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Jottings of business accounts
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Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī, in cash, 2 …
Verso (original use): Large letter in Arabic script. This is a fragment from the left side of the document. Needs examination for content.
Family letter in Arabic script, from a distant man to his children and wife. Dating: Probably Mamluk era, or possibly early Ottoman era, based on …
A curious fragment of a late calligraphic legal document (though the date does not survive), possibly appointing Avraham b. Uri Shabbetay Ashkenazi as someone's agent …
Verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic with introductory rhymed praises in Hebrew. Addressed to al-shaykh al-Talmid. Little of the substance is preserved. Mentions ḥannuka and shabbat. Recto: …
Legal document. Fragment of a prenuptial agreement written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). The wife is permitted to leave her house only with …
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Verso (primary use): fragment of a legal document, mentioning the holy city (Jerusalem). Location: Egypt (on the Nile, probably Fustat). Date not preserved.
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Business letter, perhaps a draft or a copy from a letterbook. Dated: 12 Tammuz 5559 AM, which is 15 July 1799 CE. Dealing mainly with …
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Fragmentary court record mentioning Daniel the Nasi and Yeḥizqiyya Rosh ha-Gola (Head of the Diaspora). Mentions a payment or fine of 10 dinars to the …
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Legal document written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. A father disinherits his younger daughter Sitt al-Nās (and her husband) …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Official letter in Arabic script. ~4 lines preserved. Reused for Hebrew literary text. Needs examination.
Legal fragment in Hebrew. Some unusual formulae, and unusual hand. Late? T-S AS 206.304 and T-S AS 206.304 seem to be two different legal documents …
Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The lessee is named Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm al-Sāmirī (the Samaritan). In the upper margin, there …
Verso: Note in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to pay the bearer one dirham, "because the need for it …
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List of names and accounts under the heading "Sues" (סואייס). The dating for this fragment is likely from 16th-century. The verso is blank but on …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions collaterals (ruhūnāt) left with somebody; Abū ʿAlī; the addressee's wife; payments in installments. The addressee is asked to respond because "your …
On verso Arabic Astrological text. Above the text two Hebrew signatures: 'Eli Hakohen b. Yeshu'a and Shemuel Hakohen Rosh Yeshiva shel Golah (Head of the …
Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355) to a certain Rabbenu Avraham "the diadem of [...]." Yehoshuaʿ informs Avraham that …
Fragment (left side) of a legal document in Arabic script.. Involving [...] b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī. Dated: possibly 454 AH = 1062/63 CE if read correctly.
Legal testimony. Dating; 13th century. Involves Faḍā'il the cantor, R. Ye[ḥi]el, Bū Naṣr b. al-[...], and Makhlūf. There is a dispute over the kosher butchering …
Verso (original use): ḥikr (ground-rent) receipt in Arabic script for the Jewish community's properties (املاك) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (the Fortress of the Lamps) in Fustat. …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a certain Reuven [Najjar y Feliz?] to Moshe Najjar y Feliz, probably his brother, dated 4 Settembre '56. It deals …
Letter from an unidentified man in the Rīf to someone important in Fustat. Dating: 1112–ca. 1126, as it mentions the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh. In …
Barely legible, damaged fragment of a letter
Islamic legal text, in Arabic script. Mentions the order of wilāya of a woman for nikāḥ.
Letter from the yeshiva in Pumbedita to two people from Qayrawan, around 850. The yeshiva members complain about the economic support that they get from …
Literary text, unidentified.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a brother. Mostly formulaic content is preserved.
Letter from Eliyya b. Yehuda b. Yahya from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1050. The writer is on a ship that is about …
תקדם כתאבי למולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה ולם נרא לך גואב ארגו שגל כיר
אן שא אללה ואללה אלעאלם מא אנא פיה ומא עלי קלבי מן…
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Letter from a woman to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon containing an update on a lawsuit between her and a male family member (possibly her son). She seems …
Business letter. Mainly in Hebrew, with scattered words in Judaeo-Arabic and perhaps other languages. Late. Dealing with flax, clove, frankincense, aloe vera, cassia fistula. Mentions …
Lease of land belonging to the Qodesh, ca. 1180. Written on the surviving upper part of a leaf, this is a draft of a deed …
In thy Name, oh Merciful!
We, the undersigned honest and able elders, declare: We had once decided
and agreed to lease the parcel in …
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Deed of sale. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday 26 Iyyar 5306 AM = 28 April 1546 CE. Currency: Peraḥim (Venetian ducats or another gold …
Verso: Court records (shimmush). Three entries. In the hand of (and signed by) Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Elul 1441 and Tishrei 1442 Seleucid, which …
Ketubba with an elaborate floral border (recto). Location: Salonica, the Hebrew/Aramaic names of the nearby rivers (?מגינות ובארוה) are unclear but there are several possibilities: …
Quittance for Saʿadya b. Avraham ha-Levi on 4 dinars he had owed. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: last decade of Iyyar 1489 Seleucid = May 1178 …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (lower left corner). Dating: Likely early 11th century, per Goitein. Groom: Moshe b. Yaʿaqov. Bride: Raḥma (רחמה), not a virgin. The …
Betrothal document, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 20 Sivan 5448 AM, which is 1688 CE. Groom: Yeshuʿa b. Avraham ha-Ḥakham ha-Rofe b. Aharon ha-Rofe ha-Ḥakham. …
Recto: Draft of a legal document. Mentions Yefet Tifʾeret ha-Qahal (maybe the same who appears in T-S 20.31, T-S Misc.24.137.1, and T-S NS J259 over …
Recto: The bottom few lines of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: In a different hand, instructions for what to load onto the boat: 23 …
Unsigned copy of a contract between Abū l-Bahāʾ b. Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and Abū l-ʿIzz (all called 'al-rayyis,' probably meaning physician here). Concerning 91 + 9 …
Fragment from an undated but quite early copy (possibly 8th/14th century) of the third book of the Qānūn of Ibn Sīnā. Portion of the first …
Tax receipt for Abū l-Surūr b. Faraj. Trigger: addā. Registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh bihi athiq', praise be to God in whom I trust.
Payment request by the "Nāmūha" association of a hundred qirsh contribution to the association by the bank "Kobān-Ān"[?] in Jerusalem in Palestine – May 30 …
Bill of divorce. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 7 Av 1559 Seleucid, which is 1248 CE. Husband: Avraham b. Yishmaʿel, from Cairo. Wife: Ḥana bt. Netanel, …