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Small fragment from the top of the ketubba of Karīma bt. Yosef. Dated: [13]68 or [14]68 Seleucid. Another ketubba for a bride bearing the same …
No Scholarship Records
Probably a dowry list, quite faded.
Marriage contract for Shelomo b. Yosef and Munā bt. ʿAmram. Marriage payment: 1 + 15? From somewhere in Egypt. Dated 1086/87 CE (1398 Seleucid).
Small fragment of Arabic document, maybe official.
IB IV, 5 (ח8). Legal testimony. Location: Aden. Dating: ca. summer 1131 CE. Concerns the controversy caused by a Persian Jew, the nephew of the …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Literary text, in Arabic script. "اربعة مقدمات". Needs examination.
Legal document, small fragment. In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Mentions 'all kinds of merchandise' (in the margin).
Legal record. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1156. Summary of contract terms wherein Abū al-Faraj b. Ghilāth invests 150 dinars and Tamīm al-Sukkarī, the active partner, invests …
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Court document. Financial settlement between a husband and his wife? All the parties are Jewish. Dated: 26 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1056 AH, which is 2 February …
Letter from Shelomo ha-Kohen Gaon b. Yehosef to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: spring 1025 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE based on …
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Bifolio of mercantile accounts in Arabic script. Many entries are crossed out. Mentions people such as Abū l-Barakāt al-Kohen (الكوهان). Mentions commodities such as buckthorn …
Address, accompanying a letter or a shipment, from Fusṭāṭ to Jerusalem into the hands of Naṣrullah Bashshāʿ (?). Dating: Late, probably Mamluk-era. (Information in part …
Letter in Arabic, reused for Hebrew annotations on the verso. (AP)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Calligraphic. The writer requests someone's urgent attendance in Cairo; mentions al-Kohen al-Shaykh Muwaffaq; mentions a tarsīm (fee for house arrest?). See …
Medical prescription in difficult Arabic script. Information from Goitein's note card.
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Accounts in Ladino and Judaeo-Arabic that express figures in western Arabic numerals. Dated 19 Kislev [54]97 or less likely 55[97]– so 1736CE or 1836CE. Some …
Address of a letter to a judge.
Document regulating the inheritance of the estate in Sana'a, next to the synagogue, that was left behind by Meri Daud. The house was split and …
Arabic, literary.
Recto: Letter/petition from Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān Abū l-Faraj (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu the Judge). In Arabic script. A narrow vertical strip is missing from the right …
Large communal register fragment, the paper was folded uniformly into eight sections according to the same format as JRL SERIES C 179 (PGPID 32029). Dated …
Verso: halakhic text, possibly part of a responsum, written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), dealing with excommunication and repentance. (Information in part from …
IB II, 67a. Top half of a letter from Maḍmūn b. David (here referred to by his Hebrew name Shemarya b. David) to a prominent …
The servant Shemaryā b. David—may the spirit of the Lord give him rest!—
greets his high and lofty excellency, the m…
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Maqāma in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi. The same maqāma (in a different hand) appears in T-S K16.28.
Letter to the community of Jerusalem from Elhanan b. Shemarya, 1013 CE.
Letter from Yaʿaqov to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer had not received a letter from the addressee for some time (arjū shughl khayr). It …
Letter of appeal for charity from Avraham b. Yitro of Damascus (al-Dimashqī). He opens with lengthy Hebrew blessings, then describes his sufferings (poverty, dependents, capitation …
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Disorganized jottings and pen trials in Arabic. There may be an original core of a document such as a petition that was later overlaid with …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary, late hand. Items include kaʿk and a muṣḥaf. There is additional text in Hebrew (late Sephardi hand) and a …
Verso: Draft of a legal document in Hebrew from Cairo (Miṣrayim) Dated Tishrei 5583 AM (= September/October 1822 CE). Concerning a guardian appointed for a …
Probably a family letter, consisting mainly of greetings. May mentions Fayrūz.
Legal document. In Hebrew. Dating: second half of the 16th century based on the people mentioned; strangely, no date appears in the document itself. Involves …
Bifolio of accounts.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions "his pure intention with me, in the document/petition" (من نيته الخالصة لي في الرقعة) and then "... the document/petition …
Bifolio from Seder Ha-Haggadah Shel Pesaḥ ʿIm Ṣiyurīm (Trieste: Yonah Kohen Printing House, 1864). The full title page is intact along with two others on …
Letter in which the writer complains about his financial state. The sender gives advice to the addressee about leaving some place and taking his childrens' …
Accounts in Hebrew or Judaeo-Arabic. Late. There is also the beginning of a legal deed (zikhron ʿedut) concerning a rental.
Letter addressed to ʿUlla ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad b. [...]. In Hebrew (for the poetic opening) and Arabic in Arabic script (for the body). Only the upper …
Fragment of a letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī from Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal in Fustat. Mentions some information about the Sultan …
Late literary work.
Capitation tax receipt. Trigger: tadhkira bism. Dated: 502 AH = 1108/09 CE if read correctly. For Abū l-Yumn(?) b. Baṣal(??). Needs further examination.
Letter from Moshe b. {Sar?} Shalom ha-Levi Gaʾon to Tamīm ha-Talmid. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Unusual format. The sender is writing to recommend the bearer …
Tax receipt for Abū l-Riḍā b. Yūsuf (?). A date at the bottom: 5[..] AH?
Late accounts with Hebrew numerals. Mentions the names Avraham Naḥmias, ʿAbd aḷ-Raḥman al-Maṣ..nī, and others. Requires further examination. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Naḥum b. Manṣūr, in Malīj, to the parnas Abū Kathīr, in Fustat. The scribe is the cantor Ibn al-Jāzfīnī, who adds messages of …
In Your name, Oh Merciful,
Peace and peace again from the Lord of Peace and from Him who makes in heaven peace. The Creator of All knows
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Late letter in Hebrew to Yishmaʿel ha-Kohen dated November 1829 (Heshvan 5590).
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. On recto, the name Abū ʿAlī appears. (Information in part from CUDL)
Beginning of a petition beginning "mamlūk al-ḥaḍra. . . ." This seems to be pasted on to a bifolio of Hebrew piyyuṭ in a rudimentary …
List of names and houses with numerals, most of them 100 or 200, possibly for tax purposes. Names include Naṣrallāh Qūṣī, Mūsā Nuwās and many …