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Mysterious document with multiple text blocks, all quite faded. It may begin on verso and continue onto recto. At the top of verso there is …
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State document, extremely fragmented, only a few words readable. Mentions the amir Asad al-Dawla. Or possibly Murhaf al-Dawla Asad.
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: perhaps 16th-century based on the paleography. Requires further examination.
Literary text, in Arabic script. Probably a folio from a larger historical text regarding the battle of the camel. Mentions Amīr al-Muʾminīn which is possibly …
A family letter written by Meir b. Hillel b. Sadoq to his three brothers. He objects to the marriage of Abu al-Mufadal, one of his …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Request from the women's committee on the donation of used clothing for the poor of the Jewish community – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic …
Approximately 13 verses of poetry from the poem of the renowned Arabic poet al-Mutanabbī (d. 354/955) "حاشا الرقيب فخانته ضمائره * وغيض الدمع فأنهلت بوادره".
Recto: very damaged text of a makhzuma (ledger of receipts). Verso: makhzūma (ledger of receipts) submitted in Rajab 495 AH (= April-May 1102 CE) by …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is probably Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov, an India trader and shipowner (nākhudā) known from documents dating from 1131/32 to c.1150 CE. …
1 نسخ
Power of attorney. Fragment (upper left corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: 1336 Seleucid, which is 1024/25 CE. In which Ḥusnā bt. Yeḥezqel b. Masʿūd al-ʿAqrabānī, appoints …
1 مناقشة
Drafts of dozens of documents including letters/petitions to amīrs, mostly in Arabic script. There is also a recipe or prescription.
Recto: Fragment of a petition or report in Arabic script. The sender says that he sent a prior 'khidma,' then praises the addressee and/or the …
Bill of release. Fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions Sitt al-Kull and her mother Sirwa, one …
Extensive accounts in Ladino with at least one full date on ENA 3306.8r in the upper left corner: ״27 תשרי [הת]קסח״ which is 27 Tishrei …
Verso: Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions [...] Ibn al-Urjuwānī. Otherwise very damaged and difficult to read. Recto: Account in Judaeo-Arabic headed "the end …
Details of estate for an orphan girl and her mother (possibly with other accounts?). Contains information about persons who owed debts to her father. The …
Letter in Hebrew. Late. Mentions a woman named Simḥa; Sutayta; the addressee;s mother; and the addressee's brother-in-law Menaḥem.
Official correspondence. Possibly alluding to a need for financial assistance in a district. The ends of 4 lines are preserved: هذه الناحية . . . …
IB VI, 17. Letter from Moshe b. Labrāṭ, in al-Mahdiyya, to the Head of the Jews of Egypt (Moshe b. Mevorakh) asking him to assist …
Document tied to finances that according to FGP could be connected to state procedures. Dating: Ottoman-era. On the verso, the first few lines mention the …
Donation request for the Yeshiva Ahava VeAhva in Meydān al-Ẓāhir in Cairo – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 44) – in Arabic. …
Order of payment to the elder Ibrahim, ordering him give to the bearer of the note the donkey that his father had promised. Signed and …
Fragment of a family/business letter in Arabic script. Mentioning head scarves and other garments and that "the children are screaming... (may God send) you deliverance …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. "وقد اعذر من الله".
Accounts in both Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged. Dating: likely late Mamluk or Ottoman-era.
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dated: 4 Tammuz = 18 June 1059 CE, according to Gil. The …
Receipt of some sort for al-shaykh Abū ʿAlī b. [...].
Short note sent from Egypt. The writer reports that he was taken to the house of the wali and from there to the judge, and …
Legal document. Small horizontal strip torn from the middle. Concerning a property and a period of years and an agreement reached by everyone. Written by …
Accounts, badly damaged with very little legible text. The accounts portray extensive usage of Greek-Coptic numerals. Based on the paleography the dating is perhaps 14th-16th-century.
Document in Arabic. Late. Looks like accounting.
Probably the top of a legal or communal declaration (naqūl....), introduced by a Hebrew composition with citations from Numbers 18:7 and allusions to Ezekiel 44:8. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Crude hand known from many similar fragments.
Letter fragment addressed to 'sayyidnā.' In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains about a certain person who drinks and defrauds the poor(?). He wouldn't have said anything …
Responsa discussing various topics, including parturient women and civil law. (Information from CUDL)
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) with many lacunae. Concerns default in debt payment; involves [...] b. Abū Ṭāʿa(?) al-Ḥāmī and Manṣūr b. Faraḥ al-Ḥāmī in Cairo. …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions jewelry changing hands and the court in Cairo, and legal formulae typical …
List or accounts, medieval-era. The same word (aqlām?) is written multiple times with an elongated horizontal middle letter. Above the horizontal bar each entry has …
Small fragment of a letter written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE) on behalf of a woman. Mentions rent and possibly not wanting …
Legal fragment. Probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Mentions Abū [Isḥa]q(?)
Possibly an extremely faded letter or document in Hebrew or Judaeo-Arabic. The name R. Natan appears in l. 3.
Minute fragment from the beginning of a legal document. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? (Information in part from CUDL)