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Original use: Verses from Leviticus. Secondary use: The margins are entirely filled with Arabic-script text from documents, mostly or entirely petitions or official-sounding letters. The …
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Business letter. In Hebrew. Beginning only. Dating: Late, perhaps 16th century. Mentions someone named David Ibn al-Khayr as well as the goods אפלמור (lime or …
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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. The first ~7 lines are preserved and part of two lines in the margin. The acknowledgment is made …
Letter, consisting mainly of greetings, from Yehuda Levi to his family, including his brother-in-law Sulaymān, his brother Raḥamīm, his cousin Sawād, and the addressee’s sister, …
Note to a certain Nāsir (al-muʿallim is likely an honorific rather than meaning an actual teacher). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 13th or 14th century. Mentions …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Deed of sale for a slave. Dated: Thursday, 28 Tammuz 1571 Seleucid = 8 July 1260 CE. Seller: the Bilbaysī Mūsā b. Abū l-ʿIzz al-Kohen. …
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Recto: fragment of a legal document. Date not preserved. Verso: quotation from a Hebrew poem by Shemuel ha-Nagid ibn Naghrela of Granada (d.1056), apparently quoted …
Calligraphic banners in nastaʿlīq calligraphy. On verso of ENA 3904.12 there are 4 verses each of Arabic poetry and Persian poetry. Presumably this is not …
Letter fragment (lower part) from a muqaddam named Moshe (b. Perahya. AA), probably addressed to the dayyanim of Fustat, complaining that after the death of …
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Small fragment from an official report or petition. The ends of 3 lines are preserved. المملو]ك ينهي . . .
Lower section of a late letter in Hebrew to Shelomo [..] regarding a man named Yaʿaqov Naḥman b. Shemuel and a woman named [...] bt. …
Verso: beginning of a draft letter from the (Rabbanite) community in Fusṭāṭ to a community in Palermo, Sicily (מדינת צקליה). Dating: early 11th century. (Information …
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Prayer in Hebrew.
Blessings for Emperor Francis II of Austria in Italian and Hebrew. The Italian portion reads in part: "Dia Sempre Gloria e Vittoria al Nostro Sovrano …
Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355), regarding evasion of the capitation tax in the community. The previous year they had …
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Draft of a poem for a circumcision composed and written by Avraham Ibn Yijū, containing the acrostic with his name (אברהמ חזק). With praises for …
Legal document involving a dispute between Abu Saʿd Kohen, Abū l-Makārim, payments in installments, and the sale of cheese. One of the parties resorted to …
Accounts on verso in an extensive table on the verso in which a wide array of individuals are mentioned, such as: Elʿazar Candiote, Elʿazar Cohen, …
P1: Legal document on parchment, related to real estate, probably a deed of sale. In Arabic script, badly rubbed. Dated: Jumādā II 346 AH = …
Prayer or magical fragment in Arabic script. Invokes Muḥammad and then has a string of magical characters. The lower fragment looks literary.
Letter fragments. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 15th century, based on hand and orthography. Dealing with business matters. Mentions 25 qinṭārs of something …
Account. Containing one word in Arabic and many lines of Coptic numerals.
Accounts, with names such as Ibn Naḥūm and Yakhīn. (Information from CUDL)
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Names include Ismāʿīl and Yaʿaqov. EMS
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The document initailly appears to be dated in l. 12 of the recto 15(?) Ramaḍān 918 AH(?), or 1512 CE– but it …
Recto: Fragment from the bottom of a communal letter, with wide line spacing. Dated: Adar 1463 Seleucid = February/March 1152 CE. Potentially from the office …
Letter/petition from Umm Bū l-Munā to a notable. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. She asks/reminds him to send a letter on her behalf with the bearer …
Two betrothal contracts. First is of Wazira bt. ___ b. Yishaq. The groom's name is effaced, but his marriage payment is 5+30. The second is …
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Fols. 1r–2r: Geomancy castings in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew: (1) "If a man will come from outside of Egypt and take over justice and religion …
Letter in rhymed Hebrew addressed to the community of Jerusalem and their leader the judge Shemuʾel (הם אחינו יקירנו בעלי בריתנו הקהל הקדוש הדרים בירושלם …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From a man or woman, likely in Damascus, to their brother, likely in Fustat. The addressee is rebuked in strong terms …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Probably a prayer or some sort of instruction manual. Contains a few Quranic verses like "al-Nabī al-Ummī", and "wa-lā ḥawlā …
State document, in Arabic script, from the private archives of the Karaite community in Cairo. The document is a decree from the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir …
Legal document or account in Arabic script, referring to "every month in the name ʿAbd al-Raḥīm" and payments. On verso there is piyyut. (Information in …
Letter from Abū l-Riḍā, it seems in Fustat, to his wife's brother Meʾir, perhaps in Damīra or at least nearby in the Rīf. In Judaeo-Arabic. …
Letter, probably. In Hebrew. Beginning only. Addressed to some dignitary.
Minute fragment from a beginning of a document from Cairo. AA
Minute fragment from a list of names written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Damaged fragment of a business letter. The name Abū ʿImrān is preserved. Refers to the tax collectors (al-ḥushshār) and asks to be sent the receipt …
Verso: Account of communal expenditures. Date seems to be al-Muharram. The final name is X the blind man, illustrating the integration of needy and communal …
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26 pages of a Ladino & Hebrew manual on divination, using astrology and geomancy and perhaps some casting of lots (see pp. 21–22, where there …