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Document in Arabic script. Possibly the draft of an iqrār or other legal deed. Written on (or reused for?) a page of magical instructions in …
No Scholarship Records
Accounts with Coptic numerals, mentioning Shelomo Baḥbāḥī. (Information from CUDL)
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: 6 Nisan 4973 AM = 1524 Seleucid, which is 1213 CE. Husband: Shela b. Meshullam b. Netanel ha-Zaqen. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Responsum concerning a problematic partnership, with an excursus on valid and invalid partnerships. (Information from CUDL)
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IB VII, 10e. Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Certifying that Abū l-Faraj al-Jubaylī (Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi) delivered …
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Two unidentified Arabic documents. The lefthand one looks late.
Likely a contributors list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Listing names (e.g., al-Ṭabīb, al-Ḥakīm, Abū l-Riḍā (אב אלרטא), Ibn ʿAqbān, Ibn al-Shuwaykiyya, Abū l-Wafāʾ, and Ibn Nuṣayr). Sums …
Business letter from Saʿāda b. Yūsuf to Yūsuf b. [... b. ʿAwkal?]. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. Needs examination.
Recto: Document in Arabic script. Only the beginnings of eight lines are preserved. Mentions names like Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh and Abū Ṭālib ʿUmar(?) b. al-Ḥasan(?), …
Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary spellings, especially the use of י in place of א. Sitt Ṣawāb sends a message to the addressee regarding money.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the right side is preserved. Most of the content is gone. Mentions "religion and world" (דין ודניא), "my master and …
Small fragment of a business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Simḥa ha-Levi al-Nisaburi to Abū Saʿīd ... b. Shelomo al-Fāsī. Written over a previous text …
Minute fragment of a document written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mentions the term 'shuyūb'(?) and a dīwān. Cf. T-S NS 226.57 …
Lower section of a late letter in Hebrew to Shelomo [..] regarding a man named Yaʿaqov Naḥman b. Shemuel and a woman named [...] bt. …
Two words in Arabic in a chancery-esque hand: المستمرين الغلات(؟)
Copies of various texts written by Yosef Rosh ha-seder, including Maimonides responsum no. 138 and more.
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 …
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Siddur with colophon by Obadiah the Proselyte. "Obadiah the Norman Proselyte who entered the covenant of the God of Israel in the month of Elul, …
Legal document. Fragment (lower left corner). Dated: Av 1461 Seleucid, which is 1150 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. None of …
Genealogies (short) of various families, written in two different hands, the first around 1150 CE, the second one generation later. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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Fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: Likely 10th century, based on handwriting. This fragment begins toward the end of the dowry list. Groom: Saʿīd. …
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Fragment (middle vertical third) of a letter in Hebrew, mentioning al-Khawāja ʿUthmān and the sender's travels to Cairo or Egypt. A request for help (ולא …
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of a fiscal document. Mentions a date: 5 Dhū l-Qaʿda 612 H, but this should be verified. Reused for …
Fragment of a private letter. Dating: likely 12th century. The writer is referring to some danger, but the text is too fragmentary.
Two fragment so a legal document, likely in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Draft, with crossouts and interlinear insertions. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: speaking to …
Large fragment containing numerous types of jottings. One section contains a list of names in Hebrew script, which seems to be headed "Qaraites" (קראיין). Underneath …
Fiscal document. Possibly a receipt or a submitting of an account. Needs examination. مبلغ . . . على . . . . المماليك المستخدمين برسم …
Accounts, mentioning Cairo and names such as Ibn Miska, Ibn Abū l-Surūr, Abū l-Khayr and Abū l-Ṭāhir, and quantities of currency. Hebrew numerals. (Information from …
Fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, begging indulgence for any errors or hastiness.
Petition, or official-looking letter. In Arabic script. Fragments of four lines are preserved. Mentions "the place... the slave has been there for several years... the …
Small fragment of an unidentified (legal?) document.
Letter fragment, from Hārūn to his 'brother' Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions having lost his blanket with the masters of the bo[a]t and being pinched and …
Damaged fragment from the bottom of a legal deed, probably 11th century.
Fragment of a letter from the Yeshiva in Sura. Regarding donations to the Yeshiva. Mentions the relationships between the community and the Yeshiva in the …
Official-looking letter(s) in Arabic script. Very damaged.
Accounts. In Arabic script and Coptic numerals.
Recto: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Verso: List of names in Judaeo-Arabic. (Handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?). E.g., Abu l-[...] known as Ibn al-ʿAmm (cf. …
Letter from Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq, gaon of Sura, to Elḥanan b. Shemarya, ca. 990. Contains information about Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq and about the academy of …
List or accounts, medieval-era. The same word (aqlām?) is written multiple times with an elongated horizontal middle letter. Above the horizontal bar each entry has …
Monthly accounting in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating:16th–19th century. Mentions goods such as soap, apricots, wool, and honey. Currencies include גדיד, קורונה, and פלוס. People mentioned are mainly …
List of payments made on a Thursday. In addition to the usual expenditure for bread, salaries, and extras, the official twice paid 3/4 dirhams to …
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A Karaite bill of divorce. Yosef b. Mordechai Levi is divorcing his wife Sultana d. Elya Kohen. In Haskoy, Istanbul. The date is given according …
Bottom part of a legal document signed by Levi kohen. Dating: probably ca. 16th century.
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1055, sent as an addendum to an earlier letter, which has not been identified. …
תמאם כתאב מולאי אלשיך אבי יחיה
פי כתאבה אנך לם תרגע אלי אלקאעה אלדי לך אלי אסעה
אללה יופקך ואלל כפיא מא ורד אלדי מעך הדיא יאמולאי
תקבפה…
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Various jottings on a small piece of parchment. Recto: "I, Sh[...] ha-Melammed witness against Shelomo Ibn al-ʿArīshī for 5 gold coins." Underneath, a writing exercise. …
Instructions for the shevaʿ berakhot and other wedding procedures. Dated at the top of the right page: 1441, "the 4th year of the maḥzor" (in …
Letter from Yedutun ha-Levi, likely to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Little of the content remains apart from blessings and formulae. He reports that …
Letter from a certain Dāʾūd to Eliyya ha-Rav ha-Gadol, probably Eliyyahu the Judge (early 13th century). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 'a letter for Rabbenu' and a …
Letter sent by Perahya the second b. Yosef the second to Shelomo ha-Nasi, dealing with various matters, including an ordinance (taqqana). Mentions the Nagid R. …