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Recto: Legal query in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE) concerning a carpenter who let his Muslim employees work making doors on …
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Letter from Farah b. Isma’il from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1056. Regarding shipments of money, and a deal with one of the Emirs, …
תקדמת כתבי למולאנא אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם תאיידה ונעמתה וכבת אעדאה עדה במא ארגו וצולהא אליה ווקופה עליהא
אעלמתה מא אנפדתה צחבה אלקסטלאני וסאל…
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
No Scholarship Records
Table of contents for a responsa collection
Receipt.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 11 Iyyar 1437 Seleucid (1126 CE). Change of a will signed by Ḥalfon b. …
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Letter in Hebrew from the communal head of Ṣahrajt, a small Delta town, reporting on the local communityʼs handling of a particularly problematic case of …
Legal record (#36). Liquidation of a trust. Revised copy of Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.15, recto. See PGPID 9395 for summary. Witnesses: Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq. Efrayim b. …
A leaf giving methods for predicting the future/answers to various questions (how you will escape from an enemy. . . whether the rumor is true …
Letter (or rather prayer) of complaint in Hebrew. At least one side is rhymed. Might be a formulary. Might be related to T-S 12.330 (per …
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Responsa by ROSH.
Legal record (#11) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 1v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew with some terms in …
:(Documents 11-12) Left side of bifolio 1r
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Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, probably to Barhūn b. Isḥāq, in al-Mahdiyya. The writer mentions details concerning goods from the Maghreb and …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי [אטאל] אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך [
וכאן לך וליא וחאפטא [ו] צר[ף אלא]סוא [ענך] ברחמתה מן ס[כנדרי]א נצף תמוז [ען חא…
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List of communal accounts dated in variety of places throughout the text, for example the first intact date on the recto is 12 Sivan 5352 …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions "the son and the wife mentioned in the will"; ʿImād b. Muḥammad recognizing the validity of …
Fragment of a report on measures taken to save pious foundations from the rapacity of the finance minister, known as 'the Monk'' (active 1127-1129). (Information …
that is the year when they dispossessed people he found it proper,
most probably after having consulted our Master ha-Me‘ullē,
of bless…
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Official receipt of some sort. Needs examination.
State document or letter in huge Arabic script. A portion of one line is preserved: ʿalayka wa-hādha maʿdūd(?)... Reused for piyyuṭ.
Letter in Ladino or possibly an epistolary writing exercise. Purple ink. Dating is 18th-19th century based on the paleography. Two specific phrases point to the …
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Bū l-Ḥasan b. [...] the Jewish silk trader for the year 525 AH.
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 …
Legal record (#76) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 26v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 5 Tammuz 5325 …
Letter in Ladino from the merchant Avraham Mayo to his father, probably from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo, dealing with numerous business transactions and the arrival of …
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Monograph; formulary of legal documents, including the heading י״א שטר שכירות(?) דבאתי. (Deed of slae of a house) (info from FGP)
Probably a copy of a letter to leaders of a community, from Avraham Maimuni or one of his contemporaries. The scribe is known from two …
Legal record (#31). Liquidation of a trust. There appears to be at least one page of the notebook missing at this point, as there are …
List of the names of the masters of wind, rain, and fire who have dominion in the four seasons of the year, presumably useful for …
A letter in Hebrew by Salmon b. Avraham the Ḥaver (? information from Mosseri catalog via FGP). He sends regards to many people including Yosef. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document. On top: legal document in which an uncle gives his possessions in equal shares to his dead brother's sons and daughters and appoints …
Copy (?) of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Late accounts, mentioning Aḥmad, Yaḥyā, Nūraddin, Abū Nāṣir and Muḥammad. The botanical term שמשאר from Persian is mentioned on the recto, possibly materia medica (Steingass: …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Monday 2 Adar 5497 AM, which is 1737 CE. ʿEzra b. Eliyyahu Rofe Fayrūz acknowledges a debt of 31 golden …
Accounts. Grocery list?
Legal testimony, fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Small fragment in Arabic script, possibly literary. Mentions a place in the first line followed by "حماها الله تعالى". Stamped with a particularly ornate seal …
Short note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, ordering a medicinal syrup (sharāb) from al-Shaykh al-Nafīs.
Receipt in Arabic and Hebrew script for a purse full of coins from Nahray b. Nissim to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy in Alexandria.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 4977 AM, which is 1217 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. It is a bill of sale for …
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic.
Fragment of a settlement with a widow. Dated: Nisan 1456 Seleucid, which is 1145 CE, under the authority of Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …
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Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: May 14, 1238. Written in the hand of Solomon b. Elijah (identified by Goitein), teacher and court scribe. Concerning a …
One of the pages contains the remnants of an unidentified document in Arabic script. The other two pages contain Hebrew and Aramaic literary text, likely …
Top of a legal deed probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Moderately wide line spacing. Dated: 1425 Seleucid = 1113/14 CE.
Ketubba. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver ("at his best"), active ca. 1128–1164 CE. Groom: Elʿazar (l. 5). Bride: Dalāl bt. Maḥbūb (l. …
Divorce document in Arabic script. Wife: ʿAzīza the freedwoman (mawlāt) of ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAllān. Husband: Ismāʿīl b. [...] al-Iskandarānī. Dated: 20 Jumādā I …
Begging letter from a certain Yosef to Yeshuʿa ha-Sar, asking him to help him buy clothes. Complains of the cold. On verso there are accounts …
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Two fragments of a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic, written in a rudimentary hand. Dating: late, ca. 15th–17th century. On verso there are remnants of an address, …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic work on the seasons and weather and prognostications.