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Verso (secondary use): Medical recipes in Arabic script.
Accounts with many different names listed by corresponding quantities in Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly communal. The dating is likely 15th- or 16th- century based on the …
Letter from Meir Messina to his employer or business partner in Gaza. Written in Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century or beginning of …
Small fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.
One fragmentary word, in Arabic script, probably "وسطا".
Recto: testimony within a legal document or a letter, concerning financial matters (power of attorney) and mentioning Abū l-Ba[rakāt?]. Verso: probably small fragment from a …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. "A suit was filed in court (ll. 1–2, 12) by the two sons of the late …
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Marriage contract (ketubba) from Damascus, late tenth century. The dowry list includes a short garment of linen decorated with silver and golden threads, two shirts, …
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List(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On the right in larger characters is a list of piyyuṭim, and/or books, for specific dates in …
Probably a family letter, consisting mainly of greetings. May mentions Fayrūz.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer is recovering from illnesses and is in difficult financial straits. He asks for a loan of 62 dirhams. Dating: likely …
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Letter from Abū l-Munā b. Yaʿaqov, unknown location, to an unidentified addressee, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Same writer …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Handwriting of Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī? He reports that someone is sick. He requests various piyyuṭim, including one that his uncle composed. Quite …
Responsum in the autograph of Maimonides, ca. 1168–1204 CE based on the years when he was active in Egypt.
Literary fragment. Discussing legal testimony.
Letter from קלדה the wife of Meir Ṭaras(?) to דייצה the wife of Avraham Ḥalafta(?). In Ladino. Needs examination.
Small, official receipt for ʿImrān Ibn al-Riṣāfī(?). Landscape format. Trigger: afrada... Seems to be for the large sum of 30 dinars. T-S AS 176.437, T-S …
Tax receipt for the Jewish man Yūsuf b. Daʾūd for his capitation tax in Fustat. The date is given twice (51[.]?).
Letter from a man, in an unknown location, to his son Abū l-[Rabīʿ?] Sulaymān, in Fustat. To be delivered to the shop of Abū Naṣr …
Letter from Abū Saʿīd to his son. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 13th century. The son was ill. He asks the addressee to forward legal …
The text is responding, in the fragment extant, to two arguments that were made by ben Meir against the Babylonians at the time of the …
Top of a legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1507 Seleucid = 1195/96 CE. Involves [...] …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th or 19th century.
Minute fragment containing legal notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentioning Yiṣḥāq b. Moshe and 27 dinars.
Minute fragment probably from a ketubah. AA
Accounts. Mentions people such as Mīkhāʾīl and goods such as mastic. Needs examination.
Legal record (#3) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 2r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Sivan 5320 …
Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The entries are fairly well-preserved, some are crossed out. Requires …
Letter from Shalom, in Egypt, to an unknown addressee, probably in Istanbul. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's …
Verso: Note in Arabic script. Seems to be addressed to Ibrāhīm al-Firnās, asking for assistance with something. Mentions several names including Farrūj, Rabbi Mūsā, Rabbi …
Letter from Avraham b. Farrāḥ, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dated 27 Iyyar, which Gil renders 1 May 1052. Contains details about the sailing …
בסם אללה אלעטים
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן אלאסכנדריה
יום אלגמעה אכר אלנהאר ללילתין בקית …
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Mercantile account, small fragment.
Guide for the Perplexed. In Judaeo-Arabic. Likely 13th century, based on handwriting, which may be known from other documents. Looks like the hand of Yedutun …
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab, perhaps begging for charity. Mentions necessity/want (al-ḍurūra) several times and concludes with, "I have no …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, dealing in corals and pearls among other items. Mentions Sicily. Dating: probably 11th-century. Large and well preserved. Merits further examination.
Document in Arabic script headed 'tadhkira' ('memorandum'). There is a line of honorifics for somebody.
Letter from Ṣedaqa b. Aharon (?) the druggist to Abū Saʿīd the druggist, ordering materia medica, including, fine Iraqi saffron; aloe wood (ʿūd); aged camphor …
List of 31 contributors in Arabic and Coptic numerals (1, 1 1/2, 2 2 1/2, 3, 4 4 1/2, 5, 8, 9) but no denominations …
Accounts. (Information from CUDL.) Rudimentary hand, little preserved.
Recto: three recipes of folk remedies in Ladino, integrating magical elements. The ingredients include turpentine and organic foodstuffs like sardines. Drawn at the bottom of …
Lower fragment: Letter from a woman, Umm Nissim, to her relative Abū Saʿd b. X al-Barqī, who is the paternal nephew (ibn ʿamm) of her …
Verso (primary use): Fragment from the beginning of a letter. Mentions the addressee's request to 'give the letter/document to Abū l-Karam.'
Accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals on recto and verso. Medieval-era. Headed Abū [...] al-Qaṣṣār(?). The paper was reused for writing exercises in Hebrew-script and …
Letter in Hebrew written on an irregular piece of vellum from prison. David appeals to Avraham ha-Sar to try to bring about his release from …