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Legal document in Arabic script. Appears to contain the phrase "al-ḥāḍir al-ghāʾib" (the present, the absent"). Needs examination for content.
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Incomplete legal document in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (active ca. 1066–1108 CE). The cantor Ghālib b. Ḥalfon al-Zayyāt claims that his sister Bārra …
The testimony of what took place before us, we the undersigned witnesses:
Mr. Ghalib the cantor known as Abū Manṣūr b. Mr. Ḥalfon, the sel…
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Marriage document, probably. Narrow strip.
Karaite ketubba draft on recto and verso. The ketubba begins on the recto at line 6. Date: 23 Shevat 5414 AM (1654 CE). Location: Cairo. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Bottom of a legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashse (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The document was also signed by Shemarya b. Natan ha-Kohen …
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Order to a pastry chef: "To the elder Abī Saʿd, may God preserve him: please take two copper coins as a deposit, and give the …
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Legal document, small fragment. Ketubba? Involves [...]a b. Shabbat.
IB VI, 9. Letter from Barakāt b. Khulayf to ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a shipment of tartar and a report about the arrival …
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Letter, apparently written by ʿEli he-Ḥaver b. ʿAmram, introduced with two poems in honour of Elḥanan b. Shemarya, and mentioning Joseph b. Abraham. (Information from …
Ketubba or prenuptial agreement in the hand of the scribe Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Bride: Sitt al-Wafā b. Shela ha-Levi. Groom: Berakhot ha-Levi. …
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Fiscal account, probably. Likely concerning grain (mentions the prices of arādibb). Needs examination.
Primary text: Accounts for Dā'ūd b. ʿAmmār b. ʿAzrūn for the year 443H (1051/52 CE). 68 lines spread over 2 pages. In Judaeo-Arabic. Nahray b. …
List in Arabic with Coptic alphanumerals. There is some Judaeo-Arabic text on the same page that might be related to the list, i.e. "מאל אביך". …
Original use: Small fragment from the bottom of a Fatimid decree. Dating: No later than 1077 CE.
Decree, in Arabic script. Approximately twelve lines, later cut and reused to form quires. It is difficult to piece the decree fragments in the order …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Description of the location of a building and its surroundings, including its "second" …
Commercial accounts. Late, 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. A variety of names appear in the entries, but very few are complete due to …
One side: Judaeo-Arabic poetry on ʿishq al-maghānī (see T-S Misc.25.44). The other side: Instructions for the reading of the Shema before sleep.
Fragment written by Yosef b. Ya'aqov Rosh Haseder, containing various materials written on different palces on the page. We can find a list of books …
Literary text in Arabic.
Karaite betrothal deed. Date: 28 Nisan 5533 AM (1773 CE). The groom is Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq known as Ḥakīm and the bride Qamr b. Yeshūʿa. …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Family and/or mercantile. On verso there are few lines in very faded Hebrew script.
Petition to a woman from a prisoner (?) in rudimentary script and spelling, asking her "on the life of al-Shaykh Abū l-Maḥāsin" to do a …
Legal document. On top: legal document in which an uncle gives his possessions in equal shares to his dead brother's sons and daughters and appoints …
Verso: List with various units of weight followed by amounts expressed in Greek/Coptic numerals: الرطل, القدح, الدرهم. Medieval-era. Each entry ends with the unit ḥabba. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script, a few partial words are visible alongside the names Menashshe and Sulaymān. Medieval-era, based on the paleography..
Document in Arabic script. Maybe a fiscal account? Needs examination. On verso there is Hebrew poetry/piyyut.
Letter fragment. Mentions the brother of the Rayyis Abu l-Najm, Ibn Munajja, Zayn al-Din b. al-Sawwaf. In the margin, "abstain from soft bread and water." …
Interesting letter from a sick man to Mevorakh, probably his brother. The language is Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew vowels (!). The writer revised the letter, probably …
Letterbook in Judaeo-Arabic (fragment) likely eighteenth- or ninteenth-century that contains drafts and possibly copies of business-related correspondence. The letters frequently use the phrase "יא אכי/ …
Private account.
Magical amulet.
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Large fragment (lower right corner of recto). Mentions: Abū …
Poetry/piyyuṭ in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains.
Arabic script (VMR)
Ladino and Hebrew literary work.
Legal records or drafts in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly from a court ledger. There are at least two distinct records in at least two distinct hands. (I) …
Minute fragments, few from legal deeds.
Letter from a certain Menaḥem to Anaṭoli b. Yosef. In Hebrew. Dated: 22 Kislev 1524 Seleucid = 18 November 1212 CE. Reminding him of a …
Amulet for Abū Saʿd b. Baladīn (?) to annul the evil wishes of his enemies and make everyone love him. In Hebrew, Aramaic, and nomina …
State document, in Arabic script. 2-3 words in a chancery script. Needs examination.
Late letter in Hebrew, mentioning Avraham Castro (line 5). Needs further examination.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: 26 Shevaṭ 1[5]40 Seleucid, which is 22 January 1229 CE. Wife: Maʿānī bt. Karīm. Verso contains the receipt, …
Ketubba, probably. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Contains a menstrual purity clause. See also record for T-S AS 145.149.