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Legal record (#10) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but c. 1560 …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Opening only. The writer is pained because someone is sick (perhaps al-Rashīd?).
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Very damaged text in Hebrew characters, unidentified, possibly legal. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sent from Rome. Addressed to 'my son' Barhūn Naqqāsh. Dating: Likely late Mamluk or early Ottoman-era. "I remained in Sardinia (צרדאניא) …
Letter: poetic letter (probably a draft) to an important individual, addressed as נין הגאונים ותפארת הישיבות. (Information from CUDL)
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Letter addressed to the shop of Abū Ṭāhir b. Abū Naṣr al-Kohen Kelil ha-Yofi, in Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn, in Fustat. The writer inquires about news of …
Marriage document. Lower part, probably of a ketubah, written by a typical 13th century hand. Some of the dowry list is preserved. Signed by […] …
IB VI, 25. Letter containing the testimony of Makhlūf, a respectable merchant, who had to flee from Alexandria before an oppressive government official, 'the plundering …
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Legal record(s). Dated: 1608 Seleucid = 1296/96 CE. The first involves Ḥayyim b. Ḥananʾel, (his wife?) Shamsiyya bt. Ṣadoq, and a delayed marriage payment of …
State document, fragment of a longer text, dismembered at the collesis. What has remained is wa-mā tawfīqī illā bi-l-lāh. Possibly Ayyubid (tawfīqī billāh was an …
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Declaration by Khalīl b. Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr al-Ḥalabī al-Ḥāmī. Also may mention Mansūr al-Ustādh and ʿUthmān al-Ṣ[...]. Dated: …
Guarantee for a debt. Yūsuf b. Saʿīd agrees to cede 3/4 of a house and half of a ruin situated opposite it, to the orphan …
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Magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic (with some Arabic script and magical symbols). One recipe is for nosebleed and involves writing a spell with the blood on …
Business letter, from Khiyār b. Salmān Raqqāq (the parchment-maker) to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ca. late 11th century. Written by a scribe, …
Fragment (lower left corner) of a legal document from Fusṭāṭ. Dating: mid-12th century. Signed by Moshe b. Netanʾel ha-Shishi ha-Levi and [Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammd b. Ḥayyim] …
End of a letter in Hebrew. Apparently from Yisraʾel ha-Kohen and carried by Faraḥ, though it's not clear where this is written. Very faded. Dated: …
From the story of Ya'aqov and Rachel and Leah in Genesis: each verse is followed by an Aramaic and a Judaeo-Arabic translation. ASE.
State document, probably capitation tax receipt, in Arabic script. Contains two registration marks "الحمد لله وبه استعين" and "الحمد لله لما انعم". The first line …
Writing practice, consisting of Genesis 1:1-5, vocalised with Tiberian vowels in the lines 1-2 only. The text breaks off after בקר in Genesis 1:5, where …
Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Dā'ūd, in Tinnīs, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1055 CE. Regarding the debt and goods belonging to the …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי ורייסי אטאל אללה בקאך וא[דאם] עזך
ותאיידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמתך מן תניס ל[ ] כלון [מן]
אדר ערפך אללה ברכתה וימנה וער…
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Letter fragment (middle third, missing both right and left sides). A lot of text remains, but it is frustratingly vague. The name(s) on verso may …
Fragment of two letters in Judaeo-Arabic, one each on recto and verso. The one on verso mentions good news for the addressee, fear of the …
Letter from a woman in Fustat to her sons. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic written in an elegant scribal hand. The writer reports …
Qur’an in Hebrew script. Suras 1 and 2:1-10 (folios 1v-2v). Followed by omens for undertaking a journey (see separate entry). F. 1r is blank apart …
Letter probably in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel (active early 13th century); not immediately clear if he is writing for himself or as a …
Small fragment of an unidentified text in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, possibly a letter. Includes many biblical citations and refers to the prophet (al-sayyid) Eliyyahu. (Information …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Location: Yemen. Dated: Shawwāl 1177 AH = April/May 1764 CE. At least six witness clauses appear at the bottom.
Letter from Elḥanan b. [...] (or Ṣāliḥ b. Barhūn Tāhartī according to CUDL?) to Mūsā and Isḥāq b. Barhūn Tāhartī, concerned with business matters. In …
Formulary for a Karaite marriage document, edited by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger.
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Small fragment containing part of a date in Arabic (Sunday the 2nd of . . . )
Chancery decree in large Arabic script. Only the left half of a single line has been preserved. Yusuf Umrethwala's suggested reading: السجل لك باستخدامك في …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. One side: Legal document. Bottom part only. Written on vellum, so the text follows the curve of the fragment. There …
Large vertical strip from the right side of a business letter, account, or legal document. On parchment. Dating: Maybe 11th century. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a …
Decree, probably a public copy with gigantic line spacing. Mentions the signature/ʿalāma (khaṭṭ, khuṭūṭ) of two just witnesses (al-shuhūd al-ʿadlayn) and overseers (al-mushārifīn). Also mentions …
Letter possibly from Abū Zikrī the physician to his father Eliyyahu the judge. Written in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Goitein comments, …
Fragment from the opening of a letter, from Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen Gaʾon b. Shelomo ha-Kohen Gaʾon. (Information from CUDL.) On verso part of a book list.
Medical treatise in Arabic script, probably. Mentions lavendar (اسطوخودس) and spinach (اسفنج). Needs further examination.
List of names of those present at the sermons and preaching offered at a collective meeting of rabbis from Yemen and Persia – Bassatine Cemetery …
Short letter from Yahya b. Musa al-Majani to his uncle, Ishaq b. Eli al-Majani, probably from Mahdiyya. Around 1038. Regarding money matters. (Information from Gil, …
[ ] לה וליא ונאצרא פי גמיע
[ ] נאה ען סלאמה עמימה ונעמה
[ ] קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך עלי
[אפצל אלמחאב ודכרת סלאמ]תך אדאמהא אללה לך וקד וצלנ…
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions someone reaching maturity and taking possession of something from his mother, and quotes the verse 'لا …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Opens with blessings for the addressee, then a request to al-Rashīd …
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew (upper left corner).
Letter concerning business matters containing many greetings. The sender writes that pieces of parchment have arrived from North Africa. The rest of the parchments will …
Recto: verses in Arabic expressing the book owner’s intention to not lend his copy to anybody without making a written note of it. The first …
Recto: Commercial settlement (peshara), a draft, involving Yosef b. Sedaqa and Nissim - with names of the witnesses (not signatures): Avraham b. Ḥalfon, Shemuel b. …
Damaged legal deed, probably a bill of release. If one of the parties will try to take the other party to gentile court he will …