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Medical recipe, including list of spices, including sesame and pepper.
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Legal document. Involves a certain Avraham. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document, fragment, in Arabic script, mentioning the property of the deceased in Fustat and Giza. This inheritance was attested in the presence of the …
Itemized business accounts probably for the shipment of commodities. Dating: 11th or possibly 12th century. Mentions תלאליס קלאעיה on verso. Mentions Alexandria and Rashīd.
Greetings at the end of a letter, quoting Deuteronomy 1:17. The writer sends regards to Abū l-Barakāt (probably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) and Sitt Rayḥān (Shelomo's …
Contract of sale written on parchment, dated Ramaḍān 372 AH, between Minā b. Jirja and ʿIsā b. Ismaʿīl. (AP)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (and eastern Arabic numerals). Dated: 5582 AM, which is 1821/22 CE. Mentions the mustaʿrib congregation in the header and, below that, the …
Some Coptic numerals on verso.
Letter from Ibn al-Naj[era] to [Ḥalfon b.] Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1138 CE, as it seems to belong with documents 32ח to 34ח …
List of expenses - perhaps for building? In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: the year was recorded in the recto heading l. 2 but some …
Recto: Draft of letter text in Judaeo-Arabic with unidentified Arabic text (magical?) underneath. Verso: Likely an occult text in Hebrew, mentioning various numbers. Written on …
Recto: fragment of a spaciously written Arabic document, and address of the letter on verso addressed to Abū l-Ḥusayn Nissīm b. Ṣedaqa. Verso: letter, mentioning …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: late. Possibly naming a year in the first line of the verso, where سنة appears as a …
Verso: Informal note, instructing the scribe of the court to write a promissory note on 96 dirhams—obviously the outcome of former litigation. Writtnen in Judaeo-Arabic …
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Verso: Account of a merchant in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is reminiscent of that of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions commodities such as saffron (zaʿfarān), lapis lazuli …
A few words in Hebrew script. On papyrus.
Upper part of a tax receipt, containing only the endorsements / administrative markings.
Fragment containing part of the bottom lines of a Fatimid decree with very wide line spacing. The last line includes the beginning of the ḥamdala …
Fragments from a letter, probably an 11th-century mercantile letter.
Power of attorney. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle third of Iyyar 14[.]3 Seleucid. The tens digit may have still been preserved at the time …
Literary text, in Arabic script.
End of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely from Hilāl b. Yosef, as the handwriting appears identical to that of T-S NS J197 (PGPID 4296). …
One piece of paper stuck on to another piece of paper, containing a message in Hebrew referring to 'this Jew who brings my letter all …
Legal document, probably, in Arabic and Hebrew script. Mentions "fī manʿ shahāda". Needs examination.
Accounts in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script, together with Greek/Coptic numerals. In the Judaeo-Arabic section at the top of recto, mentions items such as soap, …
Fiscal account, probably. Needs examination.
Minutes fragment, one of which is from the top of a legal deed.
Letter by Shelomo b. Meʾir Rosh ha-Seder, descendant of Meʾir Gaʾon, to Avraham Kahana b. Yiṣḥaq. (Information from CUDL)
Pen trials, probably. Mentions "these books arrived" and names such as Naṣr b. Shelomo b. Yosef ha-Kohen Av Bet Din and Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen …
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Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Concerns someone ha-Zaqen ha-Levi titled Rosh ha-Qahal and someone's mother and sister.
Summary of a power of attorney. Levi b. Ibrāhīm appointed Abū ʿAlī b. Barukh to obtain for him the implements of a silk weaving workshop …
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List of names in Arabic script. Mentions Abū Naṣr, Abū Kathīr, Ibn al-Makḥūl. On the other side there is Hebrew poetry.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Ezra Shelomo Barūkh(?) to Mūsa Ḥanan. Dated: 5 Adar I [55]86 AM (February 1826 CE). Given how cursive this scribal hand …
Halakhic text, arranged in columns. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Partially consists of a list of legal queries.
Recto: Communal/administrative letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 1150–1250. Ordering payments to the usual people: Umm Nuṣayra the sister of Ḥayāʾ the wife of Yosef …
Folio from an Islamic legal text, in Arabic script. Probably related to inheritance. Needs examination.
Possibly part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, or a philosophical or linguistic composition (discussing metaphor). (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter addressed to Makārim b. Ṭayyib in 'the land of Egypt' (diyār Miṣr), indicating that it was sent from outside of Egypt. In Hebrew (for …
Letter from Naṣrallāh al-Khāzin, in Jerusalem, to Shemuel al-Qayyim, Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. ʿAbd al-Waliyy; 60 dinars; a woman (Ḥājja Khātūn) who …
Letter in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic (with some Hebrew). After 49 lines of praises, he thankfully acknowledges the receipt of a …
Letter, probably. In Hebrew. Dating: likely 11th century. The text is damaged and fragmented and difficult to understand. Seems to involve receipt of a governmental …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100–1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Piyyuṭ in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Two legal records in a court register. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 14 Kislev 143[9] Seleucid, which is 1127 CE, under …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script, four and a half wide lines on paper with 3 final signatures, each in the shape of …
A story in Judaeo-Arabic, involving Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Meir and a woman who tries to sate her desire with the latter while he remains …
Lists of names. Recto: Hārūn; Binyamin he-Ḥasid; Aharon ("the deceased"); [...]; Binyamin; Elʿazar; Moshe; Hillel; Binyamin; [...]; Avraham; Petaḥya; Hillel; Shelomo; Yeshuʿa; Avraham; Yiṣḥaq; Avraham; …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a letter addressed to a community. With the introduction in Hebrew (שלומות רבות בברכות . . . סביבות לכל הקהל הקדוש השוכנים . …
Fiscal document(s) in Arabic script. Bifolio. One entry on each page of recto. The right side is concerning the transport and fiscal administration of agricultural …