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Gnomic sayings made by a physician to a king. Begins with reference to a list of attributes of animals (e.g., the legs of a lion, …
No Scholarship Records
Letter fragment in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. An instruction to a cantor to warn a woman that her husband had submitted …
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Letter fragment from Barhūn b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī. The letter is addressed to someone who is younger than the writer (he calls him “my son”). Mentions …
[ ] קלבי פי הדה אלאיאם אללה יאתי [
[ ] ומא בקי לאני אנא אלי אלאן מא נערף מא [
[ ] אללה פי נפסי…
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Recto: list headed by the glyph, entirely consisting of materia medica. Verso: also a list of materia medica, such as doronicum, Chinese cinnamon, crystalline sugar, …
Marriage document. Fragment from a damaged ketubah. The groom is Ḥalfon ha-Kohen. The name of his father and bride are not preserved. Part of the …
Late accounts in sloppy handwriting, probably dated Tammuz 5583 AM (1823 CE). The scribal hand of the first entry is different than the rest of …
Fragment containing Hebrew pious phrases and biblical quotations. Perhaps notes for a eulogy?
Personal accounts. Eastern Arabic/Indic numerals. Needs examination.
Rabbi Joshua ben Levi's vision of hell; see Perry, M. J. (2017). Jewish heaven, Christian hell: Rabbi Joshua ben Levi’s vision of the afterlife. Journal …
Narrow vertical strip of paper. Instructions to a scribe according to Goitein's index card, but seems more likely to be an inventory of existing documents …
Accounts of some sort. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. The format of recto looks like an extremely faded (or erased?) tax receipt.
Letter fragment probably addressed to [Avraham b.] Natan ha-Sheviʿi Ḥemdat [ha-Yeshiva]. With a poetic Hebrew introduction and Judaeo-Arabic body. In the margin refers to receiving …
State document, four fragmented lines in a chancery hand, later reused for Hebrew text. Starts with a basmala followed by a Quranic verse 'Naṣrun min …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Two pages containing an end of a responsa, a legal query and the beginning of the responsa. Possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon. AA .
Unidentified document in Arabic script, mentioning sums of money and weights. Torn and reused for a different document on verso, also unidentified.
Order of payment (or rather receipt / record of payment) to the community officials Maḥfūẓ al-Shammash and Sālim al-Zariz, dated Adar 1476 Seleucid era = …
Small legal fragment, probably a contract of debt. Mentions al-ʿAlāqma, a town in the area of Bilbays. The debtor is Abū l-Bahāʾ b. Abū [...]. …
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Recto: Beginning of the opening of a letter. Verso: Address in Arabic script, to al-Nasi Shelomo in Cairo (most likely Shelomo b. Yishay, 13th century. …
יוצל כב גד קד
ור ונ וג מא אמונה אומן بلغ ץך
يوصل الى القاهرة …
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Recto: Jeremiah 12:7 and piyyuṭ. Verso: possibly one line from a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Persian. נדאשתם דיגר בה דל אז . . . . נמיתואנסתם ברדאשתן . . .
Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Cut diagonally across the text to make a rectangle. Mentions a dinar and a sixth, the price …
Notice of oath written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. He states that on Monday of the week of Beshalaḥ, he took an oath that he will …
Settlement agreement as part of which golden rings worth forty dinars were exchanged (one with a pearl) before the consummation of the marriage which was …
Legal formularies, including for a wedding contract for people with prior divorces. There is also a section about repentance and forgiveness.
Documents in Arabic, probably (see recto and verso). Medieval era. Requires further examination.
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. All are in Arabic script. Top left - beginning of a legal document. Bottom right is also part …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer defends himself against someone's accusations, extols his own devotion to the halakha, and cites a number of Talmudic passages …
Document in the hand of the judge Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE) concerning Zikri b. Ḥalfon, who received 50 dinars from funds belonging to …
Calendar in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi.
Literary text, in Arabic script. "اربعة مقدمات". Needs examination.
Quran fragment, in a beautiful and elegant Maghribī script with diacritical marks in red. The verses are from Sura al-Insān (76:7-14, 27-31).
Letter in Arabic script. Last 4–5 lines only, with greetings to all of 'our colleagues' (aṣḥābnā). On verso there is an unidentified text in Hebrew …
Verso (original use): Beginning of a petition or letter to an official. Reused on recto for a tax receipt (see separate entry).
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
قد كان عبد الحضرة السامية الاجلية الشيخية الـ…. ـية ثبت اللـه مجدها
واهلك عدوها وضدها … على مشارفتها في يحا[ …
Part of a letter, from Sivan 1508 (= 1197 CE), from a businessman-scholar in Raqqa (Kalneh) on the Euphrates, replying to the recipient’s letter that …
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Letter from a certain Dāʾūd to Eliyya ha-Rav ha-Gadol, probably Eliyyahu the Judge (early 13th century). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 'a letter for Rabbenu' and a …
Copy of a will of Mahara bat Avraham ha-Kohen that had been made and dated in Alexandria in January 1143, issued at the request of …
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Late. On the right page a few lines from a prenuptial agreement, the groom's name is Shelomo and the bride is Sol. This is her …
Document(s) in Arabic script. Possibly business accounts. Needs examination.
Accounts in Ladino and Hebrew that can be dated through a join's (ENA 2715.19) entry dated 26 Sivan [5]632 or July 2 1872CE. MCD.
Lists in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew of donations collected before various Shabbatot. Each list is designated by individual contributors and specific weeks of the liturgical calender …
Letter from an unknown writer, unknown location, to his brother-in-law al-Shaykh al-Fakhr al-Khāzin and his wife (the writer's sister), in Jerusalem. The addressees are asked …
Accounts in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew script. At least in part concerning wine making (al-nabīdh... al-muwallad...).
Literary text, in Arabic script. Related to astronomy/astrology, mentions the rays of the sun, mercury and other celestial objects and motions.
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Damsis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. The writer expresses his wishes that the addressee will recover from …
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Part of a booklet of alms lists (fols. 15.5, 15, 39, 50). Fol. 15.5 has a title page; “List of the Poor of Fustat.” Date …
Dispensed for them also
on Friday the 21st of that (month)
five qinṭārs, numbering
five hundre…
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Upper part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to 'the brother R. Avraham.' The sender is in difficult straits. Mentions wheat on the roof.