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Verso (original use): Letter in Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Begins, "lammā kāna fī hādhihi al-[...]...." Mentions the police (...min al-shurṭa...). Needs further examination for …
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Notebook of a marriage broker. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew with Coptic numerals. Dating: 1511/12 CE (1823 Seleucid). Enumerates the circumstances attending the marriage of certain …
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Letter from Yosef Qolon b. Pereẓ, in Jerusalem, to Nissim Bibas, in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: First quarter of the 16th century, almost certainly 1511 …
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Letter from Abū Yūsuf, unknown location, to Rabbi Elʿazar (body of the letter) who is likely identical with Abū l-Manṣūr b. al-Muʿallima (address), presumably in …
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Barely legible, but seems to be some kind of account. Mentions Ṭarābulusī and al-Naṣrānī and silk and Shimʿon.
Ownership notes: Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham b. Daniʾel b. Yiṣḥaq. Then it was purchased by Avraham b. Yaʿaqov …
Strip from the right side of a letter regarding business. Mentions wool. From Yefet b. Menashshe (Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, early 12th century). The addressee's name seems …
Letter, upper left corner only, containing half of the first six lines of recto and verso. Distinctive handwriting. ASE.
Recto: beginning of a Qaraite ketubba. Dated: Wednesday, 1 Adar 12[..] Seleucid = 889–988 CE. There is a small drawing in the header. Verso and …
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Legal query. Dating: Early 13th century (per Goitein). Concerning the wife of a Kohen who traveled two or three times without letting her know how …
What does our lord—may his splendour be exalted and his honour increase—say concerning
a woman whose husband, a Kohen, has travelled, once…
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (vertical strip from the middle). Dating: Likely 11th century. The sender is in Jerusalem ([min al-musta]qarr bi-l-Quds ʿamarahu Allāh). Mentions …
Letter addressed to ʿEli the Parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender petitions on behalf of a divorcee who came to him "complaining and crying" that her …
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Letter from Khalfūn b. Benaya(?) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Mūsā Majjānī. (The names are very difficult to read; these may be not exactly right.) …
Letter addressed to a man with many titles (rabbenu, ha-sar, ha-ḥasid). Rudimentary spellings. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with a higher proportion of Hebrew than is …
Commercial or official/fiscal account referring to names. Needs examination.
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. The perfumers/druggists (ʿaṭṭārīn) of Fustat petition the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Ṣālīḥ (Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb, r. 1240–49) about the injustice of …
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
The slaves kiss the ground in the lofty, lordly presence of al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ, may Go…
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Letter-writing formulary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium, containing many letter samples. There are also two lines in Arabic script.
Halakhic discussion regarding the slaughter of animals.
Recto: Letter in the handwriting of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably from Qalyub to his father in Fustat, consisting almost in its entirely of good …
Note from Abū l-Faraj to Abū ʿAlī, urgently summoning him to the sender's home, it seems for a medical appointment ("to show me your eye"). …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. There may be the remnants of a letter on one side.
Legal formulary, mainly in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from Tripoli or possibly Tyre to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. Dating: 1094–1111, based on Mevorakh's titles. The handwriting resembles that of ʿAmram b. …
Legal record (#94) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 32r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 13 Nisan 5326 …
Deathbed declaration of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿEli b. Yefet. Mentioning merchandise and silk, and his cousin (ibn ʿamm). Dated: Adar 14[..] Seleucid. Remnants of signatures are …
The physician Menahem writes to his colleague, the Nagid Avraham Maimonides, about happenings when he traveled to the village Ṭanān (in the Qalyubiyya district near …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: End of Dhū l-Qaʿda 404. Both the recto …
Birth record? In Hebrew. Dated: Sivan 5324 AM, which is 1564 CE.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (ca. 1100–38 CE). Probably a debt contract. (Information in part from CUDL)
Court record(s). Dated: 1341 Seleucid = 1029/30 CE. Needs examination.
Small fragment of a prescription or account for materia medica in Arabic script. Mentions small quantities of saffron and camphor.
Qurʾān 2:255 in large calligraphic script. Described in Connolly and Posegay, "'An Arabic Qurʾān, That You Might Understand.'"
Recto: letter to Maimonides with his handwritten reply on verso (see separate record). The writer states that he has acquired a rudimentary knowledge of philosophy …
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Multifragment. P1: Epistolary (formulary for writing letters). In Judaeo-Arabic. Contains both common and uncommon formulae. Goitein notes that it is older than the epistolary in …
Bottom of a formal letter or petition in Arabic script. On verso, torn and reused for a miniature receipt. Needs examination.
Recto: Commentary on ʿEkev. Verso: Possibly ownership notes for Elʿazar ha-Kohen b. Eliyyahu and the Gaʾon Evyatar ha-Kohen (אשר נקרא שם ייי עליו כגאון נין …
Accounts or register of some sort. In Arabic script. Interesting format: each text block corresponds to an individual who is named in the right column …
Letter describing two meetings with physicians. At least part of the letter is addressed to the sender's mother. The first meeting was a visit to …
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Very faded. Probably acknowledging a debt. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in Arabic script. On the other side there is Hebrew literary text.
Bifolium. Two of the pages contain rhyming and/or poetic Hebrew text, calligraphically written. Apparently the colophon to the book this used to belong to. It …
Accounts in Judeo-Arabic from 1829/30 CE (1245 Hijri). The top heading labels the accompanying entries as "מצרופ" which may indicate expenses or outgoing payments. The …
Report from Tyre to the chancery of al-Malik al-Afḍal concerning military and administrative affairs on the coast of Palestine, dating probably to 1108 CE. Same …
Verso: Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script. Possibly a bill of sale "abīʿ" for Ḥusayn Ibn al-Ṣayrafī, or a fiscal document. On recto there …
State document, in Arabic script. Maybe a decree issued in response to a petition. Wide space between the lines. Mentions a masjid in al-aʿmāl al-gharbiyya …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From Yemen. May be late. ENA 3504.2(?), ENA 3504.3, and ENA 3504.5 may all be from the same letter. Needs examination.
Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 5 dinars to the bearer. See T-S AS 179.212 (PGPID 36725) and …