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Legal note. About money taken from a tailor. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the use of the ashrafī which was first minted …
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Lease contract involving al-Khazzān al-Yahūdī, dated A.H. 569 (= 1173-74 C.E.). - needs examination.
Bill of settlement (taṣāduq). In Arabic script. Dated: 15 Dhū l-Qaʿda 924 AH, which is 1518 CE. Principal protagonists are Mīkhā'īl b. Isḥāq b. Abī …
Recto: fragments of letters in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. The latter mentions Fuḍayl al-Naṣrānī, Ibn al-Jamal, sums of dinars, and ṣāḥib al-dār. The text in Arabic …
Legal testimony in Arabic script, in which someone declares that he longer owes any money to someone. One of the parties is named Abū l-Munā. …
Letter in Arabic script to the writer's father, Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Shubbāṭ al-Siqillī. Only the opening greetings and the address are preserved. The writer …
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Magical fragment in Arabic script. It seems "throbbing of the joints" (ḍarabān al-mafāṣil).
Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Calligraphic. Dated: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 417 AH, which is April/May 1026 CE. Many intricate details about transactions. The main …
Letter fragment concerning trade, in mixed Judaeo-Persian and Arabic. The fragment is labeled "L6" in Shaul Shaked's (unpublished) classification of Early Judeo-Persian texts.
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Two entries from a merchant's notebook instructing agents in commercial cases. Written on the back of a letter in mixed Judaeo-Persian and Arabic (see PGPID …
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Fatimid decree. Two lines in huge script with wide spaces between the lines; faded and difficult to decipher. Reused for a text in Judaeo-Arabic that …
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Each entry is headed with a day of the week.
Late accounts in Arabic, reused for Hebrew commentaries on different portions of Genesis.
Literary text in Arabic script. Astrological/astronomical. Mentions Saggitarius (burj al-qaws) several times.
Calendrical calculations and jottings in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
State document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text. In the hand of ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel?
One line of an Arabic script document, abandoned. With the glyph. Contains a name, perhaps Isrā'īl b. Saʿd b. Mūsā al-ʿAṭṭār. On recto there is …
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 …
Ledger of accounts in Arabic, Siyāqāt and Coptic numerals. Dated on image 3v as Rabīʿ al-Awwal 938 AH (1531 CE). 30 pages.
Letter addressed to a certain Abū l-Barakāt. In Arabic script. The writer complains about poverty and unemployment and kashf ḥāl ('uncovering').
Lists of names in Hebrew and in Arabic script, among them Efraim b. Shemarya. The others include Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Yosef; Shemuʾel b. Yosef; YKBR(?) …
Documentary/administrative record? One page (verso is blank) with a Hebrew-script header and 8 lines of Arabic in a jagged/coarse hand--maybe from a badly cut nib? …
Account in Arabic script and Coptic numerals.
There are 3 items sharing this shelfmark:515/1: Formulary for a Qaraite ketubba. In Hebrew.515/2: Prayer for Moshe Firrouz. In Hebrew. 515/3: Several lines of jottings …
Recto: Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Beẓalel b. Ḥayyim to David I Maimonides (b. Avraham b. Moshe), r. 1237–1300 CE. In Hebrew. Defending the Guide for …
Accounts in Arabic script. There is also an addendum to the document on the recto. (Information in part from Goitein, Med Soc II, p. 435 …
Accounts in Arabic script.
Book list in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script, with some overlap between the two sections. From Avraham Maimonides' own library? These are all but a …
Original text: (draft of?) Arabic legal document involving a certain Hārūn b. Sulaymān. Needs further examination. Later text: In Judaeo-Arabic, the archaeological secrets revealed by …
Two different fragments. First fragment: An abridgement of some of the dietary and lifestyle advice from Chapter 4 of the Hebrew plague treatise "Moshiaʿ Ḥosim" …
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions frankincense and Genoese saffron.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic, likely fiscal. Mentions fūl (fava beans) and jullabān (vetch) and shaʿīr (barley).
Recto: At least two different drafts of late Arabic letters. Bottom of recto and verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic--lists of money received from various individua
Writing exercises in Arabic, helpfully giving the date: August-September 1822 CE (Dhu l-Hijja 1237 AH).
Accounts for trade between the ports of Beirut and Dimyāṭ in the name of the ship captain Muṣtafa al-Jamīl. Dated 27 [Ramada]n 1234 AH which …
Legal document in Arabic signed by three Muslim witnesses and dated 1823/4 CE (1239 Hijri). Merits further examination.
Arabic letter, with the format closely resembling the Judaeo-Arabic letters ca.1800 CE.
Letter in Arabic addressed to Ibrahim ʿAdda/ʿĀdāh in Cairo, from Yūsuf and Fransīs Zakkār. Dated 14 December 1802 (18 Sha'ban 1217). See AIU XII.82, another …
To his excellency, our dear friend, the most noble Muʿallim Ibrāhīm ʿĀdāh the revered, may God the exalted preserve and keep him.
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Recto: Letter in Arabic from Isrā'īl al-Ṣayrafī to Yaʿqūb al-Ṭawīl, appears to be dated 6 February 1797 (8 Sha'ban 1211). Verso: There is the remnant …
Recto: The first few lines of an Ottoman-era legal document, bearing two seals and an annotation in a different hand, opening with an invocation of …
Recto: Last nine lines of a legal document in Arabic dated 555 AH (1160 CE), with the signatures of two witnesses. Verso: Accounts in Arabic …
Recto: A faded letter (of three lines only) addressed to Ibrahim al-Yahudi al-Ḥawāyirī (?) from [...] al-ʿAṭṭār, either addressed to or written in Wikālat al-[...]. …
Accounts in Arabic which mention kuruş as a form of payment (via ق symbol in second column) which helps to date this fragment as eighteenth- …
Letter in Arabic script. Some kind of (state?) report on agricultural activities this year? وقد زرع في هذه السنة... وجميع الفلاحين فيها فلاحين السلطان... احد …
Recto: Stylized letter in Hebrew to David b. Hezekia the Nasi. Verso: The address and several different blocks of writing in Arabic script.
Business letter in Arabic script from Mubārak b. Isḥāq to Abū l-Faḍl Sahl b. Yaḥyā al-Baṣrī (or al-Baṣīr), expressing longing for the addressee and sending …
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Letters or groups of letters written by an apprentice who trained in the basics of the alphabet
Letters or groups of letters written by an apprentice who trained in the basics of the alphabet. The verso contains scribal practice of an iqrār …
Letters or groups of letters written by an apprentice who trained in the basics of the Arabic alphabet. This Arabic-script letter is dated 29 Rajab …
The text is badly damaged but one can read ʾišhād fulān ʾišhād fulān (l. 3)