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Letter or letters from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (early 13th century). Many greetings at the bottom of verso, including to 'your paternal aunt Umm Abū l-Surūr,' …
דיון אחד
Accounts. Needs examination.
אין רשומות קשורות
End of a legal document. Involves Dalāl bt. Yaʿaqov. Signed by David b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen and Elʿazar b. Saʿadya. The qiyyum is written and signed …
IB V, 21. Recto: Letter in poetic Hebrew, addressed to Rabbenu Yehuda (=Abū Zikrī Kohen) asking for help, because "bread has run out."
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Two paper leaves, very damaged, which form a part of a collection of letters from Evyatar ha-Kohen Gaon b. Eliyyahu, sent from Tyre. The first …
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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Trousseau list recording a washed skullcap worth one dinar and a secondhand kerchief worth one-half dinar, amongst other items. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. …
Small fragment from the bottom of a kettubah signed by [...] b. Avraham Aluf.
Bill of release. Written (also validated) by Avraham b. Natan Av. Dated: 1104 or 1107 CE, with a partial year in the first line, Nisan …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Elul 5[...] AM, probably ca. 15th or 16th century.
Very damaged fragment of a bill of sale. Seems late 10th -early 11th century. AA
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Dated first decade of Kislev. Mentions Rosh ha-Qehillot. No …
Love poetry in Arabic script.
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Unidentified document in Arabic script. Damaged and faded. One legible phrase: "...mā yataʿallaq min kull..."
IB II, 50. Memorandum from Khalaf b. Isḥāq al-Yamanī. In Arabic script, with additional notes in Judaeo-Arabic. Ordering pharmaceuticals from Egypt. There is an entire …
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Letter from Avraham b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. Regarding ships movement from Alexandria to Sicily and back. Mentions several …
בסם אללה אלעטים
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן אלאסכנדריה ליב
כלון מן אלול ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמ…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Gives instructions about the sale of madder (fuwwa) either for 1 dinar or for whatever the addressee sees fit. Mentions Abū …
Jottings of business accounts
Small fragment of a letter. Elevated register, but little substance preserved. On verso there are two crossed out lines mentioning the bearer Abu l-Fakhr.
Liturgical blessings in Arabo-Hebrew. Unusual, in that most other Arabo-Hebrew texts are biblical. Joins: Geoffrey Khan and Alan Elbaum. The first two pieces read roughly …
Fragment with four different text blocks in Arabic, apparently drafts of documents in a chancery hand. Both sides are also reused for Hebrew biblical text …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the word 'maṭbakh' several times. On verso the title "al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ" (in Arabic script, possibly a reference …
Colophon dated to a Friday in Av 1427 Seleucid = 1116 CE.
List issued by the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo naming the butchers who are permitted to slaughter chickens on the eve of Yom Kippur Tishrei 5690 …
Very damaged legal deed by the court appointed by the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh (1112–26). ʿAmram b. Aharon ha-Kohen appears in court, but the actual …
Small piece of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE).. (Information from CUDL)
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Probably official.
Draft of a letter in Hebrew, ca. 1043, from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Shelomo b. Yehuda, the Gaon of Jerusalem (r. 1025–1051 CE). Efrayim requests …
Medical treatise in Arabic script. "If the yellow bile burns, a strong fright ensues. . . the cure of phrenitis (birsām) is. . . "
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, containing a couple words from the opening greetings.
Piyyuṭim in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver, active ca. 1128–1164 CE.
Letter from Yahya b. Musa al-Majjani, al-Mahdiyya, to Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī, Cairo, asking him to intervene on his behalf against Ibn Farah al-Fasi and …
כתאבי יאכי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ורעאיתך וכפאיתך וזאד מן
פצלה ואחסאנה לדיך ועליך טו איאם כלת מן אדר ראשון ען אחוא…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter of recommendation. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on behalf of the bearer, Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū Saʿīd. Apart from the conventional material, we learn that the …
תעתוק אחד
Fragment (lower left of recto and of verso) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter involving money owed between various parties. People named are: Makīn; al-Shaykh al-Ajall al-Rashīd …
Secondary use: Commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is familiar from many other similar fragments.
Verso: The end of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called "my brother," and he may be an actual brother since the sender …
Notes for a marriage contract between Abu al-Karim Shabbetay b. Avraham and the divorcee Mudallala bat Yehuda ha-Levi involving a dowry of 102 dinars plus …
A magical deed of divorce (geṭ), from ʿImrān b. Mordekhay of Muʿizziyya (= New Cairo?) to Ḥabība bt. [...] followed by a spell to open …
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, with the names of the Hebrew months written in Hebrew script. Dated: 520 AH = 1126/27 CE. …
Minute fragment of legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Mentions the phrase אלמדכורה בעד הדא; the year 1440 Seleucid = 1128/20 …
Arabic, literary.
Will of a notable, dividing his landed property, his flocks of sheep and all the orchards possessed or leased by him between his brother and …
Bifolio mainly with Hebrew poetry or liturgical text, but with two sections in Arabic script. The one on verso appears to be a note about …