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Tax receipt, mentioning the tax was credited towards the treasury. Trigger/subtype: "waṣala li-bayt al-māl."
No Scholarship Records
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim, about his partnership with Barhun and Yosef b. Musa ha-Tāhartī. 1059. They sent different merchandise to the Maghreb …
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Account book of Yeshuaʿ b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī containing payment orders. Dating: ca. 1048 (Gil). (Information from Gil) NB: in l. 11 below, it is probably …
שרח חסאב אלשיך אבו [ ]
קבץ ש דינ כה דינ [ ]
דלך שכה [ ]
וקיר [ ]
לה מן דלך צו דינ תנקץ [ ]
ולהא צרף תולתי תכון אלגמלה [ד]ינר [ ]
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
List of names, all beginning with Yiṣḥaq or Yosef. Late.
Literary text with a colophon. "I, Yehuda b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi in Egypt/Fustat, wrote this for the mighty prince Efrayim ha-Levi Ḥakham ha-Yeshiva."
Minutes of meetings of the educational committee for the administration of teaching-related affairs, gifts, oversight, and sanitation – October, November, December of the year 1954 …
Accounts, in Arabic script.
Receipt.
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1055. Details about business with Abū Sahl ha-Kohen (probably Menashshe ha-Kohen b. Avraham) as well as …
make his honored position permanent
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Letter from a man to his prospective father-in-law. In Judaeo-Arabic. Expressing his enthusiasm about the future connection (ittiṣāl) with him and stating to have heard …
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Legal discussion on the collection of the ketubah money - needs examination. Image not available
Palimpsest. Original text: Leaf from an Arabic diwan on vellum in elegant calligraphy. Poets named include Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. [...] and Ibrāhīm al-Shāmī (neither …
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Receipt for 24 dirhams.
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Contains some blessings for the addressee and mentions Alexandria. Verso: Several lines in Arabic script, all crossed out. Probably …
Recto: Legal document in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Location: Fustat. Opens by stating that on Tuesday, 23 Adar II 1540 Seleucid (= 20 …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Persian.
Ladino literary work.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentioning tutty (tūtiyā) and camphor (kāfūr) and spikenard (sunbul).
Karaite halakhic discussion regarding different types of legal deeds and their use
Medical document, or recipe. Mentions the flower violet (zahr banafsaj) and the oil of violet (duhn banafsaj).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, maybe ca. 16th century. Mentions various commodities including fish coming in from Rashīd and Abū Qīr. Also mentions "the maghhribīs" …
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph.
Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning the sale of an enslaved man (ghulām) possibly named …
Draft of a deferential note addressed to a woman. Expressing longing for her and sadness over being 'cut off' (חצרה אלסת אלגלילה דאם עזהא ויעלמהא …
Rental contract. In Hebrew. Dated: Tuesday, 15 Sivan 54[..], so 1640–1739 CE. Location: possibly Cairo, based on the reference to Ḥārat al-Saqāliba in line 4. …
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Numerous pages of a handbook filled with someone's exercises for learning to write either Arabic or Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown, probably Ottoman era. Of documentary interest …
Awaiting description
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yosef b. Ismāʿīl al-Iṭrābulusi, Ascalon, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Circa 1060. Discusses the import and export of goods through Ascalon. …
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Leaf from a court ledger. At the top of recto: Contract of debt. Abū l-Munajjā b. Abū Manṣūr ha-Kohen owes Abu al-Makārim b. Barakāt al-Khāmī …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Senyor Karo y Frances & Company (numerous letters to the same addressee have survived: see tag). Dated 7 Shevat [5]568 …
Letter from חצרייה(?) and her mother to פוצילא. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 14th century. The writers report on the condition of the …
Recto: Letter sent to al-Mahalla concerning various business matters and dealing with the sale of sugar, chewing gum (mastaka) and rice. Dated 1165. Mentions a …
Legal or official document(s) or drafts thereof. In Arabic script. There are numerous text blocks on each side. The inverse document on the recto is …
List of names, Mubārak b. Ḥasan, the dyer (ṣabbāgh), Ḥasan b. Salāma Ṣūrī (from Tyre), [...] Ḥusayn, Mardūk b. Mūsā; with numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of an Arabic document, likely legal. The beginnings of ~14 lines are preserved.
A leaf that was once folded that looks completely blank. Perhaps originally a wrapper for another document in this folder (compare fol. 27).
Unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL)
Bifolium from a court register. Fol. 1v: Verbatim copy (nuskha... naqalnāhā mila be-mila) of a marriage contract. Dated: Tuesday, 19 Elul 1468 Seleucid = 27 …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Apparently private rather than fiscal based on the use of numerals and the format with columns …
List of expenses - perhaps for building? In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: the year was recorded in the recto heading l. 2 but some …
Fragment of a bifolium in late Hebrew script, in Hebrew, possibly glosses on the story of Joseph.
Amorous song in Judaeo-Arabic. Both the speaker (עבדך) and the person (סידי) addressed are grammatically male. There is reference to a beautiful girl only in …
Legal document mentioning a certain Efrayim; mirrored script. (Information from CUDL)