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Fragment of a letter from Alexandria, probably from Avraham b. Yosef al-Sabag, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Contains information about merchandises that have …
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State document, in a chancery hand, fragmentary. Some words read as "bi injāz l-kabīr al-m[" and "yakūn hādhā kulluhu". Document is too fragmentary to glean …
Prognostications? In Arabic script.
Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). One of the parties is Abu Sa'd.
Verso: Draft of a deathbed will in which a man gives two houses to two distant relatives, forestalls the possible claims of two other female …
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The bill of divorce that is the subject of JRL Gaster heb. ms 1636/12a.
Declaration about five generations of males and females related by ramified family connections. Dated to the 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 286)
Accounts in Arabic script. Might be headed "In the name of Mūsā the son of the deceased(?)."
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan (Isrā'īl b. Sahlūn), in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 31 December 1061 CE, according to …
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Printed Haggada in Ladino and Hebrew.
Formal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Dated Tuesday, 18 Ḥeshvan. Portions of 6 lines are preserved from near the beginning. Some of …
List of materia medica, including simples such as celery, false bdellium, turpeth, aloes, sarcocolnla, and wormwood. (Information from CUDL)
List of weights and quantities of pepper, ginger, and perhaps other goods, medieval--era. MCD.
Part of a Qaraite ketubba for a bride Rayyisa and an unnamed groom, preserving the bride’s trousseau list. Olszowy-Schlanger (1998:349-51) dates it to the 11th …
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Piyyut or liturgy.
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from an unknown man to Umm ʿAbd al-Laṭīf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite long, filled with business matters and greetings. Needs further examination.
End of a letter. About the sending of money to somebody. (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto: draft of a letter from Yosef b. Saʿīd, to his brother Moshe. In Hebrew. Late. Greetings are offered to his father and (another) brother. …
List of communal collection and expenses. Looks like a 13th century hand.
Unidentified, possibly a letter. The name Mūsā b. Ibrāhīm appears in Arabic script, possibly the address of a letter. Another of the Arabic words is …
Fatimid capitation tax receipt for Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic detailing expenses and outgoing payments to many individuals around the various localities near Qalyūb. The accounts are undated but the paleography and …
Letter from Ḥassūn b. Yaʿīsh to ʿArūs b. Yosef, concerned with business matters, and mentioning people including ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm, Abū Sahl Mukhtār, Avraham, ʿAllān, Abū …
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Fragment of an illuminated frame, probably for a ketubba that was never filled in.
One fragmentary line from a letter or official correspondence. Reads as "adām Allah tawfīquhu".
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions soap; Ḥassūn; al-wakīl; Umm Wāfī; madder and almond; lead; a ṭārma (cabin on Nile …
Verso: Fiscal document, 3 fragmentary lines with lacunae, in Arabic script. Mentions an amīr with the laqab Nabīh al-Dawla (though this title appears to be …
Arabic script (VMR). Or blank? Unless there's more hidden under the black sleeve in the image.
Letter in Arabic script, with a few words in Hebrew script. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. Mentions al-shaykh Bū Zikrī in l. 2. Seems …
A late letter from Yosef, asking to addressee to write a bill of permission to give a loan (שטר עסקא). In Hebrew. On recto pen …
Trousseau list, written and signed by Yefet ha-Levi b. M[anasseh]. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. A father disinherits his younger daughter Sitt al-Nās (and her husband) …
Settlement of a complicated dispute in Fustat recording that Abu l-Ḥasan b. Numayla had rented from Abu al-Ma'ali Shemuel b. Yehuda a house in Alexandria …
A piece of the opening page of the abridgement of the Karaite linguist Abu l-Faraj Harun's "Hidayat al-Qari" (aka Kitab al-Shurut). See the edition by …
Fol. 2v: Legal document in Arabic script. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Khalaf, a Jew from Tyre, renounces all of his monetary claims against Isḥaq b. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless our lord Muḥammad, his prophet, and his family and save them.
Ḥasan, called Abū …
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Recto: order to Abū Isḥāq, apparently asking him to pay the carrier a certain sum of money. Verso: Arabic document headed "revenue" (al-ḥāṣil), dated Rabīʿ …
Confirmation of a former deed of sale in which Yosef and Maymūn sons of Yaʿaqov al-Ghallāq (? אלגלאק) are interested. The document in question was …
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, it seems. Fragmentary. Mentions wax; a butcher; a wakīl;
Ketubba, illuminated, from 1840/41 CE ([5]601), left half only. Signed by David b. Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm.
Literary. Small fragment.
Fragment of a ketubba, mentioning different quantities of dinars and mandīl ‘cloth’. (Information in part from CUDL)
Official letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids addressed to "the community." Headed by an "emet" with a long …
Document containing lines of poetry in the hand of the judge Natan b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE) (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2:235, 574) EMS
בכתב ידו של נתן בן שמואל החבר