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Verso (original use): Petition to a Jewish official in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment of a calligraphic letter with wide line spacing addressed to “our master” …
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Mysterious text, partially rhyming in -ar, which begins "I washed my clothes, may I be your ransom..." (Information in part from CUDL.)
No Scholarship Records
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The name Barakāt ha-Levi appears and Ibn al-Kāzarūnī. Looks like the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 35.
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Bottom of a family letter in Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: uncertain, potentially 11th century. Consisting mainly of greetings to and from family members. Specifically mentions …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Abū l-Faḍāʾil the cantor begs for money from Sitt Futūn, who also helped fund the construction of the synagogue (!), since he owes four …
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Minute account fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Medieval-era. Mentions "the shamash" in one of the entries (אלשמאש). Requires further examination.
Letter fragment. Sent from Jerusalem, presumably to Fustat. In Hebrew. Dating: Ca. 1048/49 CE. Damaged and faded. Mentions a scholar who escaped from trouble with …
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Rent receipt for Bū Isḥāq al-Yahūdī. In Arabic script. Dated: 726 AH = 1325/26 CE.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Kallām (a man of the same name appears in the 1140s in T-S 10J17.22 and T-S NS …
Probably a legal document, mentioning a certain Yefet. (Information from CUDL)
Letter opening from Shelomo b. Yehuda to the communities, first half of the 11th century.
Genealogy list. Small fragment. Lists Mevorakh and his son Hillel.
Recto: Accounts (or prescription?) in Arabic script. Sepiolite (zabad al-baḥr), 2.5 dirhams; rock salt (milḥ andarānī); white lead (isfīdāj); pepper (filfil); long pepper (dār filfil); …
Late, probably accounts. Multiple people with the surname Zagdun are mentioned. Requires further examination.
Marriage contract, upper right portion, between Yosef b. Mawhūb and Sittān bt. Mevasser b. Yeshuʿa, written in Tyre, dated (not completely legibly) from the destruction …
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Letter to a Nubian eparch in Ibrīm from Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad, son of the sincere commander Crescent of the Dynasty (Hilāl al-Dawla), the elder Treasure …
Letter from a woman named Hayfāʾ bt. Sulaymān Ibn al-ʿArīq to ʿEli b. ʿAmram, in Fustat. The addressee was the leader of the Jerusalemite congregation …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions several luxury textile goods and a trader [probably Yiṣḥaq] b. Makh[lū]f al-Nafūsī. Dating: ca. 1130s CE. …
Legal record (#35). Loan contract, outline. Stating that a contract shall be written regarding a loan of 6 5/6 dinars to be paid back in …
Fragment of a letter from a certain Abū ʿAlī. In Judaeo-Arabic, headed by Hebrew verses. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Only the beginning of …
Court verdict, probably from Tyre, concerning the inheritance of a woman buried in Tiberias, dated approximately 1015.
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Very neat accounts in Arabic script. Probably Ottoman-era. Mentions al-Qāḍī Muṣṭafā.
Letter requesting help for a woman originally from Narbonne, sent from Muñó (מניו) in northern Spain and signed by a number of people (the names …
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Mirrored script only. Probably an account in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions Ramaḍān.
Fragmentary, short marriage contract from Cairo, from which most of the details are missing and which does not mention dowry. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with eastern Arabic numerals. The dating is likely 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography and mention of the Ottoman kurush. There …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Nahray b. Nissim and Yūsuf b. al-Ghazzāl.
Part of a ketubba, written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen (1127-1139 CE), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manassah (1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Fragment (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, Dated: 1435 Seleucid = 1123/24 CE. The delayed marriage payment is …
Letter in Ladino. Sent by Avraham Seṣano (שיצאנו) to [recipient's name lost]. Mentions business dealings with Shaykh Ḥamdī (and Shaykh Yishmaʾel throughout the opening lines, …
Lists of dates and numbers of unclear significance.
Letter from Yehizkiyahu b. David, the Head of the Exile, to an unknown person. Dated: Tammuz 1347 Seleucid = June/July 1036 CE. The sender asks …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, likely 16th century, concerning shipping. One of the entries is headed "the ship of Ḥamza Rayyis arriving from Istanbul." Cf. T-S J1.41 …
Saʿadya’s formulary of legal documents. Discussing the halakha of legal witnesses and testimony, including the table of contents. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document, (iqrār), in Arabic script. Ḥusayn b. Yaḥyā testifies. Refers to the year 501 H which would be 1107/08 CE. Needs examination.
Recto: list of houses and names, for example the Nagid Shemuʾel he-Ḥaver and son, Ḥananya and two sons, Abraham, Elʿazar, David the poet, Nathan, Joseph, …
Letter in calligraphic Arabic script, with some Hebrew mixed in. Writer and addressee are unknown. The writer chastises the addressee at length, quoting Quran 12:51 …
Letter, fragmentary, from Ismāʿīl b. Barhūn ha-Tāhartī, al-Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. ʿAwkal, Fustat. Fragmentary, but what can be discerned contains some information about …
Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (mawlāya al-dayyān) is instructed to give 5 dinars to the bearer Abū l-ʿIzz on a certain date. …
Bottom part from a legal document written under the jurisdiction of Masliah Gaon (although his name does not appear) by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi, so …
Responsum of Elḥanan b. ha-Rav, citing Amos 3:10; Deuteronomy 32:47, with title on verso: מקאלה אלפהא אלחנן בן הרב פי מסאיל מלגמה למן מנע אלפקה. …
Unidentified fragmentary text, in Arabic script.
Legal formularies, including for a wedding contract for people with prior divorces. There is also a section about repentance and forgiveness.
Letter from the community of Rabbanite Jews, in Ramla, to the community of Rabbanite Jews in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. In a mixture of …
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Recto: Letter from Bū Zikrī (b. Eliyyahu the Judge?) to Abū ʿImrān Mūsā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the opening is preserved and a couple words from …