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Fiscal or para-fiscal document (i.e., prepared by state officials or by the Jewish community for the government). List of indigent people equally divided between natives …
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Possibly a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions Abū l-Faraj and prayer(?).
No Scholarship Records
Small fragment of a letter addressed to a mother. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Yosef ha-Rav ha-Muvhaq
Literary text, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Agreement between Ḥasan b. Hārūn and his father-in-law Ḥasan b. Isḥāq b. Mūsā concerning Ḥasan's fiancee Maḥfūẓa bt. Ḥasan b. …
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Note by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu addressed to Abū l-Rabīʿ (in the note) or Abū l-Barakāt (in the address on verso). Accompanying payment for rose marmalade. …
My patron the elder Abu'l-Rabi', may
God on high preserve you (forever). Collect from the bearer
the charges for the rose marmalade. I am…
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Marriage document (FGP)Legal formulary. One leaf of paper, from a collection of legal deeds (ספר שטרות). Contains a ketubah for levirate marriage and a deed …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Legal? Late?
Petition to a state official. In Arabic. After a taqbīl, the addressee is greeted with many titles ("al-majlis al-ʿādilī al-sayfī al-nāṣirī(?) al-kāmilī al-hādī"). The petitioner …
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Letter in elegant Arabic script and style. The continuation seems to be praising the eloquence of the addressee, and it cites two lines of poetry …
Recto: Official correspondence or petition. Mentions government finance (واموال الدواوين بالحضرة(؟) فدفع . . . الحال بذلك). Then discusses somebody's employing as kātib al-jaysh / …
Verso: Order of payment. Abū l-Bahāʾ is to pay something to the bearer. On recto there are jotted Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter, probably. Damaged and rubbed. One line reads كل احد شغله والمملوك ما يستطيع(؟).
Letter from Barukh b. Yiṣḥaq to Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef b. Shemuel, in Fustat. In Hebrew, with the address in Arabic (in Arabic script). Barukh asks …
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108). Rough draft of an agreement between spouses, detailing the conditions that the husband must …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Medical treatise in Arabic script.
Recto: list of items for a certain day, including meat and bread. Verso: accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: no earlier than 1707 CE based on the mention of Ottoman cinzirli coinage (first minted in that year). A variety of …
Minute fragment preserving three words in Judaeo-Arabic, likely from a letter, praising the recipient's good deeds.
A recipe for path jumping, followed by 2 lines of jottings, including the name Yehuda b. ʿUlla. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Letter fragment in Ladino. Dated: 11 Elul 5501 AM = 23 August 1741 CE.
Letter from an unknown man, unknown location (not Fustat or Alexandria), to his mother Umm Mufaḍḍal, in Alexandria. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …
Legal formularies and instructions. Fragment; small strip of parchment.
Bottom part of a letter to ... b. Iṣḥaq, possibly from Hayye Gaon, congratulating the recipient on his being appointed rosh kalla. The recipient is …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment from near the beginning. Probably regarding the rent of a house or its sale. The beneficiary is ʿAlī b. …
Draft of a resolution to appoint the cantor Abū Sahl Levi b. al-Ahuv after he distinguished himself during a period of trial. (Information from Goitein's …
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Table in Judaeo-Arabic. Accounts of some kind. Payments to a communal official? Line 2 reads "ketubbot and sheṭarot: 1 1/4."
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions ginger.
Torn fragment of fiscal accounts, probably. Mentions either "dyeing" (al-ṣibāgh) or "the villages" (al-ḍiyāʿ), likely the latter, "fī bāb rasm al-ḍiyāʿ" and a sum of …
]ـاهما في باب رسم الضياع
]ـي كنت قبضته لست و خمس ماية دينار
]ـع من المزارعين ذلك وعاد وبقيت
Recto: Legal declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. Involving a bridegroom and his fiancee, Sitt al-Ahl. …
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Recto: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give the female bearer, the messenger of the sick …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Baqā' (or perhaps Abū l-Baqā') to a certain teacher (melammed). The writer conveys his sympathies for some bad news and asks …
Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Much neater than his usual. Commodities include pepper and ginger. Many details of bales, shipping, fees, …
Page from Massekhet Derekh Eres.
Bottom of a rental contract concerning a certain Sheʾerit. On verso Hebrew text, probably pen trials or exercises. (Information in part from CUDL)
Jottings and pen trials. Referring to "the ḥaver, the Nezer" and the opening phraseology of a legal document dated "Sunday in the year 404" and …
Fragment (lower part) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with two large words in Arabic remaining from an earlier document. The subject matter is difficult to …
IB VII, 67. Letter from an India trader in Quṣ. Dating: late 11th–early 12th century (Goitein). The writer departed sick (wajiʿ) and arrived healthy in …
Small fragment of a poetic letter or panegyric addressed to a notable who is also a kohen.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment. The bride is named (Sitt al-)Khawāt. The scribe uses the unusual spelling דנאן for דנן, which may help in finding …
Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. One side deals with routine business matters. The other side reads, ". . . out of your favor (inʿāmak), prescribe for …
IB V, 37, folio 17. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces …
Recto: Either a contributors list or alms list. In Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably early 13th century. Mentions names such as Nuṣayr, …
Accounts, in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Mentions the receipt of payment on verso (wuṣūl) and recto is divided into three columns. Needs examination.
State document, in Arabic script. The decree of al-ʿAbbās, the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, concerning the monks of Mt. Sinai and ordering that no unusual impositions …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only a thin vertical sliver is preserved. Mentions Fustat (or Egypt) four lines from the end and Almeria three lines from …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with business matters. Mentions Abū l-ʿIzz and an old woman (ʿajūz). Hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Excerpts: ר]חמתה וישקיף עלינו …