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Letter and responsum sent by Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified person in Fustat (perhaps Avraham ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq). Dated: 19 December 1029 CE. (Information …
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Late, probably Ottoman-era. Mentions ginger (janzabīl).
אין רשומות קשורות
Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script.
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Piyyuṭ in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Declaration of receipt of money. In Arabic script. Dated: Monday, 4 Shaʿbān 438 AH, which is 3 February 1047 CE. Ghālib b. Ḥabāsa, son of …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Memorial list for the family of "al-Rayyis Abū l-Ḥasan, the family of our holy rabbi (Rabbenu ha-Qadosh. Mentioning many names including multiple Ḥananels and Shemuʾels, …
Siddur R. Nathan of Sijilmasa
Interesting fragment with a Judaeo-Arabic midrash about Moses quoting Isaiah 63:12, Deut. 3:26, and Exodus 34:6. (Information in part from FGP.)
תעתוק אחד
Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Regarding the sale of an enslaved woman. Nāṣir b. ʿAlī b. Salmān is the buyer. Fragment (upper right corner). …
Fragment of a ketubba. Reused on recto, in a different hand, for a literary text about the book of Jonah.
On recto beginning of a letter to Avraham Maimuni from Abu Sa'id (identification according to BL 5542.14. He also wrote T-S 8 j 21.12). On …
דיון אחד
Fiscal or para-fiscal document (i.e., prepared by state officials or by the Jewish community for the government). List of indigent people equally divided between natives …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Jalila bt. Avraham b. Khalfa b. al-Rashidi, whose inheritance from her late husband Barukh b. Sason was unjustly taken by the local judge …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Bottom of a family letter in Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: uncertain, potentially 11th century. Consisting mainly of greetings to and from family members. Specifically mentions …
Letter from Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen, in Ashqelon, to the parnas ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh. Written in both Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Contains a request to …
Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if state/fiscal or private. Needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Mentions a covering of silver; Sālim; Abū l-Munā;al-Malījī; Eliyya; Abū l-Khayr.
Recto: Upper part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic written in a scribal hand to ha-Nasi ha-Gadol, reporting on the writer's troubles while traveling with Rabbi …
Probably prognostications. In Arabic script. Each side begins "idhā...." Verso ends "wa-llāhu aʿlam." The content is difficult to read but refers to winds, storms, ships, …
Legal document. Looks like a release. One of the parties is Netanʾel b. ʿAmram. The release migth have been granted upon receipt of a consignment …
Informal note from Manṣūr b. [...] the Jew to Jamāl al-Dīn. In Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1225 CE, based on the currency kāmilī …
Legal testimony. In Hebrew, with one signature in both Hebrew and Latin script. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 5624 AM in the month of Shevat which is …
Talmud, apparently in a 14th or 15th-century Byzantine hand. See folio 26 for the probable dating.
Legal query. In Arabic script. Addressed to "al-sāda al-fuqahāʾ al-ajillāʾ." Regarding a woman who sold a property; what happened next is not entirely clear. Mentions …
Letter fragment (middle part) in which the writer describes how he was insulted in the synagogue by the scholar, Sheikh al-Najib, but expresses no resent …
Letter to [...] al-Kohen al-Ḥaver. Only conventional content is preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Involves Yeshuʿa and [Sitt al-A]hl bt. Ṣadoq, likely the same husband …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions the cost of shipping from al-Mahdiyya to Qayrawān.
Formal-looking letter apparently from an astrologer to a vizier (سيدنا الوزير الاجل). In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Fatimid, 11th or 12th century. Quite damaged. Opens …
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Giving alchemical recipes, occult correspondences between celestial objects and metals (called ʿaqāqīr), and handy recipes for getting stains, e.g. saffron stains, …
שאלה שנשלחה אל 'ראש הסדר', ואולי הכוונה לר' יהודה הכהן הרב הגדול ראש הסדר בן יוסף, תלמידו של רבנו נסים בר' יעקב מקירואן, שחי במצרים …
Prescription or recipe in Arabic script.
Letter from Shelomo Mizraḥi or a female family member, in Alexandria, to Ibrāhīm/Brahim Aghion, in Cairo (Miṣr). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in slightly broken …
Magical text about the angels (e.g., Metatron). In Arabic script, in two different hands.
Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Addressed to 'my brother' ʿAbd al-Salām (r3). The sender reports that he or she obtained a maymūn (a kind of …
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.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Yemen. There are several dozen names and strings of numbers (in Hebrew characters) of varying lengths after each name. Names include: …
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Unsigned, possibly a draft. The buyer is Ibrāhīm b. [...] b. Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī known as Ibn [...]. Nahray (b. …
Letter from an unknown person to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1060 (Gil). The fragment contains several details about shipments of goods and money as well …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Decorated Karaite ketubah from Cairo. Dated 6 Tishrei 5561 AM (September 1800 CE). The groom: Elya Hakohen b. Eliyyahu. The bride is Esther known as …