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Probably a court register with multiple distinct legal entries. Many of them have to do with partnerships. There is also a section with a letter …
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: "...the brothers... in a great rage on account of... because the judge (shofeṭ)... all of the capitation taxes... …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Table of contents of a responsa collection
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ II 717 AH = 4 July 1317 CE. Buyer: Isḥāq b. Manṣūr b. Abū Sahl the …
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Letter mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan b. Shaṭṭ[ār?]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Formal letter of resignation from the judge Nissim al-ʿAnqarī. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Friday, 16 Iyyar 5301 AM, which is 1541 CE. He says …
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Esther 2.
Tax receipt for the capitation tax of Zayn(?) b. Abū l-Faraj(?) the Jew. On verso there is a blessing for a groom in Hebrew. Needs …
Lists in Judeo-Arabic of monetary contributions for children that were recorded in 5576 which is 1815/16CE. The contents of this shelfmark may be related to …
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. Fragment (piece from the left side of recto). Mentions a deposit (wadīʿa); goods for a …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written on parchment. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 1140–59 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Groom: Abū Karam b. [...] …
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Business account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Neatly arranged in columns on two pages of a bifolio. Mentions goods such as saffron, galangal, pepper, …
Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic script (al-jumla...).
Small fragment of a commercial letter or account in Arabic, referring to a debt and mentioning the name Abū Manṣūr. In the margins and on …
Letter from Damascus, from a Maghribi who intends to go to Jerusalem, to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Hajay, approximately 1035.
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Recto with the address on verso: Letter from an unknown sender, in Ṣahrajt, probably sent to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: First half of the 11th …
Minute fragment from a list of items, probably dowry list, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138).
Lower part of recto and verso: Autograph responsum by Moshe Maimonides, ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the dates when he was active in Egypt.
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Mordechai b. Refael. The bride is Esther . AA
Lists in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew of donations collected before various Shabbatot. Each list is designated by individual contributors and specific weeks of the liturgical calender …
Magical text.
IB III, 53. Fragment of a letter from Peraḥyā Yijū to Abu ʾl-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Written in al-Maḥalla, ca. 1161-72. "Peraḥyā extends to him wishes …
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Verso: Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals, mostly crossed out. Some accounts are also visible on the recto where the paper has been reused for …
Legal document signed by Sahlān b. Avraham. There are numerous citations in Bareket's publications. Awaiting fuller description.
The first page from a letter in three languages requesting aid and assistance coming from the compensation of "Raḥov ha-Nahār" in Jerusalem – the second …
Recto: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting. Reporting that something was eaten by the worms. In …
Several unrelated small fragments stuck together; all look literary.
Document in Arabic script, an official receipt for expenses in the name of the ship captain Raʾīs Muḥammad Barakāt. Dated 28 Rajab 1237 AH which …
List of accounts with a variety of names and quantities expressed in raṭl units. Medieval-era. One of the names on the recto is Girga. Requires …
Unusual list in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic nuemrals, with dates, names and commodities, mentioning Ibn ʿAyn al-Zamān, Abū l-ʿIzz and ʿAlī b. Nuṣayr. Also mentions the …
Decree, fragment, reused for Hebrew piyyut/poetry. The preserved text reads 'and on his brother' - wa ʿalā akhīhi.
Minute fragment from an end of a legal deed with the signature of Yefet b. Ya'aqov and Shemuel b. Yehuda. AA
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. The writer may mention being imprisoned (ḥabsī fī hādhihi l-muda), but this is uncertain without all the surrounding context.
Recto: legal document, mentioning the teacher Berakhot b. Ḥalfon and Elʿazar; signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥalfon, a Kohen and [...] b. Yosef. Verso: note possibly …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Crumpled and faded. Mentions a power of attorney (wikāla/wakāla), someone who signed something (saṭara ʿalā), "min al-ṭaraf," the number 24, …
Accounts. Headed "li-l-shaykh Dāʾūd."
A fragment from a ketubah containing part of the dowry list
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts on recto, with many figures expressed in Hebrew and Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. The entries are organized by individual people: "from Yosef," "from al-Ḥajj ..[?]", …
Letter addressed to Sason b. Ḥayyim Ibn Sabra. In Judaeo-Arabic. With a rudimentary hand and spellings. Mentions Ibn Ṭayyib al-Zabībī, going to Tyre, selling wheat, …
Certificate of manumission of a slave, dated 591H. (?) [1194-5]. [Described on a separate small piece of paper as: "letter from a noble man asking …
Legal deed. Iqrār mentioning Aḥmad b. ʻAbdallāh, dated 500 H. (?) [1106]. Verso is blank. Needs examination.
Letter in Arabic script mentioning al-Shaykh al-Sadīd. On verso, maybe poetry in Arabic script.
Syriac alphabet exercises and Psalms 1:6–2:3. Information from Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in Early Modern Egypt."
Letter from Salman b. Harun, maybe from Mazar, to Aaish b. Sedaka, Alexandria. Around 1045. The writer asks Aaish to take care of two shipments …
Verso: Note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-ʿAlā'. In Judaeo-Arabic. He asks Abū l-ʿAla' him to come together with Abū l-Barakāt in order to …
Upper fragment: Letter fragment addressed to Ṣadaqa ha-Ḥakham. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer conveys his sympathy for the addressee's illness. He mentions that R. Sasson has …
Original use: Verses from Leviticus. Secondary use: The margins are entirely filled with Arabic-script text from documents, mostly or entirely petitions or official-sounding letters. The …