from a legal deed, probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Letter from Jerusalem. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that he arrived safely in Jerusalem with his group on Thursday at the end of the day. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Mufaḍḍal, probably in Fustat, to Abū l-Majd al-Melammed, in Qūṣ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Uncertain, but perhaps ca. 1230s CE, since T-S 13J26.6 (1234 …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100-1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Avraham b. Farrāḥ (Gil, on the basis of handwriting) from Alexandria to an unknown recipient, ca. 1055. Mentions various wares – raisins, clothes, …
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A spell to silence Ibrahim b. Karīma and prevent him from thinking evil thoughts of Faḍlān b. Baghdād, and to make him return 15 dinars. …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya to Nahray b. Nissim.
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך ונעמתך
מן דמסיס ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך אן כתבת אליך מן תניס סאלתך
תנצר בקיה מא תבקא לי …
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Recto: unidentified. Verso: opening of a short letter in Hebrew.
Fragment of a deed of sale for a property, probably. Dated: Ramaḍān 421 AH = September 1030 CE. Reused for Hebrew text (lower margin and …
Accounts or shopping list in Judaeo-Arabic. "Green fūl" appears in the upper right.
Letter to 'our master' (sayyidnā). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 13th century. Probably asking for financial support. The sender is a butcher and hardly make …
Letter of appeal addressed to a Jewish dignitary (ha-dayyan ha-maskil). The introduction is in Hebrew and the body is in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer prays that …
Recto: Left side of a letter addressed to a notable certifying the kashrut of the large molds (qawālib kibār) of כיאסי cheese and rennets (manāfīḥ) …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving 120-some dinars; mentions Barakāt(?) al-Ṣayrafī al-Levi and Sitt al-Jamāl
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from "your brother Musa" (Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi) asking the recipent to sell for him the Mishnah and Hilkhot Shehitah and …
Either a letter or a legal query. In Hebrew. Late. Describing the legal arrangements following somebody's death.
Drafts of a note to a certain Abū l-ʿIzz. No content preserved. Pen trials on verso.
Recto (secondary use): Settlement made before the divorce between Abu al-Faraj b. Abu Ishaq and 'Alam bint Abu Ishaq al-Hazzan. Abu al-Faraj renounces his rights …
Legal fragment mentioning a certain Shelomo and 21 dinars. On parchment. (Information from CUDL)
Arabic script (VMR)
Late writing exercises and sums (compare 12369.21, 22, 37, 38, 39)..
Family/business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a quantity of vessels for wine (ṭamāwiyya) and greetings to ʿImrān and Sitt al-Gharb. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts, mentioning Cairo and names such as Ibn Miska, Ibn Abū l-Surūr, Abū l-Khayr and Abū l-Ṭāhir, and quantities of currency. Hebrew numerals. (Information from …
Business letter from Yiṣḥaq [...], in Istanbul, to Efrayim ʿAdda (עדה) and Eliyyahu Aylion (אאיליון), in Fustat/Cairo. In Ladino. There is an "AI" in Latin …
Ff. 1v-2r: calendrical work on the 259th lunar cycle (= 1142–61 CE) written for the cantor ʿOvadya b. Aharon he-ḥaver. The work is in Hebrew …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions "the matter of the apostates" (קצה אלמינים); "the response to the letter …
Fragment of a legal document. Dating: ca. 1229/30 CE. Declaration made by al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab Abū l-Thanāʾ Netanʾel b. Berakhot known as Ibn ʿAmmār al-Sukkarī. None …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century.
Letter of business from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Ḥefez (חפז) to Merkado Karo and Shim'on Frances, dated 1797/1798 CE (looks like 7 Adar 5557 or …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a lovely hand; the same scribe seems to have reused numerous Arabic-script documents for literary/liturgical text (see Joins Suggestions). This letter …
Several folios from a Judaeo-Arabic copy of "Man Ghāba ʿAnhū l-Muṭrib" (The Book on the One Whom the Entertainer Abandons) by al-Thaʿālibī. One page includes …
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Could be literary (e.g. tafsīr), could be a letter.
Upper fragment: Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic: . . . יקרצני . . . מנהם פאן כאן חרצכם מן אעטיה נסיכאתי ואשהד עליי …
Receipt. The next dozen or more shelfmarks are all very similar, should be studied together.
Accounts, mostly private. Mentions names of a few individuals. Needs examination.
Recto: Bottom part of a letter in Arabic script, from a man to his 'brother.' He spells والساعة as والسعا numerous times. He mentions jāliya …
Two pages from an Arabic literary text on logic (manṭiq), pivoting around the theme of qiyās.
Letter of appeal in Hebrew, probably 14th century or later, including lengthy praises for the addressee and then a request to help with the [poll?] …
Recto: Note from a sick man to a physician, it seems beseeching him to assist an older family member who is also sick. "By the …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dated: 1444 Seleucid = 1132/33 CE. Groom: Shemuel aka Ismāʿīl b. Yosef. …
Recto: legal document in which Abraham Shami (שאמי) b. [...] Shelomo Abū l-Khayr b. Saʿadya affirms that the widow of Judah Abū l-Khayr owes money …