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Probably prognostications. In Arabic script. Each side begins "idhā...." Verso ends "wa-llāhu aʿlam." The content is difficult to read but refers to winds, storms, ships, …
No Scholarship Records
List of payments and debts with a variety of individuals mentioned: Moshe b. Ḥayyīm, Benyamin Morisico[?], and Moshe Buelyero (בַוִילְייֵרו). The scribe chose to vowel …
Minute fragment, probably from a letter or document.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
On recto a late engagement (shiddukhin) deed. Groom: Shabbetay b. Yeshuʿa. Bride: [...] bt. David Mizraḥi. Dated: 1 Ḥeshvan 5605 = 14 October 1844 CE. …
Arabic text on verso, perhaps documentary. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
End of an Arabic legal deed with at least one signature preserved. AA
Informal note from a bookseller named Yefet to a Nasi. He is acting as a middleman and presenting a bill for approximately a dozen books …
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Letters in Ladino and Spanish reused for an index to the Teshuvot of the Rosh. ASE. Letter in Ladino on III.D.31 (3) of scan is …
Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. Very detailed and well-pressed. 14th-16th centuries based on the paleography. Requires further examination.
List of names, such as Sulaymān, Ibrahim, Isaac and Ṣedaqa. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Note from Efrayim to al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab Abū l-Thanāʾ. In Judaeo-Arabic with a Hebrew superscription and ending with a ه (for انتهى). Dating: Probably late …
Memorial list
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Letter, anonymous, saying that a certain Sefaradi (اندلسى) gave a sermon in synagogue and failed to mention the gaon. Gil speculatively dates it to 1038, …
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Fragment of a legal document in Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: possibly 11th century. Involves David ha-Kohen b. [...] (l. 9). Someone makes a statement regarding …
Letter from a Qaraite religious authority to a pupil containing the answers to a number of queries that the addressee had sent him, chief among …
Three related fragments in Latin script. Needs examination.
Letter or letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed perhaps to Ḥananel ha-Dayyan (but this is not completely clear). The writer complains about his poverty and unemployment. …
Letter. Strongly-worded admonition to a Muqaddam to deal with the estate of a widow and her daughter, in accordance with instructions by the Nagid. (Information …
Mysterious fragment. Recto is formatted like a letter. In Hebrew. It might be an extremely literary letter of appeal for charity. On verso there are …
Legal document(s), damaged. Mentions Yehuda. (Information in part from CUDL)
Karaite halakhic discussion regarding different types of legal deeds and their use
Folio from a volume of responsa in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (ca. 1181–1209). The first query concerns a widow and …
Letter from a woman who was the wife of Yehoshuaʿ al-Lādhiqī and the mother of Dosa b. Yehoshuaʿ, in al-Raqqa, to her son Dosa b. …
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Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Torn off. Giving a detailed account about teachers of orphans and parnasim.
Legal document (end only) signed by witnesses including Menaḥem ha-Levi b. Tamim and Efrayim b. Ḥayyim. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment from a letter. Besides the usual blessings, the writer inform that he arrived to Cairo
Recto: liturgical text in Hebrew. Verso: letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Table of monetary values, two columns are listed "silver" and "pure" (נוקר). Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Possibly related to communal …
Letter in rhymed Hebrew prose with Judaeo-Arabic at the end, from an unknown writer to a certain Yiṣḥaq ha-Sar. Image not available on FGP.
State receipt/order of payment issued by the "khazīnat anwāl al-ḥarīr", a branch of the state-run silk monopoly under Meḥmed ʿĀlī Pasha's administration. Date: 6 Rabīʿ …
Draft of a deed of compensation in the hand of the court reporter Yefet b. David Shekhanya, around 1030 CE. It was given to Efrayim …
Derasha written by R. Shemuʾel Ben-Sīd for the seventh night of Passover, 21 Nisan [5]376 AM (1616 CE). Requires further examination.
The end of a ketubba, witnessed by [...]ya b. Aaron, Peraḥya ha-Me[lammed] and Isaac b. [...]. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 …
Accounts with Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Magical text in Hebrew.
One line from the bottom of a large state document, likely a decree. Mentions the month of Ramaḍān. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information from …
Letter to Shemuʾel, mentioning Yaʿaqov Sonso (שנשו) (c. 15th-16th century). (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Letter from Muḥammad b. ʿUmar. In Arabic script. Dated: 538 AH = 1143/44 CE. Mentions the bearer of the letter, Karīm b. Zak[kūr? b.] …
Pen trials and drafts of various documents, including a petition. (According to Khan, the petition is written to a judge.)
Verso: List with various units of weight followed by amounts expressed in Greek/Coptic numerals: الرطل, القدح, الدرهم. Medieval-era. Each entry ends with the unit ḥabba. …
Minute fragment from a legal deed.
Letter in Arabic script. Beginning only. Might be a draft. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in Arabic on recto, medieval-era. The verso was used for a liturgical text in Hebrew (FGP). Requires further examination.
rabbinic discussion concerning witnesses written on a former Arabic official letter- only few Arabic words preserved- needs examination.
List of names, e.g. Daniʾel; ʿAzarya; Yosef; Daniʾel; Ḥisday; Yoshiyyahu.
Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Probably mentions daftar towards the end of recto. Needs examination.
Fragment of a poetic letter in Hebrew. Mentions 'our master . . . Shelomo' and ha-Rav Moshe b. Sheʾrit and "your slave Yiṣḥaq" (probably the …
Recto: unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter. Verso: Pesuqe de-Zimra. (Information from CUDL)