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Letter or official report in Arabic script. The upper ~8 lines are preserved. Refers multiple times to a district (nāḥiya) called ىىىان (Baysān?) and refers …
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Debt acknowledgment. Dated 4 Nisan 5408 AM (1648 CE). Location: presumably Cairo, based on the paleography and surnames mentioned. The partners Avraham Levi Qudsi b. …
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Legal document (maḥḍar) in Arabic script, in a very elegant chancery-esque hand. The testimony concerns the deceased Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Dimyāṭī al-Ḥarīrī. It mentions the year …
Legal document headed "memorandum of testimony" (tadhkirat shahāda). The court convened in the synagogue; present were Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. al-Wathīq and Sulaymān al-Ṣāʾigh, who negotiated …
Letter in Arabic script. There are wishes for somebody's health (ارجو ان قد وهب عافيته). Mentions the arrival of Abū l-Faraj. Mentions that 'I have …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Muslim/Musallam, reporting the arrival of a letter from Saʿadya the cantor and mentioning business matters and a certain Barukh, who is coming to …
Bifolium. The main text seems to be a genealogical list for a family of Levis. Elishaʿ ha-Levi [b.?] Hananyah ha-Levi is named, and a man …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: Early 12th century. Kali bt. Yisrael (קאלי בת …
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Fragment of state correspondence in Arabic script. Legible words include muṣṭanaʿ, mustakhdam, in shāʾ allāh. Approximately 2 lines are preserved. On verso there is adidtional …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions lāsīn silk and Fustat and someone who has spent 2 years somewhere. Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe?
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a part of a report or official correspondence. Reads in part: "as the elders of the Bedouins are aware..." …
Small receipt or order for 1 raṭl of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
Possibly a receipt. In Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter or note, mentioning [...] b. Ḥalfon and a Ḥaver. (Information from CUDL)
One line of an Arabic script document, abandoned. With the glyph. Contains a name, perhaps Isrā'īl b. Saʿd b. Mūsā al-ʿAṭṭār. On recto there is …
Small fragment, almost no text preserved.
Letter from one community to another (possibly from Byzantium to Egypt). On parchment. In Hebrew. Large but extremely faded. Appealing for assistance on behalf of …
Legal document in Arabic script. Brief debt contract, probably, mentioning the name [Man?]ṣūr b. Bū Saʿd.
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman. Narration of commercial trade accounts. The word 'qabaḍ' appears in prolific numbers associated usually …
Ketubba, with an ornate decorated frame with peacocks and lions or tigers. Location: Bombay. Dated: Monday, 25 Adar 5626 AM = 12 March 1866 CE. …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: [14]59 Seleucid = 1147/48 CE. The century digit is missing, but can be filled in based on the reference to …
Small receipt for Ḥusām Ibn al-Malījī for 23.5 (dirhams).
Bill of release written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The parties are Moshe b. Nissim and Berakhot b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen. AA
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: 13th century. Location: Fustat. Groom: Netanʾel. Bride: [...] bt. Yefet ha-Talmid. Marriage payments: 3 + 10 = 13. (Information from Goitein's …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (left side). Dating: 1127–38 CE, based on the references to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (last line). Detailing …
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Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic treatise on kosher and unkosher meat, including instructions for how to cook meat.
Fragment of a will in which a gift is given to Abū l-Faraj, the brother, and to Abū Saʿd, of a part of a house …
Accounts in a rudimentary scribal hand, medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Informal note addressed to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya (dates: 1204–36). In which one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit flatters Eliyyahu by saying that …
Colophon (FGP)
Recto: Petition in Arabic script. Much of it is vague and allusive. Refers to the addressee as "al-mawlā" and refers multiple times to the sulṭān. …
Business letter sent from Qayrawan by Efrayim b. Ismail, probably to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef b. Awkal in Fustat (Gil) or from Ifrīqiya by 'Allush b. …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Listing clothing and household items. Mentions garments including miʾzar, qamīs, sarāwil, miqnaʿa. Several entries are preceded by a large open circle and …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Qaraite. Bride: the widow Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Moshe b. Aharon ha-Kohen. Groom: her cousin Menashshe b. [...] b. Aharon ha-Kohen. Dated Monday …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Written on a narrow vertical strip.
Poetry and prose about wine. In Judaeo-Arabic. Includes the phrase "just like the Jews do it" and refers to a holiday celebration "on the night …
Recto: memorial list for the family of the Nagid Shemuʾel b. Hananya ha-Nagid: - Shemarya ha-Shishi - Shemarya's three sons: Ṣedaqa, Seʿadʾel, and Ḥananya - …
IB VII, 49. Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning persons connected with the India trade, including Maḍmūn [b. Ḥasan]. Opens with a report and condolences about …
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Medical prescription in Arabic script. On recto there is Hebrew literary text.
Exegetical text in Hebrew. Probably late. Not a letter.
Minute fragment with a few words in Arabic script. Not digitized.
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). There are greetings for Ḥalfon's wife Sitt Naʿīm. …
Fol. 2v: Entry in a court notebook detailing that Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Efrayim ha-Levi Rosh ha-Qahal ("the fairest of the fair"), the (ex-?)wife of Sason …
Letter from the judge Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Kohen, apparently in or near Ashqelon, to ʿAmram b. Yefet (aka Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAmmār b. Ḥusayn), apparently in …
Verso (primary use): Fragment from the beginning of a letter. Mentions the addressee's request to 'give the letter/document to Abū l-Karam.'
A few words in Judaeo-Arabic: [...] [...] to my master the shaykh B[...].