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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). "He left it under my hand..."
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Marriage contract, template. Written in codex form. The original text is from a ketubba dated Wednesday, 21 Heshvan 5515 AM, which is 1754 CE. Groom: …
Letter from a woman named Harja, in Jerusalem, to her brother ʿAbd al-Dā'im Ibn Firrouz, in Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. See tag for other letters …
Legal document in Hebrew. Written on parchment. Very damaged. Dating: Likely 11th century. A case of inheritance involving Faraj, Salāma, and Maymūn (somebody's uncle?). AA. …
Late list of payment
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Very damaged.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Yehuda b. Sulaymān.
Strong censure from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) that the addressee had left a guest recommended by him without food on …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on lined notebook paper, in some cases with a pencil rather than ink. Dating: Probably 19th century. Currencies: qirsh and qirsh …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 5 Rabīʿ I 404. Written one day after …
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Substantial fragment of an elaborate, calligraphic calendar, in Hebrew, giving corespondences between the Hebrew and Islamic calendars. A year does not appear anywhere, but it …
Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. 4 folios. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Mentions Abū l-Ṭāhir; al-Ṣayrafī; Ibn al-Rubāʿī(?); Abū Yiṣḥaq; …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Likely a fragment of an old (ca. 11th century) ketubba. Mentions Yaʿqūb and a bride.
Drafts of a note addressed to a certain Abū l-Faraj. It's not clear what the precise request is. The scribe spells אתפצל as אטפצל.
Official report in Arabic script. Blaming a spy named Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Ḥammāra and one other person for betraying Damietta to the Franks and possibly …
Communal letter in Hebrew. Faded and torn. From the content it is a letter with legal sermonizing and instructions, though it ends with phrases typical …
Liturgical text in Hebrew; writing exercises; unidentified Arabic text (possibly an amulet). (Information from CUDL.) One of the sections lists names like Yiṣḥaq Kanzi, Yehuda, …
Recto: Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures and supplies for the Synagogue. Dating: ca. 1042 – Nov. 1043. In the hand of Yefet b. David …
…for two days, 4 dir.
…. from him, originally
.... and other (things), 6 dir.
…. and (she) opened a shop, they are known
…. owed …
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Legal document. Dated: Tuesday, 9 Tammuz 5422 AM = 30 June 1762 CE. Location: Cairo. Bill of authorization is given to Yaʿaqov al-Khallāf in connection …
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Legal document. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: 1474 Seleucid, which is 1162/63 CE, under the authority of Netanel ha-Levi. Quittance or agreement …
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Letter fragment in Arabic script. The section preserved here consists mostly of greetings. Verso mentions the addressee's father Abū Muḥammad and cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū …
List of names. Tiqva ha-Kohen; Yakhin b. Yeshuʿa; ʿEli b. Shelomo; Elʿazar b. Araḥ; Berakhot; Avraham b. She'erit; ʿEli ha-Ḥaver(?).
Legal record (#10) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but c. 1560 …
Rent receipt(s) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Receipt from the committee of Jewish pious endowments in Cairo for the value of rent on a residence whose total is 260 qirsh in the …
State document, Arabic script. Fragmentary. Probably an official correspondences offering congratulations/prayers on the occasion of a new caliph coming to power (... fī ḥulūl mulk …
مو]لانا صلوات الله عليه واهلك[عداه
]ـل بالتسبيح والتمجيد عند اعلانه به وشفع دعاء [
و[د]عا جميع الحاضرين بالابتهال من الله تعالى والرغبة اليه
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1764 CE. Mentions numerous names: Yaḥyā b. Hādī, ʿAlī and his brother Ṣāliḥ, ʿAlī Ḥusayn, ʿAzīz b. Sinān, Yūsuf al-ʿAzīzī, …
Few preserved words in Hebrew script with a humanoid figure, presumably magical text. Needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Abū Muḥammad.
Letter of appeal for charity/assistance. In Judaeo-Arabic. Eloquent, sometimes rhyming. Appeals to ʿaṣabiyya, as a preface to asking for help (אלחצרה אלסאמיה . . . …
Bottom part of an Ottoman-era legal document. Mentions Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad and Jews.
Karaite betrothal document with faded ornamental designs along the upper border. Date: 14 Adar 5454 AM (1694 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously unmarried bride is …
Files of Jewish families who are owed payment containing names, addresses, the members of each family, and their employment, wages, and neighborhood, the initial payment …
Recto is Hebrew piyyuṭ. Verso is headed "qiddush tarḥīm for Avraham ha-Levi b. Yefet ha-Mumḥe." Possibly the same person as in T-S 16.170 (PGPID 3430), …
Two sides of an Arabic literary text, probably a dīwān with commentary.
Recto (secondary use): Letter of appeal for charity from Asʿad b. al-Ḥājj Ḥusām. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. He says that "I have nothing …
Letter from Maymūn b. Khalfa, Palermo, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. 18 August 1056 (Gil). Describes the movement of goods and ships to and from …
Legal record (#11) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 3v-4r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 9-11) Folio 3v
Bill of divorce, fragment. Husband: Maʿānī b. Khalaf. Wife: Jamīʿ bt. Barakāt (both families are from Minyat Ziftā, Egypt). Dated: Friday, 29 Sivan 1426 Seleucid, …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning a house, 10 dinars, and Ismāʿīl b. M[...]. (Information in part …
P18: Unidentified fragment with several lines of Hebrew script on it. Maybe a letter, or maybe literary. Needs examination.
Letter from Avraham b. Farāḥ, Alexandria to Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl, Fustat. The letter deals with the shipping of goods and money transfers. The writer describes …
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Booklist. In the margin. Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder.
Letter in the hand of the cantor Abū Sahl Levi b. al-Ahuv, to one of his sons, probably Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi in Qalyūb. On …
State document, fragmentary, in chancery hand. Mentions the province (or port?) of Damietta (thagr Dimyāṭ) and someone's arrival/appointment to it. Also has an ʿalama in …
Upper part of a tax receipt? Multiple hands/endorsements in the upper margin. The main text mentions Yūsuf b. Hiba and a jahbadh. Needs examination. On …
IB I, 44. Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 21 Adar II 1377 Seleucid, which is 21 March 1066 CE. Maymūn b. Yaʿaqov declares that …
שהדותא דהות באנפנא בתלתה בשבה דהוא עשרין וחד יומי בירח אדר שני דשנת אלפא
ותלת מאה ושבעין ושבע שנין למנינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט מצרים דעל ני…
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Legal document or possibly a letter. In Hebrew. Dating: late, ca. 16th–18th century. Mentions Shemuʾel Pali[...] (שמואל פאלי....); "the polisa, that is to say the …