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Fragment from the bottom of a ketubba. Dating: mid-12th century. Refers to a sum of 20 dinars as part of the marriage payments and refers …
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Damaged fragment from the bottom of a legal deed, probably 11th century.
Debt contract, draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 11 Ḥeshvan 1587 Seleucid, which is 1275 CE. Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Ṣabbāgh is owed a sum of …
Business letter in Arabic script. The sender complains that his previous letters were unanswered and wonders if the addressee has heard anything detrimental. He orders …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Avraham Maimonides (autograph) to Fakhr al-Dawla al-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. He has heard that Fakhr al-Dawla is upset at him, and he is shocked …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1213/14 CE. This commenda records court proceedings regarding a partnership; only one of the partners' names, Saadiah b. …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen? Dating: 12th century. Mentions people such as Abū l-Qāsim, al-Neʾeman, al-Ḥemdat and Shemuel al-Ṣiqillī. Mentions commodities such …
Recto: Unidentified state document in Arabic script. A scribe-in-training has practiced copying the text in between the lines. A few lines from the bottom it …
Verso: Note regarding Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣabiyy and 5 dirhams, perhaps a note of a debt or a promissory note. In Judaeo-Arabic. On recto there is …
Letter fragment. Addressed to a certain Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm. Mentions Bū l-Khayr. May belong together with the preceding fragments.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly. Medieval-era. A beit din is mentioned in line 2 and a sum of dirhams in line 3. Requires further examination.
Recto: Letter from Yedutun ha-Levi, probably in Fustat, to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb. Most of the letter concerns a dispute …
Bottom of a letter. Too faded and damaged to understand any of the content. (Information from CUDL)
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Receipt? Refers to [...] al-Yahūdī.
Recto (secondary use): Note of seven short lines written in beautiful oversized majuscules, written on the back of an earlier Arabic document. The writer praises …
Everyone knows that fantasy and error are not fitting for a clever banker and a discerning assayer, who should understand everything that a person sa…
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Recto: Accounts in Arabic, mentioning Abū l-Futūh and a certain Yaʿqūb and almonds. Verso: A note in Arabic saying, "I have sent you some almonds."
Legal document from the neighborhood court of Bāb al-Kharq wa-l-Saʿāda in Cairo. In Arabic script. The scribe had a pronounced tremor, which makes the document …
Letter in Arabic script, beautifully written in a chancery-esque hand with diacritical marks and dots. Dating: Fatimid period based on paleography and the ending formula. …
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Most of the fragment seems to consist of Hebrew literary text, but there are also two lists of names (some of them unusual): ʿEzra, ʿAbīd, …
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century, as Eliyyahu the Judge is mentioned. The writer greets the addressee as 'brother' and gives him a report …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 8 Tammuz 1451 Seleucid = 25 June 1140 CE. …
Receipt, or accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic script for the 23rd of a month.
One of two drafts (the other is T-S G1.26) of a curious and obsequious letter from a man whose handwriting is known, apparently to a …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and an unclear numeral system (Coptic?). Mentions several obscure terms; sour grapes (ḥiṣrim); sugar; tutty; al-ḥakīm; jars of wine
Small fragment of a letter. In Arabic script. Refers to someone in distress and to a nākhūdha (ship-owner) named Hilāl al-Iskandarā[nī]
Partnership in sarraflık business between two groups: (1) Mordekhay Bialobos, Moshe ha-Levi Ṣanūʿa, Raḥamīm b. Eliyahu Najjār, Yiṣḥaq ʿAfīf, Avraham ha-Levi aka Skandarī and (2) …
Late accounts. Dating: probably 16th-century, based on the paleography.
Legal fragment. In the late hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066-1108) or the early hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). [...] b. …
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Recto: Legal document. Dated: 4976 AM, which is 1215/16 CE. Under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. Involving a certain Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān and Shelomo ha-Levi …
Letter from the cantor Abū l-Majd (Meir b. Yakhin), in Fustat, to his brother Abū l-Najm Hilāl, presumably in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th …
Letter from Zakhariya Zamero to Eliyyahu Frances. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 12 Ḥeshvan 5573 AM, which is 1812 CE. Needs examination for content.
Accounts with Greek/Coptic numerals expressing quantities or prices of goods, such as: coal and salt. The dating is late medieval or perhaps as late as …
Letter draft. In Hebrew. Full of fulsome praises for a very important person who is also a Kohen. Refers specifically to Benei Ṣadoq, so perhaps …
Power of attorney in Hebrew. Someone is appointed to sue Yeshuʿa. Some unusual formulae, and unusual hand. Late? T-S AS 206.304 and T-S AS 206.304 …
Writing exercises in an experienced scribal hand, the student practiced various honorific titles that can appear at the opening of letters. 18th or 19th-century based …
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic (missing its upper part). Dating: late 11th century or early 12th century. In which Abū l-Khayr Mubārak b. David and Sitt …
Three notes, two on lined paper, one in Hebrew with an elaborate signature. Presumably 20th c.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated Thursday, [...] 1435 Seleucid = 1123/4 CE. Mentioning [...] bt. Shelomo and Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi. …
Probably a fragment from a legal document or halakhic text. (Information from CUDL)
Private accounts, likely of a moneychanger. In Arabic script, but consisting mainly of sums in Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions monetary terms such as nuqra, ʿayn, wariq, …
Pages (a) through (c): Distribution list for clothing (al-kiswa). Dated: Ṭevet 1488 Seleucid, which began on 5 December 1176 CE. The last but one numeral …
Accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century.
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 …
Bottom part of a clothing distribution list; several people receive a felt garment (libd). Names include "the acquaintance of Rabbenu(?)"; the wife of [...]; Umm …
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) concerning the living arrangements for a man and his wife in accordance with the conditions of …