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Dowry list of a wealthy bride. The sums given at the bottom are: muqaddam 20, muʾakhkhar 30 and everything 676 (reading uncertain), meaning that the …
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Response to a letter of complaint concerning taxation of the Jews of Tiberias. The letter refers to a sijill mukarram (noble decree) of the caliph …
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(Part of an) Ismāʿīlī text on creed. The preserved text establishes the genealogy of Ismaʿīlī Imāms from Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq to al-Mustanṣir with their full names …
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Letter from Efrayim b. Maymun, probably from Qayrawan, to Ishaq b. Eli al-Majjānī, probably from Al -Mahdiyya. Dating (Gil): 1039. The writer asks the addressee …
כתאבי יאשיכי וגלילי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל <אללה> בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ען חאל
סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק אליך שדיד קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך עלי א[פצ]ל אל…
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Small fragment of an Arabic document. Late accounts?
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Letter from al-Sharīf Ḥasan to the qāḍī Ṣanīʿat al-Mulk. In Arabic script, with diacritics and vowels, calligraphic. Dating: Perhaps 13th to 15th century, on paleographic …
Table of contents of a volume of responsa.
Tax receipt, Fatimid, issued in Fusṭāṭ in the name of Saʿīd al-Afṣarī. Hint of a date at the bottom (23?).
Letter from ʿAbd al-Raʾīs b. Makīn to a certain Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with small business matters. Dating: maybe 14th–17th century. A woman expresses her …
Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1100 CE (Goitein's and Frenkel's estimate). No address. Sent to a "brother." Probably sent from Fustat to Alexandria (though …
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Recto: Fragment of a petition (?), 3 fragmentary lines, containing part of an inhāʾ section (al-mamlūk yunhī anna) in which reference is made to the …
Siddur, on verso a colophon with the names Bu al-Faraj b. Ibrahim, in two different hands, and some pen trials. AA
Letter from Aharon ha-Levi, Yosef ha-Borsaqī ("the tanner") to Abu'l-Ma'ali, ca. 1120. A certificate regarding the Estate of the Jerusalemites. The bearer of the letter …
I inform our Master al-Shaykh
Abūʾl-Maʿālī, may God preserve him, that this
our Master Aaron ha-Levi ha-Zāqēn the son of our Master Jos…
State document, petition in a chancery hand and large Arabic script. Words that are readily legible include al-Qāhira, al-Ḥāfiẓiyya, al-majlis al-sāmī al-mālikī al-sayyidī al-ajallī al-Afḍalī, …
Legal document, quite faded. In which [...] Abū l-Faḍl b. [...] Daniʾel(?) "ha-sofer ha-mahir" acknowledges a debt of 287 dirhams to Abū Saʿīd b. Ṣedaqa …
Fragment only shows mirrored script. Probably from a legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 15 Sivan 1368 Seleucid, which is 1057 CE. Groom: …
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Legal document. Long and narrow strip from a bill of gift, 11th century, probably from Acre or Tyre, since נחלת אשר is mentioned and [הים] …
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Legal record (#26b). Loan contract, addendum. Bū l-Barakāt, the creditor, makes Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf vow that he will make his repayments in front of two …
Unidentified document type, in Arabic script. Mentions a date 24 Ramaḍān, the year is cut-off. Could be literary.
Letter from Zikri b. Hananel, from Alexandria, to ʿArūs b. Yosef, Fustat. Around 1080. The writer is about to travel to Mahdiya and Spain. He …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions someone reaching maturity and taking possession of something from his mother, and quotes the verse 'لا …
Accounts in Hebrew, mentioning silk and olives among other goods.
Late letter in Hebrew.
Business accounts of a wealthy merchant, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Ibn Naḥum, the large sum of 662 dinars, Ibn al-Iskandarānī, and something Tripolitan (Iṭrābulsiyya). Also …
Legal record (#32). Bill of sale, outline. Stating that a bill of sale (ʿuhda) shall be written for the sale of the slave wailing woman …
Verso: Formularies of Judaeo-Arabic letters, including several letters of condolence (one possibly for the death of a female slave) and a letter of friendship (ikhwāniyya), …
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Pen trials mentioning the names Barakāt b. Mūsā and Abū l-Ḥasan. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment of a list in Judaeo-Arabic, with a variety of figures in gold dinar and various fractional values. Medieval era.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From a certain Farajallāh. Dating: ca. 15th–17th century, based on handwriting and reference to the currency "bunduqīs"/Venetian (ducats). Needs examination.
Folios from a medical text, in Arabic script, in a beautiful book hand. Beginning of sections are written in red ink and one reads as …
Small and torn fragment from a bill of gift from husband named Abū l-Majd to his wife, probably [...] bt. Saʿadya. AA
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from [...] b. Aharon, in Ramla, to Abū Saʿīd Yaʿqūb, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf and Abū Sahl Saʿīd, sons of Yisrael (Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf and …
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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 …
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. On verso there are accounts of some sort (mentioning Manṣūr b. [...]), unclear if this …
Letter from the Jewish community of Palermo to the Jewish communities of Qayrawān and al-Mahdiyya, specifically addressing Elḥanan b. Ḥushiel and the Nagid Yaʿaqov b. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Concerning family and business matters. Mentions: 'my lord the qāḍī'; various instructions about transactions and …
Letter fragment, In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the substance remains, mainly allusions to distress, good wishes for the future, and greetings to a number of family …
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, in Greek language but in medieval Latin Beneventan script. Published by H. Omont in 1921: https://www.persee.fr/doc/bec_0373-6237_1921_num_82_1_460704.
Minute fragment from a beginning of a letter to a notable. Contains a praise for his sons, but no more details preserved. Red border. AA
Part of a ketubba for [...] bt. Yosef ha-Levi and an unnamed groom in Fusṭāṭ (date not preserved). Witnessed by the parnas Yehuda b. ʿA[...] …
Literary text.
Account and agreement between the Qodesh and a partner, ca. 1156. A certain al-Nadiv, otherwise known as the perfume maker, tenant of a compound partly …
The honorable elders declare that they
settled the account of al-Nādīv, the result
of the account being that there is a balance to his …
Legal record (#24) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 9v-10r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 5 Tevet [5321] …
Legal query regarding an inheritance, draft. The brother of the deceased had apparently not paid anything to the widow. The bulk of the query is …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably from Maḍmun b. Ḥasan in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju. May be a second copy of ENA …