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Letter from Ḥassūn b. Yaʿīsh to ʿArūs b. Yosef, concerned with business matters, and mentioning people including ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm, Abū Sahl Mukhtār, Avraham, ʿAllān, Abū …
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Receipt in Arabic script. For the rent of a shop (ujrat ḥānūtih) for the month of Rabīʿ I 565 AH. The sum: 80 wariq dirhams?
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List of debtors? Late, perhaps 16th-century based on the paleography. Mentions silk in at least two entries.
Responsum in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Perhaps given by Elḥanan b. Shemarya? Concerning a betrothal. (Information from Goitein's index …
Letter from a Jewish woman, in or near Tripoli (Lebanon), to her brother-in-law, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. She is a refugee from Jerusalem who has …
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Informal note in Arabic, or maybe a credit instrument. Headed "[...] Dar al-Jawhar," the house of gems, an institution associated with Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal. The …
Legal document mentioning ʿAbdallāh b. Abū l-Faḍl al-Levi and a certain Yefet al-Levi. (Information in part from CUDL)
Bifolio of private accounts. Mentions Saʿīd, Faḍʾil, ṣāhib al-rahn(?). Needs examination.
Draft of a petition, in Arabic script. Dating: probably late due to the placement of "mamlūk" after the basmala. The addressee is mentioned as "al-majlis …
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The title of a literary work in Arabic script: The Epistle of ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī al-Mutaṭabbib in Response to the Epistle of ʿĪsā b. al-Ḥasan …
First five lines of a letter in Arabic script from a parent to his son, including basmala and words of prayers. Separate text on verso, …
State document, unknown date. Fragment of an Arabic petition (to ". . . al-ʿālī al-mawlawī al-sulṭānī. . ."). The titles suggest a date in the …
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century, on paleographic grounds. The handwriting resembles that of Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ (cf. T-S 13J16.19 (PGPID 5888)). Mentions that …
A magical deed of divorce (geṭ), from ʿImrān b. Mordekhay of Muʿizziyya (= New Cairo?) to Ḥabība bt. [...] followed by a spell to open …
Minute fragment of a list in Judaeo-Arabic, with a variety of figures in gold dinar and various fractional values. Medieval era.
Small fragment in Hebrew script. Possibly literary.
Poetic work in Judaeo Persian. ENA 2627.113-114 is part of the same work.
Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Phrases from the letter: ויגיתהא . . . אפעאלהא אלי . . . אלשריפה . . . תשועת עולמים …
Letter from the Rosh ha-Seder to a cantor named Aharon, instructing him to appoint Ghalib b. Faraj as agent for the wife of Abu l-Ḥasan …
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Two songs with musical notation by Obadiah the Proselyte. See https://johannes-obadiah.org/, Obadiah Musical Compositions, Songs 2 and 3.
Recto (secondary use): protective prayer or charm for the inhabitants of a certain place, written in a mix of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Thursday, 5 Nisan 146[9] Seleucid, which is 6 March 1158 …
Tax receipt for [...] b. Eliyya, a Jewish silk trader (qazzāz). Needs examination for details.
Letter from Zikri b. Abu al-Rida, the perfume seller, to Abu al-Mahasin, a tailor and weaver, dealing with financial business and referring to several textiles. …
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Letter fragment (lower right corner). In Judaeo-Arabic. The scribe has large lameds. Mentions lamps (qanādīl), the phrase "wa-anta ʿalā ʿayn [mā tarā]" (cf. T-S 10J20.12), …
Fragment of a document in Arabic on verso, perhaps state-issued. Merits further examination.
Document in Arabic script. Maybe a letter. On verso there is a Hebrew literary text, listing names of biblical and/or apocalyptic significance.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1435 Seleucid, which is 1123/24 CE. Essentially nothing else preserved.
Short attestation by the Bet Din, followed by the signatures of Abraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver and [Isaac] b. Shemuʾel the Spaniard. Judaeo-Arabic pen-exercises in the …
Probably a letter. (Information from CUDL.) Only a few words are preserved.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Yoshiyahu ha-Nasi to a dignitary whom he addresses as "Sar ha-Teʿuda" and "Nagid Ereṣ Yisraʾel ve-Yehuda." Dating: probably 13th century. After …
Fragment of a letter in which a proselyte (from Christian Europe), probably named ʿOvadya, expresses in beautiful Hebrew his thanks to a distinguished woman, who …
Chancery or fiscal document, presumably Mamluk period. There are two lines preserved, consisting of a date (22nd Rajab is visible) and the ḥamdala. The text …
Lots of dots.
End of a letter written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38). Addressed to a higher authority and containing petition-like phrases.
Minute fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mirror image text only. Little preserved apart from the word [...] al-Sijilmāsī. Many of the surrounding fragments are in …
Accounts primarily in Ladino with a wide variety of loanwords from Ottoman Turkish and Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the third column of the verso as 11٥9 …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly state or legal. Mentions a qāḍī. Needs examination.
Probably a contributors list of wheat or grain (quantities specified in irdabbs). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). A date …
Letter or letters, possibly. In Hebrew.
Letter in Arabic, reused for Hebrew annotations on the verso. (AP)
Unidentified text, in Arabic script, fragmentary. Probably literary.
Legal document(s). Small fragment. Recto contains the beginning of a document and mentions al-Maghrib. Verso contains some crossed out text; portions of names; the words …
Letter from Barhūn b. Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050–60 CE, at the beginning of Nahray's …
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First page of "The Book of Hidden Treasures in the Art of Medicine and Surgery" (kitāb al-dhakhāʾir al-maknūna fī ʿilm al-ṭibb wa-l-jirāḥa). Late.
Letter from a certain Efrayim concerning consignments of wheat and sums of money, written in a very polite form with many Hebrew phrases, among them …
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Legal document, part of the court register in the Jerusalemite synagogue in Fustāt. A financial dispute between Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq b. Yoshia and Binyamin b. …
Accounts, early modern. Perhaps the same scribe and defter fragment as ENA NS 53.15 (PGPID 39644). Ottoman-era with the currency jadid/cedid mentioned. At least one …
Accounts, probably for wine sent to the castle (burj), with sums of money in silver of good quality and mentioning the names of Yaʿaqov Ṭayyib …
Badly damaged late letter in Arabic.