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Accounts in Hebrew script. Contributors list? There are names in one column and numbers in another. Dating: Probably 16th century. One of the names is …
No Scholarship Records
Fiscal register, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
First fragment: likely piyyut or prayer. Second fragment: tiny piece of a printed literary text, likely the bible.
Large fragment with genealogical lists of many different families, include one line of Geʾonim.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Deed of sale for an enslaved woman named Sahar. One of the parties …
Alchemical and/or medicinal recipes. The first line on ENA 2862.1r mentions silver, copper, and gold. The lower entry on ENA 2862.1v provides instructions for dealing …
Fragment from near the beginning of a letter in Arabic script, chancery-esque hand.
Fiscal document (account? in table form) with very wide line spacing, in a chancery/fiscal hand. Appears to list at least 12 towns in the upper …
Court record fragment of the sale of a European slave by a mother to her son. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 331, and Goitein's …
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Recto: part of a copy of a replacement ketubba for ʿAzīza bt. [...] and Saʿīd b. Yiṣḥaq. Dated: 5294 AM = 1533/34 CE. Location: Cairo. …
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Letter from Moshe Zussman, in Cairo, to his mother Rachel b. Avraham Zussman of Prague, in Jerusalem. In Hebrew and Yiddish.
Multifragment. Hundreds of minute fragments. Many documentary.
Business letter from Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy in Alexandria to Abū l-Afraḥ Avraham (ʿArūs) b. Yosef in Fustat. The letter contains an accounting for a …
על שמך
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ו[ ]
לד בקין מן תמוז כתמה אללה עליה באחסן כאתמה ען ח[אל סלאמה] ונעמה
ושוק אליה קרב אלל…
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Recto: State document in Arabic script. Maybe a decree. Only a few words are preserved: ]لى للفراج(؟) للتقضي(؟) . . . . . صولها
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Ketubba, nearly complete. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 10 Kislev 5583 AM = 24 November 1822 CE. Between Hayyim b. Shelomo Ḥazzāq and Esther b. Eliyyahu …
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Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic, likely 11th century.
Letter of appeal from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in the synagogue of the Jerusalemites in Fustat, to a communal dignitary. The letter is signed and …
Small fragment of an official document, maybe a decree: الخراجية على نص من نسخ . . .
Short business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. With a request to send a reply with the same mail courier (fayj) and mentioning …
Philosophical work comparing the prophecy of Moshe to other prophets. Information from Sarah Stroumsa's transcription and notes.
Legal testimony. In Hebrew, with one signature in both Hebrew and Latin script. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 5624 AM in the month of Shevat which is …
Minute blank fragment.
Part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only flattery and blessings for the addressee are preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Narrow vertical strip torn from a page of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen?
Verso (original use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, written in an elevated register and with wide line spacing. Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably. Citing a …
Verso: Letter fragment. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Mostly consists of pious references to repentance. Indirect join: Oded Zinger.
Minute fragment from a list of court procedures written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138). Hardly any text survived. AA
Bill of release (שטר פיצוי). In the hand of Yefet b. David? Dated: Ḥeshvan 1352 Seleucid = October/November 1040 CE. In which [..]āt bt. Yeshuʿa …
One phrase from the beginning of a letter addressed to Ḥananel ha-Dayyan. Dating: likely 13th century. This is fragment that mainly contains a literary text …
Accounts, detailing shipments between Alexandria and Fusṭāṭ. Mentions Abū Saʿd b. Ḥayyim. Hand of Nahray? (Information in part from CUDL)
Ketubba fragment (lower left corner). Groom: ʿAmmār b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: Surūr bt. Yefet. A sum of 12.5 dinars is mentioned. The dowry is valued at …
Recto: Bill of release. In Hebrew. Granted by Aharon b. [...] to [...] b. Mevorakh ha-Shulḥani (the banker), upon receipt of 7 dinars, somehow related …
Fragment from a Ketubah.
Fol. 2v (lower section): Fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script. The sender refers to someone who was delayed in Rashīd (Rosetta). Also mentions …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad al-M[...]ī. The content is unclear. Seems to be a deed of sale …
Verso: writing exercises in Hebrew and Arabic, and the beginning of a letter in Arabic script. The Judaeo-Arabic jotting in the upper margin is in …
Ketubba in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Dated: Tuesday, 28 Elul 14[.] Seleucid, so no earlier than 1089 CE, and no …
Late. Minute fragment from a top of a legal deed (...מעידים עדות ברורה...), mentioning אדוננו הנגיד Our Master the Nagid. AA
Commercial or official/fiscal account referring to names. Needs examination.
Letter fragment addressed to the Nasi Shelomo. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Also mentions various other distinguished people: the judge of judges (qāḍī al-quḍāh) and the …
Letter from Farah b. Avraham, probably from Qayrawan, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal. Regarding b. Awkal’s merchandise that arrived in Qayrawan and the writer's …
Business letter in Arabic script. Small fragment (lower left corner).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. The dating is likely 15th- or 16th- century based on the paleography. Some of the names mentioned are, Yiṣḥaq …
Letter of condolence to Binyamin Dayon in Qal'a
Looks literary.
Verso: List of "those who have not received their share" (al-bāqiyyīn bi-lā akhdh), i.e., in the distribution of wheat. Dating: Probably 1215–40 CE, based on …
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