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Tax receipt, Fatimid. Trigger: addā.
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from the ḥaver ʿEli b. ʿAmram to the physician Avraham b. Furāt ha-Kohen. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1051–62 CE, as Daniel b. ʿAzarya …
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Recto: Unidentified text in Hebrew script. Verso: Faded and damaged documentary fragment mentioning al-Ramla and "to Egypt" and "Adonenu." Dating: likely 11th century. Needs further …
Petition to a Fatimid vizier regarding the repayment of a debt. The petitioner asks for help in dealing with the head of the arsenal, Abū …
يعرف با[ـبـ]ـي [ا]لاعسر ريس الصناعة و[ ]
بين المملوك وبينه معاملة ولا عليه حسـ[ـا]ـب ولا جبة ضمان ولا كفالة
وأن الريس المذكور ضيق على …
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Seems like a fragment from a poetic Hebrew letter. AA
Letter sent from an unknown person, in Alexandria, to a family member named Yosef, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: Probably no earlier than 15th century. …
Arabic (script) writing exercise.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Location: Yemen. Dated: Shawwāl 1177 AH = April/May 1764 CE. At least six witness clauses appear at the bottom.
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Financial receipt (waqf related) with a seal. Dated [1]256 AH which is . Issued to Hārūn al-Yahūdī and another name appears with the title Hoca.
Minute fragment. Opening words of a legal deed.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very neat. Mentions a Jewish man named Fayrūz many times, and at one point he is called "al-Qaraʾ …
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Recto: part of a love poem in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: jottings. (Information from CUDL.)
Literary text, in Arabic script. "اربعة مقدمات". Needs examination.
Fragments of magnificent Hebrew calligraphy accompanied by a combative note from a scribe: "Furthermore, the wicked inhabitants of Mahdiyya(?) harass me in the work of …
Legal document(s). In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Recto may be a deathbed will. Mentions a house; a …
Responsa of the geonim. published.
Minute fragment, opening line of a court record. The name Ze[daq]a the elder is partially preserved. AA
Legal record (#35). Loan contract, outline. Stating that a contract shall be written regarding a loan of 6 5/6 dinars to be paid back in …
Literary text in Hebrew, probably.
List (fragment) of distributions to two cantors and others. Cash for the needy or salary supplementation for the poorly paid; with Coptic numerals. Last item: …
Letter concerning several business matters. Contains details about prices of grain. The writer also mentions the local wali (chief of police) and 'amil (finance official). …
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List of expenses on food and crockery made on a journey. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
ב . .וק
א> א וט עת
ווזוז ז ה נוק א …
Letter from a teacher reporting to a father that his child arrived at school with a little packet containing some silver (fidda), which the teacher …
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Quittance in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Unfinished. Sumr bt. ʿEli releases any debt owed to her by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Lists different households (e.g. al-Muʿallim Shelomo) and itemized lists (e.g., vegetables, bamya, muluıhiyya, parsley/baqdūnis). The word עוצמאני/ʿuṣmānī appears throughout: an Ottoman …
Documentary?, perhaps a list or letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Medieval-era. Further examination required.
Verso: An ʿalāma, possibly from a larger state document, or practice. "Al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi li-man lahū al-ḥamd." On recto there is unidentified text both in Judaeo-Arabic …
List of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic where the object "עדה" is being expressed in various quantities of the unit of weight "ratl", here expressed in plural …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century. Mentions: Yehuda; a boat; Abū Mūsā. Written at the beginning of Sivan. Holiday blessings …
Guide to the numerical value of the Arabic letters.
Letter possibly from Abū l-Maḥāsin. In Arabic script. Dating: probably ca. 13th century. Mentions the ghulām of al-shaykh al-Muhadhdhab. Quite faded. Needs further examination. Excerpts: …
Fragment of a marriage contract, most likely. Sets out conditions including a menstrual purity clause and therefore probably dating to no earlier than the late …
The first page from a letter in three languages requesting aid and assistance coming from the compensation of "Raḥov ha-Nahār" in Jerusalem – the second …
Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era.
Trousseau list as part of a ketubba. Mentions cloth and currency. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Arabic script. Two lines. Refers to recovery from an illness.
Hebrew poetry. The name Ḥalfon b. Ḥiyya appears underneath (ownership note?).
Two lines from an official letter in Arabic script. Mentions the people of Giza, and the making of tawābīt, probably a reference to coffins? Reused …
Appeal in which Elli Mosseri seeks reconciliation with his wife and the cancellation of the court ruling for the payment of a monthly amount of …
List of about sixty recipients of charity, some identical with those in T-S NS J293. One section is superscribed 'In the Tujib' (a quarter of …
Legal document in Arabic script. With witness signatures. One of them is Mūsā b. ... b. Aḥmad. Needs examination for content.
Dirge (seliḥa) written by Efrayim b. Shemarya after the death of the gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda, May 1051.
Booklet containing Hebrew poems/prayers, with an ownership note: "this daftar belongs to Netan'el b. Elʿazar." There are some marginal notes in Arabic script, but no …
Legal fragment. Dating: ca. 13th or 14th century based on handwriting. Mentioning [Reuven?] al-Kohen, [...] b. Yosef, and maybe Abū l-Bahāʾ. (Information in part from …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, Hebrew, and possibly another language. Late. The name Yosef al-Rumi appears at upper left. Currencies include גרושוש, פצה, and ראייל.