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Talmudic text with a colophon and a later note. The colophon indicates that the copy was completed in Jerusalem in 4832 AM, which is 1071/72 …
No Scholarship Records
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. Dated: Shaʿbān 592 = June/July 1196 CE. Mentions Bū Saʿd.
Legal document, damaged.
Recto: Bottom part of a letter from Berakhot probably to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–37). Concerning public affairs. Asking him to act with regard to certain …
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Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Malig to Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1045. The writer tried to sell cloths and fabrics in …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה [מ]ן
מליג לד בקין מן טבת כתמה אללה עליה באחסן כאתמה ברחמתה
וען שוק שדיד קרב אללה אלאגתמאע …
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Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Possibly addressed to Dimnū (there is a village by this name near Sohag). Mentions the amīr ʿAlī and …
Prescription for a medical treatment containing eighteen ingredients (including myrobalan, red raisins and borage), and ending with the usual expressions of piety. (Information from Mediterranean …
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Damaged bifolio of accounts in Arabic. One section of the paper on the recto has the appearance of woven fiber, probably from a recycled piece …
T-S Ar.51.76r: medical prescription in elegant Arabic script (See Isaacs, Medical, p. 52).
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Begins with a basmala and then immediately 'amma baʿd' suggesting that it is a copy or draft. On verso there …
Will, in which the testator grants a lot of valuable property to various people in his family, including a kānūn sharābiyya (a syrup-maker's brazier?) and …
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Small fragment of an Arabic document. State-related? The text preserved looks like a number.
Document in Arabic script. Maybe a fiscal account? Needs examination. On verso there is Hebrew poetry/piyyut.
Palimpsest, with Palestinian Talmud, ʿEruvin 20d-21d, written over a Syriac version of 1 Thessalonians 3:1-13; 4:1-14. (Information from CUDL)
Document in Arabic script. Fiscal? Needs examination. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ, mentioning Ḥannuka.
Small fragment of a legal document. The hand is probably known (the gimmel looks almost Ashkenazi, with an opening to the right). Dating: probably no …
Recto: Iqrār, in Arabic script. Dated: Monday 17 Muḥarram 1242 H (1826 CE). The riverboat captain al-rayyis Ismaʿīl Surūr al-Jawīsh receives a payment of 7500 …
Legal record (#88) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 30v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 11 Kislev 5325 …
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Left side of a letter in Ladino.
Page from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise.
Recto: letter (to judge by the words من مولاي), three lines and the top half of a fourth from the right side. Cut and reused …
Miscellany containing formularies for excommunication (invoking the Shem ha-Meforash) on 74/70v, flowery rhymes for letter openings, etc. On 74/72r a copy of letter of interest …
Letter in Ottoman Turkish addressed to Salmūn [al-Iskandarānī] from Pervīz Ağa. Dated in the verso seal: 1030 AH (1620/21 CE). In the introduction to her …
Benim rūḥum Muʿallim Salmūn,
Baʿde’s-selām bi’l-ʿizz ve’l-ikrām, inhāʾ ve iʿlām olunan budur ki:
Benim rūḥum, işbu ḥāmil-i var…
My dear Muʿallim Salmūn,
Following greetings with nobility and honour, the commu- nication and announcement are as follows:
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Very damaged. Unidentified
Beginning of a letter in Arabic script. Reused for Hilkhot ha-Rif and Birkat ha-Mazon.
Letter in Judaeo-Persian.
Fol. 1r: Legal record. Dated: Monday, 18 Av 1490 Seleucid = 19 July 1098 CE. Recording that the silk dealer Yaʿaqub al-Rūmī b. Yosef deposited …
Deathbed will of Turfa bt. Shemarya ha-Zaqen. Draft. Needs examination.
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
Questions particularly on an excerpt from the Book of Numbers – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 87) – in Arabic. (information from …
Magical. Mentions the jinn/angel Shamhūrash. Resembles Moss. IV,84.4, but unclear if they join.
State document, in Arabic script. Most of the original page is preserved, but the text is damaged and faded. Petition addressed to a Fatimid caliph …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 1 Kislev 5507 AM (1746 CE). Location: Cairo. The deed contains the common stipulations found in this period: the groom is …
Recto (secondary use): Panegyric for (the Rav?) Yehuda b. Yosef "the Nasi of God" who "judged the daughters of Fez upon their rebellion(?) and exiled …
Letter (draft) from Elḥanan b. Shemarya, in Fusṭāṭ, to the Babylonian congregation in Damascus, sending greetings as part of his efforts to raise funds for …
Ketubba fragment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1462 Seleucid = 1150/51 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Groom: [...] b. Ṣadaqa. Bride: Turfa …
Letter from Moshe ha-Loʿez (or ha-Loʿaz[i]?) to his 'brother' David. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 14th–16th century. Asking for help on behalf of a man who …
Drafts or writing exercise.
Minute fragment in a poetic Hebrew. Probably from a letter (ויזכו לחזות רבים . . . סביבתם ושלום . . . ). AA/ASE
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions labdanum (lādan) twice, once as a "piece" (qiṭʿa) and once in a "pouch" (mizwad).
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Long horizontal strip.
Fragment of a ketubba. Bride: [...] bt. Yoel b. Yeshuʿa. Groom: Shelomo b. [...]. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dating: ca. 1237–79 CE, as it is written In …
Letter requesting charity in which the petitioner describes that he is unemployed, starving, from a distant land (al-Raḥba), and has ‘uncovered his face’ to the …
Letter from the Karaite congregation of Alexandria to the leader of their community, complaining about the helplessness and dissolution of the community. (Information from Mediterranean …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Ketubba dated 15 September 1847 CE (5 Tishrei 5608 AM) from Tangier (spelled: טאנג'אר) for Ḥayyim Naḥmias b. Avraham b. Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and Ordueña …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sunday, 14 Av 5430 AM, which is 1670 CE. Venue: House of Barukh Nasi nin Eliʿezer Ẓemaḥ. Shelomo Fayrūz b. …
Beginning of the book of Exodus, surrounded by jottings in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew.
Opening of a dowry list, written under the jurisdiction of David Maimuni in the hand of Emanuel b. Yehiel. The bride's name is Rivqa. The …