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Recto (secondary use): Partnership agreement. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. The partners are Abū l-Faḍl and Avraham. On top of the Judaeo-Arabic text there are also …
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Small fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a teacher (ha-melammed); a girl (al-ṣabiyya); a request for assistance; the father of the …
Arabic legal text. Fragment about marriage (nikāḥ). Verso mentions the rule stating that a marriage is necessarily concluded in presence of the legal guardian (walī) …
Letter of appeal signed by al-Naharwani the cantor. The remnants of 7 lines, mostly blessings for the recipient, but also mentioning "terrible illnesses" (pega'im ra'im) …
A letter of appeal asking for donation. No image. Data according to Mosseri Catalogue. AA
Minute fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Probably a will (refers to the testator, hādhā l-mūṣī). The sums, probably of will distribution, are half …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in a Romance language, probably Spanish.
Phrases from the end of a medical prescription, in Arabic script. There is also a possibly unrelated line underneath, ending "ṣalawāt allāh ʿalayhi." There is …
Legal document mentioning the alley known as al-Azraq; the synagogue; oil; Bishāra; a Kohen; the ruin of a house; and social service officers (farānisa). (Information …
Receipt for ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
Verso: Order of payment. Maḥfūẓ is asked to pay 7 of something (dirhams?) to the bearer. The number is repeated in Hebrew at the upper …
Letter fragment addressed to Yiṣḥaq b. Sh[ānjī?]. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th–17th century.
Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Very long and quite damaged. Involves Shela, his paternal uncle and father-in-law Ḥalfon b. Shelomo, and his deceased wife, who …
Receipt or order of payment to al-shaykh Abū al-someone and al-shaykh Abū Naṣr, dated Friday night (laylat al-jumʿa) 19 Ramaḍān 509 (5 February 1116).
Small fragment from a legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Possibly a will, or simply a debt contract, as …
Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: An Arabic (or Judeo Arabic) letter by Moshe b. Qiash ( (קיאשto Aharon the scribe. AA
Bill of divorce. Husband: Yefet b. Menashshe. Wife: Sitt al-Kull bt. Sar Shalom. Location: Fustat. Dated: Friday, 7 Av 1395 Seleucid, which is 1084 CE. …
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Halakhic text. Looks like the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder.
Late commercial list
Legal query regarding Reuven from Const[antinople?] who asked his brother Levi of Toledo (?) to serve as his agent for marrying Leah of Toledo (?), …
IB IV, 42 (ח45). Letter from Yaʿaqov the physician, possibly in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Almeria. Dating: 1138–39 CE. Same sender as T-S …
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Legal record (#32) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(.Document 32 contd) Folio 8v
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Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen (in Alexandria) to his parents-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge and Sitt Rayḥān (in Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic. Simḥa describes in moving terms the …
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Recipes for preparing silvery and golden līqa, i.e., the threads that go in the inkwell.
Postcard in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. The printed template is headed "Union Postale Universelle Egypte Carte Postale اتحاد الپوسته العام مصر تذکره …
Literary, Arabic.
Small fragment from the end of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Letter from Ṣamṣām, a prisoner in Nābulus, to al-Qāʾid Muʿizz (according to the body of the letter) or to the heirs of Ṣārim al-Dawla, in …
Au nom de Dieu clément et miséricordieux.
Je fais savoir (au qâ'id Mu'izz), Dieu le protège et l'ait sous sa garde et en son amitié et ne
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Probably accounts, mentioning medium quality and best quality, transactions of garments, and payments. With Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Probably a letter, mentions the leader Abū Saʿd. Signs of having been used for a book binding. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). No signatures, and probably unfinished. It concerns the death of the trader Tamīm …
Letter addressed to Abū l-Faraj and Abū l-Ḥasan. In Judaeo-Arabic, with extremely rudimentary spelling and and handwriting (e.g. אכדיל אלכום for ادخل اليكم). This is …
Letter/petition from Bū Bakr to a notable named Burhān al-Dīn, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era based on hand, layout, and formulary. Asking …
Legal document. Location: Alexandria. In which witnesses including [...] b. Shemarya testify that a certain Shabbetay and his brother both died in Antalya (this is …
Recto: Hebrew letter, quoting Psalms 77:11, with the sender's name in the right margin. Dating: ca. 13th–15th century, based on hand and layout. Verso: Hebrew …
Letter from ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yeḥezqel, in Jerusalem, to ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen, in Fustat. (The addressee is named Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn al-Ḥaver b. Muʿammar …
Letter from al-Mufarrij b. al-Ḥusayn to his father Ismāʿīl(?). In part concerning a deposit (wadāʿa, line 8). Mentions travel to Damascus (ll. 10–11) and the …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, probably. Too faded to read.
Part of a ketubba for an unnamed bride and groom from Qalyūb. Date and names of witnesses are not preserved. The last 3 lines are …
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Colophon by 'the Baghdādī cantor'; ביד אלחזן אלבגדאדי AA
Legal testimony, fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal document in Arabic script. Very difficult to read. On recto there is poetry in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
IB VII, 10a + 10b + 10c + 10d. Legal document. Agency agreement. Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. T-S 10J4.16: …
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Court record in Arabic script, maybe a draft. Concerning the inheritance of the late Sittāt bt. ʿAbdallāh. This document was drawn up in Qayrawān, based …
Inventory of the books and furnishings of the Iraqi synagogue. (Cf. previous fragment.) Abū l-Faraj b. Abū Saʿd al-Miṣrī takes over the service of the …