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Deed (draft?) regarding a family legal dispute involving real estate under lien and trustworthiness. The wife of Ishaq is mentioned.
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Bottom part of a Legal document, on vellum, only the signature of Avraham ha-Levi b. Ḥāriṯ Zeqan ha-Qehillot is preserved. This Avraham is known from …
Letter sent to Avraham b. Salhun in Fustat from Masliah b. Moshe b. Salhun, with instructions to be delivered to him at the Market of …
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Small fragment of a legal document, probably. None of the content is preserved.
Fragment of a Hebrew letter, mentioning copying a Torah scroll and selling it or other books.
Accounts.
Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 24 Kislev 5568 AM, which is 25 December 1807 CE.
Calendrical text in Arabic script, giving various dates according to the Hebrew and Islamic calendars. Mentioning Tishrei = Muḥarram of 532 AH = 1137 CE.
Learned letter in Hebrew with various inquiries addressed to ‘our lord’, including a question about the birkat ḥatanim and about the customs of the meturgemanim …
Fragment (lower left corner) of a legal document from Fusṭāṭ. Dating: mid-12th century. Signed by Moshe b. Netanʾel ha-Shishi ha-Levi and [Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammd b. Ḥayyim] …
Receipt, it seems for three months of rent. In Arabic script. Crossed out. On recto there is piyyuṭ in a rudimentary hand. Needs further examination.
Circumcision certificate, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dating: Of the original date, only Wednesday the first of [...], [..]70 Seleucid is preserved. The certificate is for Abū …
List of families and names, including Yefet the judge, Elʿazar the judge and Joseph the judge. (Information from CUDL)
Small piece from the beginning of what must have been a large letter or other document. The basmala and part of the first line are …
Legal document, unfinished. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 27 Sivan 1817 Seleucid = 19 June 1506 CE. No other details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Brief letter about payment owed to Ṭoviyya, also giving instructions about making a purchase. In Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: Likely 11th century. On verso there …
Beginning of a letter to an important person, "mordekhai ha-zeman," etc. Not much content remains. The writer mentions a ṣabbāgh and a ḍāmin. Probably late …
Letter from an unknown man to Umm ʿAbd al-Laṭīf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite long, filled with business matters and greetings. Needs further examination.
Legal record (#36) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 13v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 28 Adar 5335 …
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Legal document concerning a deceased person (perhaps related to a dispute over the inheritance) and making reference to an orphan, a widow, and a mother. …
Petition addressed to Saladin (al-Malik al-Nāṣir). From Maḥmūd b. Mamdūd who describes himself as a warrior in the path of God (al-mujāhid fī sabīl Allāh). …
Letter from Peraḥya b. Sahlān (Alexandria), ca. 1055. Only the bottom part of the letter is preserved. Refers to a incident/misfortune (فجيعة) involving the wares …
אלפגיעה [ ] פכונא נכתב אלי [
וולדה נעלמהם בהדה אלנובה וכאן וצל מן טראבלס אלגרב צחֿבה [
אבו אלטרור צאחב שמעה אלחל[י]סי ק[ ] וימ[ ] מאלה וח…
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letterbook, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. There are three entries in purple ink. Late, probably 18th or 19th century.
Arabic, probably literary. Pinholes at the margin sewn in a non-straight line at unequal distances apart; same holes in ENA 3948.7, ENA 3949.5, ENA 3949.6, …
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic.
Lease of an apartment to a parnas as settlement of a debt, AD 1029-1031. The qodesh owes Yaʿaqov b. Mevasser (whom we shall find six …
(1-2) . . . . previously… service to the heqdēsh, will bring many advantages…
(3-4) mentioned, to the said Jacob b. Mevassēr after havin…
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Upper margin of verso and recto (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Bottom of a marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Groom: Yaʿaqov. Bride: Nasāba bt. Hiba, a virgin. There …
Probably a petition in Arabic script. The addressee is a dignitary (referred to with the honorific 'khāliṣat amīr al-muʾminīn'). The petition has something to do …
Fragment from a power of attorney mentioning Avraham b. Asher. Dating: probably 18th or 19th century. Location: Fusṭāṭ/Cairo. No witnesses. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated indirectly by the year mentioned in the verso, 1434 Seleucid (1122/1123 CE). Concerning the …
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Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower left corner). Likely a release of a debt for Abū …
Court record concerning a sum that a husband owes his wife as part of a divorce payment. (Oded Zinger, Women, Gender and Law: Marital Disputes …
Several lines in Arabic script. Poetry? Needs further examination. Piyyut on the other side.
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Only one line is preserved.
Karaite bill of debt. Dated Wednesday 23 Iyyar 5410 AM (1650 CE). Yeshuʿa b. Shelomo Levi acknowledges a debt of 4 guruş kilāb (esedi guruş/Lion …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Reused on verso for a calendrical table.
Letter from Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim to a certain Tamīm. In Hebrew. The addressee had come to Yehiel's home but missed him. The letter deals with …
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyub, to Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi, in Fustat. In Hebrew. After a poem in praise in the Gaon …
Beginning of a letter (possibly official) in Arabic script. Addressed to a Qāḍī (بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يعلم القاضي الاجل الاوحد . . . ). …
Recto and verso are two distinct petitions, in different hands. Unclear if/how they are related. Recto: Petition for charity apparently from someone under arrest (muʿtaqal), …
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Calendrical text. In two different hands; one of them looks like Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
A curious fragment of a late calligraphic legal document (though the date does not survive), appointing Avraham b. [...] Ashkenazi as someone's agent for some …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic. Very difficult to read. The lines on recto may each be repeated twice (writing practice?). Verso is more like a list …
Unidentified, faded document in Arabic script.
Small fragment (lower left corner) of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Little of the content is …
Recto: lower part of a ketubba. Verso: writing exercises of biblical verses in various hands. (Information from CUDL)
Letter by Avraham b. Natan ('ata) concerning the disorder in Tunis and concerning the burial of his father in Jerusalem, 1st quarter of the 11th …