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Recto: letter in Ladino. Verso: accounts. (Information from CUDL)
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Letter of appeal for charity from Abū l-Riḍā b. Faraj to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya at an early point in his career. Beautifully written. …
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Verso (original use): remnant of an official Arabic document. Mentions "to al-Dār al-Saʿīda in Fustat."
Either a letter or a legal query. In Hebrew. Late. Describing the legal arrangements following somebody's death.
Illuminated Hebrew alphabet from a children’s textbook. At the bottom of recto there is a benediction: ‘God will protect you from every evil and will …
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Legal document, extremely faded, perhaps regarding the sale of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. Possibly 10th century. Information from FGP.
Letter addressed to Makhlūf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late, no earlier than 15th century. Combative. Mentions the time the writer showed up at Makhlūf's house …
Letter describing the claims of the writer's brother-in-law on the half of a house that was sold by the mother to her daughter, the writer's …
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Business letter addressed to a certain Abu Saʿd. The sender reports that the Ḥājj Jawwād informed him that his nephew Futūḥ b. Barāk will be …
Literary. In Hebrew. Has an esoteric/mystical flavor.
Letter from the brothers Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, and Avraham Cesana to Merkado Karo and Avraham ha-Levi. Dated: 4 Shevaṭ 5566 AM, which is 23 …
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Beginning of a letter from Yehuda b. Yoshiyya, a Nasi in Egypt during the second half of the twelfth century, to the judge Moshe b. …
Unidentified text mainly in Arabic, transitioning to a new section in Hebrew at the bottom. Needs examination.
Note (receipt or order?) mentioning ʿOvadya and Ṣedaqa. (Information mainly from CUDL.)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Torn and damaged. Recto is difficult to read, while verso contains mostly greetings. Mentions people such …
Probably a legal document, but possibly a letter. In Arabic script. Mentions Abū l-Faraj b. Abū ʿAbdallāh. Needs further examination.
Faded page and a half of writing in Hebrew of unclear significance, perhaps a letter. Medieval. There are extensive opening blessings. The text on the …
Letter fragment (left half of recto) of appeal to "אלחבר המועלה." The writer appears to be requesting money as soon as possible and may have …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Crude hand known from many similar fragments.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 5 Shevaṭ 1378 Seleucid, which is 1067 CE. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Groom: Wuḥaysh b. …
Unidentified text in Hebrew.
Letter from the Nagid Natan Sholal ha-Kohen, in Fustat/Cairo, to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Before 1502 CE and perhaps after 1498 …
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Minute fragment of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). A man releases a woman from claims; no other …
Literary text in Hebrew. Late.
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Missing only the first couple lines. The writer mentions exchanges of goods (ll.2–3); he has sent a dinar for someone's …
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اسل الله قرب الاجتماع على الاحوال السارة بمنه ولطفه ومما اعلمك اطال الله بقاك ان قد انفذت [اليك
الثوب والشعير ربعهم(وبعتهم/ر…
Bifolio from a court ledger. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Three records at least: 1) Settlement of a complex marriage dispute involving …
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.
Accounts in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Cf. T-S Ar.30.219 (PGPID 9212).
Letter from the ḥaver Yehoshuaʿ b. ʿEli al-Lādhiqī(?), in Jerusalem, to Abū l-ʿIzz(?) b. ʿEli Abū Manṣūr, in New Cairo. The letter consists of a …
Marriage contract. Groom: Munā b. Shelomo. Bride: Mubāraka bt. Avraham. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13 Tishrei 1406 Seleucid = 26 September 1094 CE. The couple is …
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Literary, probably. Very faded. See folio 26 for the probable dating.
Margin of verso: Notation explaining how a document written a hundred years earlier was found again after it had been missing for a long time. …
The scorpion amulet attributed to Yehuda b. Yeḥezqel. Belongs with ENA NS 73.12 and T-S AS 143.26.
Accounts written in elegant Arabic script, specifying amounts owed between various people, e.g., Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Shammāʿ, al-Faḍl, ʿUmar.
Letter from Barukh b. Zikrī al-Makhmuri, in Ifrīqiyya, to his relative Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmuri, in Fustat. The writer asks for help as his place …
Court record in Hebrew. Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Nisan 5285 AM = 19 April 1525 CE. Signed by three known figures: Yisraʾel b. Yeḥiel, …
Small legal fragment, probably a contract of debt. Mentions al-ʿAlāqma, a town in the area of Bilbays. The debtor is Abū l-Bahāʾ b. Abū [...]. …
Dream narrative in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: mid-13th century. The dream took place on Sunday night, the week of Parashat Vayera. The writer dreamed of a betrothal …
Text in Judaeo-Arabic, late. "The rose said, 'I am the ruler of all the flowers. My thorn...'"
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: likely 18th or 19th century. Large and neatly written. Each column is headed by a name.
Recto: responsa in the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic poem and dirge also written by Yosef. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a certain sayyidnā al-Rayyis. Dating: Probably from the era of Judge Eliyyahu (early 13th century), if he is identical with the …
Legal record (#85) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 29v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 6 Heshvan 5325 …
Verso (original use): End of a letter in Arabic script. With many formal blessings and phrases of deference for the addressee. Needs further examination.
Document in Arabic, perhaps accounts. Medieval era. Requires further examination. Both the recto and verso were reused for a literary text in Hebrew.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Begins with the glyph. A house was apparently sold by [...] b. Nuṣayr. On the facing page there …
Copy of a story about the edicts against the Jews in Baghdad and how they were saved. Dating: ca. 1120 CE. The scribe reused numerous …
Verso (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Giving details on the sale of silk.
Small piece of a Palestinian-style marriage contract (ketubba), preserving part of the volition formula and the statement of the wife's obligations. (Information from CUDL)