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Ketubba (marriage contract), formulary, found inside of a Palestinian prayerbook. The booklet also contains formularies for a bill of divorce and the husband's instructions to …
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Medical prescription in difficult Arabic script. Information from Goitein's note card.
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Letter from Yoshiyyahu Gaon. Dating: probably 1024 CE. Describing the imposition by the Muslim authorities of a special, heavy tax on the Jews of Jerusalem. …
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Account (cuento) in Ladino and western Arabic numerals. Mentions Eliyya Palombo.
No Scholarship Records
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: beginning of a letter (or report), followed by a poem in Arabic script, mentioning Baghdad, which may be part of the letter. Verso: rhymed …
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Letter, possibly official, relating to mosques and construction projects and donations. Mentions specifically the tiles of the mosque. Also "the properties of the government in …
وسعرا؟ وكثر ملكا؟ ما لانه للسـ..
الع….وعهد الى دور في عـ[
وجماع ودار برسم الدعاة…جميع..
واهدا الاحجار لبنا…واصحابه ولمر..
امره الى ان…
Dowry deed from Fustat, October 1171 CE (17 Heshvan 1483 Seleucid). It was customary to bring together all the objects of the dowry and to …
From the book of Ezekiel, on vellum, in columns, with Masoretic annotations.
Calandar for the year 1153/54 CE. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Accounts in Judeo-Arabic that list a wide array of individuals and quantities which may indicate payments given the recto's heading "עלם אל מדכול מן טיבית" …
Hebrew literary text. On one of the pages, there is a line in Arabic script from an earlier document.
Account in Arabic script and Coptic numerals.
Accounts in Ladino. 2 folios. Quite detailed. Currency: levanim; metecales; ducados; and possibly medin (מיד). Commodities include garments, textiles, and items of gold. Also contains …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomo b. Yehuda served …
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Four fragments of a ketubah from 1106. The bride is Sitt al-Dar b. Yefet. The groom is Eli b. Yehezkel ha-Haver be-Sanhedrin Gedola. Contains also …
A list of items beginning with the basmala and ending with an inshāllah. The name al-shaykh Dāʾud appears at upper left (in a different hand). …
Drafts of Karaite conditional divorce documents in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Sivan 5503 AM, which is 1743 CE. Two of the drafts provide detailed record of how …
:Draft one
List of commodities and their prices. Mentions six loads of pepper, and silk.
Small letter fragment, seems to be written by Efrayim b. Shemaryah. AA
Complete calligraphic letter from Yosef b. Mordekhay, in Fustat, to the sons of Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Mashshāṭī (same family as Ibn al-Amshātī?), probably also in …
Late legal document in Hebrew involving the financial arrangements between David Siqil and Avraham Shunina upon the deah of Yaʿaqov Siqil (the father of David).
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother the court clerk Ḥalfon, who was active ca. 1100–1138 CE. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:422, …
State document, unidentified genre. The beginnings of six lines are preserved. Dating: mentions the year 421 AH, corresponding to 1030 CE. Possibly a record of …
Letter addressed to 'the boy' Abū l-Futūḥ al-Muhadhdhab the physician in the Dār al-[...] in al-Bāṭiliyya (evidently an area of New Cairo which was originally …
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Letter in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. Possibly addressed to Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is an extremely polite reminder to give the …
Recto: Letter of appeal for charity from a cantor to a dignitary named Mevorakh, likely the head of the Jews Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. In Hebrew, …
Legal document; probably concerning a transfer of property. Mentions Malīḥa bt. Yosef. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). (Information from CUDL)
Recto: injunction issued by the vizier of al-Fāʾiz (Ṭalāʾīʿ b. Ruzzīk) ordering Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Kāmil b. ʿAbd al-Karīm to execute all of his …
[ al-Fāʾiz bi-Na]sr Allāh, commander of the faithful, the benedictions of God be upon him and upon his p…
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Letter of appeal for assistance. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 16th–18th century, based on the hand and layout. Needs further examination for content and names.
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 15 Adar II [...], under the authority of the Nagid Avraham (Maimonides). The year is difficult to read but Avraham …
Letter from Toviyya to Eliyyahu the judge. Sent to Fustat, to the qāʿa of the faqīh Abū Manṣūr. Toviyya informs Eliyyahu that he found no …
I greet the dignity of the august patron, the great scholar, the honor and holiness of our master and teacher Elijah, the dear prince,
the …
Letter fragment from Daniel, the Nasi of all Israel, Rosh Yeshivat Ge'on Yaʿaqov addressed to Mevorakh b. Saadya. Nothing apart from the first line of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Cairo. May even give a year, but needs further examination.
Table in Arabic script and other cryptic markings (VMR).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Bū Naṣr, al-Shaykh al-Thiqa, Yeshuʿa, Maḥāsin, Yiftaḥ, the wife of Bū Isḥāq, Ṭāhir. Also mentions …
Ketubba for Sittūna bt. [...] and Yaʿir b. Khalaf, dated Nisan 13[..] of the Seleucid Era (= 989–1089 CE) in Egypt. Total dower: 100 dinars …
Part of a legal document in which the parties Mawhūb and ʿAllūn make a declaration. (Information from CUDL)
Qadish containing praise for an exilarch: “May He make great his welfare and the welfare of his generation like the water of the Euphrates. . …
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List of several dozen donors to the public appeal (pesiqa) for the kharāj (here probably meaning capitation tax). Last line contains a reference to Abū …
Outstanding Pledges for the Poll Tax [of the Poor]—Paid.
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Bottom of a tax receipt. Dated: 12 Rabīʿ I 509 AH = 5 August 1115 CE.
Bifolio. The left page of recto and both pages on verso are filled with accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as …
Small fragment in Aramaic, perhaps from a rabbinic literary work.