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A few poetical phrases after בשמ רחמ. Probably from the opening of a letter, but cannot be ascertained. AA
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document, probably a waqf or a will. Big ʿalāma beginning with a ḥamdala in the upper left corner, and probably three testimonies at the …
Verso (original use): Draft of a petition or other state correspondence in Arabic script, containing conventional praises and blessings for a powerful person. Recto: Draft …
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Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, with a colophon. Mentions: "my master Aaron... his lineage... the other tribes of the sons of (Israel)... in the Torah... (Moses …
Court record from 1015 concerning a woman in Ramla appointing a representative to sue her Damascene husband who had disappeared two years earlier without leaving …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter fragment by Avraham, son of the Gaon.
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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Unidentified text in Arabic sript. Likely not documentary but merits examination. Lines 2 and 3 seem to contain the same text - writing exercise?
Continuation of a long business letter sent from Alexandria to Cairo. Dating: Ca. 1235 CE, based on the date of T-S Ar.54.66 which is by …
(If) they have already left for Alexandria, open the letters and read them. You will find in them the weights of the (various consignments of)…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Astronomical table in Arabic script, listing zodiacal terms (thawr, jawzā, saraṭān, asad. . . . jadī, ḥūt) which are accompanied by strings of Greek/Coptic …
Release given by Yakhin b. ʿEli to his brother Yeḥezqel. Dated: Friday, 7 Nisan 1409 Seleucid, which is 1098 CE. Likely in the handwriting of …
דיון אחד
Fragment of a general prenuptial agreement in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The agreement contains remarkable conditions that favor the …
תעתוק אחד
Legal document. In Aramaic. Dated: Nisan 1488 Seleucid, which is 1177 CE. Involves a woman named Sāda, her husband, and something to do with land …
Legal record (#14) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
Draft of a letter
Colophon for a prayerbook dated to 1476 of the Seleucid Era (= 1164/65 CE). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Letter to the Nagid by a woman who had taken steps to convert to Judaism requesting that he accept her conversion, which, she assures him, …
Beginning of a marriage match agreement drawn up in the presence of witnesses and written three times, the last version written in the shape of …
Recipes in Arabic script, maybe alchemical.
Letter, probably sent from Alexandria by a man to his brother, a student of Maimonides, who participated in a class of Rabbi Moshe (ll. 18r, …
IB VI, 18. Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī (d. ca. 1149). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions goods such as garments and soap. Contains …
2 תעתוקים
State document, genre and content unclear. Dated: Muḥarram 42[.] AH. Needs examination.
Letter addressed to Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Yiṣḥaq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Sent from (or to?) Alexandria. Dating: Mentions the year "499" as a year recently past, …
Official letter of correspondence or report, in Arabic script. The letter begins with a basmala and ṣalwala (blessings on the prophet) followed by a taqbīl …
Likely a distribution list. In a combination of Arabic script (mainly for the quantities) and Hebrew script (mainly for the names). Rudimentary hand.
Letter fragment, probably. In Arabic script.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right piece). Likely the will of a certain Shemuel. Mentions his …
Beginning of a court record dated Shevat 1411/ February 1100. On parchment. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter in poor handwriting, including alephs that are often separated by internal spaces and gimels that extend well below the baseline. …
Responsa by ROSH.
Literary text. Late. Boxed with double red lines.
Private accounts. Sums in dinars and qirats. Mentions a dukkān. Needs examination.
Small fragment of a letter addressed to Fusṭāṭ. The names Shelomo and Shemuʾel appear in the damaged address, but the format seems a little unusual. …
Verso, with address on recto (original use): Letter addressed to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel. NB: The joins were made by Moshe Yagur. Several additional fragments were …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script, maybe a decree. Three words are preserved.
Damaged fragment of a (state?) document in Arabic script. The name Mūsā b. ʿUmar b. Aḥmad appears.
Letter from Salmān b. Dawud al-Barqi, probably from Tripoli, Libya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Mentions beads and ships, but most of the letter is …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter(s). Recto and verso are in different hands and orientations. Verso contains phrases typical of letters of appeal for charity.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Very faded. Mentions a malḥafa.
Brief note about 4 raṭl of a unknown good in the name Lūlī al-Ḥāmī (first name is likely a nickname or a variant of Luʾluʾ). …
Accounts in Arabic script. State document?
Tables of names in Arabic script paired with Greek/Coptic numerals. Money collected? One side is headed "Shihāb al-Dīn [amīr(?)] Dīwān [...]." Needs examination.
Magical instructions for writing "seals" (khawātim). In Arabic script.