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Accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: probably 19th century.
אין רשומות קשורות
Recto and verso are two distinct petitions, in different hands. Unclear if/how they are related. Recto: Petition for charity apparently from someone under arrest (muʿtaqal), …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Fragment with faded accounts in Arabic, medieval-era. The paper was reused for a calendrical text in Judaeo-Arabic. MCD.
Fiscal document or accounts, reused for Hebrew script. Mentions transactions in gold (ʿayn) and silver (wariq) and also contains Coptic/Greek numerals. Needs examination.
Iqrār (acknowledgment) made by "al-majlis al-ʿālī Qāʾidbāy al-Muʾayyad." Dating: catalogued as 512 AH but more likely 12 Shawwāl 812 AH (or 912 AH?). Potentially linked …
Small fragment of a letter. Deferential tone, referring to the great station and the many preoccupations of the addressees (בכתיר אשגאלכם . . . ועטים …
Small fragment of an Arabic legal document. Only a few words are preserved including the physical description of one of the parties (wāḍiḥ al-jabha...).
Fragment of a ketubba (שטר פרנא). Location: Likely Tyre. Dating: ca. 1090s. The handwriting of the scribe seems to be identical with T-S 16.198, T-S …
Table of names in Arabic script, most entries circled.
Beginning of an informal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. It reads, "They sent (or: send) the little paper for al-Shaykh al-Asʿad al-Levi the cantor, the son of …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Refers to the bearer.
Possibly a document in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~10 lines are preserved, very faded. There is a high concentration of recycled fiber emerging from …
Liturgical text (qiddush?) for Passover. Signed: Shelomo b. [...]. Dated: Friday, 7 Nisan 1606 Seleucid, which is 1295 CE.
Colophon of a booklet (קוטראסה/קונטרס). Location: Alexandria. Dated: Elul 4959 AM, which is 1199 CE. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
דיון אחד
Account in Arabic script, unclear if private or fiscal. Recto includes the phrase 'in the name of ʿUmar b. [...]' and mentions the number 400 …
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List or table in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (these might be two different documents).
Responsum concerning a problematic partnership, with an excursus on valid and invalid partnerships. (Information from CUDL)
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Damaged book list written by Yosef Rosh Haseder
Letter from Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū ʿUmar, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū ʿUmar, Abū l-Majd b. Abū l-Faraj (Abū l-Majd is also …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter in Hebrew. Late. The writer is asking advice about payment of a debt.
Recto: Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) from the Mamluk period in Arabic script written on paper, by al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm b. ʿAfīf b. Sulaymān al-Yahūdī. Involves sums …
Fragment of a deed of sale in Arabic script.
Probably accounts, late.
Small fragment of a ketubba containing a portion of the trousseau list. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Maṣliaḥ Gaon to Aharon ha-Sar b. Netan'el. Opens with Maṣliaḥ's genealogy: Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen b. Shelomo b. Eliyyahu b. Shelomo (thus far all are …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Note ordering the release to someone (name difficult to read) of two bales (ʿidlayn). Verso: a word or two in Arabic script.
שטר מתנה לארוסה בכתב ידו של חלפון בן מנשה הלוי משנת 1129. מתנה זו ניתנת בנוסף על תשלום הכתובה ותוספת כתובה, והאישה יכולה לעשות בה …
3 תעתוקים
Recto and verso: Begging letter from Baqāʾ the cantor to the Nagid David Maimonides (who served intermittently between 1237–1300 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Touching on various …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin strip from the right side of recto). …
Letter of blessing to a notable, maybe on a happy occasion, such as a birth of a child. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dating: Probably …
IB III, 25. Account written by Avraham Ibn Yiju in Yemen around 1149–52 detailing a compensation in kind to Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq and Yosef b. …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter fragment from Yoshiyya Ibn al-Dhahabī to Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-ʿAfṣī (=gallnut merchant). In Judaeo-Arabic.The writer congratulates the recipient on his recent marriage and mentions …
Leaf 1 and f. 2v: poem written to a man called Shemuel. F. 2r: pen exercises. (Information from CUDL.)
Recto: part of a rhymed letter mentioning Yehoshuaʿ (אדוני אבי ריוח והחבר יהושוע). (Information from CUDL)
Deed of release. Location: Cairo (where Avraham b. Natan was judge). Date not preserved. Yefet b. Marwān releases the clothier (al-bazzāz) Abū l-Faḍl Yosef b. …
תעתוק אחד
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda in a time of distress, approximately 1030.
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Recto: Long, calligraphic legal document in Arabic, referred to as a "ḥujja" in the Judaeo-Arabic filing note. Location: Cairo (مصر المحروسة). Dated October 1649 CE …
He [God] is the benefactor.
The matter is as it was recounted in it [the document]. The
poor one in need of [Go…
Small receipt or order in Arabic and Coptic numerals.
Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Very neat handwriting. Only the beginnings of the lines are preserved. Mentions a broker in the …
Damaged fragment of a business letter. The name Abū ʿImrān is preserved. Refers to the tax collectors (al-ḥushshār) and asks to be sent the receipt …
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. From Yaḥyā al-Sofer(?) addressed to the Nagid David I (b. Avraham Maimonides, served ca. 1237–1300 with …
Verso: Fragment of an account in Arabic: اربعة عشر دينـ[ـارا] . . . ونصف وثمن . . . Recto: grammatical or rabbinic text in Hebrew. …