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LetterT-S Ar.39.57
Petition from a certain Manṣūr to an unidentified addressee (though Goitein assumed that "Sayyidnā" meant "the Nagid"). In Arabic script. The sender is a poor …
- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- المملوك
- منصور
- يقبل الارض وينهي انه رجل صعلوك
- وهو في شدة من العايل والقلة والدين
- وانا في ستر في هذه الوقت ووصل السكين
- للعظم وم…
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View document detailsLegal documentT-S AS 202.364
Unidentified, the text is rubbed and only few words can be read. It opens with a date, but the year is unclear. At the bottom …
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LetterT-S NS J84
Alexandria; Probably about 1143-1145 ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq sends Ḥalfon a short greeting for Purim. Abu Al-Ma'ali wanted to help Abu Al-Fakhr, the son of Ḥalfon’s …
- שאכר תפצלהא
- עמרם ביר'
- בשמך רחמ יצחק ̇נ̇ע
- אללה ̇ת̇ע למען שמו יגעל הדא
- אלפורים ישועה ונסים עלי
- הדרת יקרת תפארת כבוד ג̇ד
- ק̇ד מ̇ר̇נ ור̇ב̇נ חלפון השר …
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View document detailsUnknown typeYevr. II K 37
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The text is too faded
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Unknown typeENA NS 79.28
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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Paraliterary textT-S K1.140
Amulet to protect Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen gaʾon b. Shelomo gaʾon (1127–39 CE), destroy his political enemies, and succeed before the government. (Information from CUDL)
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LetterCUL Or.1080 J82
Document in Arabic script, in a calligraphic hand, without wide space between the lines. Likely a letter. Five lines are preserved, but they are very …
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View document detailsLetterT-S AS 200.374
Business letter from [...] b. Yeḥezqel. Fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions indigo (nīl) and bamboo chalk (ṭabāshīr) and a merchant named Yiṣḥaq.
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Legal documentENA 2087.13
On recto a commentary responsa to Bavli Zevahim 118a. On verso a responsa on Bavli Nedarim 32b. Probably Geonic. AA
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View document detailsList or tableT-S AS 209.269
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
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View document detailsList or tableT-S NS 34.154
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
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Legal documentJRL SERIES B 2078
Fragment of an illuminated late marriage document.
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View document detailsLetterYevr.-Arab. II 1143
Letter draft from an unknown man in Egypt to Marzūq Chelebi (? גלבי) in Damascus. Both writer and addressee are Qaraites. The latter is greeted …
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List or tableENA 3729.7
List, commercial (FGP)
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Legal documentT-S AS 152.109
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (ca. 1100–38 CE). Probably a debt contract. (Information in part from CUDL)
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View document detailsLetterT-S NS J426
Mercantile letter, possibly sent from Aden to India. Reports that Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Ḥalābū(?) was in a shipwreck at Dahlak, near ʿAydhāb, and that …
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- ] . . . . אלבראה אן שא אללה . . . . אקי צחבה . . . .
- ] ולא תאכד עלי עבדהא פי תאכרהם פוחק דין ישראל אן
- אד וצלני אלכתאב לם אלבת בל תאני יום וצול…
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View document detailsUnknown typeENA NS 83.32
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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Paraliterary textT-S 8J34.3
Copy of the Megillat Miṣrayim (an account of attacks on the Jews of Fusṭāṭ in 1011-1012 CE). (Information from CUDL.)
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List or tableMoss. IV,49.1
Notes about business or debts. Names Khallūf b. Yaʿaqov; then the agent (wakīl) Isḥāq b. Sha'ul and the one who appointed him as agent (muwakkil) …
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View document detailsList or tableT-S NS 264.54
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, giving names and how much each person owes. The naems include Ḥannā b. Najjār, Manṣūr al-ʿAbasni (?), ʿAlī al-Anṭālī (?), and Abū …
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Unknown typeENA NS 85.243
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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View document detailsLegal documentT-S NS 305.207
Torn legal document in Arabic - needs examination.
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Legal documentT-S 8J20.33
Legal document concerning financial matters, signed by Joseph Benjamin, and mentioning Judah Bunan and Joseph’s son Nissim. Dated 5579 of the Era of Creation (= …
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List or tableCUL Or.1080 J190
Page of the account book of ʿArūs b. Yosef, containing accounts and a note about the beginning of a pregnancy, birth and weaning. (Information from …
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- כאנת טהרת אלחמל אלמבארך
- ד איאם מצת מן כסליו
- ערפנא אללה ברכתה
- וכאן אלמילאד יום אלתלאתה ליב
- מצת מן רגב או אלול וכאן
- אתפקת באכד . .ל. .
