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Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). AA
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Document containing phrases of praise. No orderly arrangement. (Information from Goitein's index card)
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Responsum of Hai Gaon, on the management of orphans’ property. (Information from CUDL)
Jottings of literary material in Judaeo-Arabic (occasionally vocalized) and Arabic script. Includes some proverbs about animals, e.g., "the wolf guarding a ewe" (אלדיב יחרץ נעגה), …
Letter from Shemarya to his brother Yaʿaqov. Written in non-fluent Hebrew (e.g. uses אהיה as a copulative when there is no need; and more). The …
The second block of text appears to be a prophecy attributed to Ibn Ezra regarding a Messiah in the land of Egypt, mentioning the year …
Receipt of payment, in Arabic script, not very legible. Different document on verso.
Recto: Accounts in Spanish mentioning the year 1747 (5507). The righthand side of verso appears to be the same, also in Spanish. The lefthand side …
Deed of sale. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Heshvan 5294 AM = 20 October 1533 CE. Yaʿaqov b. Moshe בכוש and his brother Efrayim …
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Trousseau of a female orphan, nineteen items. All clothing except for a six pillows, a trunk (ṣundūq) and a lamp. No price information. (Information from …
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Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "I have salted for you a barrel (barmīl) of lemons, but no one from around here will transport them, perhaps …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script.
Letter from Maimonides to his brother (presumably David, who died at sea not long after the brothers' 1167 arrival in Egypt). Not in the handwriting …
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Small fragment of a poem praising a man named Avraham, who taught his children religious virtues and showed them the right way. (Information from Goitein's …
Magical text. Six pages, Arabic script. See also Bodl. MS heb. c 13/3 (PGPID 6406). (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Pen trials, of a state document. In Arabic script. "عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه مملوكه ثقة الملك".
Possibly a letter or a sermon. (Information from CUDL)
Legal record (#18). Loan contract. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Khayr b. Nājī owes 2.25 dinars to Abū l-Murajjā Sālim al-Ṣayrafī b. Abū …
Recto: Petition or report to a Fatimid vizier, ending only, including raʾy, ḥamdala and ḥasbala. 5th century AH/11th century CE. Possible join with T-S Ar.22.140 …
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. A, fol.3 - State document or draft, in Arabic script. Contains an oversized …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Recto: one line from the superscription of a ketubba. Verso: probably an Arabic document. (Information from CUDL)
Small strip of parchment with various notes. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Recto may be for a memorial list: …
Deathbed will of a rich woman, made during the absence of her husband. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 13 April …
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Booklet of medical recipes.
List of payments made on a Thursday. In addition to the usual expenditure for bread, salaries, and extras, the official twice paid 3/4 dirhams to …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer is aggravated that the addressee has allowed "the two of them" to sit idle all day long, and demands …
Accounts. Late medieval or Ottoman.
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
Legal record (#67) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 22v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 27 [El]ul 5324 …
Legal document recording the receipt by a woman of the inheritance due to her from the administrator of intestate succession in Tinnīs. Dated: 10 Rabīʿ …
Informal note to Bū ʿAlī beginning "يا مولاي الشيخ بو علي قد طلقت. . . ." Regarding a divorce? Needs examination. There is an unusual …
Betrothal (erusin) contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fiancée: Sitt al-Dalāl. Conditions: 1. Should separation occur, the document freeing Sitt …
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Medical recipe. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from the members of the Jerusalem academy to Yiṣḥaq Sholal (d. 1524). (Information from Avraham David via FGP.)
One of two manuscripts of ben Meir's first letter regarding the calendar controversy of 921/22 CE. (The other one is ENA 2556.2 + Bodl. Heb. …
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Fragment from a Karaite betrothal deed, preserving only the introductory lines with biblical quotations. Ca. late 10th or early 11th century. (Information from CUDL)
Philosophical work on good and evil deeds and God's transcendence. Information from Nahum Steinberg's transcription and notes.
Possibly poetry in Arabic script. There is a row of diamond-shaped designs on recto of ENA 3943.5 before a new section begins, and similarly on …
Business letter from Aharon b. Shemarya ha-Kohen to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef, thanking him for the 10 dinars he stood surety for on the …
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
List of debtors? Late, perhaps 16th-century based on the paleography. Mentions silk in at least two entries.
Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1051. Mentions a legal matter and several goods as pearls and …
[כתאבי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סל]אמתך וסעאדתך וציאנתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה [ ]
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IB VII, 6. A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and …
Recto: Upper part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic written in a scribal hand to ha-Nasi ha-Gadol, reporting on the writer's troubles while traveling with Rabbi …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment: bottom only. Contains a polygamy clause (the groom will not take a second wife or female slave). Mentions a bucket and …
Small fragment of a business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā (cf. T-S 8.69 (PGPID 9265)). Dating: 12th century. Mentions [...] …