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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, most of the entries list varying quantities of Ottoman-era gold jadid coinage. Dating is 16th-17th-century based on the paleography and numismatic reference. …
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List in Ladino with payments in silver medin. Dating 15th-17th century based on the paleography and the post-1415 CE currency mentioned. Each entry opens with …
Accounts with Arabic numerals, highly detailed and well-preserved. All of the columns list sums in Ottoman kurush (ق symbol) which helps to date this document …
Accounts in a rudimentary scribal hand. Repeatedly mentions the currency jadīd (post-1357 CE) and the entries reference "the weighers(?)" (אלקבנין) and the surname "Castro(?)" (כשתרו). …
Ketubba that has been badly damaged yet a portion of the dowry is still visible as "עשר אלף מיידיס כסף..." (10,000+ silver medin). The mention …
Legal document, 12 lines, in Arabic script, dated 4th Muḥarram al-Ḥarām of an undecipherable year [8..?]. Concerning [...] b. al-Muʿallim Ṣadaqa the Samaritan Jew, a …
Legal. Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Dating: No earlier than 1703 CE, based on the mention of the coin (zer-i) maḥbūb (which was first minted in this …
Letter, possibly a draft, from a man to his family members Moshe and דאני(?). The relationship is unclear: at one point he addresses "my father" …
Beginning of a late Judaeo-Arabic business letter (abandoned after 6 lines), listing a number of sums of currency the writer has to sent to his …
List in Judeo-Arabic from which only the bottom right corner of the page is portrayed in this fragment. The paleography helps to estimate the dating …
Accounts in Judeo-Arabic with a variety of coinage types including dirham, kuruş (aka guruş) and zingirli– of which the latter two suggest a dating of …
Legal document in Hebrew. Dating: 1512 CE, at the earliest. Stating that 93 peraḥim (ducat equivalents) of the coinage of the Sultan Selim which were …
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Badly damaged letter in Ottoman Turkish concerning shipments of firewood. Dating: circa 1736 CE or later (per Hathaway) based on the mention of the Ottoman …
[ ] peder-i ʿazīzim //el-Ḥāc Muḥammed// ḥażretlerinin ḥużūr-i şerīflerine
[ ] selāmlar ve ḫayır dūʿālar olunduḳdan ṣoñra…
[ ] To my most honoured, esteemed, noble, dear father //al-Ḥājj Muḥammad//,
[ ] ...after offering greetings and sincere pr…
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List of accounts on a bifolium that may have once comprised a broader financial ledger. The method of bookkeeping is terse but relies on a …
Letter in Spanish from Jacob Nuñes de Paz in Alexandria to Los S[eñore]s Alpalas & Costa Aires in Cairo (see tag for others in the …
Letter. In Hebrew. Eliyya b. Elyaqim, in Damietta, writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. The writer signs only his first name on this letter, …
Letter fragment from an unknown writer in Syria to 'Rabbenu' in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the capitation tax (... al-jawālī) in al-Shām and specifically mentions …
Letterbook in Judaeo-Arabic (fragment) likely eighteenth- or nineteenth-century that contains drafts and possibly copies of business-related correspondence. The letters frequently use the phrase "יא אכי/ …
Order of payment, in late Arabic script with a seal. ʿĀzar (=Ezra) al-Yahūdī al-Ṣayrafī is to pay the bearer (Nāṣif) 20 and half silvers. Contains …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Currencies: riyal, fundukli, maḥbūb, qurūsh. The mention of Ottoman fundukli coinage makes it possible to date this fragment as post-1725 CE.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in Hebrew. Late. Some accounts are related to building expenses(?). One entry on the verso mentions a Jewish legal "apotropos" guardianship for …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, no earlier than 1425 CE because it mentions gold ashrafī coins (first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year). The letter …
Engagement document between Esther bt. Yaʿaqov ʿAdda and Se. Yosef Fīḥa(?) (פיחה), listing a variety of conditions for their marriage (Join: Matthew Dudley). The prospective …
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Recto: Letter from Ṭurfa, in Fustat, to her sister Esther in the house of Subayʿ (?), unknown location. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1422 …
Letter in Ladino from the merchant Avraham Mayo to his father, probably from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo, dealing with numerous business transactions and the arrival of …
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Marriage contract between a Rabbanite man Khalfā b. Saʿūd, son of Farajallah b. Nafīs and a divorced Rabbanite woman Fāṭima. The marriage was commemorated upon …