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Ketubba. Small fragment (upper right piece. Location: probably Cairo (דסמיכא לפסטאט מצרים). A certain deceased Berakhot (the bride's or groom's father) is mentioned. AA
No Scholarship Records
Fragment filled with Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew written at all angles. The main blocks of Arabic script consist of lists, at least one …
Verso: three recipes in Arabic script. The first may be medical ("Smear it on the place. Effective.") The second, which occupies the bulk of the …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition formulary (?) mentions al-Ḥākim but is written as a literary text. Needs further examination.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century. Mentions Alexandria; business negotiations with Abū Naṣr, concluding with a purchase for only 30 dinars; refers to …
Lower part: Autograph responsum of Moshe Maimonides, who was active in Egypt ca. 1168–1204 CE.
Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Bū Manṣūr Ibn al-Daqqāq, Ibn al-Muẓaffar, Bū l-Fakhr al-Ṭabīb, and Shelomo. See also the description for the whole notebook …
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Fatimid capitation tax receipt for Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Palimpsest. Undertext: Unidentified text in Greek. Identification may be possible even without multispectral imaging. Some phrases may include: εν τω ιερω (in the Temple) and …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal record (#26) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
Fol. 2: Private letter in Arabic script, chancery-esque script. Dating: Probably late Ayyubid or Mamlūk based on paleographical grounds. Contains the glyph "لى" in place …
Letter from a husband to his wife and in-laws. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 15th–16th century. Opens with greetings for the sender's brother-in-law, mother-in-law, Sultaniyya, the …
Accounts of the qodesh. Gil edited 12 lists of revenue and expenditure pertaining to Abū l-Bayān al-Jābī b. Abu Naṣr Elʿazar ha-Levi al-Ḥalabī spanning the …
Collected from Abū (I)sḥaq al-ʿAdanī, 100 dir.
waraq, of Egyptian tender, for the rent of his apartment in the ṭabaqa of the upp…
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Official-looking receipt in Arabic script, unclear for what. Needs examination.
Account. Arranged in 5 columns separated by vertical lines. Each column contains several private names each followed by numbers (possibly indicating sums of money) (FGP)
Brief medical prescription in Arabic script, scrawled on the back of a torn up state document (of which only 1-2 words from the beginning of …
Query and response in Arabic script. The nature is not clear. The response refers to determining the "state of ripeness" (ḥāl al-naḍj) of something.
Letter from Shimʿon b. Binyamin to a number of communal leaders in the city of גלא (somewhere in Kurdistan?). Concerning the qualifications of Moshe b. …
Deathbed will of a notable, dividing his landed property, his flocks of sheep and all the orchards possessed or leased by him between his brother …
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Legal document, iqrār, in Arabic script. Involving the Christian [...]ūn b. Asʿad al-Naṣrānī al-ʿAṣṣār and Nāṣir al-Dīn b. ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm and a cow. …
Minute fragment, only two names are visible: Abū Naṣr and Abū l-Barakāt. The context and the type of document are not clear.
Medical treatise in Arabic script.
List of daily collections in which almost all the benefactors give one or two dirhams. The lower parts of columns three and four contain accounts …
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Accounting in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Quite damaged. Verso and recto are written at 90 degrees. Verso mentions firewood and alum and wool …
Autograph letter by Avraham Maimonides to Moshe b. Peraḥya. Dating to 1205–1237 CE, based on Avraham Maimonides years of service as Rayyis al-Yahūd. It is …
Hebrew qinot mentioning the Spanish exile.
Recto: an acknowledgement of debt by Yosef b. Menashshe al-Ramlī, who owes 11 dinars to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef, which he will pay back …
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Letter of appeal, begging for charity.
Writing exercises in Latin-script cursive. 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography and prelined paper.
Document in Arabic script. Only a few words are preserved, and it is not clear they all belong to the same original document. Includes phrases …
Accounts mentioning spikenard, cloves (קורונפל), hyacinth (סונבול), and probably other botanical items. (MCD with Information from CUDL.) Late.
Bottom of a legal document. Location: probably Alexandria. Dated: Sivan 4856 AM = May/June 1096 CE. Binyamin receives 1/3 of something and Nissim and Hārūn …
Recto: Summaries of legal documents in Arabic script. There are at least seven legal records of sale, and one deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) at the …
Narrative literary work in Arabic script.
Stanzas of Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the voice of a woman, at least in part a complaint about domestic duties: spinning (al-mighzal al-mayshūm), perhaps a crying …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning al-Maḥallī, loans from Ibrāhīm and Bū l-Maʿānī, trash collection, a carpenter, an apartment.
Letter from Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq, gaon of Sura, to Elḥanan b. Shemarya, ca. 990. Contains information about Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq and about the academy of …
Legal document mentioning ʿAbdallāh b. Abū l-Faḍl al-Levi and a certain Yefet al-Levi. (Information in part from CUDL)
List of ingredients (or rather commercial goods?) with their weights. In Arabic script. Headed: "suyyira ʿalā yad Zaghlūl" (sent with Zaghlūl). (Information in part from …
State document, in Arabic script. Ayyubid-era, probably addressed to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil.
خرجت الاوامر المطاعة بعملها من المتاخرين
ورجال الاوامر الخـ[ـدمـ]ـة(؟) فقد(؟) عملت(؟)
الى الباب العالي المولوي الملكي العادلي
خلد الله سلطان…
Accounts. Mentions names such as ʿAbdallāh the miller (al-ṭaḥḥān).
Legal jottings. The entry on recto concerns Karmī b. Avraham who had agreed to pay 10 wariq dirhams to Futūḥ b. Maḥāsin on Friday, 7 …
Receipt of an amount received by the dīwān of al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-fakhrī. Probably dated 11 Dhū l-Qaʿda 557 H.
Notice from the District Court of Qalyub for the appearance of two proprietors and each of them are Jewish individuals living in Cairo's Jewish quarter …
Letter to a Nagid, mentioning Ibn Sharwīn and a youth from Mosul. The handwriting is known from the circle of Mosul Nasis from the early/mid-13th …
Opening of a letter in Hebrew. Only the opening blessings are preserved. Written around the time of Yom Kippur based on the blessings.
Letter in Hebrew dated 1759/60 CE (520 = תהֿלה לכֿל), from the Jewish community of Tiberias to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial …
Verso: formulary for reports of death in which the names of the deceased, the heirs and the witnesses are left blank. In Arabic script. Dating: …
List of commodities and values, such as cloth, head covers etc; probably part of a trousseau list. (Information from CUDL)