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Fragment of a fiscal report with one line of Arabic text following the join along the margin on ENA 2857.45v + ENA 2857.46v. The margin …
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Damaged and torn fragment. On recto part from a legal query regarding a release of a female slave, a debt, an oath, a charity that …
Receipt for two people, one of whom is Abū l-Ḥasan. For a sum of 10 1/2 (dirhams? dinars?).
Arabic, literary. Probably medical.
Accounts related to the Must'arabi community of Cairo in the year 5556 which is 1795/1796CE. In the remnant of the recto's heading the communal "chest …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Bifolio of (communal?) accounts and/or legal records, mainly in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, with some Judaeo-Arabic interspersed. There are two or three discrete text …
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Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Mentions someone named Yāsīn al-Shāmī; many other names are listed.
Letter in Hebrew dated 1688/89 CE (תגילו = 449), from the Jewish community of Izmir to the Jewish community of Pisa, following the economic distress …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known. Mentions Nahray. Dating: Probably 11th century.
Petition to a Fatimid caliph, in Arabic script. The ends of ~8 lines are preserved from the upper left corner, including much of the preamble …
Legal document. Debt contract. Tamīm b. Berakhot known as Wafāʾ al-Sabbāk acknowledges owing a sum owed to Yefet b. Ḥalfon ha-Zaqen.
Formal letter or report in Arabic script. Reporting that the sender left the addressee, rapidly found a boat, traveled to Alexandria, and delivered the letter …
Possibly legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The upper section is in a neater hand and the bottom section is written more …
Minute fragment with text in Hebrew on the recto and possibly with Arabic on the verso.
List of names, including Yaʿaqov, Yosef, Hibatallāh b. al-[...], Sulaymān. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century.
Accounts. Many names are listed, e.g. [...] al-Ṣabbāgh; Futūḥ; Isḥāq; Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Sukkarī; Abū Saʿd al-Ṣayrafī; Abū l-Ḥasan; Abū l-Faḍl b. Nuʿmān; Mūsā; Abū …
Letter in Arabic script. The bottom 9 lines are preserved. Mentions Raḍiyy al-Dawla; sending things; possibly someone named ʿAbd al-Masīḥ; the intriguing line "Woe to …
Letter from Yoshiyyahu b. Hārūn (apparently the grandson of Yoshiyyahu Gaon) in Ṣahrajt,, to Ibrāhīm b. Ḥujayj b. Yūsuf (aka Avraham b. Ḥaggay), in Fustat. …
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Business accounts. Recto includes a long note explaining something. Verso has one line in Hebrew script (possibly unrelated).
P3: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to the purchase of a property; someone titled 'sar'; "that is …
Accounts in Arabic script. Late.
Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script in two different hands, late. The first one seems a literary text mentioning death 'al-mawt'. The second mentions the …
Recto: fundraising letter in Hebrew carried by emissaries from Hebron to Egypt. Dating: 15th or 16th century. There are 12 signatures, including Shelomo Ḥalafta who …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Deed of restitution written in Jerusalem regarding alimony, in the hand of Eliyyahu Ha-Kohen Gaon, June 1071 CE, based on Gil's inference of [Tammuz] 4831 …
Small receipt. For Ḥusām Ibn al-[...].
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE).
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written in a rudimentary hand (Goitein calls it a "most miserable script"). Location: Cairo. Dated: Av 1[3]82 Seleucid, which is 1071 CE. …
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Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic, probably literary.
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Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Fragment (top part only). Involves: Abū Kathīr; Bahiyya bt. Ṣadaqa; [...] bt. Yosef …
Note in Hebrew requesting that the addressee intervene on behalf of a prisoner in his power (אשר אתה סותם אותו בשבי). The addressee is R. …
Accounts in Hebrew and perhaps another language and western Arabic numerals in the margins of a literary work. The remainder of the folios under this …
Small fragment of a decree. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic literary work.
ـ]ـامر حقيقا وبالاستخدام جديرا خليفا
Legal record (#31) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated solely as a …
Documentary text: There are three text blocks in Arabic script, probably remnants of accounts. "With Ismāʿīl. . . ." Literary (and main) text: A kabbalistic …
Letter in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), apparently a draft. Contains rhymed praises and addresses, among others, Abraham the teacher. It …
Letter or report. In Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. "...ista'jara lahu mamlūkuka... qabaḍa sabʿa danānīr..." Reused for Hebrew literary text on verso.
Document in Arabic script. Moderately wide space between the lines. On verso there are readings for Shavuʿot. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (narrow strip from the middle). Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 14[..] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 1088–1189 CE. Names mentioned include Yefet, …
Draft of a letter or possible legal query. Mentioning the late Abū Zikrī; the year of the epidemic (wabāʾ); his mother Mudallala; the funeral expenses …
Minute fragment, probably from a top of a letter. AA
Small fragment of a commercial list, contains items such as coral and silk
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Late.
Legal record (#81) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 28r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 19 [Av 5325 …
Legal records. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Av and Elul 1527 Seleucid = 1216 CE. Headed by the glyph. Verso, doc. 1: Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Iskāf acknowledges …
Right side of an informal note probably addressed to R. Aharon, informing him to do something to do with 'our colleagues' without delay.