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Partial drawing of a galley, with people on board. Writing above and below picture, including [...]כרג סהמ. (Information from CUDL.)
No Scholarship Records
List of commercial items. In Judaeo-Arabic. Arranged as tables of monthly expenses. Dating: Likely ca. 12th century. Mentions people such as Ibn al-Qatāʾif and the …
Elaborate account. Amounts expressed in Indo-Arabic numerals.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Abū l-Faḍāʾil the cantor begs for money from Sitt Futūn, who also helped fund the construction of the synagogue (!), since he owes four …
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Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArus b. Yosef. Mentions Yosef; alum; barley; Saʿīd; and the term dār several times.
Long and narrow strip from the ketubah of Sitt al-Sada, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). AA
Writing exercises in epistolary Judaeo-Arabic in which the student repeated a phrase in the heading that had been offered by an instructor in model handwriting. …
Recto: letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb, to his father Abū Sahl Levi, in Fustat. He asks the addressee to a sell …
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with one line of the address on verso. Very fragmentary: "...and may he open his eyes... from the blindness... …
Fragment of a document in Arabic script. Recto mentions the words "wa-aṣḥāb. .. in shāʾ allāh. . . al-salām(?). . . ithnatay ʿashara. . . …
Letter from Yosef and Nahum, sons of Sahl al-Baradānī, Tyre, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. He mentions the sale of a new Bible for 13 …
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List of people receiving charitable support from the community. The list includes various people described as Rūmī (ie, from Byzantium). According to Goitein (Med Soc …
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Note accompanying an epistle (risāla) (or possibly a gift?) sent by Avraham b. Abū Yūsuf to Manṣūr b. Yefet Abū l-Ḥasan al-Dimashqi. Recto and verso …
Fragment from the top of a letter in Arabic script. Addressed to 'sayyidnā al-rayyis.' Reused on recto for liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information in part …
Horizontal strip from the middle of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. "Al-Parnas al-Kohen went to Bilbays two years ago and lived there and made a living with …
Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. Small fragment.
Recto: ʿamida for Shabbat Rosh Ḥodesh. Verso: accounts. Late. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts with Coptic numerals. Mentions various female and male names such as Farajallāh, Bint al-Kātib Abū Shaʿra, Ibrahim Dhabbāḥ (‘the butcher’), Yiṣḥaq al-Faranjī and Yosef …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. The name [...]r b. Dā'ūd appears in the address. The body of the letter mentions pullets (farārīj) and a …
Letter in Ladino to Muʿallim Ḥabīb from Simḥah de Mordukh (?). He requests money to be sent with Mordekhai Shamano. The writer's location may be …
Document in Arabic on verso, possibly. Medieval-era. Only the ends of five lines are visible because multiple pieces of paper are stuck on top of …
A 13th/19th-century Ottoman era debt acknowledgment document with a seal. Muḥammad Ḥusain acknowledges (aqarra wa ashada) in his sound mind that he owes 900 Kuruş …
لما كان في يوم الخميس المبارك في ٢٦ محرم سنه ٦٠[١٢]
اقر واشهد على نفسه وهو في حال
خيرته المعلم محمد حسين الى المعلم
حييم النصري انه يكون مل…
Letter, c. 16th century, written on behalf of and signed by Yosef Karo, in the land of Israel, to Yaʿaqov Villarreal, in Egypt. Yosef requests …
Fragment of a title page for a copy of the second volume of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Sefer Ahava (per FGP). The verso retains an exquisite …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions dirhams and the phrase "fa-lam yataḥaṣṣal."
Business letter sent from Tripoli, Lebanon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions terrible economic depression in the Levant and asks the addressee to send …
Bill of release. Dating: signed on Wednesday, 29 Kislev 1377 Seleucid = 30 November 1065 CE. In which Natan b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen gives a bill …
Fragment from a Karaite betrothal deed. The witnesses to the appointment of the bride’s agent are […] b. Khalaf and Naḥum b. Naḥum. Ca. 11th …
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Hebrew poetry. There are a few words in Arabic script underneath, including "the heart is in pain due to your separation" and a pious expression …
Very faded and damaged, hardly legible, fragment from a legal query addresed to 'our Rabbis', regarding a quarell between two people and a payment of …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The first word(s) of about 15 lines are preserved along with the right margin, containing an offer to fulfill any errands …
Letter from ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen, in Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 1050 …
Letter regarding business from Yaḥyā b. Mūsā al-Majjānī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim (c. 1045 CE). On verso is the continuation of the …
[סררת יא]מולאי אלי וצול כתאבך תדכר סלאמתך אדאמהא אללה לך במנה ותדכר וצול מפרג וקד
[וצלני] כתאבה אנה אקלע מן ברניק ועדא ארגו מן אללה יגעלה פ…
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Letter fragment (bottom part only). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably c.1100, since Abū Naṣr al-ʿAfṣī appears in Halper 466 and T-S K15.106. Gives various business instructions. …
Bifolio, vellum. Multiple text blocks. All in Judaeo-Arabic. (1) Recto, right page: Possibly a colophon (Kitāb...), but possibly something mercantile. There is a date: 1 …
Unfinished note in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-ʿIzz. "I am not asking for silver nor for gold, only the copies of …
List of names and sums - many women, perhaps list of distribution. See ENA 2713.26 (PGPID 4532).
Fiscal account.
Accounts in Arabic (VMR). Late.
Fragment of a legal document or possibly an account. In Arabic script. Five lines are partially preserved. The first line mentions a date in Rabīʿ …
Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Asking for help and reminding the addressee of a promise. Mentions a group of people who should "put an …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Cairo. Dated: 29 Tevet 1443 Seleucid, which is 19 January 1132 CE. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. ʿEli. Wife: Sitt al-Fakhr bt. …