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Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic.
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Receipt for 24 dirhams.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Ibn al-Ḥaṭṭāb and Abū l-Munā b. Ḥasan.
Calendar manual with distinctive Palestinian calendar traditions, such as the rule of 641–642. Defers to Babylonian calendar rules, in a way that is inconsistent and …
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State document. Specific genre/purpose unclear. Has the glyph at the top. Then "... fī al-Dīwān al-Khāṣṣ lil-Fakhriyya...." The an ʿalāma and perhaps a confirmation of …
P23: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a house, Avraham, and his mother.
..................................................] זקן ביר ......
] ממא יוסקט אלי אלדאר אלמדכורה ולא אדעא פיהא
]לאדה בעדה ומ…
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Portion of an Arabic letter from Alexandria to Fusṭāṭ, probably to a family member. Most of what remains consists of greetings to people in the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning primarily the trade in pepper (filfil). Hand of Nahray? Each page is crossed out with a vertical line. It seems the …
Recto: Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday, 16 Sivan 1769 Seleucid, which is 1458 CE. Under the reshut of the Nagid Yehosef. Location: Cairo. ʿAbd …
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Legal record (#45) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 44-46) Folio 11v
Account of building operations ca. 1200. List of expenditures, recording the daily amount of construction work lasting two weeks, of which the details for six …
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Family letter, from son to father. In Arabic script. Probably 11th/12th C based on paleographic grounds. Damaged/faded. Needs examination for content.
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Hajji Ali Bek.
Page from a communal register of contributions. Dated Vayelech Parsha (=29 Elul) 5559 AM which is September 1799.
Literary. Astronomical or calendrical work in an unusual mixture of Arabic (in Arabic script) and Hebrew.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions various names and goods. Perhaps of a broker—he seems to be selling items on people's behalf. Mentions: Abū l-Faḍl b. Bū …
Interesting Judaeo-Arabic letter with phonetic spellings and rudimentary hanwriting. Abū l-ʿAlā' writes to Maḥāsin al-Ḍāmin (the tax farmer) in אביר (=Abyār?) to inform him that …
Bill of sale in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av [14]9[.] Seleucid = 1179–88 CE. This can likely be narrowed to …
Minute fragment.
Verso: Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic written in an 11th-century Maghribī hand. It may be a letter, but there is no discussion of business affairs. Rather, …
Literary, Hebrew.
Small fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). Likely in the hand of Yefet b. David. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. The delayed marriage payment is 20 …
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Writing exercises in Arabic by a student that was in the earliest stages of literacy acquisition. The instructor provided common names in model handwriting for …
Arabic translation of the Gospel of John, written in beautiful Kūfī script. Dating: Ca. 9th century, based on handwriting. Includes John 19:25–27 and 35–37 (these …
Copy of a legal query and responsum of Elḥanan b. Ḥushiel (of Qayrawān). Published by Jacob Mann, "The Responsa of the Babylonian Geonim as a …
Letter from Pinḥas al-Ṣāʾigh to R. Shūʿa. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late. The sender opens with a complaint about his arthritis and a request for medicine. Mentions …
Document in Arabic script. Narrow vertical strip.
Magical fragment
Small fragment containing part two words in Arabic script and a secondary text in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter in Arabic script. Beginning only. Might be a draft. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Literary text, poetry, in Arabic script. Mentions forbearance during harsh times and seekers of knowledge. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Listing amounts owed by various people (e.g., Yaʿqūb, Waliyy al-Dawla).
Notes for the drawing up of legal documents. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto is for a deed involving something "being handed …
Accounts in Arabic.
Accounts for trade between the ports of Beirut and Dimyāṭ in the name of the ship captain Muṣtafa al-Jamīl. Dated 27 [Ramada]n 1234 AH which …
Accounts (list of items) in a mixture of Hebrew, Ladino, and Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th century. Small but rich with tantalizing details. The handwriting is reminiscent of some of the India Book letters. …
Note in Hebrew script. Late. Contents unclear.
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the formulaic beginning is preserved. Written on a reused page that already had a few words in Arabic script written …
Unidentified text (letter?) in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. There is an unusual case of a hybrid Arabic-Hebrew term: בחצרתהנו ("bi-ḥaḍratenu") — an Arabic word with a …
Responsum. Long and narrow strip of paper, containing a responsum regarding the property of orphans. It seems that the ruling is not to deliver the …
Leaf of prognostications based on the timing of earthquakes.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Addressed to "my father," possibly Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya.
Damaged Karaite ketubah. 15th century Cairo
Left side of a letter in Ladino.