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Letter possibly in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. 8 partial lines are preserved. Rubbed and faded. Mentions a Sar Shalom who is dead. …
No Scholarship Records
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: End of Sivan, 5578 AM, which is July 1818 CE. Apprentice contract for Avraham Fuerte, the student, and …
1. בע׳׳ה
2. בפעח׳׳מ באו היקר נשא ונע׳ יאודה בונאן יצ׳׳ו והבחור ונחמד אברהם פוירטי יצ׳׳ו והודו שניהם הודאה
3. גמו׳ …
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Ketubba, beautifully illuminated, from Cairo, dated 16 April 1821 CE (14 Nisan 5581 AM) for (Benyamīn) Ḥayy Dayyān b. David Dayyān and Mazal Ṭov bt. …
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Letter from a certain Aharon to Eliyyahu the Judge about a lack of success of a collection made for himself. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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Legal document. Partnership agreement in a press (maʿṣara). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday 4 Tamuz 5275 AM, which is 1515 CE. Currencies: Peraḥim. The …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat. Refers to the arrival of ʿImrān to Fustat; the addressee is to ask him for …
Verso: Addendum or subsequent court record concerning Abū l-Munā and 90 jars of wine as well as other commodities and someone named Ṣāʿid. This record …
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Accounts, letter drafts, and miscellaneous jottings in Arabic script, Greek/Coptic numerals, and Judaeo-Arabic.
Bifolio of mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century.
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on goods that arrived and prices (incl. mercury) and goods that were sent with the bearer of this letter (incl. …
Legal document, an iqrār, beginning with "aqarr", in Arabic script. An unrelated faded document in Arabic script on verso. Needs examination.
Probably prognostications. In Arabic script. Each side begins "idhā...." Verso ends "wa-llāhu aʿlam." The content is difficult to read but refers to winds, storms, ships, …
Recto (original use): List of names accompanied by numbers, e.g. Manṣūr Ibn al-Zaʿīm; Abū ʿAbdallāh; ʿAnnān(?) b. ʿAbd al-Muḥsin; Futūḥ al-Ḥājj; Manṣūr the aquaintance of …
Business letter to Barhūn b. Mūsā. Reused for accounts (by Barhūn?). Long but very faded. Needs further examination for content. (Information in part from CUDL)
Short, faded note to 'al-melammed' telling the addressee to take a 'dast' (a certain quantity) from 'this paper,' for the writer is without employment.
Two or three amulets containing remarkable illustrations: a demon with a tail, tutu, scepter, horns, and curly hair; a seated woman; and a man being …
Marriage contract (ketubba). The marriage gift at the conclusion of this marriage contract is five dinars and the payment required at the termination of the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to a certain Moshe. Dating: Late, based on handwriting. The writer may be a woman: Sitt [...]. The handwriting is dreadful. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto, with the address on verso: Letter from Abū ʿAlī, apparently in Fustat, to (his father) Abū l-ʿIzz al-Sharābī, also in Fustat, specifically Sūq al-Kabīr. …
Letter from [...] b. Yūsuf to Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl [...]. In Arabic script. (The addressee is confusingly called 'my father' in the body of the …
Small fragment of a letter to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. From one of the Spanish merchants in his circle, resembling the documents of India Book …
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Bottom part only, with many witness signatures. Reused on recto for liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information in part from …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions something black; and Ḥabība.
Document concerning the sale of a female enslaved person named Saʿāda. Dated: 27 Nisan 1509 Seleucid, which is 5 April 1198 CE. (The main bill …
Verso: list of names somehow related to a legal document.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and some Arabic script (mainly for the word "nuṣf"). Mentions grapes, basil, watermelon, fennel, soap, thread and a tailor, pigeons, frankincense. The …
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, …
Letter from Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, to Yosef b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1053. The sender has been thwarted in his …
אטאל אללה יאסידי בקאך ומן תופיקה לא אכלאך וכא[ן לך ומעך נ]אצר פי גמיע אמורך
ברחמתה[תקדם] כתאבי אליך לי בקי כתמה אללה [תעאלי אסמה עלי]ך ועל …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly addressed to 'the dear brother al-Kohen Hadar ha-Soḥerim." Dating: Early 13th century. The writer mentions things that were lost during this …
Letter of recommendation on behalf of a poor man, addressed (probably) to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel haSefardi (information from Cohen, Voice of the Poor, p. 28).
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Letter sent from Alexandria by Shemuel b. Aharon to Abu Ishaq Avraham b. Moshe in Fustat, explaining why he could not send the silk which …
Accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Decorated, torn, Karaite ketubah from Cairo. Dated on Thursday in 5566 AM but most of the date is lost to damage. The groom's name is …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter in Arabic script. Or maybe a petition—the second block opens with "yuqabbil al-arḍ wa-yunhī." Needs examination.
Letter, probably. Small fragment. Greetings to a Kohen.
Legal document, mentioning Sitt al-Hanāʾ(?) bt. Yaʿaqov. Extremely faded. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document. Deed of dedication of a house in Damascus to the Great Synagogue, ca. 1090. A certain Meshullam, known as Ibn Shurayq al-Dimashqi, i.e. …
.... and four hundred according to the era to which we are accustomed here in Fustat of Egypt which
is situated on the Nile River. This happened…
Outline or summary of a legal document. On parchment. Involves Kurma bt. ʿAyyāsh al-ʿIblānī; her sister Diyār the wife of Bāqī; and someone's mother [...] …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Draft, based on the corrections and annotations in the margin. Involves Yosef b. …
Fragment (lower left of recto and of verso) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter involving money owed between various parties. People named are: Makīn; al-Shaykh al-Ajall al-Rashīd …
Fragment of a book of cosmetics written on parchment. It deals with the hair (the fall of the hair, curled hair, half-curled hair, and straight …
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List in Judaeo-Arabic with names, locations, and sums of money. Likely early modern, 16th-century or later. Among the names and locations listed there is reference …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (left side only). In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Location: Fustat. Dated: [14]66 Seleucid, which is 1144/45 CE. Groom: Avraham …
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Mentions "al-kātib ... al-ishrāf(?) Muḥammad b. Ḥammūd al-Qāḍī."
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Addressed to the Jewish community of Jabal Wānsharīs (גמאעה אלגבל ואנשריס, i.e., Ouarsenis in present-day Algeria). The sender's name includes …