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Certificate of study for a student in eighth grade – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 107) – in Hebrew and Arabic. (information …
No Scholarship Records
Fragment of a letter mentioning [...] b. ʿAbd al-Karīm. Dating: probably Mamluk-era. (Information in part from CUDL)
Draft of a commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the textile trade, mentioning the Syrian cities of Lādhiqiyya (Latakia), Anṭākiyya (Antioch), Maʾarrat al-Nuʿmān, and Aleppo. It …
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Beautifully preserved legal document dated 21 September 1621 CE. The opening line identifies the court as having been held at the gate of the Qawṣūn …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Isma’il b. Yusuf b. Abi Uqba from Alexandria, to Yusuf b. Ya’aqub b. Awkal, Fustat. Around 1030. The writer describes an attack by …
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Bifolio of accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Many names mentioned.
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script. Each page is for a different date. Dated: 744 AH = 1343/44 CE.
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (long vertical strip from the middle of the document). Dating: ca. 1135 …
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Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition/letter of appeal for charity. In Arabic script. On recto, in a different hand, there is a slightly misquoted …
Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Might be a draft with instructions for a scribe, given that it ends with "the greeted" (al-mukhaṣṣaṣīn) rather than …
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a letter or legal document. Faded and damaged.
Petition from Naṣir b. Bū l-Faraj, who converted to Islam (ihtadā) under (ʿalā yad) Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn(?) (but perhaps different from the actual Saladin?) in the …
Legal record (#11) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated solely as 23 …
Literary text, most probably a prayer copied in the 11th-12th C based on paleography and a Fatimid ḥamdala and taṣliya toward the end.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Alexandria and silk.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Deathbed declaration of an old man, bringing his two sons before four witnesses and explaining …
Small account of food items and household expenses such as laundry (ghāsūl) in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal fragment (right side). Concerning a husband and his wife Rayyisa bt. Ḥalfon. One of them is from the Ibn Nuʿmān family. Location: Cairo. Written …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Account for a sale of flax, probably in Tripoli (Libya), 1025. The flax is sold by bale, of unequal weight. The bales arrived to Tripoli …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting may be known.
Karaite engagement agreement between Moshe b. Yosef Feyrūz aka Revaḥ and Esther bt. David b. Avraham Feyrūz aka Revaḥ dated Monday 15th Sivan 5153 AM …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: end of Sivan 5582 AM, which is June 1822 CE. Dissolution of partnership and settling of accounts between …
Distribution list for public charity. In Judaeo-Arabic, transitioning to Arabic script on verso. Dating: Perhaps ca. 13th century, but that is a guess. There are …
Fragment of a business letter addressed to [...] b. Abū ʿAlī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings (e.g. לאך for לך). Mentions saffron; various other …
Verso: Trousseau list draft or appraisal of clothing and jewelry. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
State document in Arabic script. Approximately 12 lines are preserved. Has at least two taqbīl clauses, mentions a "khidma", and a revenue or tax "al-mustakhraj". …
Mysterious document. Perhaps a letter originally -- there is something that looks like an address, naming Abū l-Majd and Isḥāq(?) b. Shemuel. On the same …
IB VII, 26. Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 …
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Letter from Yehoshuaʿ Azulay. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably 17th–19th century. Currency: grossos (גרושש), a generic term for non-Ottoman silver coins. The letter mentions various …
Letter from a woman named Archondou, in Alexandria, to her son Fuḍayl, in Fustat. Her main purpose in writing emerges at the end: she wants …
[ ]ומו'ת'[ ]ת' [ ] ובות' משוכן
ער'בות אל'[ ]י יחידי' ידידי מ'
פודאיל' מ[ ] א'מ'ך' ארכודו ומבעלי'
מ' אליה קבל ר…
[Blessings etc. ?] from Him who dwells
in the heavenly expanse. To [my son?] my beloved only son Mar
Fudhail, from me, your mother Arc…
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There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. B, fol.2 - Bill or receipt of sale, in Arabic script. Dated: Shaʿbān …
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged & faded. Dating: Probably 11th century. The sender is writing from Damsīs. Mentions trade in indigo and business in the …
Legal document on vellum for the sale of properties in the Karaite quarter. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Final third of [Teve]t 5458 AM, which …
Legal document, fragment. In Hebrew. Mentions a payment of 3 muayyadis/medins per month. There is a Yaʿaqov. It looks like the document was abandoned at …
Letter from Avraham Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 15th century. Reports on the complaint of a teacher from Ṣafad who had settled in Gaza, to …
Letter sent by Perahya the second b. Yosef the second to Shelomo ha-Nasi, dealing with various matters, including an ordinance (taqqana). Mentions the Nagid R. …
Mysterious text in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably not a letter. Some of the phrases rhyme, but it is difficult to make sense of more than a few …
Letter from Yeshua ha-Kohen b. Yosef in Alexandria to the community of Fustat. The handwriting is Yeshua's and the letter is written in rhymed prose. …
Recto: "The remainder of an epistle to an important dignitary. The first four lines preserved are in verse but the metre is very faulty. . …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Yaʿaqov Ha-Meʿuttad b. Yosef. Dating: probably end of 1015. The content emphasizes the need of communal leaders and includes …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, two bifolios. Dated in the upper section of the final image under this shelfmark: Shaʿbān 941 AH (אמץ), which is 1535 CE. …
Legal record (#25) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 6v-7r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 23-25) Folio 6v
Recto: Arabic document with list of names such as Ibn Sulaymān, Ismāʾīl, at least one woman, and people such as al-Baysānī and al-Ṭabarānī. Possibly a …
Letter sent by a man from Sicily who had immigrated to Tyre, describing a civil war in Sicily and the bad economic conditions under which …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Salmān, Bū l-Khayr, Fakhr, Barakāt, Mūsā, Abū l-Munā
Halakhic discussion in Judaeo-Arabic, including laws of muktze.
Letter from Sulaymān al-Skandarī, in Damascus, to his brother-in-law Faraj Allāh Ibn Fāḍil and his wife (the writer's sister), in Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …