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List of the Islamic months in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
No Scholarship Records
Maimonides autograph of the Guide.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Short letter from Bayān to his 'brother'. Mostly pleasantries, discussing a business affair and inviting the addressee to come spend the sabbath. (Information in part …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentioning a sum owed to Ibn al-ʿAsqalānī; an amount he owes for cotton; his cousin (ibn ʿamm) Hiba; …
Order for a quantity of raṭls of something.
Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Menashshe b. David al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender might be Faraḥ b. Yūsuf al-Qābisī (the usual correspondent of Yehuda …
Poem in honor of a courtier called Moshe (probably Moshe b. Mevorakh, Nagid 1112–26 CE). (Information from CUDL.) Same hand as T-S AS 149.115 (PGPID …
Agreement to pay back a debt. Dated: Friday, 9 Nisan 1576 Seleucid = 27 March 1265 CE. Hanāʾ, the wife of Khuḍayr al-Qalyūbī, promises to …
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Invitation for attending a gathering at Abu al-Sabāʿ Street in Cairo, and on the page there is a letter between friends in Hebrew – July …
Letter of appeal for charity for assistance in moving to the land of Israel.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe Bazzal, in Mansurah, to his brother Yosef ha-Levi Iskandari, in Fustat/Cairo.
IB V, 12. Letter from Yosef b. Avraham to Abū Zikrī Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Apart from …
Accounts of a druggist or merchant. In Arabic script. Listing dozens of different kinds of materia medica and other godos.
Informal note related to business matters. Probably sent from Fustat. In Arabic script. The sender instructs the addressee to acquire a blue Dustarī (=Tustarī) fabric …
Legal document, small fragment. Contains remnants of some signatures.
Marriage contract, template. Written in codex form. The original text is from a ketubba dated Wednesday, 21 Heshvan 5515 AM, which is 1754 CE. Groom: …
Small fragment, possibly from a letter. Contains poetic Hebrew lines about the ingathering of exiles, then a blessings for Abū ʿAlī (last line).
Letter from Muẓaffar to his cousins (awlād al-ʿamm). In Arabic script. Dated: beginning of Rabīʿ I 648 AH, which is June 1250 CE. The letter …
Accounts with names, such as Moshe Ibn al-Danwār, Yisḥaq, Hiba and Ḥasan, and ʿImrān, and numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Bottom of recto (secondary use): Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Ṭāhir, Bū l-Faḍl, and Bū l-Majd. Sums at the …
Minute fragment from sefer mitzvot
Copy of a legal case that was inserted into a 'legal file' that was kept in the court, December 1027. Documents describing unique or interesting …
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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, …
Letter from Yehoshuaʿ ha-Shofeṭ probably to the community of Aleppo. Dating: ca. 1020 CE (Gil) or late 1020s—early 1030s (Frenkel). Gil identified the sender as …
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Late fragment with several obscure sections. The main block of text on recto seems to mostly relate to Genesis 13:4 (quoted at the top) and …
Leaf from the beginning of Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī.
Document concerning financial issues. Mentions a sum of money, and says that if the parties take an oath they will incur the guilt of violating …
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Notes for a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). "From that: the property of Sitt al-Munā... Nāshiya... [the dīwān …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the late Ḥārith; 'our master'; going into the synagogue; 'in the place of his father'; sadness about something; …
Recto: Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Beẓalel b. Ḥayyim to David I Maimonides (b. Avraham b. Moshe), r. 1237–1300 CE. In Hebrew. Defending the Guide for …
Letter concerning business matters. Deals with the forwarding of 15 dinars and an order for three ounces of ink (midād) and other smaller items. (Information …
Inventory of money, household goods, clothing and grain, written and signed by Yosef b. Shemuel (b. Saʿadya) ha-Levi (ca. 1181–1209 CE). Also signed by Elʿazar …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Lists various foods and household items (pepper, saffron, eggs, olive oil, lemon, tahina, and many more).
A long letter of recommendation on behalf of Obadiah the Proselyte, by Barukh b. Yiṣḥaq of Aleppo, written in elegant and vocalized Hebrew. For more …
List mentioning a half dinar, several houses and Umm Fāris. (Information from CUDL)
Magical fragment. From top down: 1 line of names in Hebrew (Elʿazar, Hillel, Shela, Yefet, ʿEli); 4 rows of magical symbols; 1 line in Judaeo-Arabic, …
Lists of debts and payments. Mercantile. Dating: 11th century. Mentions people such as Abū l-Faraj and Abū Zikrī, places such as al-Mahdiyya, and goods such …
Leaves 1 and 3: text in Judaeo-Arabic, probably an apocalyptic account (prognostications), referring to Zerubbabel, the Arabs, the Byzantines and wars in various places in …
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Legal document in which the rabbinical court in Fustat, having to evaluate a workshop for purple making left to an orphan, invites non-Jewish experts to …
Fragment (bottom half) of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is urged to sell something quickly. The cotton(?) and the garment arrived. The sender …
Letter from a certain Yaʿqūb to Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Abū Saʿīd known as al-Yatīm. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee's mother has been sick. The addressee has …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Concerning a debt of 52 Venetian ducats (peraḥim) owed by Avraham Aripol (אריפול) to Yaʿaqov Castro (קשטרו). Dated: Monday, 20 Av …
Legal record (#1). Partnership dispute. Involving the partners Abū l-Ḥasan Nānū al-Tājir and Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm. Abū l-Ḥasan presented a document stating that Yaʿqūb owes …
Fragment of an official letter from Fustat addressed to a certain town in the Rīf (or perhaps a circular), exhorting them to be generous and …
Marriage contract involving a bride with children from a previous marriage whom the new husband undertakes to support, and mentioning 118 dinars in a dowry …
Large bifolio of Judaeo-Arabic accounts. Late.
Letter from [Yiṣḥa?]q b. Yosef to Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. Related to the India trade. The addressee may …
Accounts, medieval-era. Two of the account entries on the recto list the names of qadis: al-qāḍī Shihāb-Allah .... al-Ḥamāmī and al-qāḍī M..allah al-...(lacuna). Below each …