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Legal document in the form of a letter addressed to the Gaon (Maṣliaḥ?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Signed by Yefet b. Shelomo and Elʿazar b. [...]. The …
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A long letter with a query regarding the laws of marriage, sent to Simha b. Shlomo. On the back of the page account in Arabic …
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Names of persons and quantities and commodities in Arabic (FGP) - needs examination. Mentions names such as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Abū ʿAbdallāh.
Letter in Arabic script, likely mercantile. Needs examination.
Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, mentioning a Moshe.
Recto: notes or draft of a treatise, stating ‘he created the world with everything in it’, and mentioning infinite power (jabarūt), the epithet ḏū l-jalāl; …
Poetry jottings in both Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from Maṣliaḥ Gaon (autograph) to a communal leader or judge Avraham, in Malīj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Dated: Shevaṭ 1442 Seleucid, …
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Unidentified document in Latin script, probably Spanish. Needs examination.
Letter from Yoshiyyahu b. Hārūn (apparently the grandson of Yoshiyyahu Gaon) in Ṣahrajt,, to Ibrāhīm b. Ḥujayj b. Yūsuf (aka Avraham b. Ḥaggay), in Fustat. …
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Legal record (#45) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 44-46) Folio 11v
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Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and written in a rudimentary hand. Mentions something distressing (al-shida). Hard to read much more apart from the concluding greetings. …
Medical prescription. In Arabic script. 1 mithqāl of hiera picra; the same of anise; fennel (rāziyānaj); and the rest is more difficult to decipher. Ends …
Letter fragment.
Literary text, in Arabic script. Interesting folios from a mathematical text. The preserved part is mostly on multiplication. Needs examination.
A rental agreement with Joseph ג׳לדיטי, priced in Venetian ducats (peraḥ zahav Veneziano). It is dated לצור according to the Pereq Qaṭan, which is probably …
Recto: Note from a certain ʿUzziel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Explaining that the collection of pledges (pesiqa) has been delayed because it was mismanaged from the outset. …
Summary of a power of attorney. Levi b. Ibrāhīm appointed Abū ʿAlī b. Barukh to obtain for him the implements of a silk weaving workshop …
Fragmentary court record concerning marital payments. In Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is a literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps a tafsīr; cites Exodus 2:25 (line 4).
Legal document mentioning the seat of the Bet Din. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragmentary but some of the …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal record (#90) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 31r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 6 Shevat 5325 …
Writing exercises in epistolary Judaeo-Arabic. The dating is 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography. The instructor provided phrases with model handwriting in the headings …
Account in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals set off into squares. The headers in each square are names of basic commodities (e.g. zayt ṭayyib, sīraj, ʿasal, …
Blessings in Hebrew, likely from the top of a letter of appeal for assistance.
Legal fragment (lower left corner). Almost no details are preserved. Signed by: [...] b. Moshe; Yosef b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen.
Informal note addressed to "Rabbenu" asking him to pay Abū l-Faḍl the maintenance payments (mezonot) for the Shabbat of parshat Toldot.
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Mentions 7 bales and documents instead of turbans (? wa-fī l-ʿamāʾim riqā).
Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Faraḥ (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), 9 September 1056. Confirms the arrival of goods and letters and sends information about …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ואצרף אלאסוא ואחאלה דונך
ברחמתה ואלחאל סלאמה לו בקין מן אילול כתמה אללה עליך באחסן כ…
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Remnants of two lines of an Arabic-script chancery document, or possibly a mercantile letter (وما عليه من قماش(؟) يخصه ويخص سيدنا(؟)). In between, at ninety …
Small fragment, possibly Talmud or another rabbinic literary text.
IB IV, 20 (ח61). Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Alexandria to Yiṣḥaq b. Barukh in Almeria. Ḥalfon requests Yiṣḥaq's help with a shipment that …
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Business accounts, mentioning goods from India, myrobalan, and pepper, among many other things. On recto: Letter from Khalfūn b. Benaya(?) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. …
Original use: Letter/petition from a certain Yaḥyā to a certain Yosef. He reports that he has previously tried to enter the service of the addressee, …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Abū Naṣr and Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa.
Family letter sent to Moshe, Yaʿaqov and Avraham. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender fell off of a stair or ladder (sullam) and hurt their back and …
Letter from Yaʿīsh b al-Kadīḥī(?) to Sālim b Yūsuf al-Jiyār(?). In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Dating: 19th century. The writer asks the addressee to send …
Beginning of a letter. None of the content is preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Scribal exercises in Arabic, extremely dense in distribution/paper usage. Medieval-era. At least two different scribal hands are visible. The Mishnaic commentary on the recto, …
Ketubba. May be late. Contains an elaborate dowry list, which mentions Indian goods and others with Persian-sounding names. Needs examination.
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably legal. There are statements about witnessing toward the bottom, including the name Sinān(?) al-ʿAsqalānī al-Tājir in the market of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Difficult hand. Possibly late.
Part of a legal document in the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). No details preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Small, official-looking receipt. For [...] Ibrāhīm al-Quḍāʿī(?).
Form letter from the community of Hebron. In Hebrew. Dated: 5539 AM, which is 1778/79 CE. The name Refa'el Ḥannuka is filled in in big …
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