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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Dated on the verso 14 Heshvan (שנת ברחמים)– which is a gematria given that the month Elul is normally …
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Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 1518 CE, since on recto (probably the side of later use) appears to mention the year 924 kharājī.
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Letter to Yiṣḥaq Ḥevroni on financial matters. Dated: 1559 CE [?]. This date from FGP is likely incorrect given that the month listed is Shawwāl …
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Receipt for payments related to the residence of Natan Abravanel, issued and signed by Meir Somech. Dated at the end of Iyyar 5320 AM (May …
Letter from Ḥayyim. In Hebrew. Dating: Late 16th or 17th century, based on Avraham David's assessment. The language is very flowery. The writer mentions Manzal …
Legal deed, fragment. In Hebrew. Only the beginnings of the last few lines are preserved. Dated: 10 Tevet 5325 AM, which is December 1564 CE. …
Authorization of takanot from the Mustarab community in Cairo from 1595 CE– which reflects the date 9 Sivan בשמח׳׳ה in the final line of the …
Fragment from a 16th-century letter in rhymed prose. (Information from CUDL) On the verso a name appears possibly as the recipient of the letter: Abraham …
Letter from Mordechai. Dating: probably 16th century. It is headed by an ornate בע''ה. Verso and the margin on recto contains jottings (signature practice) in …
Financial agreement (partnership?) between Daniel b. Eliyya and Yaʿaqov b. Avraham, dated 1512/13 CE ([5]273) and citing sums in peraḥim.
Bifolium of legal records, one of which is dated 1519 CE (Sivan 1830 Seleucid).
Deed of remittance, dated 3 Shevat 5316 (= 1556 CE) between Isaac b. ʿOvadya and Zephaniah b. Ḥayyim Saragossi (סרגוסי), possibly including the former's brother-in-law, …
Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 17 Sivan 5323 = 8 June 1563 CE. In which Zeraḥ Dammūhī (cf. CUL Or.1081 2.26 + …
Letter to Yehuda Daud in which the writer references previous correspondence with the addressee and mentions exile (גולה). EMS From ʿEli Sanbakro (סנבקרו), c. 16th …
The end of a late letter, signed with elaborate sigla. Dating: ca. 16th century according to CUDL, however the date is given in gematria as …
Letter, consisting mainly of greetings, from Yehuda Levi to his family, including his brother-in-law Sulaymān, his brother Raḥamīm, his cousin Sawād, and the addressee’s sister, …
Recto: legal document in which Abraham Shami (שאמי) b. [...] Shelomo Abū l-Khayr b. Saʿadya affirms that the widow of Judah Abū l-Khayr owes money …
Fragment of a 16th-century letter from David Badūssī in Būlāq, who was a teacher in Jerusalem, to Abraham סורג, philanthropist in Egypt, seeking financial assistance. …
Recto: letter from the 16th century, mentioning the names Abraham Ibn Ṣūr, Reuben the Babylonian, Abraham Nuniʾel (נוניאל), Faraj Allah the proselyte, and Yequtiʾel. Verso: …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Rabīʿ I 984 AH in the upper left corner of the recto (1576 CE). Among the names mentioned are: (recto) Yahuda …
Letter addressed to Avraham Shānjī, a well-known merchant who appears in a variety of sixteenth-century fragments and had died by 1547 CE. Only the first …
List of donations (?) for the end of Adar of the year of "ezreinu" (perhaps 70+7+200+50+6 = [5]333 = 1573 CE. But everything else in …
Engagement (shiddukhin) agreeement. Fiance: Yosef b. Yehuda Menaḥem. Fiancee: Estīta bt. David ha-Kohen. Currency: Venetian ducats (פרחים זהב בנאדקה). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: 12 Ḥeshvan [5]330 …
List of payments, 16th century.
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A list of dozens of names arranged in two columns per side. Prefaced with "the names of the households who are invited (? maʿzūma)." Some …
Business letter to Yiṣḥaq Ashkenazi (Avraham David does not think it is Luria).
