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Letter in eloquent Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Requesting a Nagid to intervene with the government officers (ʿummāl) in Shaṭnūf during his forthcoming visit to the place. …
דיון אחד
Court record of a case in which a man appoints an agent to deliver a bill of divorce to his ex-wife, releasing her from any …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Letter (communal) in the hand of Yosef b. Yeshuʿa, writing on behalf of the community of Alexandria. Only the elegant rhymed prose opening of the …
Fragment of a legal document, mentioning blessings for the Nagid as well as a certain [...] b. Yehuda ha-Kohen. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. …
אין רשומות קשורות
Booklet consisting mostly of a text that seems to be in Ottoman Turkish. Needs examination.
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, Fustat. Around 1080. The writer supports Musa’s family. Mentions trading with Byzantine merchants …
כתאבי אט[אל אללה ב]קא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמתה וכבת
אעדאה בעד וצול כתאבך ביד אסמעיל בן מסכוה תדכר סלאמתך
ועאפיתך אדאמהא לך…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Ending with greetings, including to a dignitary ("ha-Sar ha-Gadol be-Yisraʾel"). On verso there are a few lines in …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Rabīʿ II 952 AH = June/July 1545 CE. Deed of acknowledgment made by Ḥammād b. Mubārak b. Ḥayyāra(?). He …
Drafts of a legal document (on top) and of a letter (on bottom). On parchment. The beginning of the legal document is dated Monday, 17 …
State document, most likely an official correspondence. Mentions the amīr Sayf al-Dawla's business dealings with the writer. Among the commodities mentioned are luxury textiles (ʿattābī …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
احضرت الثوب العتابي اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ الجليل وادام علاه وسلامته بحضور مولاي
الامير سيف الدولة ومرضيها ادام الله…
תעתוק אחד
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: no earlier than 1415 CE, based on the currency niṣf fiḍḍa (medin). The partners are Riḍā b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. …
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Accounts in Arabic with a complex array of monetary calculations with the symbol "ق" on occasion indicating silver kuruş (which may have been minted as …
Recto: phrases of blessing for a boy named Yehuda b. ʿEli. A subsequent scribe has replaced the name with Yosef b. Saʿadya (in one place …
Almost complete but faded and damaged business letter. To Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq b. [...]. Dating: 11th century. Handwriting of Nahray b. Nissim? Mentions buying something …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Prognostications? As of July 2025 this fragment is not conserved and can be seen only in Cambridge.
Accounts of a druggist. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Items include realgar (="red arsenic," zirnīkh aḥmar), red lead (sīlqūn), ground myrtle (marsīn maṭḥūn), and …
Fragment from the end of a legal document. Dated: second half of Adar II 1366 (= March 1055 CE), mentioning [...] b. Bahlūl and Yosef …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Mentions a name on verso "ʿAlī b. ʿUm..". Could be literary.
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to shipments of sums of money (including 70 dinars?), the arrival of a fatwā without a witness, …
Scroll, textual amulet with figures. Oversize. NB: Michaelides 40 corresponds to image #44 at https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9945255593506421.
List of contributors to the ʿarikha (communal tax). In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: late 18th or early 19th century based on the individuals referenced. Some …
Ownership transfer note for a book; the buyer or recipient is Menashshe ha-Kohen b. […]. On verso there is piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
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Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. One witness statement preserved (Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid). The date is only partially preserved on recto, but …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Written and signed by Shelomo b. [...] ha-Levi. Also signed by [...] b. Moshe and Tiqva …
Recto: business letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Abū l-Maʿālī and Abū l-Manṣūr. Verso: letter in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, in a different hand. (Information …
Probably an order for something addressed to Bū l-Fakhr. In Arabic script. Needs further examination.
Accounts, probably.
Informal note from a bookseller named Yefet to a Nasi. He is acting as a middleman and presenting a bill for approximately a dozen books …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Deed of guardianship in the hand of Avraham, son of the Gaon. Dated: Iyyar 1337 Seleucid (April or May 1026). Eli b. Yefet (known as …
IB II, 27. Copy of a letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: 1136–39 or 1145–49. Written by one of …
Verso: Note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that the Gentiles who live in Zuqāq Khabīṣa near the synagogue (cf. T-S NS 306.1b (PGPID 4465), r12) …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Large but fragmentary (only the ends of the lines are preserved). Deathbed …
An almost complete manuscript of the pentatueuch, with Sa'adya's Tafsīr and masoretic annotations, copied in the early years of the eleventh century. A series of …
Commercial receipt for Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs (b. Yūsuf) al-Urjuwānī. Mentions a bale of lac. (T-S Ar.35.128, T-S Ar.35.269, and T-S AS 184.265 are all similar …
IB VI, 23. Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel Dimyāṭī. Accusing him and Abū Naṣr b. Elishaʿ of conspiring to …
Interesting, late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "al-mustakhraj," the cattle market, al-Minya, and al-Giza.
Letter from a family member, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Dated: 23 Shevaṭ [4800 +] 175 = 4975 AM, which is 25 …
Legal document. In Arabic script. There are two witness signatures. It may be a debt contract involving a sum of 5 dīnārs (l. 3), that …
IB II, 3. Letter from Amram b. Yosef to Nahray b. Nissim inquiring about a letter sent to Aden Alexandria. Dating: 1094–97. The first 27 …
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Document(s) in Arabic, medieval-era. Recto is formatted like an order or receipt. Verso has 5 lines of text including multiple dates (e.g. al-ʿāshir min rabiʿ …
Unidentified document or literary text in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentions accounting and bringing gold to the dār al-[...]. Excerpts: אדם בעולם . …
Note from Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen Ibn Furāt. Dating: ca. 1054. Gil suggests that the letter was written when both Daniʾel …
Deed of release. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar II 1461 Seleucid, with the signing deferred until Tammuz 1461 Seleucid, which is 1150 CE, under the authority …
Literary text with an ownership note: this belongs to Yeshuʿa b. Tiqva.