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Left fragment: small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138), under the authority of the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ …
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Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–1138).
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1690 Seleucid = October/November 1378 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid ʿAmram. Concerning the sale of the part …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Mentions Abū l-Fakhr and Sittunā(?).
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Organized by parshiyot. Mentions Barakāt al-Qazzāz b. Sulaymān; Sukkot …
A fragment of a dowry list. Location: al-Maḥalla. Bride: Milāḥ (מלאח). On verso a colophon: a collection of Biblical verses for 9th Av, by Zakkāy …
Recto: Bill of release. Dated: 10 Nisan 1360 Seleucid = 16 March 1049 CE. Location: Fusṭāṭ. In which Avraham b. Ṣedaqa b. Eliyya b. Yehoshuaʿ …
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Petition in Arabic script from a physician employed in the hospital in Cairo who had a government stipend of 5 dinars per month. This stipend …
وانه من جملة الطب المستخدمين بالبيمارستان بالقاهرة المحروسة بحارة . . . . . [ليس له الا]
قوت يسير لا يقوم باوده وانه كان حصل له من المجلس ا…
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Recto: legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), dealing with business matters. Contains some interesting phrases, maybe regarding a …
Invitation to the dinner in celebration of "Purim" at the community center on Faruq Street – 24 March 1940CE – Bassatine Cemetery – (number 193) …
Document in Arabic script. Fragmentary (lower left corner). The hand is quite cursive; needs further examination. On verso there is Hebrew literary text.
Tax receipt. Mentions the mustakhdim al-jawālī in Damietta. Dated: 601 AH. Amount: 1.25 dinars. ʿAlāma: الحمد لله وبه استعين. Endorsed across the text rather than …
Letter in Arabic script, with one phrase in Hebrew script. From the medieval India trade. Dating: likely second half of the 12th century (mentions Ibn …
Epistle of Yehuda ha-Levi to Rav David Narboni. (Information from Joseph Yahalom via FGP.)
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Fiscal document in Arabic script. The upper text block refers to a transfer from "the account of the (governmental) urban properties to the account of …
Fol. 19: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. This is the sole fragment under this shelfmark that does not include an Abū Zikrī Kohen …
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Letter to ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Sabbāk (the smelter). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Containing mainly greetings to numerous people. Dating: ca. 14th–16th century.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Closing greetings only.
Responsum? Explaining that everyone who "does not enter (יטכול(!)) the synagogue" is called an "evil neighbor" (Jeremiah 12:14). On verso Talmudic citations about drunkenness. Written …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
The physician Menahem writes to his colleague, the Nagid Avraham Maimonides, about happenings when he traveled to the village Ṭanān (in the Qalyubiyya district near …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. "I had a few durayhims, hardly worth mentioning, and I tried to purchase yarn with them, but I could not. For …
Medical text in Arabic script. "The Regimen for Healthy People" (Kitāb Tadbīr al-Aṣiḥḥā').
Responsum or responsa. Naming specific people instead of the usual "Reʾuven" and "Shimʿon" or "fulān." At least on verso, the case has to do with …
Legal document, probably from a ketubba, mentioning sums of money and a chest. (Information from CUDL)
Torn court record written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), also signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shmuel the Spaniard (active until ca. 1132 CE). …
Possibly part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan ha-Sefaradi gives to his son, Shemuel, power of attorney to sue Aharon b. Yosef (aka Hārūn b. Yūsuf), known as …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic: מנהם שי אם לא . . . מוצלה . . . הם מן כל . . . אלמ …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script involving Jewish silk traders (al-qazzāzīn al-isrāʾīliyyīn). Two signatures are preserved. Underneath, the tops of the letters are …
One side: Possibly a panegyric poem addressed to someone named Ibn Yaghmūr: يا ابن يغمور في الولايا . . . / وتعاطيت فوق قدرك . …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 25 Ramaḍān 405. Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd …
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Hebrew poetic or liturgical text, probably.
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab, perhaps begging for charity. Mentions necessity/want (al-ḍurūra) several times and concludes with, "I have no …
Legal document concerning an inheritance(?) dispute. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The case is complicated. Hillel conducts a family partnership …
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Official correspondence (petition or report). Refers to Dīwān al-Shām (of Syria, cf. T-S AS 111.37). The beginnings of two lines are preserved: "al-mutaqaddim min jihat …
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A long letter from Yosef b. Moshe
Calendar in grid layout. Decorated with red crescents. In Hebrew. Late.
Dowry list written on vellum
Family letter, mentioning the addressee’s brothers and mother. (Information from CUDL)
Fol. 2r: Deed regarding alimony provided by a husband for his wife in Tyre, while he travels to Egypt. The husband will provide wheat, oil, …
Unidentified Judaeo-Arabic text mentioning epithets of God, the (straight) path, Muslims, and amīr al-muʾminīn. Seems to rhyme. (Information in part from FGP.) There is also …
Epistle of R. Sherira Gaon
Letter from Avraham son of the Gaʾon, in Ṣahrajt, to Sahlān b. Avraham, in Fustat. Dating: probably ca. 1030. He reports that he has arrived …
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Medical text in Arabic script written on the back of a page of Hebrew piyyuṭ. One of the entries is about choking (ikhtināq).
Letter from Shelomo Ashkenazi. In Ladino. Probably 16th or 17th century. There is further description in the Columbia catalog: https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/11562509.
Accounts, mostly private. Mentions names of a few individuals. Needs examination.