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Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Small Damīra (דמירה הקטנה). Dated: 6 Adar II 1546 Seleucid = 1235 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. Someone …
Letter from an unknown sender to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: around 1065. The sender asks Nahray to send him money, as he and the people …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
State document in Arabic script. Looks like a receipt, unclear for what. Possibly Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. May refer to ʿAlam al-Dīn b. Bū l-Majd in …
Most of a long, very distressed letter from Menaḥem, writing in Fusṭāṭ/Cairo, to a business associate, whose family lives in Fustāṭ/Cairo and who has traveled. …
1 نسخ
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 20 Shawwāl 741 AH = 8 April 1341 CE. Seems to be a debt contract in which two people …
Four lines in monumental Arabic script. The fragment was later reused to copy four different letters and two piyyutim for Shavu'ot, all revolve around figures …
List of names and amounts of money. Rudimentary hand. Mentions Sulaymān and Ṣedaqa
The part written with a wider pen resembles business accounts, while the part written with a thinner pen looks like a portion of a legal …
1 مناقشة
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Nahray? Mentions ʿAyyāsh. One section is headed "al-ḥāfiẓ allāh" (God is the guarantor) followed by "Owed to Barhūn and Nissim …
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Rīḥān 3 dinars. Dated …
Official letter or document in Arabic script. Maybe a petition asking the addressee to reprimand and threaten a group of people: والزجر لهم . . …
Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to [...] al-Ḥakīm, the physician of the amīr Jamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad. Dating: Likely ca. 13th century. The writer seems to …
Birth records. In Italian. Dated: 1721 CE through 1743 CE.
Document mentioning Ibrahim and his family. (Information from CUDL.)
Document (accounts?) in Arabic and Coptic numerals.
Official letter of correspondence or report, in Arabic script. The letter begins with a basmala and ṣalwala (blessings on the prophet) followed by a taqbīl …
State document, in Arabic script. Dating: Looks late, perhaps Mamluk-era. Might begin with the word "qabaḍa" and might mention an iqṭāʿ. Contains an ʿalāma: al-ḥamdu …
Letter to a dignitary, probably Abū Yefet Yosef b. Abū Sahl. In Hebrew and vocalized. Quite faded; the continuation on verso is almost too faded …
Letter from Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Andalusi, Jerusalem, to his partner Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef b. ʿEli ha-Kohen Fāsī, Fustat, ca. 1052. This was Avraham's first sojourn …
Account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Last two lines only, blessing the addressee's children and the enitre congregation with prosperity. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi.
Legal record (#11) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 3v-4r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 9-11) Folio 3v
Marriage contract (ketubba). Two fragments, which may not directly join with each other. Dated: [13]99 Seleucid = 1087/88 CE. Groom: Yefet b. Menashshe. Bride: Mawlāt …
Copy of a will of Mahara bat Avraham ha-Kohen that had been made and dated in Alexandria in January 1143, issued at the request of …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Legal query addressed to Yehosef Rosh ha-Seder. Concerning a muqaddam who demanded that his name be included in the kaddish as had been done for …
Letter from Alexandria relating to Jewish prisoners from Byzantium who were brought to Egyptian ports. Detailed summary in Mann, Jews, vol. 1, p. 91. Recto: …
Literary text, probably. In Arabic script. فلهم جنان النعيم: شرحها . . . . . . . . على اصناف الناس عند وصول المركب اذا …
Verso (original use): Bottom of a family letter in Arabic script. Refers to someone who has been sick (wajīʿ) for 21 days without the sender's …
Letter from Shemuʾel b. Eli gaʾon in Baghdad. Contains the names Gūlā (גולא) b. Khalaf and Manṣūr b. Kūtā (כותא). Partially written in Aramaic. Gil …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: looks late, ca. 14th–16th century. Mentions the purchase of raisins.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentioning the city of Maḥalla al-Kubrā; Abū l-Ḥasan; and Abū l-Munā Tiqva ha-Levi …
Accounts.
Accounts, probably.
Recto: Note from a sick man to a physician, it seems beseeching him to assist an older family member who is also sick. "By the …
Communal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Moderately wide space between the lines. Opens with blessings for the addressee, then reports that a letter arrived from the Jews …
Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions ḍamān, "al-taqqaṣī wa-l-ijtihād" (finding something out diligently), a turban, and Abū Naṣr. On verso mentions half a dinar minus …
Epistolary writing exercises in Judaeo-Arabic. The dating is probably 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography, The student Ya[ʿīsh(?)] Marzūq, whose name appears in the …
Legal document, late, in Arabic script. Dated: Jumād[a] I 1239 (1824 CE). Probably a record of payment to the bureau of silk looms "dīwān anwāl …
Letter in Hebrew with introductory phrases of appeal. Closes with verses about the ephemeral nature of wealth and the mitzvah of charity. (Information from Goitein's …
Two bifolios of well-preserved accounts from the "isqāla Maṣr al-Qadīma" (the port of Old Cairo/Fustat). Dated Dhūl-Ḥijja 962 – Shawwāl 964. The word "isqāla" in …