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Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Minyat Zifta.
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Verso: Small fragment of official correspondence. Only a few words preserved (...bi-idhn Allāh...). Reused for Hebrew text.
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Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Nahray b. Nissim (address in Arabic script). Refers to "the matter of the qaysāriyya" and ships.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī? The text is very faded. In the margin, there is an update …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Two fragments of a synagogue calendar in a late Ashkenazi hand. There is a cataloguing note: From the binding of Opp[enheim] fol. 683.
Lists of weekly communal contributions given before various Shabbatot that are organized according to the weeks of the liturgical calendar and their corresponding parshas. In …
Letters dealing with communal matters surrounding the dispute between Shelomo b. Yehuda and Natan b. Avraham, glued together and reused for the epistle of Sherira …
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Letter fragment conveying concern for "the girl" (al-ṣabiyya) and inviting her to spend a month in the writer's location. Mentions receiving a letter sent with …
Commercial receipt for Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs (b. Yūsuf) al-Urjuwānī. Mentions a bale of lac. (ENA 3957.5, T-S Ar.35.128, T-S Ar.35.269, and T-S AS 184.265 are …
Minute fragment from the bottom pf a legal deed. Only part of the signatures are preserved: [...] b. Avraham, [...] b. Aharon
Legal testimony, fragment. In Hebrew, with some unusual formulae. Muʿammar and Aharon the sons of Bāqī(?) came to the court complaining about a matter of …
Deed of gift. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: First decade of Kislev 1429 Seleucid, which is October–November 1117 CE. In which …
Letter in Arabic script. Quite faded. The address (on verso) includes the word al-Iskandarānī. Needs examination.
Legal record (#21) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 21-23) Folio 6r
Verso: Three lines in Arabic script. Needs examination. Accounts?
Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl al-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat. Dated: 19 Muḥarram 533 …
State document, probably a petition. Contains a taqbīl clause and closing lines starting with a ḥamdala and ending with a ṣalwala. Verso has jottings in …
Beginnings of 5 lines of an official document or letter in Arabic script. On verso, liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Late. There are drafts of letter openings in both Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic on verso.
List of names and accounts for the week of Mishpaṭim. Names include Ṣefanya Kohen, Yaʿīsh Shāmī, Shalom Sambari, Raḥamīm Maghribī, Khiḍr Barakāt, al-Ḥaver Khiḍr Kohen, …
Ketubba, nearly complete. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 10 Kislev 5583 AM = 24 November 1822 CE. Between Hayyim b. Shelomo Ḥazzāq and Esther b. Eliyyahu …
Legal testimony in Arabic script. Dated: 4 Ramaḍān 545 AH, which is 25 December 1150 CE. "Lammā ḥaḍara ilā majlis ḥ[ukm X]..." Needs examination for …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right piece). Likely the will of a certain Shemuel. Mentions his …
Four pages from a personal notebook in which the writer has recorded various ḥiddushim and whom he heard them from.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century, as the name Shelomo b. Eliyyahu appears on recto. On verso mentions Manṣūr; Bū Saʿd; Yosef; Sulaymān; Bū …
Recto: unidentified liturgical text in Hebrew. Verso: Document in Arabic script consisting only of the glyph followed by "al-shaykh al-ajall Bū l-ʿAlāʾ"; it may have …
Small fragment of a document in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a mandīl dabīqī. Might belong with T-S AS 203.138.
Legal text in Arabic script, discussing sales. Seems to be a literary text discussing legal matters rather than an actual legal document.
Horizontal strip from a letter in Arabic script. 3 lines preserved on recto. Likely a family letter dealing with small business matters. Mentions (Abū) Sahl.
Deathbed will. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. Location: Fustat. Dated: First third of …
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Official-looking accounts in Arabic script. Mentions al-ṣabiyy al-malikī.
IB VI, 22b. Letter from Alexandria sent around 1120 CE from a Maghribi merchant, Makhlūf b. Musa al-Nafusi (Ibn) al-Yatim, who proclaims that a friend …
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Upper fragment: Copy of a contract of betrothal (erusin) according to the Palestinian style. Location: Probably Tyre. Dating: Before 1037 CE. Written by Yosef b. …
Recto: Legal document. Dated: Elul 1525 Seleucid = August/September 1214 CE. Abū l-Makārim gives eight pieces of clothing to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal as collateral for 4 …
Legal document, small fragment. Probably from a ketubba.
Literary, Hebrew.
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. Discussing accounts, including the phrase נומרו בנומרו (numero be-numero). May also involve indigo (אניל). …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto contains an inventory (thabat) of something. Including items such as spice boxes (zanjala), kohl applicator (mirwad); pillow (mikhadda); and a ring …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Maybe from ʿAbdallāh b. al-Ḥasan to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Most of the folio is preserved, but the text is faded and damaged. Probably concerning communal affairs. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl b. Pinḥas …
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Court record written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Ṭevet 1432 Seleucid, which is December 1120 CE. Detailing …
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Cover page for accounts of the Iraqi synagogue for the year 501 AH (1107/08 CE) submitted to Mevorakh b. Saʿāda al-Isrā'īlī al-Mutaṭabbib Rayyis al-Yahūd (=Mevorakh …
Letter about naval warfare off the Ifrīqiyan coast (1100).
I am writing this letter- -may God prolong the life of my lord, the
Sheikh and. make permanent his honoured position, his- success and hap…
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Receipt of some kind. Mentions a ḥaver; "this document/letter"; and that Abū Zikrī delivered the goods, including a burniyya, something miṣrī, and a kerchief (? …
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving 5 dinars. Handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE).
A Maimonides autograph of the Guide for the Perplexed. Information from FGP.
Legal query addressed to Rabbenu Yehuda (likely Yehuda b. Yosef Rosh ha-Seder). It involves a complex business arrangement with 4 partners and one partner's heirs. …
Prayer for the community at the time of a plague, and memorial list of persons who had died in it, including an unmarried girl. (Information …