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Recto: Petition or report from [...] b. ʿAbdallāh al-Juḥāfī to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Ayyubid-era, based on diplomatic features and the estimated …
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Legal record (#25) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Shevat [5321] …
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Fragment from the top of a large ketubba with an ornate heading of geometrical designs, blessings for the Nagid David I Maimonides (r. 1237–1300 CE), …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a basket or container (qafaṣ), 550 dirhams, and balances (mawāzīn). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Formulary or draft of the opening of a petition to a vizier and qāḍī. Cuts off right after the "wa-yunhī."
Narrow strip from a legal document, mentioning the sum of 25 dinars and a half. AA
A colophon on a Bible. Was first acquired by ʿAzaryahu ha-Kohen (ha-ḥamishi ba-ḥavura). It was later sold to Abū l-Faraj Hibatallāh Netanʾel b. Ḥalfon al-Ḥamawī …
Inventory of the books of a certain Abū Ghālib. In a combination of Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century, since none of the books …
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Legal fragment. Testimony of Abū Saʿd b. ʿUlla(?), perhaps that he received the money due him from [... b.] Shemuel. Witness: Berakhot b. Yefet.
Formulary for a legal document involving marriage and a sum of ducats (peraḥim). Late.
Recto: unidentified text in Aramaic, probably liturgical. Verso: letter or state document in Arabic, including blessings for a dignitary. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment in poetic Hebrew, possibly from a letter. Might also be a literary text. Refers to the arrival of a letter or letters, "signs and …
Communal enactment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1516 Seleucid = March/April 1205 CE. Supporting the authority …
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Fragment of a ketubba for the remarriage of a divorced couple (מחזיר גרושתו). Groom: Shelomo b. [...]. Bride: Ghāliya bt. Peraḥya. Written by Yefet b. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a father to a son ("who is in my heart like Abu l-Faraj"). He asks his son to collect a debt …
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Verso (secondary use): Medical recipes in Arabic script.
List. An almost entirely 'egalitarian' list of contributors from the first half of the eleventh century' (Goitein) Forty-four persons pledge 1/2 (dirham), nine parties, of …
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Alchemical or medical recipe containing both organic and metal substances, followed by a short history of the Umayyad caliphate in Damascus written in Judaeo-Persian. Both …
Marriage contract. Very damaged. Location: Cairo. Bride: Ḥasāna bt. ʿEli.
Minute blank fragment
Fragment of a calendar in a red grid. Closely resembles (but not direct join with) BL OR 10578C.44.
Small fragment of a ketubba. Location: Fustat. Bride: Jadīda. No details preserved. On verso there is one word preserved: "al-Dalāl" (a woman's name) or "al-Dallāl" …
Fragments of magnificent Hebrew calligraphy accompanied by a combative note from a scribe: "Furthermore, the wicked inhabitants of Mahdiyya(?) harass me in the work of …
Testament with a list of books including a complete Bible, individual biblical books, and works by Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni and Saʿadya. (Information from CUDL)
Probably part of a letter, with unorthodox orthography. (Information from CUDL)
Power of attorney. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Dated: Tishrei 1556 Seleucid, which is 1144 CE. Yosef b. Yeshuʿa known as Ibn …
Letter sent by Yosef b. Shemuel to 'his brother from father and mother', Ṣadaqa b. Ḥakmūn, congratulating him on the birth of his son. The …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Merkado Karo and Shimʿon Frances, of Karo y Frances & Company (see tags). Dated …
Legal document mentioning the Nagid Yehuda b. Saʿadya. There are phrases about a man's legal competence (as in deathbed wills); quotes him as saying "my …
Letter from the judge R. Hanan'el b. Shemuel to Moshe b. Peraḥyā Ibn Yijū in Alexandria. AA
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סיבת משלוח הטורים האלה לכבוד וכו' היא בראש ובראשונה ברכה על הנצר האציל שלו, התלמיד המפואר ר' יוסף, שמרו צורו. המקום ברוך הוא יזכה…
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Rent receipt? Mentions someone al-Ḥanafī and someone al-Yahūdī, and rent for a house for Muḥarram and Ṣafar 1057 AH = February/March and March/April 1647 CE. …
Recto: Upper part of a will. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1552 Seleucid = 8 May 1241 CE. Written in the same hand as verso. The …
Quittance in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Unfinished. Sumr bt. ʿEli releases any debt owed to her by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm …
Recto (secondary use): Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably mid-11th century. Deals with business matters. Twice mentions Dāʾūd b. Shaʿya (see Gil, Palestine, vol. 3, …
Letter fragment. Very faded. Mentions Abū Yaʿaqov and maybe Abū l-Faḍl.
Verso: Geometry textbook? In Arabic script. The word "equal" (mutasāwiya) appears about a dozen times, and the discussion seems quite technical ("...the two inner ones, …
Legal or official document in Arabic script (mā taḥaṣṣala min...). There are closely related texts on both recto and verso. Dated: Looks like 14 [.] …
Literary text in Judaeo Persian. The end of מונאגאת נאמה Munajja'at Name.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) by a certain Futūḥ b. Aḥmad. Mentions the judge in whose presence the iqrār took place, another person by the name …
Legal document. Dated: Friday, 1 Kislev 1515 Seleucid, which is 7 November 1203 CE. Deathbed declaration of Abū l-Khayr b. Abū l-Barakāt the supplier (al-mūrid). …
Letter from Shelomo Barukh, in Damietta (Kapotakia), to a certain Me'ir, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 20 Tevet 5561 AM, which is 1801 CE. Needs …
Writing exercises in German, in a lovely Gothic script. "Ein Murrkopf ist ein Mensch dem es ärgert dass spree nicht bei Wien und die Donau …
Verso: Communal accounts with revenue available and expenditures: 'A [public] Fast--29' 'Food for the poor (mezonot)--39.' Among the expenses, besides bread and salaries, are payments …
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Legal document in which Sar Shalom, son of Rabana Yosef, affirms that he collected his debt from the daughter of Rabbi Nahum in 1344 ED/ …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Husband: [...] of Malīj. Wife: [...] bt. Yosef of Malīj.
Accounts in Arabic on verso with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era.