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Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 624 H. Involves Abū l-Faraj b. Fāḍil(?) b. Khalaf al-Tājir and Bū l-ʿIzz b. Bū ʿAlī b. …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
This fragment consists of two pieces of parchment pasted together to assemble a rotulus of elaborate medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: possibly 11th century or …
Private account, probably. In Arabic script. Recording expenses for items on different days of the week (e.g., chard, oil, firewood). Written on the back of …
Measures for the founding of a Jewish association in Egypt as a branch of the overarching association by the name of Kinisat Israel, and they …
Document in Hebrew script. Accounts? in Judaeo-Persian?
Fragment of a late legal document. A deceased person with an uncommon name is mentioned in line 3, ירוב זאקון נ׳׳ע (Yarov Zāqūn), probably as …
Legal document (zikhron ʿedut). Dated: Thursday, 13 Elul 1528 Seleucid, which is 18 August 1217 CE. Settlement of the payment of a mu'akhkhar in installments. …
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Autograph letter by Avraham Maimonides to Moshe b. Peraḥya. Dating to 1205–1237 CE, based on Avraham Maimonides years of service as Rayyis al-Yahūd. It is …
Fragment of a ketubba with relatively widely-spaced lines. No names, date, location or witnesses are preserved. (Information from CUDL.)
Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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Memorial list? the names of "the family of Israel's princes" mentioing Yishaq ha-sar ha-levi, Simha, Yishaq and (another?) Simha who passed away Halakhic work on …
Original use: State decree from the Fatimid chancery, written under al-Ḥākim, al-Ẓāhir or al-Mustanṣir to an official in Egypt regarding a dispute over irrigation canals …
their signatures validated it... fifty dīnārs... except for the amount of the officials ...…
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Fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script. Relatively large (the bottom 22 lines are preserved + 4 lines in the margin + remnants of …
Letter, probably. Content unclear. Three lines are preserved, and a few words in the margin.
Legal document in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~12 lines are preserved. Needs examination for content.
Small and damaged fragment from a prenuptial agreement. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE) in his cursive hand. From the little that …
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Tax receipt, Fatimid. Small fragment, not much text preserved.
Minute fragment from a legal document. Hardly any text preserved. AA
Large bifolio of accounts.
IB IV, 71 (ח87). Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq to Ḥalfon. Alexandria; probably about 1143-1145. ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq sends Ḥalfon a short greeting for Purim. …
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Recto: from an Arabic medical textbook, including the opening of the chapter on phlebotomy of the basilic vein. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic list of members of various …
Communal accounts, probably from the early 13th century. Mentions the terms 'jibāya' (collection) and "jābī' (collector) several times. Entries include citrons and myrtle (for sukkot), …
Minute fragment, bottom part of a legal deed. Only partial signature [...] b. Nathan, is preserved. AA
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Bū Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm.
Arabic script (VMR)
Rabbanite ketubah from Cairo that may have been preserved in the Dār Simḥa Synagogue geniza, although it seems more likely that Avraham Firkovich acquired it …
Fragmentary list of contributions, it seems in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, details of about twenty-five preserved: five giving 1, eight giving 1/2, two …
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Recto: Power of attorney. Netanʾel b. Yefet b. Meshullam known as Ibn Ḥirbish permits a certain individual to collect all that is due to his …
Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps addressed to a Moshe (l. 2). Concerning small business transactions.
Official-looking document in Arabic script. Fiscal? Might also be private accounts. Verso is a less formal list of names with sums of money.
Legal document. In Hebrew. On parchment. Fragment (lower left corner). Dating: Probably 10th or 11th century. One of the parties is named Nissim b. Barukh. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Yaʿqūb and Abū l-Riḍā. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen?
Two copies of a draft of blessings for the caliph (amīr al-muʾminīn). In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the beginning of a petition: [[אלאמיר אלמופק]] אמיר אלמומנין במא …
Small fragment of accounts.
Recipes (alchemical?) mainly in Hebrew with many Romance words mixed in (mercury, sal natri). Late.
Verso: Draft of a beginning of a report to an official, possibly a vizier, from a lower official. Beginning formula and opening honorifics are preserved. …
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List, commercial. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Consists entirely of foods.
Mysterious document. Perhaps a death notice? Gives the name Yefet b. [...]ṭ ha-Kohen (ZL) and then the date Friday, 16 Tammuz 1466 Seleucid, which is …
Accounts in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. The Judaeo-Arabic portion reads, "Abū l-Khayr Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ collected [...] two dinars from the money owed to him by …
Described in PUDL catalogue as amulet containing prayers to God and the Prophet.
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). AA
Poetic work in Judaeo Persian. ENA 2627.113-114 is part of the same work.
Recto (secondary use): Accounts in neat Arabic script, mentioning various names such as Menaḥem, Salmān al-Qazzāz, Umm Hiba, and Ibn al-Jārūd(?), and sums in dirhams, …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to a person in Alexandria. Mentions merchandise and textiles, along with books and various texts that someone is copying for …
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Letter in Arabic script, well preserved, discussing business matters and sending greetings to and from family members. Mentions: 25 nuqra dirhams (r7 and r13 and …