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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. …
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Letter sent by the Adath Sefardim congregation of Safed to Avraham b.(?) David Naḥmias in Alexandria. Dated 22 Elul 5685 AM (1925 CE). At first …
No Scholarship Records
Letter fragment from Yisrael b. Natan, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060, the 17th of Tamuz. Mentions Ramla. (Information from Ed. Gil, …
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Accounts of a perfumer; list of purchasers of ʿabīr perfume, musk, and salūkha (probably identical with salīkha, an aromatic bark resembling cassia). Names seem mostly …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Petition to a state official. In Arabic. After a taqbīl, the addressee is greeted with many titles ("al-majlis al-ʿādilī al-sayfī al-nāṣirī(?) al-kāmilī al-hādī"). The petitioner …
Bifolio from a court notebook. Probably a dowry evaluation (taqwīm): consists almost entirely of a list of valuable items and sums of money (in one …
Very faded document in Hebrew, likely a letter.
Two leaves from Leviticus 5 copied in Arabic script (but Hebrew vocalization).
Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century based on hand and abbreviations (אלש[יך]). Mentions a bill of divorce (or …
Partly preserved marriage contract of Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo and Jawhara. The delayed payment of the dowry is set at 50 dinars. Dated ca. 1050. (Information …
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Letter/petition in Arabic script. Opens with the phrase "(al-mamlūku) yakhdumu majlisa mawlānā wa-sayyidinā...." The sender asks the addressee to send something with Abū l-Ḥasan, it …
ا[لمملوك]
يخدم مجلس مولانا وسيدنا ادام الله ايامه ويسل انعامه
ان يتفضل باحسانه ان يرسل صحبة الشيخ ابو الحسن جامكية
المملوك في …
State correspondence, probably a petition but any petition-related formula is missing. Five lines are preserved, and possibly a copy of a sixth line. Almost all …
…encompassing, and its justice and perpetual generosities, and benevolence from it and its might.
[The slave] steadfastly remained near our maste…
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Commercial receipt (min dār al-[...]). See tag. Dated: 484 AH? Appears to be for al-Saʿd or Abū Saʿd. (FGP description: statement of debt issued by …
List of contributors. Yemeni. Mentions Mūsā al-Ḍāhirī and Yaḥyā al-Qāfiḥ among many other names. (Information in part from Goitein's notes.)
Deposition in court on a compound of the Qodesh ca. 1230. Judge Yehi'el b. Elyaqim and Netaniel b. Yeshu'a bear witness that a tabaqa and …
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Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century, based on handwriting. Mentions red sulfur (kibrīt aḥmar), the estate of the addressee's dead brother, and perhaps …
Fragment from the right side of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a sum of 10.5 dinars. Dating: Mentions Shaʿbān [5]73 AH = January/February …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions aloeswood, lac, pepper, among other items. Written on a small and narrow slip of paper.
State document, in Arabic script. Decree. "...the manshūr was drawn on 23rd Dhū l-Ḥijja" (.....ينسخ....المنشور موقع بتاريخ ثلث وعشرون من ذي الحجة).
Perhaps an amulet: small, square piece of paper filled with calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic invocations of Gods' names and various prophets on both sides.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to be delivered to the Square of the Perfumers, probably to R. Elazar ha-Dayyan who is named three lines …
Legal fragment (lower right corner). Dating: ca. 14th–16th centuries, based on handwriting. A previous description referred to this as a deed of sale, but there …
Drafts of documents, made by Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel and other scribes. Dating: 1159 CE, based on the date mentioned in the first entry …
Letter (with Fatimid petition/report formulary) sent by the shammash (beadle) of Sunbāṭ in the center of the delta to Shemuel ha-Nagid (1140–59) describing a brawl …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. There are only about 6 entries. On verso there are Hebrew pen trials.
Part of a ketubba for [...]rta bt. Ṣedaqa b. David ha-Kohen and Mevorakh. The date and location are not preserved. Witnessed by [...] ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver …
Discussion of divorce, based on Deuteronomy 24:1-3. CUDL
Badly damaged text in Hebrew script. Requires further examination.
8 pages from a Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew medical treatise.
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). AA
Arabic script (VMR)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower part only). Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century, based on handwriting. Addressed to a woman. The sender mentions the number …
Small fragment from a legal deed between a woman and her husband ʿEli regarding a house in Cairo. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). On parchment. The ends of about 15 lines are preserved. Probably a deed …
Bifolium from a medical treatise with sections in both Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: Text in Arabic script. Relatively easy to read but very difficult to make sense of. Contains phrases like حصرت العموم على حكم الامور... شرع …
Introduction to a letter, written in rhymed prose and addressed to Seʿadel "the 'sar." There are some large Hebrew letters at the top of the …
Recto (secondary use): List of commodities and their prices in Judaeo-Arabic.
Probably medical prescriptions in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic, listing materia medica and quantities and containing phrases like "min kull wāḥid."
Letter from Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, in Barqa to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1045 CE. Barhūn writes at length and in detail …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אט[א]ל [אל]לה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואצרף אלאסוא
ענך ברחמתה מן ברקה [מסתהל] כסלו ערפך אללה ברכתה וכתמה עליך באחסן כ…
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Mysterious document in Judaeo-Arabic. In blocky handwriting. One side mentions "al-bāqī... wa-l-dīwān nafadha dhālika."
Formulaic phrases from petitions and letter to dignitaries.
Recto: Beginning of the opening of a letter. Verso: Address in Arabic script, to al-Nasi Shelomo in Cairo (most likely Shelomo b. Yishay, 13th century. …
יוצל כב גד קד
ור ונ וג מא אמונה אומן بلغ ץך
يوصل الى القاهرة …
Fragment of a bifolium with recipes in Judaeo-Arabic, probably alchemical.
Very damaged account in Arabic script. Probably late.