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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th century (the hand is probably known). Narrow vertical strip of paper. The sender asks the addressee to send him the …
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Legal document mentioning Avraham b. Shelomo and somebody's daughters. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? (Information in part from CUDL)
No Scholarship Records
Letter to the teacher Ibn Yosef, informing the writer's mother about an agreement with his future wife and listing several persons on the verso, among …
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Recto: qiddush with Judaeo-Arabic instructions. Verso: probably a letter, in large Arabic script. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Very faded accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals. Recto is piyyuṭ.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter, copy. Written in poetic Hebrew. Possibly a letter of appeal for help, since the author describes his woes. Join by Dr. Ezra Chwat. See …
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Accounts; with Coptic numerals, names and measures. Mentions Ḥaydara. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter containing good wishes. Written with the layout of an official/communal letter: narrow page, moderately wide space between the lines, and an ʿalāma (motto) at …
Tafsīr in Judaeo-Arabic on Isaiah 23:14 and surrounding verses.
IB VII, 48. Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "1200 Malikī dinars. . . I was distressed by (the state of) those poor children. . . " …
Marriage contract in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 11 Marḥeshvan, 142[.]. The original estimate for this shelfmark inferred 142[8] Seleucid, probably based …
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Recto: Draft of a legal testimony from Fustat. Dating: late 10th or early 11th century. Concerning the legitimacy of two cantors and slaughterers, the brothers …
Business letter to ʿArūs b. Yosef, probably in Alexandria, since he is asked about prices in Alexandria in line 21. Aodeh thinks the author of …
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Large bifolio of accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning various goods brought to Tripoli (Libya?). Erratic spelling, and written in a local dialect. Dating: Probably 11th century …
IB III, 33. Letter from Yeshua ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov, in Dhu Jibla, Yemen, to Avraham Ibn Yiju regarding the renting of a house. Around 1150-51.
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Bottom of a communal letter, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Goitein: "Signature of the future Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh ha-Nagid. Important. Mevorakh …
Bottom of a legal document. No details preserved. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1140–59 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In the hand …
Verso, continuing onto recto: Letter from ʿAdiyya b. Peraḥya, in Sammanūd, to a judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking him to come and settle an …
Recto: A partnership contract that is the subject of the legal queries to Daniel b. Azarya, the Palestinian gaon, edited in Gil, Palestine #395 (PGPID …
Letter/petition to a certain David ha-Sar in which the writer asks him to intercede on his behalf with al-Sadīd. Dating: late 12th or early 13th …
Letter signed by Makhir b. Avraham and Natan b. Yiṣḥaq addressed to an unidentified dignitary. In Hebrew. Dating: Might be 10th or 11th century. The …
Letter fragment from Yosef to Abū l-Faḍl b. ʿAmrīṣ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing remarks about business transactions including the delivery of a consignment of glass. [ʿAmrīṣ …
Fragment from a 16th-century letter in rhymed prose. (Information from CUDL) On the verso a name appears possibly as the recipient of the letter: Abraham …
Small fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Shelomo. See JRL SERIES AF 255 (PGPID 32596).
Verso: Letter in the handwriting of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. He has arrived safely (presumably from Fustat to Qalyub). He tells the addressee to take …
Letter fragment (from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) with elaborate praise and good wishes for the recipient Abū l-Faraj and his children.
Small fragment of a decree or petition, probably. The only phrase preserved is the name of the caliph al-Imām al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh Amīr al-Muʾminīn (r. …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions shipments and prices and the names Abū l-Faraj and 'al-shaykh' and Marwān and al-Sīrajī.
Letter from Tanḥum b. Sulaymān, in Jerusalem, to his mother and three brothers, Abū Mūsā, Ḥayyim and Aharon (or two brothers, Abū Mūsā Ḥayyim and …
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Recto (secondary use): Accounts, probably. In Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Recto: Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded, reddish ink. Verso: Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the response to the original letter. Also quite faded. Mentions a Christian …
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Tax receipt.
Letter in Ladino from Ḥayyim Reʾuven Miris or Mires, addressed to Avraham Krispin (Crespin) in "Miṣrayim" (Cairo). Dated: 1787 CE (13 Iyyar [5]547). The author …
Note from Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen Ibn Furāt. Dating: ca. 1054. Gil suggests that the letter was written when both Daniʾel …
Accounts in a medieval-era scribal hand on recto. Although the verso was not reused in this case, the shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals. Reused for pen trials.
Detailed letter sent by Meir b. Hillel b. Sadoq Av, written in between the lines and on the remaining blank spaces of a letter he …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Mainly in Arabic script with some Hebrew script. Abu l-Majd is to give the …
IB II, 58. Letter. Memorandum from Abu Zikri Kohen to Mahruz. Alexandria, ca. 1136-1149.
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Upper fragment: Letter possibly in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to [...]m ha-Parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). Mentions various good …
Brief note in Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew. Concerning the Babylonian synagogue, also mentions the hafṭara (ifṭāra). The addressee may be a cantor or communal leader. …
Official-looking document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Upper left may contain a date (Rabīʿ something?); the next line refers to al-taʾrīkh al-madhkūr; there are …
Letter from Yaʿaqov Daminshi (דמינשי) to his brother-in-law Shemuel. In Hebrew. Dating: Late. Mentions a matter of money and "סידיקי ההרגז" (is this a person?) …
A small fragment of an early draft of the formal letter of the three Rabbanite congregation of Fusṭāṭ and Cairo, to the community of Ascalon, …
Accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerlas. Listing several materia medica, e.g. anīsūn and bizr khiṭmiyya.
Court record from 1015 concerning a woman in Ramla appointing a representative to sue her Damascene husband who had disappeared two years earlier without leaving …
Draft of a legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38) written during the period of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). The case involves …