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Tax receipt? For [...] al-Yahūdī. Sum: 1/6 dinar. Needs examination.
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Two different legal documents. One of them is catalogued as a deed of sale. These are folios 2 and 3; folio 1 is literary. The …
Fol. 1: Letter(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto is a fragmentary letter containing mostly formulaic expressions of deference (al-mamlūk, al-mawlā, al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya, request for forgiveness, request to …
Mamlūk-era, tax receipt, in Arabic script.
Bottom of a legal document, written in careful square letters.
Long list of men's names arranged in columns, about 120 in all, accompanied by numbers. Appears late.
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Table of accounts and many food items. Dated 1 Sivan [55]94 AM which is 1834 CE. The entries are organized chronologically by weekly parsha readings. …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Neatly written, large, and detailed. Evidently he wrote much more neatly when submitting accounts to his partners …
Fragment from the right part of a ketubah. The groom's name is Nethan'el. Small part of the dowry list is preserved. AA
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Small slip from the beginning of a document, probably never completed. A certain Maymūn appeared before …
Minute fragment of an Arabic state document. The first words of two lines are preserved, wide line spacing. One of the words may be wilāya. …
Letter in Hebrew. Needs examination. See folio 26 for the probable dating.
Fragment of a letter either addressed to or mentioning 'al-ḥakīm al-ajall' (the esteemed physician).
Part of a ketubba, written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen (1127-1139 CE), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manassah (1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Portion of a legal document in Arabic script. Someone acknowledges a debt to someone (... wa-dhimmatī wa-khāliṣ [mālī]...) and mentions crops (al-ghullāt).
Legal fragment. This portion contains about a dozen witness signatures, including Shabbetay b. ʿAlīl; Ghālib b. Faraj (spelled גאליב); and two people with embellished signatures: …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Headed Thursday the 8th of Rabīʿ I. SOme interesting names: Musāfir, Murhaf, Humām, al-Hudhud ("the hoopoe").
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. Dated: Shaʿbān 592 = June/July 1196 CE. Mentions Bū Saʿd.
Mercantile letter reporting that everyone at home is well and giving the prices of different goods. Wheat: 1 dinar per 9 waybas. Honey: 5 dinars …
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Letter from one community to another (possibly from Byzantium to Egypt). On parchment. In Hebrew. Large but extremely faded. Appealing for assistance on behalf of …
Minute fragment. Recto has a literary discussion about sacrifices. Verso contains three partial lines of accounts - "with [...] the goldsmith the remainder... six..." (Information …
Accounts in Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the ground rent (ḥikr) several times.
Seems like a list of prices, but only little text is preserved. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138).
Letter fragment in Hebrew, with an elaborate, learned introduction. Mentions [...] b. Peraḥya (ZL) "who was righteous in his generation." (Information in part from Goitein's …
Letter addressed to a certain ʿAbd al-Latīf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mamluk-era, ca. 13th–15th century. (Ashtor apparently dates it to the second half of the 15th …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Elegant hand. Mentions the town of Ṭanān in the delta and deals with the construction of a dike (jisr) and an irrigation …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a striking purple ink. Dating: Probably 19th century. Joins: Oded Zinger (the first five pieces) and Alan Elbaum (T-S AS …
Blank. May belong together with ENA 2481.21 and/or ENA 2481.22.
Letter in which the writer sends greetings to R. Hananel, “al-dayyan al-jalil” (the illustrious judge) and to the judge Yehiel b. Eliakim (of Aleppo). The …
מכתב אל הדיין אליה מאת בן אחות אשתו ברכאת אבן אלעטאר.
Documentary per FGP - needs examination. Not digitized?
Lower left corner of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Tells he addressee not to worry about something; mentions Abū l-Ḥasan and two volumes; a request to …
Letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Taharti to Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055), Fustat. After a disagreement over selling indigo (it is not clear what the …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (per Weiss). Abū al-Wafāʾ Shemarya al-Dallāl receives a release from Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and his sister Nasab …
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fragment of letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe. Mentions kohl.
Upper part of a rental contract. The lessee is a Jewish man named Bū l-Faraj b. Ḥayyūn.
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, …
Fragment of a ketubba, with menstrual purity conditions. The husband also accepts that he will not take a second wife. Dating: Probably late 12th or …
Literary text. In Arabic script. Leaf from an Arabic work on horoscopes/prognostications in a beautiful naskhī script. The horoscopes/prognostications are predicted for each day of …
Ketubba in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The bridegroom is possibly Is[aac b. ...]. The name of the bride and further …
Literary text, in Arabic script. From a work on pharmacopoeia and materia medica, including religious invocations and a non-medical recipe for the preparation of a …
Decree fragment, probably. Two lines partially preserved: ليكونوا على اشغالهم(؟) بها متوفرين و . . . مجتهدين . . . Reused on verso for Birkat …
Fol. 2: Quranic fragment or copy. First two verses of Sura Yāsīn (36:1-2). Basmala written in red ink on the margin.
Recto: Mathematical table of the powers of 2 through 2^15 = 32768, all in Hebrew numerals. Verso: Ladino ditty signed by Moshe Ḥaddād, which reads …
Translation/paraphrase of the book of Job into Judaeo-Arabic. Probably 18th or 19th century.
Recto: Informal note in Arabic script. "These are black ones (سودا) I have sent to my master.... increase or loss...." It is unclear what "black …