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IB I, 18a. Settlement (canceled draft) in the lawsuit between David ibn Sighmar, the representative of Moshe b. Labrat, against Yosef Lebdi. The final version …
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Small fragment of an unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Might be a letter. Refers to a man killing his wife.
No Scholarship Records
Ketubba according to the Egyptian rite. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13 Nisan 1606 Seleucid = 31 March 1295 CE. Groom: Elʿazar b. Avraham (s't). Bride: Sara …
Recto: beginning of a letter with Judaeo-Arabic address on top and Hebrew blessings as introduction. Looks like the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder. …
4 pages from a late Hebrew medical treatise, including the introduction on general physiology and ontology of illness.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Probably literary.
Small fragment of an unidentified document in Arabic script.
Letter (or draft) in Arabic script. Addressed to a certain amīr. Needs examination.
List of parshiyot with haftarot.
Very faded fragment with Arabic text, probably Ottoman-era.
Legal document, dated 689 H, (=1290/91 CE), in a very faded script, with signature(s) at the bottom. One of the parties is al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b. …
Letter fragment in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu or his father Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. May be written on behalf of somebody else. …
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Small fragment of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions ʿAllān and Abū Yaʿaqov and different types of wood.
Fragment of a Qaraite ketubba. Groom: Meshullam. Dating: probably first half of the 11th century. Location: perhaps Fusṭāṭ. The dowry is a total of 277 …
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Secondary use: Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions copper (nuḥās), robes (thawb, thiyāb), and a veil (miʿjar).
Account of the qodesh, ca. probably 1158. Fragment of an accounting between the qodesh and, apparently, its partner in the ownership of a compound, known …
To his credit, for ḥikr of 1/8 of the compound which …
known as Dār Hiba al-Abzārī,
beginning Kislev 1461, ending…
dir. l…
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Partnership agreement from Cairo, for partners in the "ṣarraflık trade" who were working for a state bureau (דיואן אלמירי) under Muḥammad ʿAlī Pasha's administration. Dated …
Letter possibly in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. 8 partial lines are preserved. Rubbed and faded. Mentions a Sar Shalom who is dead. …
Letter from Khalaf b. Nāṣir to Barakāt b. al-Dayyān (probably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu). In Judaeo-Arabic. Requesting that he send quickly the pair of anklets (al-zawj …
כלף בן נאצר
בשמ' רחמ'
כתאבי אלי סידי ומולאי אלעזיז עלי וענדי אטאל
אללה בקאך ו…
May (this) come to Baraka't son of the judge, from the one grateful to him
Khalaf b. Na's'ir.
In your n(ame), Oh Mercif(ul).
My letter …
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Medical prescriptions against bleeding, [urin]ary incontinence, melancholia, arthritis, infertility. . . . and for sleeping with whomever one wants to (all it takes is a …
Accounts in both Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged. Dating: likely late Mamluk or Ottoman-era.
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Al-Makīn (=Abū l-Majd?) is to give 3 dirhams to the relative of the Andalusī rabbi ("Toledan" is …
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Recto: Small fragment (2 lines) from an official report. Needs examination for content.
Legal record (#16) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
Legal document (deed of sale). In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Venue: The house of Shelomo b. Aharon Kohen Khāzinī. Dated: Thursday, 19 Heshvan 5527 AM, which …
Recto: two documents. The first (bottom) is an order for delivery of dues to the office of land tax (dīwān al-kharāj) written by the accountant …
Detailed but incomplete letter to an army doctor, possibly from his son-in-law, end of the 11th century. Contains many details about accounts, selling of books, …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic in a late hand listing debts. ENA 2615.1-3 all belong together
Wooden fragment of a of dedicatory inscription installed under Torah ark, the second of three fragments. (Part 1 no longer extant). Inscription reads: Enter His …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Order of payment in Arabic script. Mentions a name, 5 dinars, and a date. Additional jottings on verso. Probably belongs with T-S AS 151.132, T-S …
Small fragment of a text in Arabic script, probably magical ("al-ʿazīma" and the signs on verso).
Verso: Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Ḥalfon and his wife Maḥfūẓa bt. …
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: perhaps 16th-century based on the paleography. Requires further examination.
Accounts with Coptic numerals, mentioning Shelomo Baḥbāḥī. (Information from CUDL)
Legal record (#7) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 6-9) Folio 3r
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right lower part only). Dating: Late 11th century. Describing communal strife and what appears to be an uprising of common people …
Letter sent from an unknown person, in Alexandria, to a family member named Yosef, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Probably no earlier than 15th century. …
Letters of recommendation for an unnamed man, drawn up by the Sephardic community of Vienna in 5621 AM (1860/61 CE). This man was from Mosul …
Accounts, probably, in Arabic script.
Letter mentioning Umm Abū l-Manṣūr. (Information from CUDL)
Verso (original use): "Commercial receipt" for ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Memorial list, including 'the young man Ya'aqov who was killed over Yiḥud ha-shem'. On verso a memorial list of "The sons of al-Mushanqiṣ (בני אלמשנקץ)", …
Literary text in Ladino and Hebrew. Probably a sermon.
List of materia medica, including simples such as pepper, nard, and Prunus mahaleb. With Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Receipt from the committee of Jewish pious endowments in Cairo for the value of rent on a residence whose total is 260 qirsh in the …
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto mentions a sum of 7.5 dinars and verso mentions someone sitting. It's possible that verso is a fragment of a …
Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's years of service as Gaʾon.