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Letter fragment by Shelomo b. Yehuda, who signs with Gaonic honorifics (which support an inferred date range of 1025–1051 CE). Reused on verso for jotted …
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תעתוק אחד
Talisman, in Arabic script. A suggestive reading for the centre bold text in red could be "al-haykal al-sākinīn".
אין רשומות קשורות
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 …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Maghribī hand. Dating: ca. 11th century. Mentions "not fearing anyone" (laysa khawf min aḥad). Merits further examination.
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Fol. 2: Private letter in Arabic script, chancery-esque script. Dating: Probably late Ayyubid or Mamlūk based on paleographical grounds. Contains the glyph "لى" in place …
Draft of the opening of a petition or official letter. On verso jottings of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
A page from a legal treatise regarding the writing of the geṭ (bill of divorce). The hand is that of Shelomo b. Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya, …
Two fragments of a letter in Arabic script. Hard to tell if it is a state document, a mercantile document, or both. Refers to "al-ḥujaj …
Deed of sale of a female slave named Sa'ada. Dated 19 Av 1501 Seleucid / July 1190 CE. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 139, …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Verso (original use): Bottom of a legal document dated 8 Dhū l-Ḥijja 5[4?]7 AH, which would be 1153 CE. One signature preserved. Recto: (secondary use): …
A circular of Maimonides on the ransoming of captives. Dated: Summer (Tammuz) 1169 CE. In the handwriting of Mevorakh b. Natan. With Maimonides' signature.
may He cover them with the cover of His wings, what all the comm[uniti]es of Israel have contributed,
may God bless them and what they hav…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Order of payment. In Arabic script. Bū l-Najm al-Firnās (the parnas) is to pay the bearer a sum of money (10 nuqra dirhams?). Ends with …
כתב וכתאב צאחב אלעיאדא (?) ותדפעה למן [[שיתה]]
שיתם וכל מן גא נקול אן סעאדה ובני נוח (?) רקו פ…
Letter fragment, or a draft. "yunhī anna". Jottings in Arabic on recto and verso. Needs examination.
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Yosef Halevi. The bride Esther known as Sukar d. Barukh Halevi b. Shlomo Halevi.
Jottings in both Arabic script and Hebrew script, on the back of a Hebrew piyyuṭ. One of the Arabic sections is dated: end of Rajab …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower left corner). Dating: [14]41 Seleucid = 1129/30 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen …
Fragment of a state document, in Arabic script. Very difficult to glean much context but mentions sending something with someone "مع موصلها".
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a dignitary named Avraham. Beginning with taqbīl and inhāʾ formulae.
Minute fragment, very faded and only few words are hardly visible.
Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Barely any content preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment, a few Hebrew letters are visible on the recto and verso.
Statement in Arabic script ("aqūlu wa-anā...") made and signed by Hiba b. Mufaḍḍal al-Mutaṭabbib. Dated: 18 Shawwāl 628 AH = 19 August 1231 CE. It …
Deed of sale of an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves a woman named Sitt al-Kull and notably …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very neat lines. Headers include terms such as "al-aṣl" "al-iḍāfa" and maybe "al-ṭārima." On recto there is …
Table of phrases in Arabic script, probably for purposes of divination/prognosticating. Needs examination.
Probably accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Faded.
Letter from a certain Aharon to Eliyyahu the Judge about a lack of success of a collection made for himself. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
דיון אחד
Legal document. Dated: Tishrei 1483 Seleucid, which is 1171 CE, under the authority (reshut) of Maimonides. Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Moshe, the widow of Abū l-Khayr …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century. The handwriting may be known. Deals with trade in pepper, brazilwood, saffron (zarnaba), dragon's blood (qāṭir), a …
Letter in Arabic script. Very neatly written. Torn. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The tarjama at upper left appears to read "ʿabd min al-Maḥalla," …
Small fragment possibly from an official letter/report. Mentions "waṣala al-nāṣiḥ/al-nāḍij(?) Masʿūd(?)...."
Fragment of a petition. Hard to piece together the story but contains various interesting references such as to the judges (al-quḍāt) and to عبد يشوع …
Minute fragment from a legal deed
Prologue to a book, in Arabic script. Mentions the term 'ikhtilāj' (twitch).
Order of payment. Mainly in Arabic script, with an אמת in Hebrew in the upper margin. Abū l-Faraj is instructed to pay the bearer 10 …