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Letter undated and unsigned.
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late. Currencies: ashrafī. Mentioning various business matters and people including Judah and David Naḥmias and Ibn Hānī. (Information in part from …
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal notes, including the claims of a woman that her husband was impotent. Handwriting of the judge Natan b. Shemuel, ca. 1140 CE according to …
דיון אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Beginning and ending are missing. The sender is very agitated and complains about someone who is prepared to swear falsely. Needs further …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter in Ladino. Mentions Turks ("Turcos") a couple times at the top of recto. Needs examination.
Small fragment of a decree: "wa-ʿlam..."; there is additional text to the lower right which may be related. Needs examination. Reused (at 180 degrees) for …
Very unusual legal document, maybe some kind of declaration. In rhymed Hebrew and Aramaic. Written on both sides, and without signatures. Involving the late Menashshe …
Letter from Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā, in Egypt, to his father Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Jarīdī, in Dhamār, Yemen. Dating: probably 19th century. Needs examination.
Letter addressed to Sālim b. Yaḥyā. Yemeni. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 19th century. Needs examination.
Letter addressed to Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Jarīdī, in Yemen. Needs examination.
Late letter(s) in Hebrew. Needs examination.
Letter from Ṭayyib Ibn al-Majjānī to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEzra b. Ismāʿīl (or ʿAwda b. Ismāʿīl according to Sabih Aodeh), in Fustat. In Arabic script. Same …
Letter from Avraham b. Ḥabīb to Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū l-Surūr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th–13th century. Concerning business matters. The sender reports that Faraḥ, the …
Verso: Letter from Arye(?) to his 'brother' Eliyya Prianty(?) (these names are probably wrong). In Ladino. In the margin there are accounts in Hebrew script …
At least two documents across two fragments (which belong together). In Arabic script. Two of the documents look legal/administrative. A third text-block is an extended …
Letter fragment or draft in Judaeo-Arabic. The portion on recto has an agitated tone, mentions a sum of money, Munajjā, swearing by God (וחק אהיה …
Letter in Arabic script. Approximately 6 lines are preserved from each side. The content is obscure. Verso is the front of the letter, and recto …
Bifolio from a mysterious ledger. Contains some accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, but also contains two entries that begin اصفح(?), and one may …
Mercantile account ledger. Mentioning many names and commodities of long-distance trade. One page also consists of a petition draft it seems involving 'the porters of …
Alchemical recipes in Hebrew. Very well preserved, with interesting details.
Copies of letters (literary format). Multiple letters. One is addressed to [Hemdat] ha-Nesiut. Mentions Pinḥas b. Elḥanan (appears also in T-S 8J4.6 (PGPID 2125)) and …
Popular literature in Judaeo-Arabic. Set in the time of Muḥammad. Involving ʿĀmir ibn al-Ṭufayl, Zayd, and a female slave. Needs further examination.
Gnomic sayings made by a physician to a king. Begins with reference to a list of attributes of animals (e.g., the legs of a lion, …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. For each day of the week, lists the boats (qārib) belonging to different people (Muḥammad, Shihāb al-Dīn, Naṣr al-Dīn. . .) …
Two bifolia containing several items of interest. First: A glossary of Spanish/Ladino words from Judaeo-Arabic, including a great number of foods, but also numbers, days …
Letter from Moshe [...] to Avraham. In Ladino.
Business letter in which the sender writes that he is concerned after meeting in Qus a business relation to whom he was able to sell …
תעתוק אחד
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: likely 11th or early 12th century. From Salāma b. Shūʿa and Maḥfūẓ b. Būlus, in …
Engagement deed. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Persian. Groom: Yaʿaqov b. Agha Yiṣḥaq. Bride; Jawhar Khanom bt. Aharon. Currencies: toman and maybe mithqal (מתקליס).
Arabic script (VMR)
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (identification based on handwriting). In Judaeo-Arabic. Asks the addressee to obtain a responsum (fatwā) and mentions a competing cantor …
Deed of lease. Lessee: Tamīm b. Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf al-Yahūdī who lives in Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn. Lessor: the former agent/administrator of the properties of the Qodesh …
Letter in Arabic script. May be addressed to a jurisconsult regarding a legal opinion, ending "wa-huwa wa-raʾyuhū abṣar." The sender and addressee are Jewish, based …
Letter from a woman to her son Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn b. Salāma al-Ghurābī(?). In Arabic script. Well preserved and beautifully written. She writes that she …
Letter in Ladino dated 19 November 1790 (12 Kislev 5551) from Av_[?] Segre[?] in Alexandria to David Mili in the Bulaq neighborhood of Cairo. In …
Letter written in a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic script. Various blessings and Bible citations are rendered in Hebrew script, whereas the main part is …
Probably a leaf from a court ledger, in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. There are multiple records here. both on recto and verso. Apparently …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (FGP). The handwriting is rudimentary and the orthography so idiosyncratic that it is difficult to understand. Probably a family letter; discussing all …
Fragment of a bussines Letter. Unusual hand, probably Italian. Venice is mentioned.
Possibly official correspondence. In Arabic script. Long and well preserved. Reused on recto for piyyut.
Letter from an unidentified sender, in Safed, to Mordekhay Ibn ʿAjla, in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, probably no earlier than 15th century. Greets numerous …
Letter in Arabic script from Abū ʿAlī(?) Yefet(?) b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Mentions going to Abū ʿAlī b. al-Dimyāṭī (=Yeḥezqel b. Netanel ha-Levi) and borrowing …
Recto: Letter from a son, in Qūṣ, to his mother, presumably in Fustat. Written in Judaeo-Arabic and a cipher (lines 7-12; noticed by OZ; probably …
Letter from an unknown writer, in Skopje (אישקופייה), to Sha'ul b. David, in Salonika. In Ladino. Needs examination for content.
Medical prescriptions for "the little one" (al-ṣaghīra) Sitt al-Bayt(?) and for her son. In Arabic script. There is a section at the top for what …
Poem, of documentary interest. In Judaeo-Arabic. Exhorts everyone who wants their sins forgiven to make a pilgrimage to the shrine at Dammūh. Goes on to …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. There are four distinct text blocks. The document on recto is extremely long. Involves a partnership, and the Rabbanite Jew …
Account register. In Ladino. 3 bifolia. Dated 5450s AM, which is 1690s CE. On the left side of folio 3r there is reference to the …
Ledger of accounts and letter drafts/copies. Perhaps some writing exercises, too. In Judaeo-Arabic with at least one Spanish word thrown in (אלסלאם עלה גמיע אלפאמילייה). …
ENA NS 39.2: Accounts in Ladino in western Arabic numerals dated on the verso most likely as 28 Nisan [54]92 or 23 April 1732. The …