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Address of a letter to the Nagid Shemuel (b. Ḥananya), in Fustat, in the Muṣāṣa neighborhood. In the Arabic-script portion it seems he is referred …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a join with the neighboring shelfmark, but it is not clear how.
No Scholarship Records
Accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals. The dating is likely 16th-century based on the paleography and mention of Ottoman sulṭānī currency. The second entry …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? No details preserved, except possibly the name [...] b. Natan. (Information in part from CUDL)
Medical prescription. In Arabic script. Involves lavender and licorice and a few other ingredients. The diet should be cooked pullet (farrūj maṣlūq/maslūq).
Damaged fragment from a bill of release written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Includes "any document in Hebrew and any document in …
Legal document (fragment) in which Qurra bt. Shelomo, as sole heiress of her father, asks to be given 20 dinars of the 35 he had …
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Tax receipt for Abū l-Surūr b. Faraj. Trigger: addā. Registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh bihi athiq', praise be to God in whom I trust.
Deed of lease (istiʾjar). An Iqrār. In Arabic. Mentions a date in the body of the text: 12 Dhū l-Qaʿda 531 AH = 1 August …
Recto: A receipt for Barakāt b. Dallāl, beginning with a basmala. Verso: Accounts, "min jumlat l-maḥmūl ilayhi". Unidentified text on the left but probably related …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 426 AH = 1034/35 CE. The year 424 is also mentioned in the body of the document (l. 1). …
Apparently a small fragment from a medical book, mentioning cartilage, the heart and illnesses. CUDL
A Maimonides autograph of the Guide for the Perplexed. Information from FGP.
One side has the beginning of a letter written in Arabic script in a hasty scrawl. The other side has, in large letters in a …
Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Ḥasab (bride). Most of the text is too badly faded to read. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, probably. Too faded to read.
List of accounts from a bookseller, mentioning a number of titles of known works. (Information from Halper, Catalogue)
List of books sold in the Palestinian Synagogue at Fusṭāṭ belonging to the late Abraham he-Ḥasid, in the presence of Abraham Maimonides the Nagid on …
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Confirmation of the payment of a loan of 22 'half silvers' (muʾayyadīs), from Yosef, followed by an instruction to return the pledged copy of the …
Letter from Fustat to Sadoq Ha-Levi b. Levi, head of the Palestinian yeshiva. Ca. 1030
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Pleas and prayers to God for the sake of the people of Israel – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 188) – in …
Draft of a letter from Yefet b. Shekhanya, from Fustat, to Daniel b. Azarya, around 1053. Daniel did not reply to Yefet's requests to supervise …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning a variety of names, many of which may bear signs of Greek linguistic influence on ENA 3735.10. Early modern dating based …
Unidentified text in Arabic, possibly a letter. Appears to mention a ship and ʿAydhāb (r2 and r3) but too damaged to be sure or to …
Letter from Salāma b. Mūsā of Sfax, in Mazar, Sicily, to his partner Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The longest letter …
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IB I, 21. Legal document. Dated: 23 [Elul] 1412 Sel. The death of Shelomo Lebdi was not only a serious personal blow to his brother, …
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Fragment from the bottom of a legal deed, written in large characters in very shaky handwriting. Refers to a freedwoman (השפחה המשוחררת). One witness signature …
Power of attorney. Location: probably al-Mahdiyya. Dated: 486[.] AM (Goitein read 4861). A certain Efrayim appoints Abūn as his agent (wakīl) for settling his affairs …
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Introduction to a literary treatise. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning al-Mutanabbī, the Būyid amīr Muʿizz al-Dawla, and the vizier Abū l-Faraj Muḥammad b. al-ʿAbbās (Ibn Fasānjas).
Fragment from the top of a Qaraite ketubba. Apparently uncited in the literature. The bride is referred to as Amat al-Qādir. Location: Egypt.
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. Date: 26 Sivan 5580 AM (1820 CE). The groom is Shlomo b. Avraham. The previously unmarried bride (batūla) is Esther known …
Accounts (?) in Arabic script
Legal document in Arabic signed by three Muslim witnesses and dated 1823/4 CE (1239 Hijri). Merits further examination.
Letter from (perhaps) Shelomo b. Moshe Lanyado to Shemuel Lanyado. Dated Shevat 5485 AM, which is 1725 CE. The letter is in Judaeo-Arabic but uses …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: Based on the mention of the Ottoman kuruş symbol (ق label on columns) this fragment dates back to …
The frontispiece and the first daf of the Sabbioneta Kiddushin (printed Elul 5313 = 1543 CE), under the rule of Vespesiano Gonzaga and in the …
Small fragment mentioning Yosef ha-Shofeṭ
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, probably a letter about financial matters.
Fragment of a legal document concerning the ketubba of Karīma and her husband Nadiv. Also mentions a certain Shelomo. In the hand of Natan b. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Most of the folio is preserved, but the text is faded and damaged. Probably concerning communal affairs. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl b. Pinḥas …
Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Alchemical: dhahab kāmil in shā' allāh.
Legal document written and signed by Eliyya b. David Ḥavriya (חברייה). Dating: 16th century. Record of debt with values measured in Venetian zecchini (Ar. bunduqī, …
Commercial or official/fiscal account referring to names. Needs examination.
Colophon draft for a muṣḥaf (Torah). The scribe is Shelomo ha-Levi b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya b. [Yiṣḥaq?] b. Yaʿaqov. The same man appears in T-S …
19 small scraps, more or less neatly cut from a literary work. Many of them have Arabic on one side and Syriac on the other, …
Lower section of a document in Hebrew. Dating is 15th-17th-century based on the paleography. There is calligraphic signature visible, which may indicate that this was …
Recto: Literary text, or possibly an amulet, in Hebrew. On verso there is also Hebrew script, but it is completely erased by being covered with …
Letter in Arabic script. The writer is Barakāt b. al-Dayyān (presumably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, cf. ENA 3927.1 and CUL Or. 1080 J155 for other specimens …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written on parchment. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 1140–59 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Groom: Abū Karam b. [...] …