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Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably legal. Dating: Ottoman-era. Mentions three qinṭārs of something. Reused on verso for accounts. Merits further examination.
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. List of names in the right column, with numbers in the left column. The names include a chicken …
Legal query in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel.
Accounts with Hebrew numerals (with the < symbol standing for 1/2). Names include Abū l-Faḍl, Maḥāsin; Mufaḍḍal, Makārim al-Khāmī and his partner; Bū Saʿd b. …
Petition or report or draft of one, in Arabic script. Strings of titles. There are alternating lines of light ink (bigger letters) and dark ink …
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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār), complete. In Arabic script. Dated: 525 AH = 1130/31 CE. The muqirr is Sayyid al-Ahl b. ʿAlī. The contract was drafted …
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Fragment with extremely faded Hebrew script. Remarkable mainly for a drawing of a four-legged creature.
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Shevat 5578 AM, which is 1818 CE. Declaring that Rica bt. Avraham ha-Kohen טרייקלי is "rebellious" (moredet) …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script. كرا المركب بوغول...
Accounts of a merchant or druggist. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very extensive, listing dozens of materia medica and related items: zinjār ʿirāqī, sakbīnaj, …
Notes in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Unclear what they are for.
A Judaeo-Arabic magical spell of some kind, probably malevolent, for "binding" somebody. The female victim's name is meant to be filled in in lines 5/6. …
Letter to Yehuda Daud in which the writer references previous correspondence with the addressee and mentions exile (גולה). EMS From ʿEli Sanbakro (סנבקרו), c. 16th …
Letter from Avraham Hamān and Gavriel Ḥefeẓ to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Elul (Raḥamim) 5569 AM, which is 1809 CE. Needs …
Legal document. Deathbed will of the wife of a scholar, ca. probably 1151. A personal record of an anonymous writer, apparently a member of the …
On Saturday, the 15th
Siwan, together with "the Diadem" (of the Scholars) R. Nathan b. R. Samuel, the ḥāvēr,
of blessed memory, while the…
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal records from a court register. Section (I): Marriage authorization from the legal court that there is no legal hindrance to the marriage between Karam …
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Fragment of a legal document involving a marital dispute. On parchment.
Right half of the end of a letter by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. Mentions: the coats (al-shuqaq); his …
Note at the bottom of a copy of a psalm: "This is what Hillel b. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham wrote."
Letter from Araḥ b. Natan (aka Musāfir b. Wahb), in Alexandria, to the Nagid Mevorakh, in Fustat. The sender and addressee are not named in …
Later document: Petition/letter of recommendation from an unidentified sender, apparently in Fustat, to Yoshiyyahu Gaon. In Hebrew. Dating: Ca. 1020 CE. This is a letter …
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Accounts or donation list in Hebrew. Late. The handwriting and the names are unusual, possibly pointing to an Iranian origin for this fragment. E.g., Samarqandi; …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to a woman. Surviving phrases: מא קדרתי . . . עלי כתאב תעלמיני בכבר . . . …
Bottom of a letter in Hebrew. Playing around with the word shalom.
End of a marriage contract. The total sum is 180 dinars. Written and signed by the cantor Mawhūb b. Aharon and four others (in Alexandria). …
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Recto: Accounts of a bookseller (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?). In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. "The four copies from Cairo sold for.... Al-Rayyis Mufaḍḍal has books for …
Letter from Shelomo b. Ḥayyim b. Shelomo to Avraham ha-Sar b. Natan ‘the Seventh’. Dating: Ca. 1100 CE. Information from CUDL. There is a rhymed …
Recto: Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding division of a property; mentions Seʿadya, Maṣliaḥ and his brother, and ends with the phrase, "my wife is ne'emenet." …
Typewritten copy of a ketubba from Essaouira (Morocco), 21 December 1876 (5 Tevet 5637), with a handwritten note at the bottom, "this is the form …
Table of contents of a responsa collection
Letter from Muẓaffar to his cousins (awlād al-ʿamm). In Arabic script. Dated: beginning of Rabīʿ I 648 AH, which is June 1250 CE. The letter …
Upper left piece of a legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Recto: letter to the Nasi Shelomo (probably Shelomo b. Yishay, mid-13th century). Verso: accounts in Arabic script with Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Model of "a marriage contract" – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 149) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Recto: Ottoman contract of sale of land. Dated Rabīʿ I 1032 AH (1623 CE). Verso: Ottoman legal contract
Fragments of responsa, at least one of which deals with property division between brothers. The paleography supports a dating estimate between the 15th-17th centuries. The …
Calendrical text in Judaeo-Arabic.
Un-conserved. Fragment from a letter dealing mostly with personal issue. The writer announced that the news about the French had arrived- might be relating to …
Letter fragment.
Halakhic text. Looks like the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder.
Recto (secondary use): Letter of appeal for charity from Asʿad b. al-Ḥājj Ḥusām. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. He says that "I have nothing …
Minute fragment in Hebrew. The recto and verso are in the same scribal hand, possibly literary.
Business letter or copy of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ca. 14th century or later. Describing several business transactions and shipments. Mentions the month …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to shipments of sums of money (including 70 dinars?), the arrival of a fatwā without a witness, …
Medical prescription composed of ingredients that appear regularly in similar prescriptions of those days. Wine is recommended as an alternative for a sharab (a potion). …
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