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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Cairo. May even give a year, but needs further examination.
No Scholarship Records
Private accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer and Abū Zikrī owe the son of Rabbenu Merayot 7 dinars for silk. Goes on to list various transactions …
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Recto: part of a ketubba for ʿAmāʾim bt. [...] and Shelomo b. [...]. The document stipulates that Shelomo agrees not to take a second wife. …
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Verso: Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning a purse of 77 dinars bearing the name of Yaʿaqov b. …
Immense list of communal contributions for Pesaḥ 5553 AM (March-April 1793 CE). The list contains 397 entries that comprise at least 449 individuals. MCD.
Pharmacological text including various recipes for drugs mostly based on vegetable ingredients and aimed at curing the digestive system. A page from an Arabic literary …
Marriage contract. Location: Tiberias (here called Tiberias Colonia / טיבריא קלוניא). Dated: Thursday, 12 Sivan [4]795 AM = 22 May 1035 CE. Groom: Yiṣḥaq b. …
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Popular literature. In Judaeo-Arabic. The portion of the story on this fragment opens with the appearance of a healer before a king: "...and princes and …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly. Medieval-era. A beit din is mentioned in line 2 and a sum of dirhams in line 3. Requires further examination.
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Could be a receipt.
Trousseau list. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Heshvan [4]7[..], which means no later than Heshvan 4799 AM, which is 1038 CE. Appointment of someone's brother R. Yehuda …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Not completed (perhaps because of an error in lines 4 and 5). Location: Fustat. Dated: Elul 1552 Seleucid, which is 1241 CE. …
Letter in Ladino from Shemuel Sidi to his brother-in-law Gabriel Conforte relating to business transactions (17th century). Lines 8-9, 15 mention a variety of individuals …
Mercantile letter, probably 11th century. Very damaged. (Information in part from CUDL)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Legal declaration from Cairo, 1737 CE (18 Shevat 5491), in which the witnesses testify that Shelomo b. David Valensi divorcd his wife Sarah bt. …
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Folio from a ledger of communal accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century. Headed "Shabbat Maṭot: the collector (jābī) of the mezonot—Bū Naṣr...." Names include …
Small fragment of unidentified text in Arabic, probably documentary.
Two words from a decree: ولما كتب.... Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Magical document with a humanoid figure and Greek alphabets.
Declaration of a ban of excommunication against anyone who owes money in any form to Abū l-Khayr al-Ṣayrafī known as Ibn Khalfa and does not …
Letter fragment. One of the addressees is Yosef on the verso. In Judaeo-Arabic, with part of the address or a postscript in Arabic script.(it looks …
Fragment probably from a medical book or notebook. Mentions temperaments, dryness, humidity, adding of water, and four fingers. CUDL
Letter in Hebrew by the muqaddam (head) of the community of Minyat Zifta, announcing that he had excommunicated a debtor according to an instruction by …
Mostly torn and effaced release in which Khalaf and Musafir, sons of Shemuel b. Khalaf, acknowledge to have received through Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen 250 gold pieces …
Letter from Herzl to Doctor M.I. Bodenheimer about their negotiations with von Richthofen – 1899CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 245) – in …
Legal fragment. Damaged and in need of conservation. There is probably additional text (including the year) hidden in the middle where the paper has accordioned. …
Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat, to his son Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early 13th century. To be delivered to …
Letter from Eli Ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, Jerusalem, to Efrayim He-Ḥaver b. Shemarya, Fustat. Dating: approximately 1045 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE based on …
Jottings related to the laws of Neziqin. Notable for jottings possibly copied from a legal document (והכל שריר ובריר וקים) including the names of witnesses: …
End of a ketubba.
Letter from David b. Moshe Bonfat (בונפט) ha-Sefaradi to Avraham ha-Sefaradi. In Hebrew. Dating: probably no earlier than 15th century. The sender reports that he …
Letter fragment. The ends of ~7 lines are preserved. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century.
Recto: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Majd is to give to the messenger of the ḥaver …
Legal testimony. Location: Fustat. Dated: 16 Sivan 1394 Seleucid, which is 1082 CE. Shaʿyā b. David b. [...] makes a declaration concerning the parnas Mevorakh …
Minute fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs. Very faded/fragmentary.
State document, in Arabic script. Extremely fragmentary decree, barely one word readable per line. In perpendicular is another Arabic script in thin pen containing a …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals, mostly crossed out. Some accounts are also visible on the recto where the paper has been reused for …
Arabic script (VMR)
Accounts in Ladino. On a bifolium, arranged in columns. Needs further examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew dealing with funds from a wide variety of Ottoman tax farm districts (iltizām) and their respective tax farmers (multazim). Dated …
Brief Arabic document or bottom of a larger document. Two lines and a shorter third line at bottom left are preserved. Difficult to read except …
Detailed inventory of the estate of a very wealthy person, including a debt of 125 dinars to tax-farmers. Dating: ca. 1145 CE. Mentions names such …
Certificate of the Qodesh. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 20 Shevaṭ 1564 Seleucid = 21 January 1253 CE, under the authority (reshut) of the Nagid David I …
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Legal document. It seems a bill of sale for a male slave (ghulām) possibly named Jarīr. A (low) sum of 6 dinars is named. The …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Damaged and faded. Likely something religious or literary, but might be a letter. On verso mentions the punishment of the …
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Nissim of Qayrawan to the Tunisian port of Qabis, c. 1000. The letter concerns legal questions asked by the addressee from …
Medical recipes in Arabic script.
Minute fragment from a legal deed mentioning [Mo/Mena]she Halevi the elder. Might connect with T-S AS 214.263. AA