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Ketubba, with very little text preserved, mentioning the trousseau items. Witnessed by Shemuel b. Elʿazar ha-Levi. (Information from CUDL)
No Scholarship Records
Recto: part of a letter, mentioning the elder Abū l-[...]. Verso: Letter in Arabic script, probably mercantile mentioning a weight measure, "تخليت عني بوزن". (Information …
Probably a letter fragment in Arabic.
Legal document in Arabic script. Likely a deed of sale for real estate. The borders are specified, including the house of ʿAṭāʾ al-Anmāṭī and the …
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim and one of his partners. Around 1059. Account for shipping wood from Egypt to the Maghreb via Mayadiya. …
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State document, probably a report. The sender ('the slave of my master the vizier') states that he received a 'noble letter' (probably from the vizier) …
List of books in the hand of Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq divided into three parts: gemarot, perushim, and sheʾelot. (Information from CUDL)
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Probably a legal document on parchment. Extremely damaged and fragmentary. The first line could read as 514 H.
Letter fragment reporting about a dignitary in prison from whom a declaration was taken to be given both in a Jewish and a Muslim court. …
Recto: bottom of a legal document Verso: bottom of a legal document dated 913AH - needs examination.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Ṭāhir. Deals with business matters and mentions an exchange rate. Possibly in the same handwriting: CUL Or.1080 J158 (PGPID …
Ketubba in the Palestinian style. Only the recto was photographed. Dated: Heshvan 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE, under the reshut of Maṣliaḥ Ga'on. Location: …
Letter from Ḥassūn b. Yiṣḥaq al-Safāqusī, probably in Būṣīr, to Abū l-Ḥayy Khalīla (the father of Mūsā), in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1048 CE. Deals …
תקדם כתאבי אליך יאכי ואלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך
ונעמאף ואעלמתך פיה חאל בוציר וגמהא ותעבהא ואנה
בלד אן כתיר אלשגב ואלתעב ולו חלפת …
Literary text, in Arabic script. The last line on verso "وجنود ابليس اجمعين" is a Quranic verse (26:95) with variation in the last word. However, …
Shopping list in Hebrew, the heading states "I want to go to the market and get." Late medieval or early modern, 15th-17th centuries. One of …
Letter, apparently sent from Samannūd (in the Nile delta). The writer, who is apparently on his travels, is very worried about his children as he …
Legal record (#57) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 20r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but probably Adar …
A single recipe, for safety on the road. Possibly in the handwriting of the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (this seems dubious and requires examination). …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Astrological prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning India and Ṭabaristān and other lands as well as a report in the name of ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib.
IB VII, 66. Letter from South Arabia to Egypt giving order on a large gift to Maimonides (l. 14r). On verso an Arabic account of …
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Beginning of a petition -tarjama, basmala, formulae, on the right side 4 lines diagonally- from a Jewish woman (al-mamlūka [...] Abū l-Majd Ibn al-Ḥaver). In …
Drafts of an agreement for buying siddurs: al-Thalāth Raḥamīmāt Shemini, Emor, and Naso (שלש רחמים שמיני אמור ונשא); Niṣf batāʿ al-Hallel (חצי הלל). Dated 5 …
:Right side of bifolium, recto
Jottings in some sort of shorthand, maybe highly abbreviated Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Quittance. On parchment. Mainly in Hebrew. Dating: ca. late 10th century. The releaser is named Yiṣḥaq b. ʿAmram. It looks like his name was later …
Letter containing a legal opinion/responsum in the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av ha-Yeshiva. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. Against a claim of orphans against the …
Letter in Ottoman Turkish addressed to Maʿallim Salmūn in Alexandria. Dating: late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century. Another letter addressed to the recipient contains a seal …
Cenāb-i ʿizzet meʾāb-ı saʿādet-niṣāb, bender-i İskenderiyye mültezimi Muʿallim Salmūn ḥażretleri-yi kāmyāb:
Baʿde’s-selām maʿa’l…
Literary text, in Arabic script. Mentions fish "ḥūt".
Complaint from an Egyptian Jew to the head of an iron foundry – January 31 1947CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 268) – …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Calendrical tables, one of which includes calculations for the Gregorian months and the "position of the Sun." The dating is likely 16th-century or later based …
Magical text in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Mentions Rabbenu [...], a request for news, an excuse for not coming in person, something …
Part of a ketubba for Abū l-Munā Ṭiqva b. Berakhot (groom), who is remarrying his divorcee. Dated 14[..] (12th century CE) in Fusṭāṭ, invoking the …
Legal document. Dated: Nisan [13]34 Seleucid, which is 1023 CE. Binyamin b. Yūsuf (probably Ibn ʿAwkal) gives money to Aharon b. Yosef known as al-Ghazāl …
Court record in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Ḥasana bt. Yehuda demands the possessions of her brother Shemarya/Maḥfūẓ from his …
Fragment from a legal document in Hebrew. Dating: probably ca. 16th century. Involves a sum of money (המעות הנז), a certain Meʾir and a certain …
List of contributions in both JA and Arabic - needs examination. Names: Bū l-Faraj Shammash; Maḥāsin; Avraham; al-Najīb; Bū l-Mjad; al-Dayyan; Ibn al-Ahuv; Bū Saʿīd; …
Recto: letter. The top half of the leaf contains greetings to various people (including several cantors), written in brown ink. The lower half consists of …
Upper part of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, in Jerusalem, to the elders of the Palestinian congregation of Alexandria, specifically to the cantor Shela …
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Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 20 Shawwāl 405. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl …
Let it be registered on behalf of the office of supervision,
if God wills.
They have registered the amount…
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Official-looking receipt for Abū Saʿd. Needs examination.
Marriage contract. Dated: Ḥeshvan 5570 AM = October/November 1809 CE. Elegantly decorated capitals, calligraphic script. Groom: Yosef b. Yehuda b. Shemuel. Bride: [...] bt. Yaʿaqov …
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Late. There are drafts of letter openings in both Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic on verso.
Order of payment from David ha-Nasi. The communal officials Sālim and Maḥfūẓ are to pay 1/6 dinar to the bearer for the meal of the …
Fragment of a late legal document involving Shelomo b. Elʿazar Skanda (?) and Yehuda Marājī (?). The third line features a phrase with at least …
Literary work in Arabic script; commentary on something.
Arabic script (VMR)