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Minute fragment of a legal deed, only few words, mostly cut into half.
No Scholarship Records
Small fragment of an Arabic document. Portions of three lines are preserved. Legible words: اخبارها . . . على انفاذ . . .
Legal document concerning financial matters, signed by Yosef Benyamin, and mentioning Yehuda Bunan and Yosef’s son Nissim. Dated 1 Shevat 5579 AM (= 1819 CE). …
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Fragment of a state document. At the top: "ilā l-dīwān li-thaghr(?)..." Underneath: "عمل . . . اضافته الى ذلك والمستخرج... الباقي(؟) على كماله وتمامه...." Reused …
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 …
Letter from Alexandria to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat, requesting donation for the ransom of prisoners of the Byzantines, 11th century. On verso are Hebrew rhymed …
Recto: Upper right piece of a letter to a 'brother' in Arabic script. Conveys various pieces of news, including about the sale of a shop. …
Letter from Nissim Messina(?) to Karo y Frances & Company, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 27 Ḥeshvan of an unnamed year in the late 18th …
Halakhic commentary. On recto commercial (or astronomical) note in Arabic.
Halakhic treatise or responsa discussing marriage, with formularies for legal documents on verso.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with many abbreviations. Recto is headed "purchases on Sunday." Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. The unit of weight ʿidl (bale) is …
Recto: Memorandum in Arabic script, with a learned disquisition on the meaning of the term "ṭabīʿa" in the works of Hippocrates. Names several specific medical …
Beginning of a letter in Arabic script. Only the opening blessings are preserved.
Letter, possibly. In Spanish. (Information from CUDL.) Needs examination.
Upper fragment: Replacement ketubba (כתובה אירכסא), meant to replace one that was torn or lost. Mentions Avraham ha-Rav he-Ḥasid b. Yehuda (presumably the groom) and …
Bifolio of piyyuṭ in Hebrew. At the lower right of recto there are some names in Hebrew: Saʿadya b. Yefet b. Yosef and Ḥalfon b. …
Printed treatise in Ladino and Hebrew. Translation of Psalms 19–20.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Copy of Muḥammad's letter to Ḥunayy Ibn al-Akhṭab and the Jews of Khaybar and Maqnā. This is a variant of T-S 16.353 (PGPID 7491), identified …
Letter written in Fustat on 6 Ṭevet (no year) from a son to his mother (l. 17, yā wālidatī). Very emotional. Mentions Alexandria and flax, …
Verso: Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Exhorts the addressee not to be forgetful and mentions an amīr and a loan. Reused on recto …
Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Quite faded. Mentions sal ammoniac and pepper and sugar and meat and a fūṭa. Also …
Letter fragment from ʿOvadya to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faraj; asks the addressee to help al-Shaykh al-Rashīd in some legal dispute on …
Talmudic text.
Acknowledgement of a debt between Yehuda b. Avraham ha-Levi and Yosef b. Natan. Probably erroneously dated 1501 of the Seleucid Era (= 1190 CE) by …
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Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as the wife of Ibn al-Malīḥ(?) (in connection to a gold needle); Abū Isḥāq; …
Legal fragment. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: [14]26 Seleucid = 1114/15 CE. Involves Zakkay b. Shelomo, Aharon al-Kohen, Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and the settling of accounts. Signed …
Bifolio from a magical booklet. Many spells/recipes are given here, including against fever and leprosy and for coitus.
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Minute fragment, probably from legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi
Ketubba fragment. In the hand of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (c.1181–1209).
Minute fragment from a list of debts. Late
Lease of land belonging to the Qodesh, ca. 1180. Written on the surviving upper part of a leaf, this is a draft of a deed …
In thy Name, oh Merciful!
We, the undersigned honest and able elders, declare: We had once decided
and agreed to lease the parcel in …
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Fragmentary list of contributions, it seems in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, details of about twenty-five preserved: five giving 1, eight giving 1/2, two …
Two names: (Sitt al-)Jamīʿ bt. Abū l-Khayr and Hiba b. Hilāl Ibn al-Raṣṣāṣ. (Information from CUDL.)
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
Literary text in Arabic script.
Arabic script (VMR)
Verso: Court record in Judaeo-Arabic, presumably of the dissolution of the marriage, in which an agreement is reached concerning the contents of the ketubba. Location: …
Possibly mathematical calculations or accounting. Bifolio with neatly arranged Greek/Coptic numerals. There is a grid on the right page of verso.
Note in Judaeo-Arabic. Calligraphic. The sender excuses himself for cutting himself off from the addressee by offering a cryptic excuse (כאן אלשיך חנבאץ? ענדה פי …
Inventory of a wine cellar, listing the sales of a retailer who at the opening of the store had 650 tamawiyas (containers for wine) in …
Fragment of a legal document, 6 lines, not very legible script. Indication of a default in loan repayment on the first due date (ākhiruhā yatluhu …
Faded memorial list for various families, among them Zedaqa ha-Turgeman. AA
Family letter in Arabic script. The writer mentions visiting Ḥamā (kunt batnazzal ilā Ḥamā); reports that he/she now has three daughters; sends regards to a …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic, likely 11th century.
Maimonides, Mišne Tora, closing paragraph of Sefer Zemanim (recto) and beginning of Sefer Našim (verso). A colophon in Judaeo-Arabic at the end of Sefer Zemanim …
Four lines of an official letter in Arabic script. Mentions the amīr Shihāb al-Dīn (last line). Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic halakhic discussion.
Letter 2, of which only one folio is preserved, is a pro-Babylonian response to a Palestinian polemic on the calendar of 921/2 and on the …