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Record of the auction of the library of the late al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Abū Saʿd al-Ṭabīb. The proceeds are at least in part for the widow. …
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Very faded Arabic document. On verso what looks like a drawing - needs examination.
No Scholarship Records
Recto (secondary use): Order issued by David ha-Nasi to Maḥfūẓ and Sālim the parnasim (al-farānisa). They are to disburse (yuṭliq... mimmā taḥta yadihim) a sum …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be from Natan b. Shemuel to [Abū l-Ḥa]san b. Rabbenu Shemuel. Mentions the capitation tax several times. Mentions al-Maḥalla, but …
List of people of respectable families - The name Mevorakh b. Mordekhai is mentioned, as are the Banu Qarita (Qurayza?) family of kohanim.
Text or letter in Hebrew written on parchment. Addressing somebody in the second person; might be prognostications or ethical instructions, alternatively might be a letter.
Official-looking account in Arabic script. Bifolium from a ledger. Fiscal account from the Fatimid arsenal/navy? Mentions the Red Sea (baḥr al-qulzum) and "the ships" (marākib) …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dating: 5[4]30 AM (1669/1670 CE). Location: Miṣrayim (in context = Cairo). The middle signature is from Moshe Shomer and the left …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Drawings of grids that were filled with individual dots that together comprise geometric shapes. The designs may be a simple doodle or perhaps a weaver …
One line in Hebrew, one line in Italian. Significance unclear.
Bill of release (שטר אביזאריה). Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: 2 Av 1433 Seleucid, which is 1122 CE. Shelomo b. Meshullam ha-Kohen …
IB V, 30b. Account or list written by Abū Zikrī Kohen, mentioning names and amounts of money, probably debts or payments. On verso a list …
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Legal declaration in which the witnesses attest to the victory of Mūsā b. al-Ahuv (alias Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi) over Yiṣḥaq al-Siqillī in retaining the …
No fragment found in folder.
Torn fragment. On recto deathbed declaration of a man tilted 'Rosh ha-Qehilot'. On verso written in a different hand an agreement to sell part of …
Bifolio of Judaeo-Arabic poetry with an unusual layout and the refrain "yā ʿuṣfūr."
Petition in Judaeo-Arabic to help the cantor Thābit Ibn al-Munajjim, who was ill and had been imprisoned for two months for not paying his capitation …
Small letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. Addresses "al-akhawayn al-shaykhayn al-akramayn" Abū [...] and Hiba. It seems to be from their brother Mubārak. There are only …
Court record of a divorce settlement initiated by Ḥasana bt. Yiṣḥaq against her husband Perahya. (Information from Niessen and Shivtiel, p. 613.) EMS
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Fragment of a letter addressed to a dignitary and his entire community. In Hebrew. A few words from ~12 lines are preserved. Reused on recto …
Accounts in Arabic
List of items and prices. On verso all the lines are crossed out. Rudimentary hand and spellings; there are almost no spaces between the words. …
Expenditures for repairs of a house ("the house of Menashshe"), written in a rudimentary hand familiar from other documents (and in fact very close to …
Letters or groups of letters written by an apprentice who trained in the basics of the alphabet
Legal fragment. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Involves a woman named Jawhara, and a man [...] al-Levi Sulaymān.
Halakhic text in Judaeo-Arabic. See FGP for joins and further information. Enumerating the factors that disqualify a person for testifying. The fourth group is "those …
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Letter on vellum to Ali Abi Sulayman (? this description and transcription belong to a different fragment).
Small fragment, probably literary
Long vertical strip from the top of a ketubba written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1130 CE, under the jurisdiction of Masliah Gaon. Groom: …
Letter from Ṣedaqa b. Yosef al-Maqdisī, in Damascus, to Abū l-Faḍl(?) b. ʿAbd al-Sayyid b. al-Ḥasan(?) the physician (al-mutaṭabbib), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the …
IB IV, 50 (ח42). Letter from Shemuʾel b. Yiṣḥaq, probably in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel. Dating: summer 1138–spring 1139. Shemuʾel b. Yiṣḥaq might be …
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Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Halakhic discussion on 'get haliza' גט חליצה from ספר המעשים לבני ארץ ישראל. Published by Friedman, Tarbiz, 51(2), p. 202-205
Accounts in Arabic script. Late. List of agricultural products, fruits and spices, quantity and price. Currency: fulūs. On the other side there is some charming …
Possibly an account and some jottings
Document or notes in Arabic script. Perhaps a draft of a letter or petition. Needs examination. On the other side there is Hebrew literary text. …
Part of a ketubba for an unnamed bride and David b. Moshe known as Rāmāno (ראמאנו). Dating: Late. Currency: peraḥim. Location and names of any …
Legal document; probably concerning a transfer of property. Mentions Malīḥa bt. Yosef. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). (Information from CUDL)
Letter in which Shelomo b. Eliyyahu asks his teacher, the judge R. Hananel, to inform his father Eliyyahu that he is very ill, suffering from …
Circumcision certificate, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dating: Of the original date, only Wednesday the first of [...], [..]70 Seleucid is preserved. The certificate is for Abū …
Verso: Qaraite liturgical instructions for inserting a memorial prayer for several Qaraite leaders (Nesiʾim), "after the completion of the prayer for ʿAnan as is customary." …
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Karaite agreement to give a bill of divorce in case the husband will be absent for more than one year. Undated, perhaps because this document …
Compensation bill from Fustat. Dated: 7 Nisan 4815 AM = April 7 1055 CE. Three witnesses approved (not in front of the court) that Abū …
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[ישה]דו אלשהוד אלמסמון פי אכר הדה אלבראה חצר מר יהודה אלמכני
אבו זכרי ביר משה נבע הידוע אבן צגמאר וקאל לנא טאיע גיר כארה ולא
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Memorial list. Mentions: Elʿazar, his son Yosef; Elʿazar, his son Ṣedaqa (ha-)Rofeʾ; a woman named Barijyya; Saʿadya; Shelomo; Yosef.
Letter from Yeshūʿa ha-Kohen b. Avraham ha-Galili, in Shubra Damsīs, to Efrayim b. Meshullam (judge, active 1142–54). Dated: Av 1453 Sel. = July/August 1142 CE. …
Jottings of blessings in Hebrew, possibly drafts for a letter.
Recto, lower right corner: draft of a state document, likely a petition, beginning with prayers for the caliph al-Mustanṣir. There may be part of a …