- חומר ט…
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Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. IV,58.1
Order of payment in dirhams. Verso contains Arabic jottings. (Information from CUDL)
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View document detailsLegal documentT-S Ar.42.140
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 529 AH = 1134/35 CE. The muqirr is Bū Saʿd b. Hibatallāh al-Isrāʾīlī. Mentions a loan of …
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- بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
- أقر بو سعد بن هبة الله الاسرائلي التاجـ[ـر (؟) واشهد على نفسه في صحة منه وجواز امر من]
- غير قهر ولا جـ[ـبر ولا اكراه ول…
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- In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
- Bū Saʿd b. Hibatallāh the Jewish trad[er] acknowledged [and testified, in sound health an…
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View document detailsLegal documentT-S NS 99.11
Probably a fragment of a legal testimony. "The shaykh also came. . . and declared. . ." something to do with the Palestinian Synagogue and …
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View document detailsState documentT-S AS 177.199
Original use: One line probably from a state document (decree?): ليجري على عادته من ذلك بالطريق ال . . . .
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Unknown typeENA NS 85.282
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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Literary textENA 3961.1
Opening of a medical treatise. In Arabic.
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Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J186
Remarriage contract of a bride who had been both widowed and divorced in which she receives a house, but no trousseau. Dated 1180-1191. (Information from …
- תשלום עשרה דינארי דדהבא מ[. . .] טאבי מעל[יי
- אלתי בפסטאט מצר בקצר אלשמע אלמקאבלה ללכביצה [
- ותוספתא ונדוניא עשרה דינארי דדהבא . . . . . .[
- דמגבא לה מ…
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LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/21
Letter from a mother in Aden to her son in Egypt.
- בעד
- מן אלואלדה אלעזיזה תכץ חצרה אלולד אלעזיז אלמופק ופקה אלל : תע
- ואנא בטול בקאה וסהל סרעה לקאה עלי אסר חאל ואנעם
- באל במנה וכרמה ותנהי וצול כטך אלכר…
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View document detailsLetterBL OR 4856.1
Recto: Hebrew letter of appeal from the old, poor man Yosef b. Elazar ha-Kohen to Avraham ha-Sar b. Elazar. The body of the letter occupies …
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Unknown typeENA NS 85.510
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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View document detailsLegal documentMIAC 147
Bill – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 147) – in English. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / …
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LetterENA NS 58.4
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The story is interesting but very fragmented. Refers to a girl (ṣabiyya), probably the sender's sister-in-law, who behaves erratically …
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View document detailsList or tableNLI 577.5/21
List of garments and textiles, probably unrelated to recto, also in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu who signs his name at the bottom. The …
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View document detailsLiterary textT-S AS 169.145
Query and answer about capital punishment.
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LetterT-S AS 146.125
End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Seeking guidance from a higher authority. (Information in part from CUDL)
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Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 27/87
Legal document. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: last decade of Elul 5500 = September 1740 CE. Involving the division of profits between the three partners Avraham Serrano, …
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Legal documentT-S 10J2.7
Bill of divorce (geṭ). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 16 Sivan 1430 Seleucid, which is 28 May 1119 CE. …
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List or tableENA 1822a.42
Account probably concerning an inheritance or a dowry. (Information from Goitein's index cards
- א . .אאלפצה אלע[. .]. . .ה פ נצף
- [[ עצאבה דהב [. .]ע.ר ז פי דינר]]
- כירץ דהב כב[א]ר פי יצצוף דינאר
- [[ נארנס דהבי [ל]כורץ נצף]]
- פרד אשפ[א]ר נצף
- . . . …
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View document detailsLiterary textYevr. II A 2852
A long text, probably contains moral guidance.
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View document detailsLegal documentYevr. II K 10
A Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Aharon b. Binyamin Halevi and the bride is Esther b. Avraham the physician. AA
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View document detailsParaliterary textBL OR 5544.10
Document containing phrases of praise. No orderly arrangement. (Information from Goitein's index card)
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LetterT-S 13J9.18
Letter from a woman named Raḥla Naʿmīṣ, dated Shevaṭ 162 (= 5562) of the Era of Creation (= 1802 CE). (Information from CUDL)
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Legal documentJRL SERIES A 889
Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document for Moshe b. Nissim Ṭawīl and Simḥa bt. [...] ha-Levi known as al-ʿAjamī, dated August 1818 CE (Av 5578). Verso: Halakhic …
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Unknown typeJRL SERIES C 138
Awaiting description. (This folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.)
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View document detailsLegal documentT-S NS 172.15
Legal document draft. The undersigned witnesses attest to the appearance of a certain Yahuda ha-Kohen before a rabbinic court. The draft was left incomplete in …
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View document detailsState documentT-S Ar.35.55
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, a silk worker (qazzāz) and craftsman (ṣāniʿ). Dated: 537 AH = 1142/43 CE. Same …
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