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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand looks like that of Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211). The top section is headed by the names Makārim and Avraham. …
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Legal query addressed to Rabbenu Ḥananʾel (b. Shemuel). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a man who became sick and had some mental confusion (ikhtibāl al-ʿaql wa-shughl al-dhihn) …
Private accounts according to days (Monday and Friday) listing commodities with an assigned numerical value (quantity? price?). Some commodities include milk, almonds, chicken, meat, raisins, …
Draft or unfinished letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter of recommendation on behalf of a proselyte. The conversion took place by the time of R. Menahem (b. Sasson?) and the proslyte was imersed. …
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Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions ʿAbd al-Qawiyy.
Letter from Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fasi, from Busir to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. The writer deals with purchasing flax. He approves that he received …
עלקת הדה אלרקעה יאמולאי
אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאיך
מן אבו ציר סלך תשרי וקד תקדם <כתאבי<
למולאי אעלמה באן אלצרתין קד
וצלו וצחה אלעדה …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in difficult Latin script, possibly Portuguese. The address on verso is in Hebrew: to David Ṣarfati, from R. Yiṣḥaq Alpa[...], from צאפט to Fustat.
Ornamented Colophon of a Bible. AA
Marriage contract, fragmentary and damaged, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, in the later period of his activity as scribe (dated documents: 1100-1138), in …
Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Somewhat unusual contents. Beginning on verso: Mentions books including Tehillim, the Torah, the Targum, and …
Judaeo-Arabic love poetry.
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic informing the addressee of matters concerning Sitt Maqṣūra (NB: this is not a name but the word maqṣūdhā meaning 'her intention'), …
Verso: Bottom of a letter, state document, or legal document in Arabic script. Referring to someone demanding his rights "yaṭlub īqāf ḥaqqih". In the second …
Accounts in Arabic script. Various sums are given in dinars. Goods include coral. People named include Isḥāq b. ʿAllūsh and Abū l-Surūr Yūshaʿ b. Natan.
Petition of a widow whose only remaining son had been killed by the Ghuzz (Seljuks), while her four other grown-up sons had died as well, …
Digest of a deed of sale for a house. Mostly written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) in his worst cursive hand. The …
Letter addressed to Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi, the cantor of the Palestinian synagogue. This is a well known figure mentioned in documents from ca. 1180–91; …
Letter in Ladino dated 1653 CE (6 Tamuz 5413). ASE.
Minute fragment from a list of debts. Late
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Daniel b.Yosef. The bride is Esther known as Faraj d. Yeshu'a b. Ishaq. AA
Recto: Letter in Arabic script (with the words שער הנשיאות in Hebrew) to a Nasi, by ʿImrān b. Muhājir. According to Goitein's note card, it …
المملوك الاصغر
عمران بن مهاجر
يقبل الارض بالمقر الشريف المولوي النبوي اعاد الله علينا
وعلى اولادنا بركاته واعتقادنا في شرفه وفي اعراقه
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Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic, probably documentary. Refers to Abū Sahl and 'the congregation of the synagogue.'
Letter in Ladino to Efrayim [ʿA]dda from Moshe Fernandes. Dated: 1806/7 CE (20 Sivan[?] 5567 AM). The scribal hand is idiosyncratic and quite difficult. Fernandes …
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45 minute fragments (44 paper; 1 vellum), of which two are probably parts of unidentified letters in Arabic (row 1, no. 8; row 4, no. …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or early 12th century. Most of the content is lacking context and somewhat obscure but refers to various …
Unidentified table of words and/or names in Arabic.
Likely a summary of a legal case, involving Umm Khalaf, Yosef b. Ḥus[ayn?], a payment of 26 of something, and ʿIwāḍ. (Information in part from …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. Involves Nissim al-Yahūdī. A sum of 143 (riyals?) is mentioned, each riyal valued …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman-era, based on the use of the title shāwīsh. Mainly listing quantities and prices of wheat. Currencies: קרונא (krone?); שרפי (probably …
Letter in Ladino. Quite faded. Mentions Egypt or Fustat/Cairo (מצרים). Currency mentioned: probably grossi (גורוש, pl. גורושוש). The writer says "for the love of God" …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Likely a prayer (recto) and/or something magical (verso).
Page from a Hebrew medical treatise.
Small strip from the right hand side of a legal document. Mentions names (mostly broken off) and the Yeshivat Ge[ʾon Yaʿaqov]. (Information mainly from CUDL)
Legal record (#31). Liquidation of a trust. There appears to be at least one page of the notebook missing at this point, as there are …
Small fragment. Unclear what this is. There is a prayer for annulling evil decrees, and then mention of the Nesiut (so perhaps a letter/petition addressed …
Names. Damaged. Possibly from the bottom of a legal fragment.
Letters in Judaeo-Arabic, probably copies of letters sent in the name of Avraham Maimonides. There are at least two letters sharing the same folio. Only …
List in Judaeo-Arabic on verso with names and corresponding numerical values (some of which are definitely monetary). Medieval-era. R Mentions names such as ʿImrān al-Sharābī, …
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is a mirror-image imprint of T-S AS 155.274. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Official document (receipt?) of some kind. In Arabic script. Mentions wuṣūlāt/receipts and the sum still owed.
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic paramedical treatise on the virtues of various kinds of animal substances. ¶ . . . grind it …
Verso (original use): Letter in Arabic script. Fragment. Calligraphic and loopy script.
Letter from Shemuel b. Sahl al-Hawwārī, in Aleppo, to [...], in Fustat. (The names are written in Arabic, so the writer's is tentative and the …
Unfinished note in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-ʿIzz. "I am not asking for silver nor for gold, only the copies of …
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Probably a state document in Arabic script. Only a few partial lines are preserved on both recto and verso.