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Small fragment of an account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Nūtī.
No Scholarship Records
Verso: draft of a register of shipments of goods by Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī. Around 1050. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #353) VMR
לנא פי מרכב בן אלבר קפתין קזדיר פיהא ל לסאן כלטה יעקוב ונסים אולאד בן בניא //וקבץ בן אלבר כרא אלקפתין דינארין וקיראטין// מא פצל מן אלקזדיר ה …
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Beginnings of two legal documents and one responsum. The legal documents are from the rabbinical court of Nagid Avraham Maimonides, and the responsum is addressed …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. "The total. . . drugs and silk. . ."
Probably a receipt. The name ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz appears near the top.
Letter addressed to Avraham ʿAmram. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Draft, abandoned mid-line.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter covering family matters – [dated June 29 1923] – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 170) – in Hebrew. (information translated from Ḥassanein Muḥammad …
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Fragment with four different text blocks in Arabic script in different handwritings: (1) al-ruʾasāʾ: al-shaykh Abū Naṣr al-shaykh Abū l-Faḍl al-shuyūkh Abū l-Ḥasan ... b. …
Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen to the two brothers Avraham and Yiṣḥaq/Isḥāq Ibn al-Ḥakīm ("the physician"). Identification of the sender based on his distinctive …
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Booklist. Dating: Likely 11th century, since the latest author mentioned is Hayya Gaon (d. 1038).
Minute fragment. One Arabic word on recto. Two fragmentary names on verso (Avraham b. Shl[...] and Yosef b. Hal[fon?]
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. 1065. Details about trading pearls. Mentions partnership with Nahray’s circle of traders. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, …
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an illness and Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī. Also mentions Shimʿon and "fulān" suggesting it could be a draft or something legal. On …
Small fragment with prayers in Hebrew.
Original use: One line probably from a state document (decree?): ليجري على عادته من ذلك بالطريق ال . . . .
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: probably 1039 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium. Very faded.
Table of contents of a responsa collection
Only a signature by Aharon b. Yeshu'a the physician (Date: 1109-1143), Alexandria
Small fragment with the ends of a few lines in Ladino. Likely literary or a letter.
Letter of appeal for help. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on behalf of a woman, probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. "A divorced woman complains …
Judaeo-Arabic poetry.
Legal document. Partnership agreement (copy). Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Tishrei 1424 Seleucid = September/October 1112 CE. Same case as T-S …
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ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Petition, or official-looking letter. In Arabic script. Fragments of four lines are preserved. Mentions "the place... the slave has been there for several years... the …
Recto: Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to buying good quality musk (אלמ]סך אלטיב) for 'whatever price.' Refers to a qinṭār of something; …
Two leaves of badly damaged accounts, some of which may be charitable/communal. Late, but probably pre-16th-century based on the paleography. The heading on the right …
Legal record (#87) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 30r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 1 Kislev 5325 …
Recto: piyyuṭ. Verso: part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. One witness statement preserved (Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid). The date is only partially preserved on recto, but …
Small fragment of a letter. Elevated register, but little substance preserved. On verso there are two crossed out lines mentioning the bearer Abu l-Fakhr.
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions many materia medica.
Two unrelated Arabic script documents glued together for the sake of reuse. Upper document: Legal document. Parties mentioned include Abū l-Faḍāʾil Nāṣir b. Karam b. …
Beginning of an iqrār document, fragmentary. "اقر حسين بن علي".
Sums of money donated by members of the Jewish community in Cairo. ENA 2348.4 mentions Ibn al-Abraṣ, who may be the grandfather of the physician …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Tripoli.
Memorial list for the family of "al-Rayyis Abū l-Ḥasan, the family of our holy rabbi (Rabbenu ha-Qadosh. Mentioning many names including multiple Ḥananels and Shemuʾels, …
Biblical and liturgical text in Hebrew.
Note in which the writer apologises to the parnas for acting without consulting him. The parnas had promised to come immediately but instead Salāma came. …
Recto: Letter addressed to Yefet b. Ḥayy the Judge (bet din ha-qavuaʿ). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. 5 lines and part of the marginal text are …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Najjār.
Account containing numbers arranged in three vertical columns (FGP)
Letter from a Qaraite religious authority to a pupil containing the answers to a number of queries that the addressee had sent him, chief among …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38). Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday night, 25 Kislev 1444 Seleucid, which is 1133 …
There arranged a match before us, we the [under]signed [witnesses... X]
b. R. Japheth, (may his) e(nd be) g(ood), with Sitt al-Banāt daught…
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One line of an Arabic state document. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Interesting grids with Judaeo-Arabic writing, presumably for casting lots.
Letter from the cantor Abu Sahl (Levi), Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub. He informs him that he reached a peaceful settlement …