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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to someone with a 'ruined education' (bad manners? makhrūb al-taʿlīm), the washing of a garment, buying something, forcing …
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Verso and bottom of recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso is headed: "inventory of that which I brought with me to Būṣīr." Mentions names such as …
Literary text, well-preserved. The final image under this shelfmark (5v) consists of accounts in Arabic script. The lower edge of the penultimate page under this …
Letter to the Nubian eparch Īsū in Ibrīm from the qāḍī Abū l-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn al-Fātiḥ. The qāḍī is writing from Aswān, where he has …
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Letter sent from the Maghreb by the Judayla family to Ismail b. Barhun al-Tahati, asking him to obtain flax from Sha'ya in return for the …
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Recto: accounts in a crude hand. Verso: letter, in a different hand. (Information from CUDL)
Writing exercises in Latin-script cursive. 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography and prelined paper.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, concerning a dispute, an excommunication of "this wicked man", greetings to the communcal leaders etc. According to Gil it dates …
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Recto (probably original use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Pertaining to the qodesh? Listing some construction expenses (e.g., nails).
Magical/kabbalistic instructions about the auspicious hours of prayer and useful spells when at sea. Labeled page 231. Same scribe as AIU VI.B.78 + AIU VI.B.149 …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning several ships and bundles of letters. Related to the India trade based on the reference to a nākhudhā; …
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Colophon to a pamphlet containing two 'qedushas' on parashat Yitro. The scribe is Barukh Rofe b. (or grandson of?) Elʿazar Ḥazzan known as Rofe.
Marriage document. Karaite deed of betrothal of Amat al-Waḥid אמה אלואחד daughter of Ḥalfon and Ḥaifon ha-Levi ben Daniel b. Bundār. Early 11th century, Cairo …
Copies of two letters by Ḥizqiyya the Exilarch and Gaʾon. One is in Judaeo-Arabic and dated Av 1351 Seleucid = July/August 1040 CE. The other …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts with Hebrew numerals. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
State document, in Arabic script. Five fragmented lines of what seems like a petition or an internal correspondence. Mentions land-tax (bi-kharājihi). Needs examination.
]ـن امر[
وحد كل الحد في بحصـ[
واعلم انه وان ارقد(؟) ان و[
بخراجه والرقبان(؟) الفـ[
والسلم وكتب لا[
Probably a fragment of a poetry dīwān. Preface (tamhīd) followed by verses of love poetry on recto. The preface mentions a lover striving to appease …
Verso: Statement in Judaeo-Arabic that a list of two, apparently newly acquired books should be "recorded on a memorandum (tunqal ilā tadhkira)" and brought to …
Literary text in Hebrew on mystical matters: the heavens, the ministering angels, what they subsist on, etc.
Recto: legal document; signed by [Meʾi]r b. Yakhin (ca. early 13th century). Verso: document in another hand. (Information from CUDL)
Legal record (#124) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 40v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 11 Tammuz 5329 …
Fragment from the lower right corner of an agreement between a husband, Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen, and wife, Sitt al-Ḍiyāʾ. The text is …
Formulary for a love spell (ʿazīma) in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter fragment. In Arabic script. To 'the dear brother,' reporting on a messy situation (rajj ʿaẓīm) involving various other people, and telling him to go …
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Maḥfūz b. Eliyya. Dated: 52[.] AH.
Letter from Ḥassūn b. Yaʿīsh to ʿArūs b. Yosef, concerned with business matters, and mentioning people including ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm, Abū Sahl Mukhtār, Avraham, ʿAllān, Abū …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only formulaic phrases are preserved.
Fragment containing Hebrew pious phrases and biblical quotations. Perhaps notes for a eulogy?
List of names and corresponding monetary values in silver kuruş. Among those listed are: Yakov Qatawi, Yosef Bilobos, Yaʿaqov Akubas, David Dayyan, Nissim Ashkenazi, Moshe …
Letter from Shemuel b. ʿEli gaʾaon, Baghdad, with opening praises, copied in the hand of his disciple Yosef b. Yaʿaqov rosh ha-seder. (Information in part …
Letter in Arabic script. Rudimentary hand. Mentions small business transactions.
Literary, Arabic script. Tale concerning Hārūn al-Rashīd and Jaʿfar ibn Barmak. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
Left lower fragment of a settlement concerning books, including al-Ḥāwī fī l-Ṭibb and books of poetry. Involves parties including Abū Saʿīd; Abū Naṣr b. Yosef …
State document. Response to endorsement of a petition written by Yuḥannā b. Abī l-Layth (a Christian), who referred the case to the office of al-Afḍal. …
ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه الراى العالي السامي في ذلك ان شا الله
وكتب في العشر الاخر من شهر رمضان سنة ار…
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To our lord, the blessings of God be upon him, belongs the lofty and exalted resolution concerning that, if God wills.
It was written in …
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Literary text, in Arabic script. Related to astronomy/astrology, mentions the rays of the sun, mercury and other celestial objects and motions.
Legal record (#2) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f.1r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Dated in the …
Fragment in Arabic script. Astrological/esoteric. Listing the auspicious and inauspicious properties of every day of the month, e.g., which days are good for going before …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions names such as Makīn and al-Shaykh Najīb. On verso there are accounts in Arabic script. Dating: looks ca. …
Liturgical text (qiddush?) for Passover. Signed: Shelomo b. [...]. Dated: Friday, 7 Nisan 1606 Seleucid, which is 1295 CE.
Bifolio of business accounts.
Ownership note on a page probably originally from a quire of piyyuṭ. "Purchased by Shelomo b. Nissim Beḥir ha-Parnasim."
Record of writ of release. End of a legal document concerning Abū Maʿālī and financial matters (?), signed by Hillel b. Yosef and Shelomo [b. …
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out three ūqiyyas of lemon and rose drink. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Arabic script to unknown recipients from a certain Ibrāhīm mentioning a variety of Christian contacts such as Abū Adraūs and Abū Jirjis. Dated …
After [expressing our] most affectionate [?] longing [ ].
The abundance of your love is well-known [lit., ‘not hidden’], which was the reas…
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Literary document, in Arabic script, folio from the Quran. The preserved text is from Sūra al-Shuʿarāʾ (26:216-227) to Sūra al-Naml (27:1-9).
Decree, probably. There is a single phrase in naskhī Arabic calligraphy (ʿabīd al-dawla wa-l-yaʿmal bihi....?). Reused for Hebrew liturgical text.
Formulary for letters to distinguished addressees. In Judaeo-Arabic. The second form is for begging for forgiveness on behalf of somebody. The writer switches into Arabic …
Fragment with Hebrew text. Magical? Mentions love and destruction and [...] ben Yisra'elit.