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Letter from Jerusalem written on recto and verso to someone addressed as 'my son and master' (probably Avraham ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat). First half …
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Fragment (upper right corner) from a legal deed. Involving Ṣedaqa.
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Fragment of an unknown nature. Could be literary text or a letter. Late. AA. Likely a letter since it includes praises for somebody ('the father …
Palimpsest, with Palestinian Talmud, ʿEruvin 20d-21d, written over a Syriac version of Hosea 14:4-10; Joel 1:1-2:20. (Information from CUDL.)
Legal record (#84) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 29r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 6 Tishrei 5325 …
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Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script, possibly a letter or account. Needs further examination. On recto: Hebrew poetry on astronomical (and/or mystical?) themes.
Unidentified document in Arabic script, mentioning sums of money and weights. Torn and reused for a different document on verso, also unidentified.
Registration certificate for an Egyptian Jew in the schedule of the elections – December 1930CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 45) – in …
Recto: Unidentified text in Arabic script. Verso: Might be two distinct fragments. The upper one at least is. a panegyric (madḥ) by al-Buḥturī: بَرقٌ أَضاءَ …
Magical spell involving a scorpion, somebody's hair, and the invocation "Ehye Asher Ehye."
Letter from the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov. Dating: Early 13th century. In Hebrew. Concerning a communal dispute against a leader who wished to reverse …
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The first six leaves of a copy of the Ghurar al-Balāgha of Hilāl al-Ṣābi' — a book of formularies for letter-writing — copied in the …
Part of a ketubba for an unnamed bride and David b. Moshe known as Rāmāno (ראמאנו). Dating: Late. Currency: peraḥim. Location and names of any …
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Calligraphic letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender has only 20 dinars and a male slave (waṣīf). He intends to sell the slave for 30 dinars and …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions names such as Makīn and al-Shaykh Najīb. On verso there are accounts in Arabic script. Dating: looks ca. …
Small fragment of a document in Arabic, maybe legal. Mentions a shop (dukkān).
Recto: part of a legal document containing the attestation of the Bet Din, in the hand of the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). One …
Minute fragment from an opening of a court record
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The same scribe probably wrote ENA NS 69.20 and T-S AS 156.42, based on the handwriting similarity combined with the …
Letter addressed to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: Likely 11th century. Mentions a caravan; meeting with Ibn al-Ghardīs (there was a judge by this …
Letter fragment. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. This portion contains only effusive praises for the addressee (e.g. ("the lamp of the umma, east and west") and …
Small receipt or order. In lieu of a name: wusūluhū yudfaʿ. At upper right: bi-rasmihim(?). Sum: 58 (dirhams). Written on the 6th of Dhū l-Ḥijja …
Small receipt or order for 2 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
Fol. 1v: Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Involves a real estate transaction between two Levi brothers 'the princes' (שני האחין השרים …
Legal fragment/draft. One line only. Involves Khibāʾ bt. Menashshe (known also from ENA NS I.11 (PGPID 11204) and ENA 3765.2 (PGPID 34325)).
Minute fragment from a calendrical work. AA
Fragment from an opening of a letter to Perahyahu the Judge - Perahya b. Yosef, of the Ben Yiju family who was the muqaddam of …
Minute fragment from the top of a court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). A person known as Ibn Qudayra is mentioned …
Trousseau list in connection with a ketubba, mentioning items such as kerchiefs (mandīl) and cushions (makhādd) and quantities of dinar. Seems to be written by …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 25 Ramaḍān 405. Amount of payment: one-half dīnār. …
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Letter from Yosef ha-Rofe b. Moshe ha-Rofe in Damascus to Avraham Fayrūz b. Moshe ha-Rofe, in Fustat/Cairo. The writer complains about the lack of letters …
Legal record (#69) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 23r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: Tishrei–Ḥeshvan 5325 AM, …
Notebook. On fol. 4r there is a draft a begging letter to Yaʿaqov ha-Sar, in an untidy 15th-16th century hand. The writer describes himself as …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Late. Dated in the upper right corner, 2 Shawwal [year damaged]. The year is also damaged in the …
Advertisement of commercial stores in the Jewish quarter in al-Mūskī (Cairo) – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 128) – in Arabic and …
Letter from Yosef קוכו and Shelomo Amarilio, in Salonica, to the judge Yiṣḥaq b. Ẓahal, presumably in Egypt. In Hebrew. Dated: 5480 AM (שנת אקים …
Ḥamdala and ṣalwala from the bottom of a state document. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic calendrical text.
Recto: a child's writing exercise in Judaeo-Arabic, presumably from a commercial apprenticeship: numbers, halves, possibly sums, the word wakkāla, the name Yūsuf or Yosef. Verso: …
Panegyric (madīḥ) for a Nagid. Including the line "Be patient with me and do not scorn my verse; I am sick and my thoughts are …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late medieval (sefaradi-influenced hand), possibly 14th-15th century. Mostly consists of particularly flowery introductory praises.
Legal query addressed to Abū ʿImrān, perhaps Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. The question regards a certain Tamīm in Qalyūb. It seems that he refuses …
A (partial) manuscript of Prophets and Hagiographa. A dedicatory colophon in the first page dedicates it to the qaraite community of Egypt, "for reading in …
Notification by the court concerning a legal decision. Dated: first decade of Av [1]549 Seleucid = July 1238 CE. Announcing that the collector of the …
Very unusual legal document, maybe some kind of declaration. In rhymed Hebrew and Aramaic. Written on both sides, and without signatures. Involving the late Menashshe …
Letter written by a man on behalf of his wife to her brother, inviting him to come out to the countryside for a full month …
IB VI, 22b. Letter from Alexandria sent around 1120 CE from a Maghribi merchant, Makhlūf b. Musa al-Nafusi (Ibn) al-Yatim, who proclaims that a friend …