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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Efaryim b. Shemarya? The sender has sent 10 of something and urges the addressee to sell them. …
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(b) Perhaps the response. What remains begins on verso (the beginning is missing) and spills over onto recto. This letter is written in a crude …
כתב וכתאב צאחב אלעיאדא (?) ותדפעה למן [[שיתה]]
שיתם וכל מן גא נקול אן סעאדה ובני נוח (?) רקו פצ…
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Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Yaʿīsh Ḥarrār in Alexandria from Yaʿaqov ha-Levi.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on parchment. Probably an 11th-century mercantile letter. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter, asking for a swift reply and mentioning a certain Ibrahim. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. (Information in part from CUDL.) Excerpts: אללה תע …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tatai, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1065. The writer regrets that he does not have lacquer with his …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמתה מן תטאי ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך אן כתבת אליך כתב אן
עדה ולם נרא לואחד מנהא ג…
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Letter from Salāma b. Asad the perfumer to Abū Saʿīd al-Afṣī. In Judaeo-Arabic, with some unusual spellings. Dating: 12th century (the addressee is well known …
Letter from a man to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 1238–52 CE, as it has to do with the removal of David I Maimonides …
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Get (bill of divorce) dated 1058 CE (Nisan 1369) from Fustat. Nissin (!) b. Maḥbūb divorces Mubāraka bt. Ṭoviya.
Lists in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso. Medieval-era. One of the entries on the recto lists the weight of a specific good. The list on …
Fiscal account. Needs examination.
Fragment of three legal document entries, probably from a court register. Dated Kislev 5480 AM (Nov.-Dec. 1719 CE). (1) engagement deed and dowry list between …
Letter from Mūsā, Ṣalaḥ and Isḥāq the sons of Barhūn al-Tāhartī to Abū l-Faraj Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal and to his sons Hillel and …
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Qaraite court record(s) regarding an agreement that followed two cases of theft (סרקה/سرقة) committed by a certain Yaʿaqov Feyrūz. Dated: 11 Tishrei 5547 AM = …
Fiscal document, probably, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
List of names with numbers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rosh ha-Qahal, Ibn Nufayʿ al-Ḥazzan, Yūsuf b. Ḥaffāẓ, Ṣadaqa the blind. Presumably distribution of funds from the communal …
Some sort of horoscope? Elaborate diagrams with Arabic script in black and red ink. Mentions Baghdād.
Letter of appeal from a cantor to a certain Moshe ha-Sar who is in government service. The letter also addresses Ṣedaqa ha-Sar. He asks for …
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IB V, 18. Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen, in Alexandria, to the well-known merchant Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Legal document, it seems. In Hebrew. Dating: Probably late. Needs further examination. On verso there are various jottings (accounts? the word 'bunduqi' appears clearly).
Legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda (aka Mūsā b. Yahūda al-Turjumān), in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Only the very beginning …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from the leader of the Jewish community in a small town to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (1094–1111) complaining about trouble he has had …
Small and very faded fragment from a letter, probably written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.
The end of a legal document, preserving only a number of signatures: Joseph b. Abraham b. Sa[ul], Shemuʾel b. [...], Ibrahim b. Moses, Sahl b. …
Petition filed by a woman asking the help of the community since her husband did not return from his travels. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand …
Informal note addressed to a mother. In Hebrew. Dating: ca. 15th–17th century. The sender says that a certain gentile is harassing him for money but …
Verso: Possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, very faded, wide line spacing. Needs examination.
A Hebrew poetical letter (a panegyric rhyming in -im) addressed to a notable known as Saʿadya. Contains mostly blessings (such as the well-being of his …
Jottings, including verses of Hebrew poetry, a trial incipit of a letter in Arabic script, and lines of writing arranged in circular patterns. Information from …
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. …
Recto: Unidentified technical text in Arabic script referring to various dates and times of months; might be specifically a guide to the calendar, or might …
Verso: Three lines from a petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir (his name is just barely preserved in the final line). This is clearly a draft. …
Accounts in a mixture of Arabic script and some Hebrew (for certain names) and Greek/Coptic numerals. Rudimentary hand. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Khalaf b. Ghālib the Jew, a druggist (ʿaṭṭār) and something else (jabbān? jazzār?) in Fustat for the year 504 …
List of garments and textiles, probably unrelated to recto, also in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu who signs his name at the bottom. The …
Part of a poorly preserved letter, written with widely-spaced lines in an elegant square hand and ornate language, probably the work of a Palestinian gaʾon. …
Legal document, quite faded. In which [...] Abū l-Faḍl b. [...] Daniʾel(?) "ha-sofer ha-mahir" acknowledges a debt of 287 dirhams to Abū Saʿīd b. Ṣedaqa …
List of beneficiaries receiving clothing (jūkāniyya) via the local parnas Abū l-Faraj. Also mentions ʿAllūn al-Parnas. Information from JRL catalog.
Maybe a receipt of some kind. In Arabic script.
Faded legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 3 Iyyar 1407 Seleucid = 28 April 1096 CE. Parties: Meshullam …
Legal testimony. In Hebrew. Dating: Ca. 16th century. Yosef Ashraqī attests that he owes his wife 40 gold Venetian ducats. He will repay the total …
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Responsum by HARID (R. Yish'aya di-Tirani 1165-1240), end of no. 93 in the printed edition (info by Simcha Emanuel, FGP)
Marriage contract. The groom may be the son of Avraham ha-Zaqen. There is one line of a dowry list. On verso there is a note …
Letter in Ladino from Sidon from Joseph b. Joyya and Masʿūd Bunan to Abraham Monson and Judah Aseo in Cairo concerning community financial matters. Dated …
Jottings of biblical verses including Psalms 51:11f Verso: Jottings including lists of names