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Legal testimony. Location: Fustat. Dated: 16 Sivan 1394 Seleucid, which is 1082 CE. Shaʿyā b. David b. [...] makes a declaration concerning the parnas Mevorakh …
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Recto: Fragment of a ketubba. End of the 13th century. Payments: 10 + 40. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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Recto: Petition, fragment. Perhaps involving the plunder and occupation of a house (....al-bayt wa-nahabū... ikhrājuhum ʿanhu... fa-mā li-l-mamlūk illā marāḥim al-mawlā...). The form of the …
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Practice signatures of the name Yoʾel b. Yehuda ha-Levi the teacher. In the blank space on a bifolio of Hebrew poetry.
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Acknowledgement of debt. A certain individual promises to make a payment of 298 dinars for precious …
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Minute fragment, only two words, but might be from a ketubah. AA
IB ח95. Small fragment of a letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Fustat or Cairo, to his brother Yeḥezqel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No later January …
1 לא אע[...]
2 תעא[...]
3 חאל [...]
4 ענד [...]
5 ודמ.[...]
6 יכון [...]
7 כת[...]
Verso (original use): State document. One line from a petition in Arabic script addressed to an amīr. (Information from CUDL)
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand may be known (Nahray b. Nissim?). Verso is rich in details of commodities and …
Letter in which the writer says that he has heard that the addressee became a cantor. The marginal text is in Arabic. Recto seems to …
A Karaite ketubah. The groom is Yosef b Aharon Hakohen. The bride is Esther.
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Very faded.
Letter from Avraham b. Hillel to Moshe ha-Kohen ha-Talmid. Dating: ca. late 12th or early 13th century. Beginning with a biblical quotation (Shemuel I 25:6). …
Possibly a legal document about an engagement. Mentions R. Yehuda.
Fragment (upper part) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Avraham Maimonides from al-Muhadhdhab ha-Kohen b. Manṣūr (or Merayot?) ha-Kohen. From the body of the message that …
Verso: An ʿalāma, possibly from a larger state document, or practice. "Al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi li-man lahū al-ḥamd." On recto there is unidentified text both in Judaeo-Arabic …
Medical prescription composed of ingredients that appear regularly in similar prescriptions of those days. Wine is recommended as an alternative for a sharab (a potion). …
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Bifolio containing a very lengthy and detailed Hebrew narrative of business dealings, possibly intended as a draft or copy of a letter, or possibly related …
Letter addressed to a certain Avraham b. [...] and mentioning [Abū] l-Faraj. Dating: Probably 13th century based on handwriting and typical terms (e.g. the title …
Bifolium from a court notebook. Fol. 1a: End of a legal query (ll. 1–4) and complete answer/responsum (ll. 5–19) in the case of Hilāl the …
Bottom part of a letter in Hebrew: . . . תרבותיהם לכל . . . גלינו הבאים מארבע לסובב ולהקיף על . . . יקירינו …
Ornamented Colophon of a Bible. AA
Legal document mentioning a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)
Torn fragment of a business account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
State document in Arabic script. Looks like a receipt, unclear for what. Possibly Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. May refer to ʿAlam al-Dīn b. Bū l-Majd in …
A scorpion amulet based on the word אבליגמה. Includes the line "I have bound you with these names" אסרתיך באלו השמות
Official letter, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of 3 lines are preserved; upslanting and wide space between lines. Probably mentions Sidon(?). Needs examination for …
Letter in Ladino with interspersed Hebrew phrases. Dating: ca. 18th century? This is a letter of appeal for charity. There may not be any information …
Small receipt or order of some kind.
Karaite agreement between partners regarding the division of profit?
Letter from Ṣedaqa al-Yahūdī to Umm al-Khayr bt. Nūr al-Dīn al-Ḥakīm b. [...], possibly in Bilbays (the address is damaged). In Arabic script. Dating: No …
A page from a literary work on magical medical remedies.
Letter from Yehuda Leib the Ashkenazi to the Nagid Yiṣḥaq Sholal. In Hebrew. Dating: 1502–17 CE (date range of Sholal's post as Nagid). The writer …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. Only a few partial signatures are preserved: [...] b. Shemarya; Ṣedaqa b. Yeshuʿa; Avraham b. Natan …
Official letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids, with a motto (ʿalāma) at the top. The cantor Faraj is instructed to …
Verso (original use): Letter fragment in Arabic script. Reports on the sale of wheat by Hilāl and good news ("abshirū!") concerning 'the thing which I/you …
Various jottings in different hands including the name Abū l-Faraj b. Ḥātim ha-Zaqen.
Damaged fragment from a legal deed regarding both the delivery and the loss of a bill of divorce. One of the parties is Ibn Ḍarīr …
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Very damaged.
Bottom part of a legal document in Arabic script. Cut into the shape of a circle. Deed of sale (refers to iqrār al-bāʾiʿ). Dated: 486 …
Legal record (#9) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 1r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
Two responsa written by Yosef Hakohen b. Ya'aqov from Tyre (Date 1011-1037). AA
Recto (secondary use): Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Possibly lampooning someone for his poor hospitality.
Letter addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya, in Cairo (al-Qāhira al-maḥrūsa bi-l-ʿizz al-dā'im). In Hebrew. Only the introductory blessings and the address are preserved …