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Probably a letter of praise in rhymed Hebrew for [...] Shemarya ha-Rosh. Written in a beautiful scribal hand in square characters on a lined piece …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from a woman, probably in Alexandria, to her paternal uncle. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. The writer's family, a family of merchants that …
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Recto: Poem in Hebrew, right side, in praise of an Aharon b. Mevorakh (the first name was discovered by Worman in the acrostic). Verso: Remnant …
Letter from an unidentified man, in Fustat, to his brother al-Musāfir al-Kattānī ('the traveling flax-merchant'), in Aṭfīḥ. The writer urges the addressee to come back …
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Ketubba (marriage contract). Fragment (last few lines only). The groom is named Yosef. Signed by: ʿEli b. ʿAmram ha-Levi (active 1049–66, not to be confused …
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves Sitt al-Furs and Mordekhay. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fol. 19: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. This is the sole fragment under this shelfmark that does not include an Abū Zikrī Kohen …
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Fragment of an account containing names and amounts of money in dinars and dirhams. Probably part of a court record, based on the presence of …
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Book of responsa. Joins by Amir Ashur. See FGP and Goitein's note card for bibliographical references.
Arabic script (VMR)
Fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century, based on handwriting. Apparently recounting a legal situation. Excerpts from T-S AS 153.68: "...the …
Letter in Hebrew (peppered with Arabic, Turkish, and Italian), addressed to two unnamed merchants (one the uncle of the writer), written almost certainly in Alexandria …
Business letter in Arabic script from Hilāl b. Salmān(?) to his maternal uncle ('my father') Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Hillel. Consists entirely of greetings and …
A few words from a state document, perhaps a decree. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew alphanumerals. Dating is 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. The recto mentions two food items of pepper and ginger, …
Letter of appeal for charity, probably. In Hebrew. Mentions the names Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and Abū [...]. There are also a couple of words in …
A memory list mention of 28 names
Literary text in Hebrew. Yemeni hand. Jottings on verso.
Letter, probably mercantile, in Arabic script. Addressed to a certain "mawlāya l-ustādh", from a sub-ordinate. The sender asks the addressee to not put him at …
Letter in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan addressed to a dignitary named ʿAzaryahu. (For the addressee, cf. T-S 8J19.8 + CUL Add.3342.) Recto consists …
Several folios of Talmudic commentary (Rabbenu Ḥananʾel according to the NLI catalog) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Verso: Outline of a deed of sale. Elʿazar b. Yaʿaqov sells to Shelomo b. Avraham ha-Kohen Peʾer ha-Kohanim 2.25 shares of the maṭbakh known by …
Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq, in איל שובֿיש(?), to his 'brother' Eliyya b. Ḥayyim, in Egypt. In Ladino. The writer complains about having to be …
Letter in Hebrew giving a detailed account of a dispute, apparently in the Muslim courts, regarding the flax trade, a legal document, and the validity …
Testimony dated the 8 Av 1776 Seleucid = 31 July 1465 CE. Regarding Manṣūr b. Ibrāhīm ("known as the leprous (al-Abras)"?) and another party who …
Letter, probably. In Hebrew. Seems to consist entirely of blessings and flattery, but it is very faded, so there might be more. In the hand …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Fragment (lower left corner). Dating: Likely 11th century if not earlier. Deed of release (שטר פיצוי) given by a woman named …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary. Dating: 11th century. The sender has sent a purse containing 8 dinars to be given to his family members; mentions …
Literary text(s) in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
8 pages of grids filled with Hebrew letters, presumably for casting lots.
State document, in Arabic script. Maybe a letter or petition. Begins with "yunhī", mentions "sulṭān" and something being in the possession of infidels "fī aydī …
Lower fragment: Letter. In Hebrew. Late. Only the address is preserved: to 'my brother' Yehoshuaʿ Zam[...].
The beginning of a letter written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to the communities of Egypt, through al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment, only two words, but might be from a ketubah. AA
A private letter from a father or a mother to their daughter. The letter is un-conserved and is folded, so most of the text still …
Receipt for the ḍamān (or rent?) of a shop in Minyat al-Ghamr(?) for Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm in the year 516 H. Needs examination.
Small fragment in Arabic script, likely a letter.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (right side of recto and verso) from [Ya'qu?]b b. Bū l-Faraj, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-M[unā?] al-[ʿAṭṭār?], probably in Fustat. The …
Possibly geomancy. The name Ḥayyim b. [...] appears at the bottom. Late.
Letter in Arabic script. Opens with expressions of longing and regret for how the sender did not stay with the addressee. The sender reports that …
Text in Hebrew, probably a letter. Written on parchment. Describing a man who was robbed on the road. The robbers even took the document/letter (הכתב) …
Minute fragment from a legal document in Arabic script: ibtāʿa.... On verso a list/account.
Piyyutim.
Account. Revenue from rent ca. 1230. A record of revenue listing 27 tenants of the qodesh. The first part is canceled by a stroke of …
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Fragment from the end of a letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is a Talmudic commentary in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Accounts both in Arabic and Hebrew script. Late. Mentions Ismāʿīl (verso, l. 1). Organized by parshiyot.