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Bill of sale for a female slave. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1461 Seleucid, which is 1149/50 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. …
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Small fragment with calendrical calculations.
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Legal document in Arabic script. Perhaps a bill of sale. Needs examination.
Secondary use: The unique copy of the Hebrew ode composed by Shelomo b. Yosef ha-Kohen in honor of the caliph al-Mustanṣir and of Badr al-Jamālī …
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Legal record (#50) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 13v-14r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 48-50) Folio 13v
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Letter possibly from Manṣūr b. Lāmʿ b. Ḥasan by the order of Khalīfa b. Ḥasan to Abū Muḥammad ʿĪsā b. Muḥammad b. Ḥasan. Concerning the …
Letter or other document. Mentions that which Yeshuʿa b. Dunash said concerning 'the two noble brothers' Shelomo b. [...] and Ṣedaqa b. Moshe the elder. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a certain Abū Ṭāhir containing interesting technical details of the capitation tax administration. The writer heard from Manṣūr al-Dimashqī "may God …
Prayers, blessing, and an illustration for the prophet Moses, peace be upon him, in the holiday of Hanukkah – undated – Museum of Islamic Art …
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Bifolio. Mentions Alexandria in the upper left corner of the recto. Verso is blank.
Begging letter in Hebrew addressed to the 'community of foreigners (loʿazim) from a widow with five children. Already a recipient of communal charity, the writer …
Composition concerning business partnerships. Dating: ca. 16th century, according to Avraham David.
Letter in Arabic script to the writer's father, Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Shubbāṭ al-Siqillī. Only the opening greetings and the address are preserved. The writer …
Accounts, mentioning Abū Saʿīd b. Nuṣayr, Ṭoviyya, and a dyer (ṣabbāgh). (Information in part from CUDL)
Bifolio containing lists of Hebrew terms. On the righthand page of verso, there are jotted accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Literary text in Arabic script. Mentions Aḥmad Ibn Ṭūlūn and the mosque named after him; also Ptolemy and astronomy.
Letter fragment addressed to a certain Nasi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential. What remains simply reports that the writer received the addressee's letter and read it.
Prayer written by Ibn Yiju on fabric in India.
[Praise the Lord . . . ] from the upper heavens [see Psalms 148:1] and the angels and . . . and the ofanim and the …
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Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. May mention 1000 or more dinars. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: Fragment from the beginning of a letter/petition addressed to the Nagid. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century. None of the substance is preserved. Reused …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated twice on the recto as Kislev 5400 AM: once as Kislev שה׳׳ת in the upper right entry and in the upper …
Letter from the Alexandrian judge Shela b. Mevasser (dated documents: 1074–1101) to Abū l-Bishr Ibn al-Bustānī (? الابستاني) al-Makḥūl(?) Hiba b. al-[...] Sayyid al-Ahl(?). (This …
Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals, medieval-era. mentions "ṣāḥib al-dār."
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. All are in Arabic script. Center left and center right - Two fragments of the same letter, the …
Formal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Dated Tuesday, 18 Ḥeshvan. Portions of 6 lines are preserved from near the beginning. Some of …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Merkado Karo and Shimʿon Frances (of Karo y Frances & Company). Fragment: missing the lower part.
Two fragments from the outer leaves of a collection of late responsum on agents, citing Haro”sh and other rabbinical authorities. There are six elaborate signatures …
Recto: Formulary for a legal testimony. Verso might be more of the same; there is additional text written between the lines at 180 degrees.
Recto: Letter in beautiful Arabic script. Dating: ca. mid-11th century based on the dating of verso. Many of the phrases are legible but the overall …
Letter from the judge Menashshe to the Cairene judge Avraham b. Natan regarding a personal and communal affair in the small town of Sumbutya (Sunbāṭ), …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from a certain Abū l-Faraj to someone titled Sayyidnā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era (i.e., after ca. 1250) based on paleographic features, position of …
Address of a letter sent to al-Maḥalla, to Abū l-M[...].
Ketubba for Yosef b. Aharon Shunina (or Sonina) and Esther bt. Avraham Shunina (Sonina). Currency: medin. Dated 22 May 1716 CE (1 Sivan 5476 AM). …
Page from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise giving prescriptions.
Letter from Efrayim b. Sulaymān to [Abū] ʿAlī al-Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts. Arabic script on recto, Judaeo-Arabic on verso. Late. Currency: fulūs.
Recto: Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 1 Av 1543 Seleucid = 19 July 1232 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. The young man …
Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded.
State document in Arabic script, possibly a petition. The ends of ~14 lines are preserved. It has been cut and one piece has been glued …
Letter from Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī to Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal and to his sons Hillel and Benyamin.
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Replacement for a lost ketubba (אירכסא). Location: Baalbek in the Biqāʿ Valley of Lebanon (בעלת אשר בבקעת הלבנון תחת הר חרמון). Dated: 21 Av 1564 …
Letter or legal declaration (aqūl...), written by a certain Shelomo. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small receipt or order. For Ḥusayn b. Ḥaramī(?). For precisely 100 dirhams. Needs examination.
Power of attorney given by the cantor Yosef b. Nissim to Yefet b. Natan to deal with the grantor's house, specifically to sue the person …
Arabo-Hebrew, probably biblical. Very faded. Should be compared with the Qaraite fragments that Geoffrey Khan published.
Letter from Ṣedaqa b. Yosef al-Maqdisī, in Damascus, to Abū l-Faḍl(?) b. ʿAbd al-Sayyid b. al-Ḥasan(?) the physician (al-mutaṭabbib), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the …
Minute fragment from a ketubah written by Yosef b. Shelomo Halevi (date: ca. 1170-1210)
List of numbers written out in words (rather than numerals) in Arabic.