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Draft of a deathbed declaration of Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. ʿAdiyya Ibn Maṭrūḥ, who had sold his daughter, Sitt al-Sāda, and her son two-thirds of …
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A pair of conjoined (either glued together or never separated in the first place) tax receipts related to a tax farm (ḍamān). Dated: 25 Jumādā …
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Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic addressed to an important person [...] b. Saʿadya, who may be identifiable on the basis of the titles (Mevorakh?). …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fictive sale (bayʿ ṭāliq) of half of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for …
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Recipes, unclear if medical or culinary.
Accounts in Arabic script. One side mentions a qāḍī in the header.
Capitation tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf, a Jewish man whose profession is "dīwānī."
Three fragmented lines, in Arabic script. "...بن عبد اللطيف". Needs examination.
Informally written witness statement for a legal document. Dating: probably early 13th century. Attesting that the wife of Bū ʿAlī b. Daʾūd the perfumer sold …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Large and well preserved, merits examination.
Recto: Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Ibn ʿUbayd. Verso: A few lines in Hebrew mentioning the sale of riddles(?). See also the description for …
Letter fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). An appeal for charity written on behalf of a poor man. See JRL …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter dated ca. 1050, sent by Sedaqa b. Zakariyya from Alexandria to his partner Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī in Fustat. The letter mentions shipments of …
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IB VI, 21. Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī (aka Abū Zikrī Kohen). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: first half …
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Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with rudimentary handwriting and spellings. The parties are Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen and Elʿazar. Also mentions a Manṣūr and may involve a …
Legal document dated 25 Tammuz 5548 AM (July 1788 CE), Cairo, in which the undersigned acknowledges receipt of 80 reales, from Yiṣḥaq Aripol for part …
Three lines in Arabic script, listing quantities (e.g., 5 and 3) of things.
Small fragment from the bottom of an unidentified Arabic document. Letter?
Letter from a father in Cairo to his son, Abū Manṣūr al-Rashīd, in the Fayyum. The name Jamāl al-Dīn also appears in the address. In …
State document: report to a high bureaucrat (with taqbīl clauses), written under the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir, 509/1115; in the Hebrew on verso, the date is …
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Memorial list for Nethanel ha-dayyan listing five generations. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Responsa by ROSH.
Recto: letter fragment in Hebrew (טובה יתר . . . הראשון ואני במהרה . . . על כבודך . . . שמעתי היה לך צער …
Legal fragment. Probably a partnership agreement in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Refers to a period of two years and various mutually agreed upon …
Table of monetary values, two columns are listed "silver" and "pure" (נוקר). Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Possibly related to communal …
Court record(s). Recto mentions [Yi?]sraʾel known as Ibn Efrayim, traveling on business, a paternal uncle, and coming in to Fustat (or Egypt). Likely concerning a …
Inquiry in Hebrew about the method of prostration practiced by three pious men in ʿAkkā (Acre): R. Yosef b. Matitya, R. Yehuda, and R. Shemuel. …
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Letter from Barhun Levi b. Ishaq concerning a deceased man, a debt, and power of attorney. He informs the addressee, whose name is lost, that …
Note in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Mentions paying the prices of different medicinal syrups (shurba... murammal...). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Letter from Avraham b. Farāḥ, in Alexandria, to Abu Yūsuf Yaʿqūb, probably in Fustat. Around 1055. The addressee sold dinars that he received from the …
בסם אללה אלעטים
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ונעמתך
מן אלאסכנדריה ליג כקין מן אלול ואלחאל סלאמה ונ…
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer mentions that he sent two dirhams to his cousin and wants him to purchase two kohl containers for him. …
Two legal documents (or letters dealing with legal issues) each written in a different hand, probably 13th century. On verso seems to be a bill …
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions soap, sumac, wood.
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 …
Deed of sale for a property. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Tuesday, 17 Nisan 5338 AM, which is 1578 CE. Seller: Yosef מושודו. Buyer: Binyamin אלרייאש. Price: …
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Fragment of a letter of a cantor describing the visit of the Nagid in a town, probably Alexandria, during the holidays. The Nagid visited the …
Letter addressed to Moshe Kohen. Opens with long poetic Hebrew introduction, then transitions to Judaeo-Arrabic. The sender is reporting on the family's hardships this year. …
Legal deed in Hebrew. Dating: probably 16th century (based on the handwriting of Eliyya b. David Ḥavriya). Ḥayyim b. Yiṣḥaq known as Ibn Ḥakīm and …
Letter probably addressed to Avraham Maimonides—[the son] of our Lord and Rabbi Moshe the Great Rabbi (ZL). In Judaeo-Arabic. It is written on a reused …
Accounts; with Hebrew numerals. On parchment. Probably 11th century. Each entry is for a shuqqa (type of garment). Join: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from …
Accounts in Hebrew and Ladino on dated alphanumerically on 1v and 7v as 5600AM (התר) which is 1839/1840CE. There is a large title on 1r …
Recto: Bill of release of Avraham and his brother [...], sons of Yiṣḥaq, to [...]. Dating: 11th century. Witnessed by Menaḥem b. Natan, Abū l-Ḥayy …
Court order forcing a husband, by threat of excommunication, to write a bill of divorce for his wife and not run away, leaving her 'a …
Receipt. Mamluk era? On verso there are accounts.
Letter from Musa b. Abu al-Hayy from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The writer mentions robbery by pirates on two ships carrying merchandise …
[כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי] אט[אל אללה בק]אך ואדאם סלאמתך [ועאפית]ך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן
[ ]יה לי בקין מן סיואן ען חאל סלאמה ונע…
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Two fragments of a mercantile letter from Marwan b. Ibrāhīm al-Maghribi, unknown location, to Yosef b. Avraham al-Maghribī, in al-Raqqa. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address …
Letter from Barakāt al-Kohen to the cantor Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). Barakāt has sent the volume which he found of al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda. …