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Acknowledgment of payment for a residential qāʿa. Dated Thursday, 29th Tammuz 5417 AM (1657 CE) Venue: Dar Simha Synagogue (Cairo). Ṣadaqa b. Ya'aqov Qayyim and …
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Frontispiece of a book of Hebrew poetry and piyyutim, in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi, with his signature inside of a medallion on the cover. …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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 …
Order in Judaeo-Arabic. "I (already) owe you 7/8 dirhams. Send me a pomegranate syrup for 5/8 and jujube (syrup?) for 1/8 and mastic and a …
Colophon of a book written by Shaʾul b. Avraham b. Natan for Yeḥezqel b. Maṣliaḥ b. Shela. (Information from CUDL.)
A few words in Hebrew script.
Bill of divorce. Dated 13 Sivan 5505 AM which is 13 June 1745 CE. Location: Cairo. The husband's name is listed solely as Menaḥem b. …
Tax receipt for Musāfir b. Yūsuf. Needs examination.
Legal document mentioning Hārūn, 50 dinars, and a provision for "his female slave." A will? (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document in which Shimʿon ha-Levi agrees to rent his wife a place to keep her belongings separate from his; Shimʿon also takes over her …
הסכם בין בעל ואשתו
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Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Presumably a list of debts or payments. Mentions dār al-hadīda and dār al-ṣ[arf?] and nails.
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yeshaʿya ha-Kohen to Farah b. ʿAyyāsh ha-Kohen. In Hebrew. Dating: after the death of Evyatar Gaʾon, who died before 1112 CE. …
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One line from an incomplete court record written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE)
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving 5 dinars. Handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE).
Small and damaged fragment mentioning אלרום אלכפאפין, including Yosef. Blind Byzantines?
Draft of a court record regarding inheritance, sent to a religious authority or more experienced court scribe for corrections and approval (the first three lines …
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat, dealing with sundry small business matters. He orders walnuts, sugar, and Sinnārī …
ונעמאכם ומן חסן אלתופיק לא
אכלאכם וגעלכם אבדא פי עאפיה
וסוא דלך אתפצלו אן כאן אלדסת
קד פרג פסירוה לי …
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Account written in Alexandria on 3 Jumada I 1236 AH/February 1821CE. The basis of the transaction in silver kuruş is explained in the heading and …
Agreement of the Maghribi congregation written in a late Sephardi hand. The heads of the coomunity agreed that no Jew will enter the synagogue during …
Letter of thanks addressed to the Nagid making reference to recommendations granted. The writer uses the phrase “the Mordechai of the age,” a common designation …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Shevat 5578 AM, which is 1818 CE. Declaring that Rica bt. Avraham ha-Kohen טרייקלי is "rebellious" (moredet) …
Recto looks like a draft of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso contains jottings as well as accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: mentions Wednesday, 23 Nisan …
Recto: Some sort of kabbalistic prayer, in multiple hands. At the bottom are doodles and jottings in Arabic and Hebrew. Verso: A couple lines of …
Legal document. In Arabic script. On parchment. One witness signature is preserved. Possibly a deed of sale, since the word "al-mushtarī" appears in l. 4.
Legal document: power of attorney (authorization), written by Yefet b. David on behalf of Efrayim he-Ḥaver b. Shemarya to a certain [...] b. Aharon he-Ḥaver …
Letter of blessing to a notable, maybe on a happy occasion, such as a birth of a child. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dating: Probably …
Letter from a Sicilian who had come to Egypt in order to study with Moses Maimonides and with Yiṣḥaq b. Sason. Despite his long sojourn …
Power of attorney (שטר אורכתא). Mentions: Makhlūf Ibn ʿAyn Sārra; Yiṣḥaq [ha-Le]vi b. [...] al-ʿAjamī; Alexandria; 6 dinars; Moshe Neʾeman ha-Yeshiva (he may be the …
Legal document, Qaraite. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 24 Kislev 5553 AM = Rabīʿ al-Thānī 1207 AH, which is December 1792 CE. Avraham Levi Ḥazzan b. …
A communal enactment (taqqana) passed by the Jewish community of al-Maḥalla, in which they pledge their loyalty to their judge Peraḥya [b. Yosef], to retain …
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Small fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involving a woman named Sitt al-Sāda and a sum …
Letter from an unknown writer, in Damascus, to his parents. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Thursday, 25 Tammuz 5341 AM = 1581 CE (unless we are only …
Accounts in Arabic with a complex array of monetary calculations with the symbol "ق" on occasion indicating silver kuruş (which may have been minted as …
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out three ūqiyyas of lemon and two ūqiyyas of sorrel. (Information …
Magic recipe. Joins with T-S AS 142.6. (data from FGP by Prof. Gidi Bohak). TS 12.102 which is consider to be a join, is probably …
Bottom left fragment, letter or official correspondence. Mentions paper trail to an elated presence "ḥaḍratihi l-maymūna". Needs examination.
Four lines in monumental Arabic script. The fragment was later reused to copy four different letters and two piyyutim for Shavu'ot, all revolve around figures …
Court record, probably a bill of release between a woman named Turfa and a man named Sayyid al-Kull. Signed by [...] b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen and …
Recto: letter. Mentions sending a power of attorney. Urges two people to "enter into the affair" (פאן דכלא פי אלמסלה פאן אלמסלה תנגח אללה אללה). …
Scribal exercises and signature practice. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th-century or later. On the recto the signature Yiṣḥaq b. Eliyahu Israel is …
Verso: Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. The names Salmān, Ismāʿīl, and Ibrāhīm, and Ṣāfī appear with various quantities.
Letter. Possibly from Naṣr or Nuṣayr (v19) to some dignitary (sayyidnā, Mordekhai ha-Zeman). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Dating: Late 12th century, based on the mention of …
Calendar calculations ca. 1060 CE. 53 weeks. Calligraphic script. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)
Esther writes to her parents in law after having returned from Safed to Cairo, describing how she learned certain needle work and expressing thanks to …
Beginning of a letter from the judge Elijah b. Zechariah to Abū l-Faraj. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the financial arrangements upon the divorce of Mansūba and Avraham. Needs further examination.