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Letter addressed to a certain Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Mentions the shop of the bāshā and פלוס דיואן אלקטר. Needs …
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Valencia (ברנסיה). Dated: 48[..] AM, which is 1039–1140 CE. Groom: Avraham b. Yosef. Bride: פטבוניה bt. Yiṣḥaq. (Information from Goitein's index …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment from a legal deed regarding a payment to a woman, probably written by Hillel b. ʿEli (active 1066–1108). Involves Abū l-Saʿd b. Abū …
Recto (original use): Two fragments of a Qaraite betrothal deed. Dated Elul (year not preserved) in Egypt. Bride: Naʿama bt. Nissi b. Yaʿaqov. Groom: Barakāt …
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Rhymed work on historical themes from the Bible, with requests and prayers. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter of ʿEli ha-Mumḥe (‘the Adept’) b. Abraham in Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya in Fusṭāṭ, with the continuation and, inverted, the address on verso. …
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Letter from Yosef b. David b. Yeshaʿyahu mentioning a suftaja that he had received from Nahray b. Nissim, which he reports as follows: "I received …
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Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: March 1062 CE. Among other matters, Yisrael reports that he is in bad …
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Medical prescription in difficult Arabic script. Information from Goitein's note card.
Fragment of a document in Arabic.
Letter in Judaeo-Persian. Needs examination.
On verso there is a neat table of all the Greek/Coptic numerals in ascending order from 1 to 900,000 (the symbols start repeating after a …
Fragment from the lower left corner of a legal document, signed by Yefet b. Netanʾel ha-Mumḥe. Dated: 1413 Seleucid = 1101/02 CE.
A few words in Hebrew script. On papyrus.
Accounts, mentioning names such as Jābir b. ʿAbdallah. Mentions quantities of grain in irdabs; and vetch. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter with wide line-spacing, possibly official. Mentions prior correspondence; "al-Manṣūr"; and not much else.
Rescript of the judges of the court appointed by the Nagid Mevorakh to the community of al-Mahalla, advising the community in strongest terms to take …
Legal record (#15) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, preserving the first couple words of each line and the right margin.
F. 1v: the first page of a text with magic names for each month (of the Muslim year), supposedly revealed to the sons of Israel …
Damaged fragment with poetical Hebrew verses. Can be from a literary piece of an opening of a letter. 13th century hand. AA
Subsequent use: Unidentified document in Arabic script. The handwriting looks Ayyubid or early Mamluk. Needs examination.
Unidentified document in Arabic script, perhaps a brief piece of correspondence. Dated 1243 AH (1827/1828 CE). The signature of ʿAlī ___[?] Agha Kapūdān Būlāq is …
Fragment of a ketubba from Fustat probably from the year [13]93 = 1081/82 CE.
Small fragment of a legal document. It seems signed by Avraham b. Sahlān. Dating: No later than 1032 CE. Involves someone giving something to his …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Elul 5579 AM, which is 1819 CE. The widow of Avraham Yedid invests 9000 medins with Yeḥezqel …
Complete letter by Mubarak b. Yiṣḥaq b. Sabri to Abu al-Faraj Nissim complaining about a business issue and urging a prompt response to his letter.
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Draft of the beginning of a petition-like letter to a woman. Greek/Coptic numerals on verso.
Letter/petition of appeal for assistance written in a combination of Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, and Arabic. (The Arabic is notable for the use of an ihmāl sign …
Panegyric composed by Arah b. Natan (Musafir b. Wahb) for someone in a high governmental position. (Information from Frenkel).
Draft of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely from an elder brother to a younger brother. The sender is very worried about his mother's illness …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dated in the upper left corner of the recto: Shaʿbān 962 AH (1555 CE). The elegant scribal hand is distinct …
Postcard in Hebrew from Moshe Ḥayy Benaim in Jerusalem to "Monsíeur Le Rabbín" Yosef Ghebra in Cairo. Dated 23 Elul 5670 AM (עת׳׳ר) or 27 …
Calendrical calculations and jottings in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Letter, probably in the hand of Abraham Maimonides. (Information from CUDL)
Large bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, difficult early modern scribal hand. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The main heading on the recto …
Literary? Rhyming Hebrew text.
List of distributions for charity, some of the entries similar to the T-S K15 lists, dated ca. 1107 (see Goitein, Mediterranean Society, II, Appendix B …
Probably a legal document. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlā Ibn al-Sh[...]. (Information from CUDL)
Draft of a release from legal obligations in a business relationship, mentioning one Abū Naṣr, possibly an India trader, as the epithet is very common …
Mercantile letter sent from Alexandria to ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Arabic script. The lines of Judaeo-Arabic on verso may be jotted accounts in the hand …
Fiscal account?
Bible. On verso one line with the name Ishaq b. Musa
Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Mahdiyya, to Ya’aqov b. Nahum, Fustat. Around 1045. Regarding a very large amount of goods and deals. …
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Legal document. Small fragment. Containing the first words of 15 lines. Likely a deed of sale, as it is describing the location and boundaries of …
Legal document, extremely faded, perhaps regarding the sale of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. Possibly 10th century. Information from FGP.
Prayer for Queen Victoria, Albert, and Edward Prince of Wales. Calligraphic, multicolored, in the shape of an orb, and written in both Hebrew and English. …