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Autograph fragment of the Mishneh Torah in the hand of Maimonides.
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Letter from ʿAbdallāh b. Fayrūz to his brother-in-law, a certain Fakhr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; mentions the currency ashrafī. Deals mainly …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic involving a certain Makhlūf. Most of the commodities are garments or textiles. From the circle of Nahray?
Magical spell in Aramaic
Minute fragment, opening line of a court record. The name Ze[daq]a the elder is partially preserved. AA
Administrative note in Arabic script. Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting …
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Tax receipt, mentioning the tax was credited towards the treasury. Trigger/subtype: "waṣala li-bayt al-māl."
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: End of Sivan, 5578 AM, which is July 1818 CE. Apprentice contract for Avraham Fuerte, the student, and …
1. בע׳׳ה
2. בפעח׳׳מ באו היקר נשא ונע׳ יאודה בונאן יצ׳׳ו והבחור ונחמד אברהם פוירטי יצ׳׳ו והודו שניהם הודאה
3. גמו׳ …
Commercial receipt (min dār al-[...]). See tag. Dated: 484 AH? Appears to be for al-Saʿd or Abū Saʿd. (FGP description: statement of debt issued by …
Letter in Arabic script. Beginning with taqbīl, formal addresses/blessings, and a report ("anhā al-mamlūk..."). Dating: Probably Ayyubid or early Mamluk era. The sender reports that …
Two or three amulets containing remarkable illustrations: a demon with a tail, tutu, scepter, horns, and curly hair; a seated woman; and a man being …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Looks early Ottoman era.
Letter from ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa, from Alexandria, to the Tāhartī family, Fustat. May 27, 1050. ʿAyyāsh returned from Busir where he bought a large amount …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף
אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכריה לג כלון מן סיון ערפך אללה ברכתה
וכתמה עלינא וע…
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Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, written in a rudimentary hand. The sender (or the person he is writing on behalf of) wishes to …
حضرته الاجلية ما سبق به كريم وعدها له ما اظن انـ[ـه] تخفى
عن حضرته المحروسة جائحة عبدها ياخذ جميع ما قد كان
يحصل له وقد عزم على العود الى…
Partnership document in Hebrew between Moshe and Me'ir & his brother. 16th century per Avraham David. The partnership is to last for two years. The …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. May be the handwriting of Abū Sahl Levi and addressed to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Not a great deal of …
Fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions "pipes" (qawādīs) and "a gutter for the wall of the house" (mizrab li-ḥāʾiṭ al-b[ayt]).
Table of monetary values, two columns are listed "silver" and "pure" (נוקר). Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Possibly related to communal …
Letter from a woman complaining of abuse by her co-wife (or co-wives?). Dating: ca. 16th century.
Letter in Hebrew mentioning Avraham b. ʿAllūn, 20 gold coins, a deposit and a lawsuit. Dating: Might be 11th century. Elevated style, partially rhymed, with …
Letter sent from Jerusalem in later medieval times by a woman named Jamila, the widow of Yehuda, addressing two brothers-in-law in Cairo, explaining that she …
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Medical recipes. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is probably known.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Revenue from rent. Dated: Dhū l-Qaʿda [644 AH] = Nisan 1558 Seleucid, which is March/April 1247 CE. Small fragment, recording payments for …
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Legal testimony, fragment. Mentions the young ʿEli b. Ḥalfon and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (but not in his handwriting). Dating: ca. 1100–1138, based on the …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment from the end. Greetings to 'the mother.' Umm Yūsuf sends her greetings to the addressee and to 'the mother.' …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From family members to a traveling merchant. Dated: Tishrei [4]89[.], which is the 1130s CE. Maybe 4898, which would be 1137 CE. …
Clockwise from upper left: (b) Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? At the top there is a list of names including Bū …
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Yeshuʿa ha-Sar. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Draft, probably. Only formulaic content remains. In the upper margin there is a …
Letter to Simha from Eliyyahu in which he notes that he left from Fustat and arrived in Alexandria on Friday, and further states that “our …
Astrological text in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning ‘the grace of kings’ and ‘access to the sultans’. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document, fragment. In Hebrew. Mentions a payment of 3 muayyadis/medins per month. There is a Yaʿaqov. It looks like the document was abandoned at …
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Mainly words of patronage in a high register of Arabic. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic …
Legal testimony. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 24 Tammuz 1358 Seleucid = 21 July 1047 CE. Faraj b. Sulaymān known as Ibn al-Muqashshir was asked about …
IB II, 13 + 14. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: three fragments of two copies. Aden, ca. 1130s. An additional copy …
Your hands shall prevail over your foes, and all your enemies shall be cut down.
To our esteemed master and lord Abraham—may G…
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Note, receipt or account? Tiny. Two different hands. Both hands use Coptic alphanumerals to express numbers.
Power of attorney (שטר הרשאה) in which the community of Safed appoints Yisrael Benveniste and Ḥayyīm Mordechai Būnan as their sheliḥim. See previous shelfmark. There …
Possibly a fragment of a writ of appointment in Hebrew (FGP). Excerpts: בך בחרתי והסכמתי ממרו[. . . .] להור[ות] בתורת סיומי ולהבינם [. . …
Letter from Efrayim b. Maymun, probably from Qayrawan, to Ishaq b. Eli al-Majjānī, probably from Al -Mahdiyya. Dating (Gil): 1039. The writer asks the addressee …
כתאבי יאשיכי וגלילי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל <אללה> בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ען חאל
סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק אליך שדיד קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך עלי א[פצ]ל אל…
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Legal fragment. Mentions Mubārak b. Avraham and a street in Ḥārat Zuwayla. Probably continues onto verso, where Shelomo b. Kalev ha-Levi is mentioned (the same …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, a fragment preserving only the margin of recto and part of the address on verso. Sent either to or from Alexandria. The …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Letter by Shelomo b. Yeshuʿa ha-ḥaver, in Damīra, to Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. The writer raises charges …
Two copies of a legal declaration in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dated documents: 1100–38). Draft. In which Abū l-Ḥusayn Moshe b. Shelomo …
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Interesting Arabic fragment with text arranged in a table, with many names of God invoked. Magical?
Letter, in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Letter from the physician Abū Zikrī, in Alexandria, to his father Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Dating: Shortly before 1227 CE. Abū Zikrī tries to …
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Probably a bill of sale for an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). No details preserved.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mention of Ḥajj Budeyr and Se[nyor] Yosef on the recto. A date is likely listed on the verso "שנת צא" which …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts of some sort in Arabic script. Several calendar dates are specified. There are discrete sections with headers written in larger script. Two of the …