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Document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). At the bottom there appear the names Mufarrij …
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State document, decree, in Arabic script. Mentions "al-tawẓīf al-dimashqī" (as in T-S H2.83 (PGPID 40839)), "suʾālī wa-khiṭābī" and "al-awqāf," possibly referring to a financial matter. …
Small fragment of a legal document. Mentions Aharon.
Outline for drawing up a marriage contract. Ca. 1100 CE. Groom: Barakāt/Berakhot b. Seʿadya ha-Kohen. Bride: Khulla bt. ʿAmram. Early marriage payment (muqaddam): 20 dinars. …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Bill of divorce, fragment. The husband's name is not preserved. Wife: Gharb bt. Abū l-M[...] Tamim b. Bishr. Scribed and signed by the court scribe …
A leaf that was once folded that looks completely blank. Perhaps originally a wrapper for another document in this folder (compare fol. 27).
IB VI, 5. Legal document. Record of release; partnership renewal. Written in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). These two fragments are …
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Letter from Abū l-Faraj to R. Eliyya or to [...] b. R. Eliyya. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer is distressed. He had sent a letter with …
Several folios from a Judaeo-Arabic copy of "Man Ghāba ʿAnhū l-Muṭrib" (The Book on the One Whom the Entertainer Abandons) by al-Thaʿālibī. One page includes …
Letter from Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fāsī, from Būṣīr (Gil), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. Regarding selling matters. Contains orders of goods that …
כתאבי יאסי[די] ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאיידך וסלאמתך מן [בוציר] לב לי[אל]
כלון מן [שהר] רגב ואלחאל סלאמה ושוק אליך קרב אללה אלאגתמאע ב…
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Densely written accounts in Arabic script. Table of names with numbers underneath, and with the sum at the bottom.
Shelomo b. Eliyyahu writes to a notable, "I was told that you have made a marriage contract (ṣadāq) for your daughter at a Muslim court. …
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Accounts in Arabic script. Possibly state or fisc-related.There is a ḥasbala at the top, marking the end of the previous section. It looks like there …
Notes for a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). "From that: the property of Sitt al-Munā... Nāshiya... [the dīwān …
Fragment with various scattered text blocks in Arabic. Dating: late, Ottoman-era.
Letter addressed to a community. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dating: Probably 11th century. The addressees are instructed to honor, assist, and raise money for (or …
Top of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108) or Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Concerning arrangements upon somebody's death, probably …
Book list. Dating: Likely 12th century, as none of the books listed are later than that.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso. Dating is perhaps 14th-16th-century but the month Muḥarram appears with illegible years twice along the left border of …
Letter of appeal, perhaps. In Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with יענך ייי ביום צרה and continues with greetings for the dear 'walad' ha-ḥazzan ha-talmid ha-sar ha-nikhbad..... The …
Top of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Abū Zikrī Zekharya b. Sar Shalom makes a declaration to Shelomo/Sulaymān …
Letter. Little preserved of content. Saffron, silk and copper mentioned.
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List of debtors? Late, perhaps 16th-century based on the paleography. Mentions silk in at least two entries.
Bifolio of piyyuṭ in Hebrew. At the lower right of recto there are some names in Hebrew: Saʿadya b. Yefet b. Yosef and Ḥalfon b. …
Accounts
Deed of sale in which a father sells to his son a quarter of the apartment belonging to him in a house in the al- …
Legal document in Hebrew. Dated in the final third of Adar II 5415 AM (1655 CE). Location: Cairo. Moshe Kolon returns a deposit of jewelry …
Small fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involving several people: a widow; Abū l-[...]; someone's relative …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 1 Sivan 1572 Seleucid, which is 1 May 1261 CE. Concerning a legal/administrative action taken by “Avraham ha-Darshan (the …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. "منها والحجج". Needs examination.
Letter fragment. Beginning in rhymed Hebrew and continuing in Judaeo-Arabic. Spanish-influenced hand. Requests a "cheering" (letter) and conveys blessings to the addressee. AA/ASE
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely medical or other technical manual: טהר פי גסד . . . ישרב ומן אראד . . .ויציר . . . …
Siddur of Shelomo b. Natan of Sijilmasa. End of chapter 17 on marriage and beginning of chapter 18 on the laws of menstruation. Information from …
Ownership note for a quire (kurrāsa) of raḥamim belonging to Abū Manṣūr b. Khalaf. Rudimentary hand.
Brief letter fragment on recto, two interior lines and part of the margin are preserved: بمكاتبة الحضرة الاجلية حرسها [الله] . . . بها على …
Formulaic phrases from petitions and letter to dignitaries.
Report from a Fatimid official. Dated: Dhū l-Qaʿda 495 AH (August–Sept 1102) — but this reading might be incorrect. Talks about the cutting off of …
Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic script (al-jumla...).
Ketubba. Groom: Meʾir b. Yakhin (a well-known cantor and communal official). Bride: Muʿazzaza bt. Mevorakh, a divorcee. Location: Fustat. Dating: the 4th of a month, …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi (active late 12th and first part of the 13th century). Gives a very detailed report …
Recto: Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 1 Av 1543 Seleucid = 19 July 1232 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. The young man …
Legal document, probably a receipt, with parallel Arabic script in an official looking hand. Verso contains a fragmentary ḥasbala. Needs examination.
Verso: document containing many names such as Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, Yiftaḥ, Yiṣḥaq, Zekharya, Ḥalfon ha-Kohen and Elyaqim. (Information from CUDL)
Religious commentary and exegesis – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 114) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …