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Fragment of a letter from Barakāt Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu ha-Dayyan, conveying greetings and expressing sadness about being separated from the recipient. Likely …
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End of a letter from 'your brother Avraham Perdonel.' Late. (Information in part from CUDL)
No Scholarship Records
Talmudic.
Legal document, bottom part only, plus qiyyum/validation. Location: Fustat. Dated: [14]38 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE. Witnesses: Avraham b. Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver descendant of Shemaʿyahu Gaon; …
Legal document, an ishhād, in Arabic script. Regarding agricultural land in faddāns. Mentions the land is in a bad condition (ʾarḍ lā yuntafaʿ bihi). Needs …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter including the phrases: "I have not done [...] for three months. . . Rabbenu Peraḥya ha-Dayyan arrived. . . al-Shaykh …
Letter from Mūsā b. Yiṣḥaq b. Nissim, in al-Mahdiyya, to Ismāʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1030. The writer is looking forward to …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). (a) ʿAzzūz bt. Yefet/Ḥasan known as Ibn כתרתאן(?) al-Zajjāj, the widow of [...] …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Much of the text has been obliterated. CUDL lists this fragment as a draft of a petition. Requires further examination.
Letter from Rachel b. Avraham Zussman, in Jerusalem, to Yaʿaqov Katz, in Venice. In Yiddish. Dated: 16 Heshvan 5327 AM, which is October 1566 CE. …
Letter from Isma’il b. Ishaq al-Andalusi, Aleppo, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: mid-11th century. Details about sending letters. The writer is about to travel …
כתאבי יאמולאי חרס אלל[ה חיא]תך וטול עמרך ואדאם עזך
מן חלב ואן כאן יאמולאי ל[ם] תתקדם כלטה ולא מק<ר>ה ולא
צחבה חקיקה פענדי מן [ט]יב שימך ס…
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Letter of condolence in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, on the death of 'the father.' Beautiful prose and calligraphic script. Likely a formulary.
Attestation of the court of the Babylonian community in Fustat bearing the signature of Sahlan [b. Avraham] and dated 1355/1044.
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Accounts in a mixture of Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. One of the entries is for Shabbat expenses, including two chickens (farrūjayn).
The end of a ketubba with a dowry list, referring to either Natan or Yonatan (or simply החתן). The list has been reused for writing …
Letters of recommendation for an unnamed man, drawn up by the Sephardic community of Vienna in 1861. This man was from Mosul (Nineveh) and brought …
Legal declaration, or perhaps a legal query, presenting the facts of a business dispute between the jewel merchants Avraham b. Ḥayyim and Yehuda de לויא. …
Recto: Fragment of a legal document, referring to "his son Avraham b. Mevorakh" and various items of silver. Verso: Glossary to Halakhot Gedolot
Loan document: Abū Manṣūr Elʿazar Ibn Zabqala receives a loan from Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Karmī Ibn Shabīb. Same case as T-S NS 321.79 (PGPID …
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Release in the name of Banāt bt. Ezra for the sons of her sister, Ṭayyib and Wuhayb. Dated: 4890 AM = 1129/30 CE. Location: Alexandria …
Literary work: Migdal Oz.
Legal document fragment dated Tammuz 1009 CE (1320 Seleucid) involving a certain David b. [...], mentioning a guardianship.
Letter addressed to the Nasi Yoshiyyahu. Dating: ca. 1230s CE. In Judaeo-Arabic with some interspersed Arabic script. Mentions the addressee going before the ruler (אלמולא …
Verso: Petition, probably ("al-mamlūk..."). In Arabic script. Small fragment from the upper right corner. Mentions the word Ṣalāḥ, which may be part of the name …
Legal document. Bū l-Majd b. Thābit, known as Meir b. Yakhin, appoints his brother Hilāl/Hillel as his attorney for all his claims and in particular …
Ketubba fragment. Dating: Perhaps 10th or 11th century (Goitein just writes "old.") Vertical strip from the middle. The dowry list mentions a bed of shisham/sheesham …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Requires further examination for dating estimate and full catalogue description. Line 4 on the verso states "pepper …
Legal document. Small fragment from the bottom. Involves a certain Abū l-Ḥasan. Location: Qūṣ. Signed by Makārim b. Yeshuʿ[a]. The month is Adar and the …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Sitt Ṭāʾūs (from her husband?). Rudimentary hand. Dating: probably ca. 14th–15th century. The sender expresses longing and cites the …
Damaged a torn fragment from the top of a ketubah of Karima. No further details preserved. The hand might be Hillel b. Eli. AA
List of names with numbers. Very faded.
Bill of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Karīma, known as al-Wuḥsha al-Dallāla (l. 18), releases Sitt al-Ḥusn (l. 21) …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning a judge and his paternal uncle Yosef, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ and several sums of dinars. (Information from CUDL) Arabic-script stamp on the …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Sh[amār?] to Abū l-Karam [She]ʾerit (or Saʿadya?) b. Peraḥya b. Meshullam b. M[...]. Only the first couple lines on recto …
Business letter from Zikrī b. Khiyār to ʿArūs b. Yosef, in Fustat. The writer informs him inter alia that the only commodity which sold well …
Commercial letter in Arabic script. Long and damaged. Dating: likely 16th century, as it mentions the ashrafī (used from 1425 onward but replaced by other …
Responsum that deals with someone who, due to financial troubles, must move to another city to find work despite an explicit prohibition against it in …
Account of the flooding of the Nile. Dated: Elul 1550 Seleucid, which is 1239 CE. The entries are arranged according to the Coptic calendar. See …
Accounts.
Literary collection of Responsa, apperently Rabbi Shelomo b. Aderet.
Writing exercises
Folio from a chronicle about the Jews’ resettlement in Jerusalem following the Islamic conquest of Palestine. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written in highly calligraphic script, presumably by …
Marriage contract in Palestinian style (small scrap from the concluding lines). VMR
Probably a fiscal account.
Legal testimony. Mentions Evyatar ha-Shelishi; Eliyyahu ha-Kohen Rosh Yeshivat Ge'on Yaʿaqov; and the estate of Avraham Ibn al-Zayyāt(?).
Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic reporting a conversation--likely a disagreement. The writer mentions a warrāq, the fact that he doesn't trust something/someone, and a legal …
Small fragment of an Arabic document. One of the only words preserved is "mamlūk."
Booklet (many bifolios preserved) with Hebrew literary text in a rudimentary hand. On fol. 1r there are a few jottings in Arabic script: al-wāḥid... al-ithnayn...