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Marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: ca. 1337 CE, since the same witnesses appear on T-S 13J2.18 from that year. Groom: ʿOvadya b. Avraham b. Shelomo. Bride: …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
No Scholarship Records
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Merkado Karo and Shimʿon Frances (of Karo y Frances & Company). Fragment: missing the lower part.
Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Late.
Letter from ʿAllān b. Yaḥyā, in Alexandria, to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1080 CE. According to Gil, the handwriting is that …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה
וכבת אעדאה מן אלמסתקר ליג כלון מן שבט כתמה אללה עליך ועלינא
באחסן כאתמה…
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State document, Fatimid period. Petition or report to a vizier (beginning only), possibly under al-ʿAḍid (see line 4, where the blessing uses the verb ʿaḍada; …
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Deed of sale of a house. Only the recto was photographed. Dating: Likely c.1170 CE, based on the reference to “our [mast]er Sar Shalom, the …
Literary. Small fragment.
Beginning of a query submitted to Maimonides, beginning by telling about a local man who is now living in another city (the rest is too …
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Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr: Muḥammad b. Jamīl b. Mūsā. Missing two edges but otherwise legible, needs examination.
Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm to his brother Qāsim. Containing reports or instructions about sending small sums of money, and greetings to various family members.
IB V, 28. Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen(?). See Goitein's attached notes for further information. Mentions Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Dimyāṭī …
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Court records and notes in the hand of the judge Natan b. Shemuel. Dated in one entry on the verso as Tishrei 1455 Seleucid (1143 …
The Amīr Ḥiṣn al-Dawla b. Sayt al-Dawla, for two murattabs,
seven waybas of wheat. Still due to him, eight
waybas of wheat, whose cost
of 7…
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Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter on parchment, quoting Nehemiah 9:33. Dating: likely 11th century. AA/ASE
Recto: Letter of appeal for charity in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. Written across a bifolium. Perhaps a draft. Verso: The right-hand page is related …
Fragment of a legal document (upper right corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: 1554 Seleucid = 1242/43 CE. Involves Faḍlallāh known as Shela b. Berakhot. AA.
Highly fulsome letter of praise, consisting of 12 lines of praise in Hebrew, followed by 5 lines of Arabic script containing the actual content of …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Probably from a prenuptial agreement, stipulating that the wife can force the husband …
Legal document in Hebrew. Dated in the final third of Adar II 5415 AM (1655 CE). Location: Cairo. Moshe Kolon returns a deposit of jewelry …
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Scribal exercises in which a pupil repeated the same phrase in Latin script, probably in Portuguese. The first word is the Portuguese preposition "aquem" (on …
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script. On recto there is a seliḥa.
Petition in Arabic script. There are multiple senders, evidently Jewish. Much of the remaining text is formulaic. They refer to khurūj al-amr al-ʿālī ('the issuing …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). Fragment (bottom part). Involves Yaḥyā al-Kohen, Abū …
Recto: Letter by Sherira Gaon to a correspondent in Fustat, complaining about Egypt and the West's neglect of the Yeshiva. Beginning and end are missing, …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Sahl; a house; that something (אלחלקה?) of silk sold for [...] dinars for 10, because it is scarce; also …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting resembles that of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Refers to a father, children, and …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning people such as Sulaymān b. Khalaf and Nissim b. Sulaymān and Abū l-Rabīʿ. On parchment.
List or accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions prices in dirhams. Needs examination.
Notebook, probably belonging to a 15th-century Byzantine merchant, filled with records of various transactions. The language is primarily Hebrew but the months are Julian (אפריל …
Letter in Hebrew. Mentions the names ṣefanya and Sar Shalom. Refers to somebody in trouble, whom other people are libeling and "handing over into the …
Verso: Fragment of a dowry list. Location; Cairo. Dating: 1189–1200 CE (8 Sivan 15[..] Seleucid). The recto was reused for piyyuṭ and a year (1511 …
Letter to a Nubian eparch in Ibrīm. Sender might be writing on behalf of a group of Muslim merchants as they refer to themselves in …
Minute fragment from a business letter or legal document.
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from "your brother Musa" (Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi) asking the recipent to sell for him the Mishnah and Hilkhot Shehitah and …
Bifolio of Judaeo-Arabic poetry with an unusual layout and the refrain "yā ʿuṣfūr."
Booklist in Judaeo-Arabic. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog. Needs examination.
Bifolio. The left page of recto and both pages on verso are filled with accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as …
Letter fragment from Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Mentions details about money exchange and shipments of pepper and silk to and from Palermo. (Information from Gil, …
Letter from Mordechai b. Yizhaq Shraga Feivish, perhaps in Rafah, to R. Yom Tov the Av Beit Din of Cairo, probably Yom Tov Israel Cherezli …
Document concerning the manumission of slaves. (Information from CUDL)
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Se[nyores] Karo y Frances from Nissim Mshīsh. Dated Kislev [55]69 AM (בסט= in the [year] 69) which is 1808 CE. …
Letter from [...] b. Labrat, to Ezra (?) b. Isḥāq, al-Mahdiyya. Around 1040. The writer and the addressee are dealing with importing flax and exporting …
בש כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך מן מצר יום אלגמעה
לכמס כלון מן כסליו ען סלאמה וקד [ ] אלפרג תקדם
כתאבי אליך [מע] אלמוסם אל…
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Probably Cairo. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century. Mikha'el b. Moshe appoints Refa'el b. Shuʿa Berakha as his agent for …
Legal query in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (found by Amir Ashur), with the responsum at the bottom signed by Shelomo b. Natan.
Letter addressed to Moshe [b. Yehuda]. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Dealing with business matters. The sender conveys Shemuel's request that …
Private account by Barhun b. Musa ha-Tāhartī to his business partner, probably in Sicily. 1057. Including details about different payments, the purchase of wheat, and …
והדא אכר מא פאצלתה עליה [ ]
ענדך ענדך מן [ ] קמח לאכתך [
כג רבאעי ורבע אוצל פי גמלה אלכלטה ה רבאעי[ה
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Literary text, in Arabic script. Requires identification.
Fragment of a legal document in which the signature of Toviyya b. Daniel appears.
א ב י מ ק ת
ו א ס ב מ נו ר י ש שמ
צ ר ח ה ו ג י קן עי עיה
Literary text in Samaritan script and Arabic script.
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) asking the holy congregation of Egypt to pay the tax to the Muslim Amir. …