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A colophon for a manuscript now lost, containing Musaf prayer for the Hebrew New year. The copyist is Mevōrakh b. Moshe, known from other colophons …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions ginger.
List in Arabic script, possibly an account.
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script.
Verso: Receipt in Arabic, medieval-era. The paper was recycled for a liturgical text in Hebrew. A large piece of fibrous string is visible on the …
Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
Decorated Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Yosef Hakohen b. Barukh. The bride is Esther known as Rachel d. Avraham Halevi.
Letter addressed to "the sages and leaders of the holy congregations of Kurdistan (קהלות הקדושות כורדיסתאן)" and specifically Shimʿon Duga. "The writer was probbly the …
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Legal fragment. Only a few words remain from the end of the document, and then 11 signatures. Location: Jubayl (probably Byblos in Lebanon, but there …
Blessings (mi sheberakh) for the prominent merchant Moshe ha-Kohen ha-Sar ha-Adir Tifʾeret ha-K[ohanim] Hemdat ha-Sarim Neʾman ha-Soḥerim ʿAyn ha-ʿEda.
Verso: Document in Arabic script. The word al-mamlūk appears in the the first line after the basmala. Needs examination.
Legal document in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 11th century if not earlier. Might be a join with ENA 3656.1, but it is too hard to tell. …
Fiscal account or receipt. Mentions a name at the top and mentions wheat further down. Needs examination.
Letter from Yiṣḥaq de Curiel. In Ladino and western Arabic numerals. Dating: early 19th century. Opens with a list of items received (ריסיוי...), including a …
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Small fragment, probably literary
Fragment of a list of pledges to charity made at a wedding. The bridegroom, styled "the elder, the scholar Abu al-Baha" (written in larger letters, …
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Verso (original use): Legal fragment (upper left corner). In Arabic script. Involves Abū Naṣr b. Maḥfūẓ al-Isrāʾīlī, potentially identical with Abū Naṣr b. Efrayim from …
Letter addressed to "Shaykh al-ʿIlm wa-l-Milla al-Isrā'īliyya." In Arabic script. Dating: Late, based on linguistic features and handwriting. The content is not entirely clear. The …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Karaite pre-nuptial agreement. Dated Monday 17th Sivan 5524 AM (1764 CE). Location: probably Cairo, in the home of Naḥūm Kohen Gabbay. The groom is Shelomo …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomo …
IB I, 24a-24b. Copy of three court proceedings involving the sale of a house. Nājiya, the wife of Yefet b. Avraham, 'the Pride of the …
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Legal document, or possibly a letter describing a legal case. Three continuous fragments from the middle section are preserved. Concerns a woman's house; a deceased …
Legal formulary of Saadya Gaon (Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq). Information from FGP.
Legal document. Receipt. The receipt confirms that Sittuna b. Khalaf received 12 items from Umm Fuṣayl as an inheritance. Shabbat b. al-ʿAzar acted as witness …
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Deathbed will. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Minyat Ashna. Dated: Monday, last decade of Shevaṭ 1461 Seleucid, which is January 1150 CE, under the authority of the …
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Letter mentioning Abū l-Barakāt. Only the closing greetings are preserved. Possibly sent to Cairo (if עיר ה]מלוכה on verso is part of the address). (Information …
Literary text in Spanish.
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto is extremely damaged/faded, while verso is mostly legible. The hand may be known. Recto mentions ʿImrān; a woman; legal proceedings; corrupt …
Letter from a certain Yehuda to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Highly calligraphic. The letter concerns people who were captured in Palermo and also …
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Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Judaeo-Arabic, too faded to identify (FGP). Yemeni hand.
Family letter in Arabic script. Mentions a sale of something, the addressee's mother, requesting a response to this note, and referring to 'this noble month' …
Fragment of a business letter in Arabic script (wa-innamā katabtu... al-ḥisāb...).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Detailed and well-preserved. People named: Ibn al-Maqāniʿī; Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣūrī; Zikrī b. Yaḥyā; Yūsuf b. A[...]; Yiṣḥaq b. Bundār (perhaps the same …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Unclear if private or official.
Letter to a notable. Fragment. The opening lines are in poetic Hebrew. The sender expresses his happiness receiving a letter from the addressee: "seeing your …
Fragment from the bottom of a text in Arabic, may be documentary. Looks late. Mentions ilā al-majlis.
Minute fragment from a bill, probably regarding a payment, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). AA
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that he still has to rest in the house for several days after every one day in the market. …
Business account, probably. In Arabic script. Repeatedly mentions various numbers of "qiṭaʿ" along with sums of money. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Interesting Judaeo-Arabic paraphrase of Genesis 22 (the binding of Isaac). Very small bifolio on parchment with two binding-holes at the fold.
Legal record (#121) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 40r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 3 [...] 5329 …
Fragments of bills of divorce. T-S 10J3 ff. 2-11. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
IB I, 13a. Letter fragment from Yosef b. David Lebdi to Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Bundār, the representative of the merchants in Aden, written in …
Possibly a legal text. Mentions sums of money including silver and 50 gold coins. Hand of Shelomo b. Yehuda? Very faded. Needs further examination.
Fragment from a 16th-century letter in rhymed prose. (Information from CUDL) On the verso a name appears possibly as the recipient of the letter: Abraham …