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A letter from Avraham b. Levi to Shmuel b. Ishaq Luzki
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Business letter from Abū l-Surūr b. David to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Fragment. Mentions the late Abū Saʿīd and the Muslims who claimed they …
Literary
State document, Ottoman, dated Jumada I 1238 H. Ledger page connected to the Dīwān Anwāl al-Ḥarīr in Alexandria (most of the institutional title is in …
Legal fragment (top only) regarding Menashshe ha-Zaqen. May mention 'my brother, my partner.' No other details preserved.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Drawn up under the authority of the head of the yeshiva [Maṣliaḥ?] b. Shelomo. …
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Document in Arabic, possibly. Extremely damaged and faded. The word صراف might appear in the first legible line. Requires further examination.
Legal document, probably, in Arabic script. Fragmentary name at the bottom [....] b. ʿImrān and a date Dhū l-Qaʿda [x]26. The last line might read …
Letter from Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Ṭuviyyahu, probably in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), in Fustat. Recommending his nephew Avraham b. Moshe for charity. …
Letter from an older Maghribī traveler, in Alexandria, to his cousin, somewhere in the Maghrib. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. Evidently this letter was …
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Commercial accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the weight of something (al-wazn) and the name Aḥmad al-Fākihānī (he appears on both T-S AS …
Genealogies of the family of Elʿazar, the physician and judge (20 names) and of one other family (11 names). Information from Goitein's index card.
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Letter fragment from Ṭāhir b. Bū l-Ḥasan known as Ibn [...]. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the recipient to send greetings to somebody and a …
Legal formulary of Saadya Gaon (Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq). Information from FGP.
Literary. Commentary on Kings.
Letter from Yosef b. Shemarya, the dayyan of Barqa, in Alexandria, to “his brother” Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Mentioning his pilgrimage to Jerusalem from …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Underneath a short book list in Judaeo-Arabic: תפסיר תורה בראשית ואלה שמות [[ותרגם נביאים]] ותורה ופטרתה ושרח תורה
Part of a letter, mentioning Abū l-ʿIzz and the sum of 10 dirhams. A note, in a different hand and ink follows and refers to …
Shelomo b. Eliyyahu writes to a notable, "I was told that you have made a marriage contract (ṣadāq) for your daughter at a Muslim court. …
Verso: First-person note (letter?) in Judaeo-Arabic. Phrases: "... my departure from... the Sabbath 19 Sivan of the year... after the prayer... and the parsha was...." …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions being fined silver.
Notes on communal expenditures, with a summation of first five lines: 82.5 dirhams, besides the capitation tax. Also some names of notables: al-Samawʾal, al-Nafīs, probably …
Verso and margins of recto: Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
His slave Mubārak ibn Ibrāhīm ibn
Shemu’el
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the presence of my master, the m…
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Recto: Biblical verses in Hebrew language written in Arabic script (ṭov lehodot...), headed by a basmala, presumably for liturgical use. A Karaite version of the …
One side: Legal document in Arabic script. Probably a deed of sale. Mentions [...] b. ʿUmar b. Muḥsin b. ʿAlī and the phrase "ʿalā iqrār …
Legal document. The main document is faded beyond legibility. It is signed by Yosef ha-Kohen ha-Shofeṭ b. Shelomo; Saʿīd b. [...]; Avraham ha-Levi b. Sehmuel; …
Recto: part of a text on dentistry and oral hygiene, discussing dental caries, dentifrice powder (sanūnāt) prepared from gigantic swallowwort and burnt snails. Perhaps Ibn …
Fiscal or para-fiscal document (i.e., prepared by state officials or by the Jewish community for the government). List of indigent people equally divided between natives …
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A complete manuscript of the Bible, known as "Leningrad Codex", copied and punctuated and added with Masorah notes by the scribe Shemuel b. Yaaqov, a …
An 11th-century deed of sale for a portion of a house, in Arabic script. In between a [...] al-yahūdī al-ḥarīrī (the Jewish silk trader, who …
Colophon dated Sunday, 1 Sivan [1]417 Seleucid = 6 May 1106 CE. On verso Aharon [...] the cantor is mentioned (probably an ownership note). (Information …
Fragment from a legal deed written by Yosef b. Shmuel b. Saadya Halevi.
Legal testimony. Dating; 13th century. Involves Faḍā'il the cantor, R. Ye[ḥi]el, Bū Naṣr b. al-[...], and Makhlūf. There is a dispute over the kosher butchering …
Recto: Hebrew and Aramaic legal document. (Information from CUDL)
Jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic, reused for sums.
Two different fragments. First fragment: An abridgement of some of the dietary and lifestyle advice from Chapter 4 of the Hebrew plague treatise "Moshiaʿ Ḥosim" …
Engagement agreement. Fiancé: Ṭāhir b. ʿIwaḍ al-Jazzār. Fiancée: Mudallala bt. Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar. Dated: Wednesday night, 28 Sivan 1581 Seleucid, which is 1270 CE. The …
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Tiny and damaged fragment from a ketubah containing an immersion stipulation, so can be dated from 1176 onward. AA
Fragment of a letter addressed to Sayyid al-Kull, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Thin strip from the middle. Mentions a ḥaver, and perhaps a wedding on …
A letter in stylishly rhyming Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Abu Sahl and his three sons, Abu l-Mansur, Barakat, and the boy Abu l-Fadl. The writer is …
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Very faded Arabic document. On verso what looks like a drawing - needs examination.
Accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions the month of Dhū l-Qaʿda. Needs examination.
Book list. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Many or all of the items are attributed to Yosef Rosh Yeshivat Ge'on Yaʿaqov b. Yaʿaqov Rosh Bei Rabanan.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Fragment of an official document, probably. (Tax receipt?) Little is preserved beyond the date: 12 Ramaḍān 634 AH = 9 May 1237 CE.
Ketubba, nearly complete. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 10 Kislev 5583 AM = 24 November 1822 CE. Between Hayyim b. Shelomo Ḥazzāq and Esther b. Eliyyahu …