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Deed of sale of a property on recto, with multiple related addenda documents on verso. Dated 2 Muḥarram 777 AH on recto (1375 CE). In …
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[ ] well-protected al-Qāhira, in Ḥārat Zuwayla, in the lane with no outlet known as the ‘bl…
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Recto: medical fragment; describes preparation of pills which include fennel. Difficult to read and requires further examination. Verso: list of names, mentioning Elʿazar ha-Kohen, Yefet, …
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Bill of debt issued in Cairo in 1509/10 CE (5270 AM) to be paid to David Di Medina and his brother Avraham in 10 Ducati …
Bifolium from a Hebrew medical treatise.
Secondary use: Efrayim b. Shemarya (11th c) uses and reworks passages from the Sheʾiltot of Aḥay of Shabḥa (8th c) for a sermon. Written on …
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Letter in Ladino to Avraham from Shemuel b. [...]. Twice refers to a matter of a nursemaid, possibly referred to as a "whore" (אקיליא זונה …
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Legal deed written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (although the hand looks very different from other documents by him - PG). Small fragment …
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Verso: Letter in the hand of Avraham Maimonides, r. 1205–1237 CE, mentioning Yosef. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index cards. Joins by Mordechai Akiva …
Judaeo-Persian seliḥot, with some Hebrew mixed in. ASE
Recto: Letter of the Na'ib of Malij to the judge Efrayim b. Meshulam regarding a case of an orphan girl. Asks for a quick decision. …
Letter from a certain Meʾir to his 'friend and brother' Abū ʿImrān ('ha-talmid ha-navon'). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender's hand is familiar from other documents (distinctive …
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Modern printed edition of the 10th-century History of Armenia by Yovhannēs Drasxanakertc‘i. The text on these pages corresponds to Krikor Maksoudian's 1987 edition, p. 101. …
Text in Judaeo-Arabic. Business-related? Medical? "wa-qīrāṭayn tarkīb." The hand looks 13th century.
Family letter in Arabic script. Numerous greetings to various people are preserved (e.g., to "ahl bayt mawlānā" and the sender's paternal uncle Makārim), also a …
Literary. Targum Onqelos on Genesis.
Legal document, or accounts for the month of Jumādā I and Jumādā II. Needs examination.
Unidentified document in Latin script, probably Spanish. Needs examination.
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Bavli Rosh ha-Seder. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks the addressees to help him pay his debts. Greetings and …
Marriage contract recorded on parchment. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, 29 Adar II 5556 AM = 8 April 1796 CE. Groom: Yehuda Mercado. Bride: Sara bt. …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Very rudimentary hand. There may be someone called 'the elephant.'
Pleas and prayers to God for the sake of the people of Israel – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 188) – in …
Letter addressed to Abū Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf al-Fāsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. The writer's name may be preserved as well, but the conservators have …
Minute fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions arriving in Alexandria and meeting with somebody, and possibly a boat.
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph.
Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: the Samaritan (al-Sāmirī). See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52 (PGPID 33686).
Legal document. Bill of attorney, written by Yosef b. Shemuʾel Halevi and approved by Maimonides, in his own hand. Published: מע"פ פרידמן, ר' משה בן …
Fragment with various scattered text blocks in Arabic. Dating: late, Ottoman-era.
Letter in Hebrew. Very faded. Scattered phrases: גבולו ולהרבול שלום . . . מצרים . . . בבנינו . . . היום קרוב לשנתים ואפילו …
Report about the inspection of a house in Minyat Zifta to assess the rent from a pious foundation. Dated: first decade of Tammuz 1489 Seleucid …
Colophon of a notebook (זו הקוטראס) containing Hebrew prayers. Written by Nissim b. Nahray, probably still a child, in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ, Fustat (called Ṣoʿan Miṣrayim).
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The story is interesting but fragmented. Refers to a girl (ṣabiyya) who is in an agitated state (takhruj min …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender (ממלוכך) reports that on Sunday he went to [...] and found that "they" had taken out the box (quffa) …
Page from a Hebrew medical treatise.
Letter in a very cursive, difficult script. Mentions the names Avraham and [...] b. Ḥalfon.
Biblical translation in Arabic, written in Arabic script. Exodus 2:3–9 and 2:12–17.
Letter from Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq (Tripoli al-Gharb) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), August 1051. Written a short time after the sinking of the ship of …
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Verso, left: beginning of a genealogical list for "the house of the learned judge": Saʿadya and his six sons, beginning with Shemuʾel the judge (al-dayyan …
Shelomo b. Eliyyahu asks Abu l-Ḥasan to give the (medicinal) syrup that he kindly cooked to the young boy for delivery. (Information from Goitein's index …
20 pages of lists of names with some accounts, organized by days of weeks.
Recto: receipt with quantities expressed in Coptic alphanumerals, cut and reused for the documents on verso. Verso: receipt(?) for goods sold by (al-mubtāʿ ʿalā yad) …
Letter to Meshullam b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen Kelil ha-Yofi. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. It seems to consist solely of flattering greetings.
List of amounts of money received from al-Shaykh al-Makīn and al-Shaykh al-Nadiv, written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (d. 1230s).
Verso: Official correspondence. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. Dating: likely ca. first half of the 12th century, based on the dating of recto. Mentions news …
Small fragment of the beginning of a letter addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (r. 1078–1111) written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 …
Letter, upper left corner only, containing half of the first six lines of recto and verso. Distinctive handwriting. ASE.
Legal document, probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment in Ladino. Seems to be discussing somebody's (Eliyya's?) illness for the last 6 months: סון 6 מיזיס קי נו איי ריפואה קון אילייא …
Letter from Barakāt b. Sason to ʿImrān b. Benaya, in al-Maḥalla (אלמחללא). In Judaeo-Arabic, with some unusual orthography (including ש for ס and ת for …