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Small receipt or order, probably for 9 raṭls of something.
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: no earlier than 1707 CE based on the mention of Ottoman cinzirli coinage (first minted in that year). A variety of …
Recto: unsigned draft or copy of a legal document in Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: first decade of Elul 5586 AM = September 1826 CE. Moshe …
1. בפעח׳׳מ הודו היקר ונבון נשא ונע כה׳׳ר משה ן׳ נעים בה׳׳ר המנוח אדונינו ועט׳׳ר הח׳ הש׳ הדיין המצויין כמהר׳׳ר מאי…
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Leaf from the beginning of Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī.
Note in a rudimentary hand. describing that money for cheese had not arrived, and may be lost "on both sides." (Information from Goitein's index cards) …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Elul 1444 Seleucid = August/September 1133 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter requesting charity in which the petitioner describes that he is unemployed, starving, from a distant land (al-Raḥba), and has ‘uncovered his face’ to the …
Deed of sale for real estate (يحد هذه الدار وحدودها وارضها) in Arabic script. Quite faded. The price is 12 dinars (العين الجيد المصري المحقق …
Torah and Haftara readings.
Recto: Fragment possibly from the bottom of a petition to a royal woman: al-sulṭāna al-malika al-ṭāhira. Cf. ENA 3974.6, ENA 3974.3, and Bodl. MS heb. …
Accounts. Mentioning pepper, saffron, etc.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. This is the last leaf of a longer letter, as it is headed "tamām …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Document in Arabic script. On verso there is Hebrew literary text. The same scribe reused numerous Arabic-script documents (e.g., T-S NS 111.63; see Joins Suggestions).
Responsum of Maimonides. Blau edition #310
Letter of appeal for charity. In Arabic script. Written in two columns. Asking the addressee to exchange the writer's possessions for food. Mentions Abū ʿAlī …
Three partial lines of an Arabic text. Needs examination.
Legal query addressed to the Gaʾon (probably Maṣliaḥ) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Concerning a man who remarried after …
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Torn; only the right half is preserved. The term taṣāduq (settlement) appears in it. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or …
Verso: Jotted accounts in Arabic script. Mentions names such as Abū Naṣr and Abū l-Faḍāʾil and items such as ʿajwa (dried dates) and two vessels …
List of contributors or people who get community support. Among the names we can find Musa al-Lebdi, probably a descendance of the famous Indian trader …
Recto: Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man who has been detained in the arsenal (khizāna, according to Khan khizānat al-bunūd, which was also …
[علـ]ـى [مولانا وسيدنا الامام المسـ]ـتنصر بالله امير [المـ]و[ـمنيـ]ـن [وعلى ابائه]
الطاهرين عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه ينهى الي
الحضرة ا…
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Partnership contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Mentions 1428 Seleucid, which is 1116/17 CE (but this is not necessarily the date of …
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Legal record (#41b). Loan contract. Abū l-Faḍl b. Yūsuf is granted the right to repay his debt of 10 dinars to Abū Isḥāq al-ʿAṭṭār b. …
Verso: Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. In the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, who served as the muqaddam of Bilbays. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Adar II 1529 …
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End of a letter in Hebrew. Apparently from Yisraʾel ha-Kohen and carried by Faraḥ, though it's not clear where this is written. Very faded. Dated: …
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Legal fragment. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning "if the two of them provide for our funeral shroud/clothing" (fa-innahumā in kafanānā); also mentions the term istiḥlāf (making …
Small fragment with some text in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly late accounts.
The first folio of the astronomical/astrological treatise Kitāb al-Qirānāt (The Book of Conjunctions) by Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Faḍl b. Ḥātim al-Nayrīzī (fl. 9th/10th CE). The prologue …
Verso: Judaeo–Arabic calendrical text titled הדא אצל חסאב אלמחאזיר ואלתקופות ואליובל ואלשמטה, 'this is the basis for calculating the cycles and the (turning points of …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably relating to the 12th-century India trade. Mentions Abū Manṣūr; Amīn al-[...]; the Kārim convoy and whether something …
Letter from Binyām b. Hārūn, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1080 CE, based on Gil's assessment. …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם עזה ותאידה
וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה <ושוק> אליה שדיד קרב
אללה אלאגתמאע ביננ…
Recto: Recipes for preparing different kinds of kohl. Verso: In a different hand, apparently alchemical recipes -- or at least they use many toxic minerals. …
Official-looking (tax?) receipts. Needs examination.
Bifolio from a court notebook. Probably a dowry evaluation (taqwīm): consists almost entirely of a list of valuable items and sums of money (in one …
Recto: Legal testimony. Location: [Banhā] al-ʿAsal. Dated: 1584 Seleucid = 1272/73 CE, under the authority of [David I Maimonides]. None of the content of the …
Promissory note, maybe. "I owe al-shaykh al-ajall X...." In Arabic, with a Hebrew 'emet' at the top. Needs further examination.
Literary text, in Arabic script. Probably a biblical tale, mentions the "قول شمويل".
Account in Judaeo-Arabic listing the fees (wājib) associated with the indigo (al-nīl) brought to Dār al-Abzār ("the spicehouse," cf. ENA 2805.4b) and sold for 40 …
Fragment of a state document containing blessings for 'mawlānā' and the date (563 AH = 1167/68 CE). Reused for piyyut on verso.
Legal record (#9) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 6-9) Folio 3r
Letter from Elḥanan b. Shemarya to the community of Qayrawān. In Hebrew. The content of the letter is lacking, with only the sender's title and …
Legal document. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4980 AM, which is 1219/20 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. Involving Yefet ha-Rofe and his wife Sitt al-[..]Mʿ, …
Recto: Small fragment (2 lines) from an official report. Needs examination for content.
Letter fragment. Mentions the brother of the Rayyis Abu l-Najm, Ibn Munajja, Zayn al-Din b. al-Sawwaf. In the margin, "abstain from soft bread and water." …
Letter of thanks. In Judaeo-Arabic. Praising a scholar who had spent a certain amount of time, it seems during the High Holidays, in a provincial …
Blank. May belong together with ENA 2481.21 and/or ENA 2481.22.
Recto: Fragment of an Arabic-script state document, likely a decree. Verso: Reused for a Hebrew text, probably literary. The ink has faded to silver/white.