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Recto (secondary use): Hebrew praises and blessings for a certain Yeshaʿya.
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A few words from a state document in Arabic script (... al-dawla ...). Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
Literary, probably piyyut.
Probably a formulary for writing Hebrew letters to important people. Fragment.
Legal query concerning payments between a husband and wife, the issuance of a bill of divorce, and exchanges of goods. Involves Damīra and someone whose …
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Drafts of a legal document (on top) and of a letter (on bottom). On parchment. The beginning of the legal document is dated Monday, 17 …
Bifolium from a late Hebrew medical treatise.
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Dating: likely Mamluk-era (13th–15th century). Mentions al-Ṣāliḥiyya; the army (al-ʿaskar); the justice of the sulṭān (ومولانا السلطان عادل); …
Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen b. Ḥalfon, al-Maḥalla, to Binyamin b. Yaʿaqov (who has a son named Yaʿaqov as well), Cairo. The writer reports that he …
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Letter from [Hi]llel b. Yeshuʿa to Shela b. Bū l-Khayr ha-Kohen. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 14th century. The sender had left …
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Letter to the leader Abraham [Av] Bet Din b. [...]. Beginning of the letter is in vocalised Hebrew-Aramaic. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from a teacher reporting to a father that his child arrived at school with a little packet containing some silver (fidda), which the teacher …
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Four minute fragments with Arabic. Probably all literary.
Power of attorney embedded in a letter. Yakhin b. Elʿazar of Minyat Zifta writes to Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū l-Munā and instructs them to pay …
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Legal document. Partnership agreement. A deal between an investor, possibly named Ibrahim, and three unnamed indigo dyers opening a workshop in Damietta. The active partners …
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Crumbled fragment. Needs examination.
Letter fragment ın Judaeo-Arabic, with the address on verso. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Very faded and damaged. (Information in part from CUDL)
Circular addressed to 'all the congregations of our brothers of Israel who live in [...],' old and young and parnasim. Not much more is preserved.
Contract between Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen and Abū l-Maʿālī regarding tax-farming in the town of Būsh and its environs. Dated Elul 1460 Seleucid = August/September 1149 …
Fragment with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic.
Verso: unidentified text in Arabic, possibly a letter. Very little preserved. On recto there is liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Legal documents (one on recto and remnants of two on verso) in Arabic script. The recto is a ḍamān document, mentioning dāmān ṣaḥīḥ, and one …
Legal testimony, in Arabic script. Iqrār, ʿAbd al-Sayyid owes his debt in al-Siyūṭ to Sahyūn b. Ghibriyāl.
Recto: Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Probably an engagement contract. Specifies payments of sums of money by certain dates of …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. This is the last leaf of a longer letter, as it is headed "tamām …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dating: likely 13th century. Verso: פי הדא אלאסבוע . . . . חתי יגי אכוה . . …
Verso: Autograph note from Moshe Maimonides to al-Shaykh al-Wathīq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. …
Legal testimony? In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman-era. it is a first-person narrative recounting the events of several years, involving financial disputes, a shofar, the Muslim courts, …
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a certain dignitary named Shemuel, who has a son named Yosef. It opens with a poem. The story conveyed in the …
Legal document, probably some kind of testimony, signed by [...] b. Yefet, ʿOvadya b. Ṭahor and [...] b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen, followed by another legal document, …
Dialogue between the Misri (the man from Old Cairo) and the Rifi (the man from the countryside). Literary, probably late, very colloquial. The writer is …
Verso (original use): Lower left corner of a petition in Arabic script, apparently asking for charity or assistance for a woman: . . . . …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dealing with mercantile affairs. Mentions Yosef b. Iyov / Yūsuf b. Ayyūb, al-Maḥalla, …
Minute fragment of accounts. Dated Muḥarram 1003 AH on the verso. The recto mentions an Ottoman military officer Maḥmūd Çavuş in the heading as well …
Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Probably a list of witness signatures from the bottom of a legal document. Names preserved: Yefet ha-[...]; Yefet b. [...]; ʿEli the judge ("bet din") …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a letter from a child to a father ("yā wālidī"). May mention a meeting with a cantor (la-qad ijtamaʿa al-ḥazzān....) and mentions pounds …
Probably a draft of a letter in Hebrew in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212) containing praises and blessings for a notable …
Commercial accounts in Ladino dated July 1734 CE (15 Tammuz 5494 AM). The heading names Shabbetay Alpalas in connection with "telas ke mande/mando Alessandri[a?]..." (cloth …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentioning goods such as pepper (filfil), oil (dihn), cumin (kammūn), bitumen (qifār), brazilwood (baqqam), sugar and syrup …
Arabic booklet on astrological prognostications.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Ibrāhīm who has not yet completed the aqāwīl, also mentioning boats arriving from all over the place and …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains. The writer mentions the addressee's forgiving nature; his own good intentions; a power of attorney (wikāla/wakāla). …
Letter (or petition or report) in Arabic script. Mainly the formulaic beginning is preserved with the sender's prayers for the addressee's longevity.
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 24 Sivan 1416 Seleucid (= 1105 CE). Statement in which Shelomo b. Avraham al-ʿAssāl …
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic. In the same scribal hand as: JRL B 2211 (PGPID 28417).
Partnership (sharika) agreement. In Arabic script. Dated: 24 Shawwāl 450 AH, which is 14 December 1058 CE. The three partners are Wuḥaysh b. Saʿīd b. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
On its (the document's) date, that is the twenty-fourth of Shawwāl of the year …
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beginning of a proclamation of the Exilarch Daniel, mentioning the so-called Gaon Samuel b. Eli; written, according to Scheiber, by Joseph Rosh Ha-Seder (data from …