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Bifolio of Hebrew poetry, with one page of unidentified Arabic script, possibly medical.
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Document containing a few names: Abu al-Faraj b. Asad, Shemuʾel b. Surur. Also mentioned are representatives of the Sultan, the destruction of houses, and the …
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Letter addressed to Abū Kathīr Efrayim al-Ḥibr (=Efrayim b. Shemarya), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b. Shemarya was …
Account of the Qodesh: payments to workers and revenue from rent, ca. probably 1043. The recto of this leaf contains details of different sums paid …
In Thy Name, oh Merciful! The list of (the sums) collected during the week of the end of Rabīʿ :
Sunday: Ḥusayn, 1+2. From b. Ḥarb, 1.
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Mysterious text, partially rhyming in -ar, which begins "I washed my clothes, may I be your ransom..." (Information in part from CUDL.)
Recto: Possibly a legal fragment, in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Fragment of a letter or draft of one, in Judaeo-Arabic.
Table in Arabic script. Accounts? In the margin there is also a note in Judaeo-Arabic, likely unrelated: "...the wretched slave Abū ʿAlī wrote this..."
Legal document. Damaged and faded. Location: the city of פלודס or פלורס(??). Dated: Sunday, 21 Av 4813 AM = 8 August 1053 CE. Power of …
Legal document, unfinished. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 27 Sivan 1817 Seleucid = 19 June 1506 CE. No other details preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Sahl; a house; that something (אלחלקה?) of silk sold for [...] dinars for 10, because it is scarce; also …
Very interesting late letter in (middling) Hebrew from a certain ʿOvadya (or [... b.] ʿOvadya) currently in Hamadan (!) and planning to travel to Yazd. …
Accounts in Arabic with Coptic numerals. The verso was used for piyyut liturgical poetry in Hebrew (FGP). Both of the scribal hands help to date …
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner of recto).
Blank. May belong together with ENA 2481.21 and/or ENA 2481.22.
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Unsigned. Dated: Middle third of Iyyar (year not preserved). Location: Fustat. Replacement document for a partnership agreement between Abū l-Ḥasan Menashshe …
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Letter addressed to a community. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dating: Probably 11th century. The addressees are instructed to honor, assist, and raise money for (or …
Book list written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138) Published by Allony, pp. 102–04. (AA.) See also T-S NS 190.1 + T-S NS 190.2 + …
Legal testimony. Signed and scribed by Yaʿaqov Griyani. Also witnessed by Yiṣḥaq b. Binyamin b. Shoshin. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday 3 Tishrei 5370 AM, which …
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Letter from Natan ha-Kohen ha-Mumḥe b. Mevorakh (a.k.a. Wahb b. Barakāt), in Ashqelon, to the parnas ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (a.k.a. Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. …
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Letter, in Arabic script. Starts with a basmala and contains the "inhāʾ" formula. Mentions difficulties; "ويشهد الله تعلى لقد صنعت علينا غاية الصعوبه والله تعالى …
Accounts with names such as Barakāt and [Abū l]-Faḍl al-Parnas and al-Peʾer, with Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from someone in Alexandria (Gil: Ibrahīm b. Farrāḥ al-Iskandrānī) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Ca. 1055, apparently the beginning of the summer. The sender …
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Fragment of a beginning of a letter. Addressed to Abū l-Wafāʾ, in al-Maḥalla.
Letters in Judaeo-Arabic. On a narrow sliver of paper. Dating: probably 13th century. Recto: Letter addressed to Elʿazar, complaining about the addressee's delay in copying …
Recto: Letter draft probably from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt Umm Dā'ūd. In Judaeo-Arabic. Congratulating her on the successful delivery of her daughter …
Letter fragment in Arabic script, reused for a communal register. Dating: likely late 18th-century based on other neighboring communal fragments that were recorded on commercial …
P4: Letter from Ismaʿīl to his cousin (ibn ʿamm) al-Shaykh al-Ḥaver David ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Mentions Mūsā al-Ashmūnī attending …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Literary text in Arabic script.
Letter in Ladino and Hebrew.
Lease contract for an entire top-floor apartment rented by Abu al-Ḥasan Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Menashshe. from Abu al-Fadl Mevorakh b. Yefet. The place is described …
Letter from an unidentified person connected to Ibn ʿAwkal, ca. 1030. The letter is illegible in many places. Discusses the will of one of the …
Legal document mentioning Sitt al-Dār and Abū [...]. (Information from CUDL)
Qaraite formulary for a bill of debt drawn up in the city of Sh[ām = Damascus?]. (There is also some text that seems like it …
Letter addressed to Yosef ha-Kohen Segan ha-Kohanim. In Hebrew. Containing greetings and an apparent request for charity. The letter is written in the same hand …
Letter from Shelomo to Shemuʾel, c. 18th century. (Information from CUDL)
Bill of sale for an eslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No details preserved. (Not a join with …
Bifolium from the Kuzari. Known handwriting?
Letter from ʿImrān b. Yaḥyā Ibn al-Rofe, unknown location, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee opens with the death of his …
Text on parchment, primarily in Hebrew, invoking God with various epithets. There is diagonal marginal text (resembling the format of a letter) which contains some …
Recto: Unidentified writings in Arabic script, maybe accounts or scribal practice. Verso: Fragment of a legal deed of acknowledgment (iqrār), involving a debt. The beginnings …
Letter from Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya regarding trade, including the purchase of merchandise and payments. The writer's distress is shown from the letter. Was probably written …
Table of items in Arabic script. All of them seem to be foods/spices/perfumes/materia medica, such as chicory (hindibāʾ), caraway (karāwiyya), and pomegranate blossom (jullanār). Cut …
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Calligraphically written. The subject matter is communal strife; some wicked person is stirring up trouble, and the results are government decrees …
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Order of one pound of good meat from al-muʿallim Ṣadaqa (evidently a butcher). Cf. T-S AS 177.398 and T-S AS 177.468.
26 pages from a book on divination based on biblical verses.
Massive account with an inventory of a (druggist's) shop (headed "muḥāsabat al-dukkān"). In Arabic script. Some of the very numerous commodities and items mentioned: pear …
Letter from Netanel b. Moshe ha-Levi ha-Shishi to two of his friends (Yosef b. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen and 'my brother Elʿazar), during his confinement to his …
Legal document in Arabic script. On parchment. Fragment (bottom only). Needs examination for content, date, signatures.