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Divination. Grid in red ink filled with various outcomes. In Hebrew.
No Scholarship Records
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Two fragments from the upper left side. Mentions: female dyers …
Awaiting description - see Goitein notes linked below.
Petition from Yusuf requesting help from the addressee, Natan, for a woman who has weak vision and a blind daughter. The sender also enquires after …
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Fragment in Arabic script. Unidentified. Probably a literary text. Isolated words and phrases are legible: bi-l-malik Hārūn... ʿalaykum... alladhī... al-mustariqīn al-samʿa (this is what the …
Long list of men's names arranged in columns, about 120 in all, accompanied by numbers. Appears late.
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Late.
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Interesting letter with a conspiratorial tone, apparently from a father to a son. The writer reports that he has heard that Barakat the son of …
Letter fragment from the Jewish community of Palermo to the Jewish community of Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. May mention [Ḥayyim b.] Yaʿaqov ha-Sef[aradi] (who …
Margin of verso: Notation explaining how a document written a hundred years earlier was found again after it had been missing for a long time. …
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Copy of a letter or responsum on the havdala (Information from CUDL)
Document in Arabic script. Accounts of some kind, or probably fiscal. Undeciphered and needs examination. In the margins and on verso there is Hebrew literary …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Legal document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 22 lines are preserved along with part of a witness signature at the bottom. The first line …
An official order/letter from the head of the Jewish community or a high-placed dignitary. The main document is in Judaeo-Arabic, and the message is repeated …
Letter from a man to his father-in-law. Fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. He offers an update on mercantile transactions, mainly in garments, each transaction on the order …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Al the entries specify either silver or gold.
Very damaged and faded page, probably from a court record, regarding betrothal. From the various signatures preserved we can assume it was written between 1092-1132. …
Letter from a man to his son-in-law. In Ladino. Dating: Perhaps on the earlier side, 16th or 17th century (based on hand and vocabulary). The …
Fragment from the bottom of a ketubba, probably. Groom: [...] b. Yehuda. Bride: Sitt al-Ḥusn. Signed by [...] b. ha-Ḥazzan and Yisrael b. Shelomo.
Poem/letter in Arabic script, probably from a client to a patron expressing gratitude and servitude. Ḥamdala and ḥasbala at the bottom.
Letter in Arabic script. Damaged and faded. Needs examination.
4 pages from an Arabic literary treatise with huge margins and headers in red ink. These pages include proverbs/sayings, arranged alphabetically. At least one of …
Letter in which Avraham Maimonides (1205-1237) recommends to the judge Perahia and his sons a man who wishes to marry the judge's daughter.
Private account of Barhun b. Yishaq ha-Tāhartī. Around 1050. Contains financial report with Abu al-Khayr, who is Musa b. Barhun ha-Tāhartī, the writer’s uncle. (Information …
אלבאקי עלי מולאי אלשיך אבי אלכיר בעד
אלמחאסבה תקכו ותלתיי וקיר וען צרף ק דינ מה שאמיה מדורה דינ>
וען יד דינ ותלת אטראבלסיה יב…
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Marriage contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: 7 Shevat 5480 AM, which is 1720 CE. Groom: Nissim b. ʿAmram b. Shemuel. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Yeshuʿa b. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment: upper right corner only. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Addressed to a cousin (ibn ʿamm). Deals with a legal case, a …
Verso (secondary use): Accounts in the hand of Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef mentioning al-ʿAfṣī and Ibn Nuṣayr. (Information from Goitein's notes and index card.)
Legal formulary with instructions in Judaeo-Arabic, including the template for a bill of divorce. On the last page contains the interesting stipulation that if you …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Curious spellings, with long vowels in unexpected places (אבין for אבן and מבורוך probably for מבורך). Does this point to a late …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Nahray b. Nissim. Dated: 451 AH, which is 1059/60 CE. Goitein describes these as "important." See his note …
Fragment of official correspondence concerning the administration of Upper Egypt. The first four lines are mostly preserved. "It is necessary to write a noble letter …
Accounts of a slaughterer. In Judaeo-Arabic. He receives 1 dirham for 2 heads (probably of sheep). First week of Elul: 43 heads, 22 dirhams. Second …
Accounts with Hebrew numerals. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Small fragment from the bottom of a state document with wide line spacing, preserving only a ḥamdala and ṣalwala.
A list of medicinal items in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: Ottoman-era, perhaps 18th or 19th century. This shelfmark's full ENA 1984 series are …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: 144[.] Seleucid, which is 1128–38 CE. Husband: Yosef [b. ʿEli]. Wife: [Sitt] al-Jamīʿ bt. Shelomo. (They may actually …
מטא לידה קמן אנן עיד[י
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Recto: part of a letter concerning communal politics. The writer excuses his writing because he wrote this at night, "and my eye hardly sees in …
Arabic translation of Genesis 4:4–15, with one line (Genesis 4:9a, line 9 recto) is written in Samaritan square script. See Niessen, F. (2007). An Arabic …
Possibly a letter. The whole folio is preserved but the text is too faded to read.
Table of names in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals.
Fiscal document. Mentions a qāḍī, "al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra," and various sums of money. Cf. T-S K6.150.2 (PGPID 34366). Needs examination. At the top there is what …
Arabic script (VMR)
Literary text in Arabic.
Writing exercises in Arabic, helpfully giving the date: August-September 1822 CE (Dhu l-Hijja 1237 AH).