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Text in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly a document. Very faded. Needs examination with multispectral imaging.
No Scholarship Records
Letter fragment. Very faded. Mentions Abū Yaʿaqov and maybe Abū l-Faḍl.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably from Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. (Identification based on handwriting, typical layout, and …
Three legal queries to Yiṣḥaq b. Sason with his responsa. At least one of the cases concerns the maintenance of children
Informal note from Abū l-Majd and Abū l-Faraj to 'the kind brother' (al-akh al-shafīq) Abū ʿAlī and to Abū Manṣūr. In rudimentary hand and spelling. …
Fragments of magnificent Hebrew calligraphy accompanied by a combative note from a scribe: "Furthermore, the wicked inhabitants of Mahdiyya(?) harass me in the work of …
Late accounts of some kind. Each line opens with a number, then the name of a person, then a number of months, then another number. …
Probably a state document, but the specific genre and purpose are unclear. There are multiple distinct entries on both recto and verso, with a lot …
Four tiny fragments, on vellum. Fragment No. 1r – two pieces from the same text. Deals with the obligations of the groom toward his bride. …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 11th century. Very damaged. One of the only readily legible phrases is a reference to "al-amīr al-juyūsh" (אלאמיר אלגיוש).
Deed of release. Location: Cairo Dated: Friday, 9 Nisan 1[6]88 Seleucid = 20 March 1377 CE, under the authority of the Nagid ʿAmram. In which …
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Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef (of Qayrawān, active 990s–1030s). In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on parchment. Mentions "my partner" Barhūn b. Faraḥ. The left side of the …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. Mentions a period of 16 days (a sea voyage?); winter at sea; the …
Unidentified text in Hebrew. Extremely faded.
Letter signed by Shelomo, to his father Eliyyahu the judge, asking him to purchase something for the writer (perhaps some sort of covering (ghiṭāʾ)) and …
Recto: List of names. Verso: Draft of the opening of a court record from al-Maḥalla dated Tuesday 11 Nisan 14__(?) Seleucid. The other two digits …
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Letter fragment. Only scattered phrases are preserved. Mentions "this month, there remains for me in..."
Medical. Materia medica. List of medical substances and quantities (see Isaacs, Catalogue) Judeo-Arabic. AA
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. May be a letter of appeal for charity.
Account of contributions to the community – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 215) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably concerning the book trade. The sender asks for a certain maqāma to be sent to him (for copying?); mentions the …
Accounts in Spanish. Bifolium. Two columns are filled with the accounts, and the other two are filled with geomancy markings and Hebrew script. The date …
Closing of a state document containing words of gratitude, ḥamdala, ṣalwala, and ḥasbala. "fa-ūqābil bi-l-shukr ʿalayhi inshāʾ Allāh".
Four pages of a report of expenditures, written in large Arabic characters and Greek/Coptic numerals, made by the cantor Abū Sahl (likely Abū Sahl Levi, …
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Business accounts in a common hand (previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef).
Accounting of building expenditures ca. 1230. Fragment of a leaf, of which the bottom left part is missing; it includes three columns of items on …
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Receipt for the capitation tax of Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf the Jew, a silk worker (qazzāz) and craftsman (ṣāniʿ). Dated: 537 AH = 1142/43 CE. Same …
List of payments made by tenants of the Qodesh, ca. 1059. Revenue from rent written in the awkward hand of the parnas Eli ha-Kohen b. …
The room of the ḥājj, (from) tenants during the half of Rabīʿ akhīr,
paid 7 1⁄2. The Jewish stores, for
(3-4) 1 month, 6, the room of …
Ketubba with trousseau list, mentioning quantities of money, clothes and chests. (Information from CUDL)
Hebrew amulet formularies.
ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., …
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الاقرار الشرعي في صحته وسلامته] وطواعته واختيار…
Small fragment in Arabic, maybe accounts or an order of payment. Mentions dinars.
Official receipt for Abū l-Najm b. Ḥasan(?). Unclear for what (sugar?). Payment of 2 dinars? May be dated 520 AH. Needs examination.
Fragment of a list of recipients of bread (twelve out of 22 receive 2 loaves each). Ca. 1107 (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 465, …
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אבן אלסקא ב
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Unidentified, possibly a letter. The name Mūsā b. Ibrāhīm appears in Arabic script, possibly the address of a letter. Another of the Arabic words is …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Dating: 15th–17th century. Addresses Aharon and Mordekhay, one or both of whom may be the sender's maternal uncle (khālī). …
Simha, daughter of Moshe b. Job, wife of Yosef al-Bali, sells a Pentateuch with gilded ornaments to Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham. Dated Iyyar 5159/April-May 1399. (Information …
Possibly part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts of the Qodesh, probably. Almost entirely in Arabic script, but there is a זל after one of the names, indicating its Jewish origin. This …
Not digitized. Either Moss. V,348.1 or Moss. V,348.2 (previously Mosseri L 24) seems to be a document involving Nahray b. Nissim, according to Goitein's index …
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Letter addressed to 'our lord,' dealing with a dispute between friends. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 295, 588)
Contract between ʿAlun and Judah the cantor. Signatures include Maʿarūf b. Judah, Yaʾir b. Elʿazar and Menashshe b. Judah. Verso: possibly accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information …
Three or four drafts of poems in Judaeo-Arabic. The poem on recto is the most polished and is headed "ʿalā [...] ha-ereṣ ha-meyuḥedet," which could …
Receipt of some sort for Sitt al-Ahl bt. […] al-Yahūdiyya for something (ḥikr payment?) for the 1/4 dār al-muntaqal ilayhā min (another?) Sitt al-Ahl bt. …
Bottom of a deed of release written and signed by [Mevor]akh b. Natan he-Ḥaver (1150–81). Also signed by Shela b. Shemuel ha-Levi. Unclear if any …
End of damaged legal document on parchment from 11th century Fustat. Involving [...] known as al-Ṣāʾigh. Signed by Yeshuʿa b. Yosef and a certain Yefet …