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Garshuni poem rhymed on -nī (e.g., al-awṭānī, insānī, ikhwānī), each section punctuated by a refrain (qufl). Cf. Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in Early Modern …
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Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Much neater than his usual. Commodities include pepper and ginger. Many details of bales, shipping, fees, …
Letter mentioning Umm Abū l-Manṣūr. (Information from CUDL)
Legal records. Four pages (bifolio) in the handwriting of the judge Natan b. Shemuel. Dating: ca. 1140 CE (dated entries from Tevet 1451 to Marheshvan …
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Small fragment from a commercial letter or account. The term maṣabbāt (something to do with metal casting) appears twice. Also refers to al-ḥajar al-nuqra (ingots) …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sephardi hand. Small fragment. Dating: Perhaps 15th or 16th century, but that is a guess. Mentions Christians, Venice, an ounce of …
Letter/petition addressed to Abū Isḥāq. Asking for charity. In Arabic script. The sender's name appears in the tarjama at upper left but is difficult to …
Account entry or receipt in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. Mentions the Nile port of Būlāq, specifically the loading docks (bi-isqelīt …
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Accounts in Arabic script. Written on the back of a literary text in Arabic script.
Birth certificate – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 73) – in Turkish. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda …
Letter from a certain Efrayim to a dignitary ([...] ha-Yeshiva). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Sammanūd.
Fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
انسلاخ شهور سنة تسع وا[ربع
على ما بين من شرحه في مواضـ[
من العين احد عشـ[ـر
Two Syriac hymns. These are writing exercises of a pupil. Written on a bifolium. 3b: "The Virgin gave birth to a wonder.” 3f: "The pure …
Letter, fragment, in Arabic script or official correspondence. Needs examination.
Bifolium with multiple document entries, probably a fragment from a court register. Dated in fourth entry on 2v as Thursday 2 Kislev 5496 AM (1735 …
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Bifolio of commercial accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Most entries crossed out.
Fragment from a legal document or letter. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions (Abū l-)Faraj and Dāʾūd, the court of 'our master' (Maṣliaḥ …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from an unidentified sender (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. The addressee is asked to "give this paper" (another letter that was originally enclosed?) …
Invitation from the administration of the Paḥad Isḥak Synagogue (Kraïem) for attending the celebration which will be held in the synagogue on Passover between Saturday …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Might be match for one of the Spanish or Maghribī hands from India Book IV — like Ibn Ezra in H37, …
Literary work containing biblical commentary in Ladino.
Document in Arabic script. Probably legal, probably late. Very faded. Needs further examination.
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Legible phrases: "... worse than... a terrible danger... in other news... R. Natan... to Fustat with a letter... …
Love poetry. Bifolio.
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 …
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in a 12th-century Spanish hand.
Business letter from Mufaḍḍal al-Kohen to Abū l-Banīn. In Arabic script. The sender apologizes for his delay. He has sent camphor candles (shamʿ kāfūrī, also …
Legal notes. In Hebrew. Late. Narrating what happened in one or more legal cases. On verso there are jottings of prayers and piyyutim in Hebrew.
Bifolio of accounts, very detailed and well-preserved. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter from both Nahray b. Nissim (recto) and ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa (verso) to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Written on Isru Ḥag (the day after the …
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Letter from Meir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Fakhr b. Ibrāhīm, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Meir signs only his first name …
Letter from Barakāt to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. The letter consists entirely of flowery expressions of sorrow on account …
Petition, Fatimid(?). In Arabic script. Last 9 lines. With hamdala and hasbala at end. Not a lot of context can be gleaned from the preserved …
Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic, with a few jottings in Arabic script probably from earlier documents (orders or receipts?). The writer asks the addressee (al-Muʿallim) …
Legal record (#80) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 27v-28r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 5 Av 5325 …
Ketubba, Qaraite. The date and location are not preserved but the town is next to a ‘salty sea’ (possibly the Mediterranean or the Dead Sea). …
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Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, probably literary, from the introduction to a work by al-Fārābī. Less likely a letter, though the layout (with blank verso) often …
Accounts
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to a personality in Fustat. Dating (Gil): ca. 1030 CE. Describes the aftermath of the excommunication of the Qaraites on …
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IB III, 42. List of Ibn Yiju's deposits and expenditures after arriving in Fustat. Mentions large quantities of jewelry, money, and goods that Ibn Yijū …
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Small fragment of an official document (petition or decree?): والله تعالى وعدل هذه الدولة ما يقوم . . . (Information in part from CUDL.)
Small fragment of a letter addressed to Cairo. In the hand of Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211).
Verso (original use): Beginning of state correspondence possibly in the name of the caliph al-Ẓāfir. It is headed by the basmala, followed by the phrase …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic work on the seasons and weather and prognostications.
Small fragment with Arabic script. State document? ENA 3695.4, ENA 3695.5, and ENA 3695.8 all look very similar, might be from the same original document.
Letter from Shemuʾel to his father, David Conforte, in Ladino, which was then reused for a draft of a halakhic treatise on divorce. (Information from …
Verso (original use): Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya to ʿEli b. ʿAmram in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1055 (Gil). Mentions Marwān b. Saqīr and Yosef b. …
Minute fragment from a end of a letter
Business accounts