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Letter addressed to a dignitary named Yefet. Opens with Hebrew praises and wishes for a speedy recovery, then switches into Arabic (in Arabic script) for …
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Literary text in Judaeo-Persian: "The Tale of the Stonecutter" (حکایت سنگ تراش). Dating: Late, perhaps 18th or 19th century. This poem is a masnavi that …
Accounts in a cursive Italian or Castilian Spanish shorthand. Likely late medieval or perhaps later. Merits further examination. For accounts in a similar scribal hand, …
Business letter, in Arabic script from an unknown trader, possibly to Nahray b. Nissim (Aodeh), on the back of a letter in Hebrew script (see …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with one phrase in Arabic script (a formulaic blessing/prayer). Little of the substance of the letter is preserved. The sender expresses longing …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Good chance of finding a join or other fragments in the hand of the same scribe. Mentions Barakāt Ibn al-Ḥazzan. Gives at …
Unidentified document in Arabic. On parchment. Minute fragment. Maybe a legal document with signatures.
Complaint related to inheritance – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 145) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Probably a bill of gift of property in Qaṣr al-Rūm granted to …
Legal document, fragment. Involves a will; [...] b. Shelomo ha-Levi; and Avraham. Signed: Saʿadya b. Yehuda (active ca. 1300 CE).
Legal document concerning an inheritance(?) dispute. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The case is complicated. Hillel conducts a family partnership …
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Ketubba for Yosef ha-Levi b. ʿOvadya and Bayda bt. Qaʿarṭī (קערטי) Bibas. Currency: real. Dated 1792 CE (16 Sivan 5552), Cairo. The final lines of …
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Including names, provisions(?) and some numerals often preceded by the word "wa-ʿindahu," arranged in two columns. Mentions …
Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Leaf from an Arabic medical treatise.
Mercantile letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions somebody in Sūsa; Abū Zikrī al-Ṭabīb; a container of sal ammoniac; pepper; and Abū Saʿīd Maymūn b. …
Upper right corner of a deed of lease.
Accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Early modern. (VMR)
Fragment of a bifolium of an Arabic treatise on physiognomy (ʿilm al-firāsa).
State document, likely a report, in Arabic script. Contains the taqbīl clause and the yunhī formula. The sender refers to his prior report (khidma) which …
Unidentified text in Hebrew. At one point after a small space reads ועכשיו אחינו ישראל suggesting it could be a communal letter or sermon. Dating: …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Notice from Eli 'Keton ha-Ḥaverim' to Josiah ha-Nasi b. Shelomo ha-Nasi. Informing Josiah ha-Nasi that his opponent Abu al-'Ala had not appeared in the synagogue. …
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Fragment of a family letter. Torn vertically down the middle. Addressed to Fuḍayla (פוצילא), in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, probably ca. 15th–17th century. Includes …
Fragment from a late Hebrew literary work, discussing oneg shabbat.
Text in Arabic, continued on verso, mentioning ʿUmar b. Saʿīd and ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿUmar. Verso: names of months, in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL.)
The opening portion of a letter with poetic praises for a certain R. Yefet ha-Ḥakham. On parchment. Verso contains lists possibly of piyyuṭim (אנא אל …
Legal document. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dated: 934, which seems that it should be read as a Hijri date, which would correspond to 1527/28 …
Original use: Fiscal document in Arabic script (al-mudda al-madhkūra... ʿammā yaṣil min al-nawāḥī al-baḥriyya... al-[...] al-sulṭānī...). Large, with multiple distinct entries. Needs examination. Secondary uses: …
Version of the letter in: Mosseri VII 155. Fragment of a letter from Yosef b. Berekhya, probably to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Around …
A first-person narrative or historical account, or possibly a copy of a letter. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. The speaker identifies himself as a …
Long account in Judaeo-Arabic. Of persons to whom pitch (zift) was sold, headed by a general (al-qāʾid Abū Tamīm), the representative of an amir (Yūḥannas …
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Minute legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE).
Draft/jottings of another document on a Hebrew literary text. "المولا الشيخ الاجل ابو منصور".
Ketubba fragment on parchment.
Circular letter from the office of the Nagid Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya, written in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, addressed to the community of Alexandria …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions a "copper rod" on the recto and at least one other copper item.
On verso, remnants of a document in Arabic script. Probably a letter, in a super poetic prose (al-shuhūr... al-duhūr...). Needs examination.
Accounts (state?) in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on verso.
Verso (probably secondary use): Receipt, probably. In Arabic script. For 3 dinars received from Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥājj for Jumādā II. Seems to mention the term …
Legal document according to which Efrayim Abu Kathir b. Masliaḥ owes Yosef b. Shelomo 4 dinars, to be repaid 2 dinars per year. Signed by …
Small fragment of a legal document. The first words of the first six lines are preserved.
Letter in the hand of Yehoshuaʿ b. Yosef to Yehuda b. Sighmar. The letter reflects the economic difficulties of the Jewish community of Alexandria due …
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Letter addressed to a cantor (סידי אלחזאן היקר) consisting entirely of instructions about calendrical reckoning related to the current year 4838 AM = 1077/78 CE. …
Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Vague and somewhat long-winded. Refers to: "al-nawba al-mubāraka"; sending various things; preoccupation on account of others; something which arrived, …
Part of a ketubba. The surviving text contains part of the dowry list. (Information from CUDL.) See T-S 12.600, a probable join
Legal document, in which Sitt al-Rūm, a former slave who had been freed by her master Abū ʿ[...] before his death, appears in person before …
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Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. The hand may be known. Dating: likely 11th century. Itemized list of expenses, mentioning things such as the city …