Legal document. Partnership agreement in a press (maʿṣara). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday 4 Tamuz 5275 AM, which is 1515 CE. Currencies: Peraḥim. The …
Business letter from Yehuda Castro to Binyamin Castro. In Hebrew. Dating: 16th century. The sender reports on business developments in crops, fruits, and vegetables, and …
Accounts and calculations in Ladino, sixteenth-century (based on the paleography and post-1497 coinage). The coinage types listed are the Spanish corona (קורונה) and the copper …
Accounts and calculations in Ladino, sixteenth-century (based on the paleography and post-1497 coinage in neighboring shelfmark). A variety of individuals are referenced along the right …
Partnership agreement between Moshe and Yiṣḥaq, specifying each party's liabilities. Written in Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: Friday, 19 Av 5330 AM = 21 July 1570 …
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Letter sent by Ḥayyim b. Avraham Skandari, probably in Cairo, to his son, probably in Alexandria. The date is the 2nd of Adar I, probably …
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably 16th century. Written by Yehuda al-Ashqar b. Yiṣḥaq b. [...], a resident of Jerusalem who, …
Deed of sale. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Heshvan 5294 AM = 20 October 1533 CE. Yaʿaqov b. Moshe בכוש and his brother Efrayim …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo (מצרים). Dated: Tuesday, 2 Heshvan 5324 AM = 19 October 1563 CE. Doña Masʿūda (the same Doña Masʿūda as …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Tishrei 5354 AM = Muharram 1002 AH, which is 1593 CE, a few months after the records on recto.
Legal deed In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Tammuz 5353 AM = Shawāl 1001 AH = July 1593 CE. It seems to be the copy of a reconciliation …
Minute fragment of accounts. Dated Muḥarram 1003 AH on the verso. The recto mentions an Ottoman military officer Maḥmūd Çavuş in the heading as well …
Minute fragment of accounts, possibly dated in the ninth century Hijrī on the recto (סנת לטץ) but there may be a fourth letter after לטץ. …
"The first document is a letter (lacking, however, a few lines at the end) that was sent by an anonymous merchant to R. David Ibn …
Business letter from Shelomo to Yosef Ḥalūfī, in Fustat. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's assessment. The letter deals with …
Accounts related to real estate rentals and other properties in Cairo. Dated on the recto as 1 Heshvan 5319 AM which is 1558. This reading …
List of names that was recorded alongside a column of numerical values before the paper was torn. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the …
List of communal accounts dated in variety of places throughout the text, for example the first intact date on the recto is 12 Sivan 5352 …
Fragment of a 16th-century business letter. Faded and damaged, so the contents are difficult to determine. Appears to be a letter from an agent to …
Legal document dated 6 July 1564 CE (16 Tammuz 5324) in Cairo/מצרים, in which Sulaymān Ṣafiyy and the treasurers of the heqdesh of the Mustaʿrib …
בפנינו עדים חתו[מי] מטה [הו]דה סלימאן צפי שהוא חייב להקדש של
קהל המסתערב י"צ [מא]ה וש[לו]שה ועשרים מאידי מצד שכירות
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Legal document in Hebrew. 16th-century. Yaʿaqov b. Faraj Allāh the Qaraite, known as Fayrūz, attests that he owes Moshe Ḥazzān b. Yiṣḥaq(?) a certain sum …
Legal deed. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: 17 Tevet 5318 AM = 8 December 1557 CE. Settling debts between Shelomo, Rahamim and Reʾuven. Signed by Avraham …
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Legal document with testimony concerning orphans and Isaac Horoshban (הורושבן), who died. Mentions various people including Isaac Shanji (שאנגו). Originally dated 1586 CE in FGP …
Power of attorney (שטר הרשאה) from Rachel the widow of Eliezer Zussman to her son Moses Zussman. Dated Friday 2 Iyyar 5324 (= April 1564 …