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Recto: Investment partnership between [Yaʿa]qov Raṣon, Avraham Yuʿbaṣ, and Shabbetay Skandarī and possibly one other person. The bottom is missing, along with the date. The …
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Beginning of a note or letter, possibly a draft. (Information from CUDL)
No Scholarship Records
Probably a letter, needs further attention. AA
Letter fragment to a distinguished person (ha-rav ha-gadol rosh ha-seder yeḥid ha-dor), perhaps the Nagid. In Hebrew. Wide line spacing. Mentions "the three synagogues." Reused …
State report in Arabic mentioning the arrival and reception of the amīr Shams al-Dīn ʿAlī al-[...]ī, at whom "we looked with an eye of respect" …
Trousseau list. In Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic. About 30 items are preserved. Information from Goitein's note card.
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Small fragment with various kinds of Arabic text on it. Recto may be poetry or prayers (...اذا ما رمت ادراك...), written with diacritics and vowels. …
Copies of 2 letters, likely as writing practice. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 19th century, and ca. 1808–39 CE if the maḥmūdī mentioned is the gold …
Ledger of accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. Mentions flax. Merits further examination.
Densely written mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Very difficult to read. Same hand: T-S NS 69.4 (PGPID 26151) T-S NS 223.74 (PGPID 23973) T-S AS 158.155 …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment (lower right of recto, lower left of verso) in lovely handwriting. Mentions the capitation tax, hunger, and charity. On verso a woman seems …
Arabic script (VMR)
List of names and corresponding monetary values in silver kuruş. At the top of the list's columns, the year is barely legible in the heading …
Minute fragment from a commercial list. Mentions 4 raṭls. Little else preserved.
Small bifolio. Contains notes for legal purposes. Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. ʿOvadya known as Ibn זונין (Zunayn?) acknowledges that he collected from the estate of …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi (Nīsābūrī), in Alexandria, to Ṣadaqa b. Yaḥyā al-Nāʾib ('the deputy'), in Fustat. He writes about a partnership in a …
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Latest, most formal, and most perfected, copy of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. The handwriting is very likely that of Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb/Moshe b. Yaʿaqov writing from somewhere in …
Letter from Avraham b. Yaʿaqov. In Judaeo-Arabic, prefaced with a Judaeo-Arabic basmala. Dating: Might be 11th century. Refers to the addressees' coming from al-Ramla. Otherwise …
Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) regarding a collection (jibaya), ordering that the addressee's 'wife' (bayt) and the wife of …
Account of amounts purchased of barley (mushtarā al-shaʿīr) on various days. On verso there is a name in Arabic script [...] b. ʿAbdallāh and pen …
Letter in Ottoman Turkish addressed to Maʿallim Salmūn in Alexandria. Dating: late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century. Another letter addressed to the recipient contains a seal …
Cenāb-i ʿizzet meʾāb-ı saʿādet-niṣāb, bender-i İskenderiyye mültezimi Muʿallim Salmūn ḥażretleri-yi kāmyāb:
Baʿde’s-selām maʿa’l…
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Beginning of a court record dated Shevat 1411/ February 1100. On parchment. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
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Accounts of the qodesh. In Judaeo-Arabic. Many people and professions and commodities are named. Mentions Dār al-Maqādisa; Darb al-Maqādisa; Dār Ibn ʿImrān; al-ʿAnbarī; Ḥashshāshīn; Bū …
Scribal practice exercises. The dating is likely 16th-century or later based on the paleography. In each heading the instructor provided model handwriting for the student …
Small fragment of an official-looking letter (report?) in Arabic script. Mentions Damietta (Dumyāṭ).
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, including religious contents an an anecdote about a bridge (qanṭara) and someone drowning.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Late.
A letter asking to support the printing of a book by David b. Mordechai Kokizov sent to Simha b. Shelomo. The fragment also contains a …
Address of a letter to Eliyyahu the Judge. None of the body of the letter remains on this fragment. The address is followed by the …
Two legal fragments in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Unclear if they are part of the same document or not, but …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Relatively large and well preserved. Mentions transactions with gallnuts (ʿafṣ) in Alexandria; and Abū Sahl Menashshe. Needs …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Might be a Maghribī mercantile letter of the 11th century. The sender congratulates the addressee on the occasion of the marriage of …
Letter/petition of a woman to the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen (1127–39). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Describing in detail an episode related …
From Nahray b. Nissim (Misr) to Farah b. Isma'il Farah (Busir).
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Informal note in Arabic script, perhaps requesting charity or a favor for the bearer of the note.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. On recto there is piyyuṭ.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Made by Q[...] b. Mūsā al-[...], "one of the captains of the victorious fleets" (aḥad quwwād al-asāṭīl al-manṣūra). …
Official report or petition in Arabic script. Calligraphic, wide space between the lines. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. some …
State document, in Arabic script. 2-3 words in a chancery script. Needs examination.
Legal document fragment, perhaps 10th century, likely a release involving Shabbat b. Yeshaʿya and a certian Avraham. Verso contains jottings in Arabic and Hebrew characters.
Commercial list/account. Probably 11th century. Mentions names such as Nissim and Barhūn.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an agent (wakīl); Sicilian cheese; "we are all Jews, and the Truth (al-Ḥaqq) unites us all"; and "the Sicilian Kohen …
Deed of release, probably. Faded and rubbed. Shelomo b. [...] and Abū l-Faraj Yehuda make a declaration in favor of ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi (known …