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Letter from a certain Abū l-Faraj to someone titled Sayyidnā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era (i.e., after ca. 1250) based on paleographic features, position of …
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Legal document mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥalf[on], [...] b. Ḥabīb the elder, Nissim, and someone's death. (Information from CUDL.) Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with eastern Arabic numerals. The dating is likely 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography and mention of the Ottoman kurush. There …
Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era.
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. The date (including the year) appears at the top of each page, but is difficult to …
Legal document. Written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle decade of Iyyar 1484 Seleucid, which is 1173 CE, under the authority …
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Narrow vertical strip of parchment containing a list of materia medica with quantities. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Letter from Yiṣḥaq Nīsābūrī, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, presumably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1045–96. Yiṣḥaq arrived in Alexandria on Tuesday 6 Tevet and …
Letter from Abū l-Surūr b. Ṭarīf to Abū Naṣr b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Informing him that Abū l-Najm Hillel had sent him five jars containing …
Bottom part of a legal deed, signed by Yehuda b. Efrayim, containing fragment from the approval- qiyyum
On recto there are three brief legal records: (I) The first concerns the selling of jewels owed to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Fakhr. Dated: Shevaṭ …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Minute fragment.
Small fragment, badly damaged with no legible text. There may be remnants of text in Hebrew script on the verso, but the ink is quite …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Literary work (the writer calls it a "dīwān") that preserves copies of two letters. The first: A letter from a Qaraite authority to David b. …
Letter in Hebrew. Addressed to "my brother." Dating: Probably 15th–17th century. Discussing business matters. Needs further examination.
Account in Arabic script. State/fiscal?
Court ledger. Document regarding claims made at court. Persons named as concerned (line 1) are Ibn Hadida and Abū ʿAlāʾ al-Halabi and in the body …
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Three unsigned court depositions. Location: Damascus. Dating: July 1094 CE and March 1095 CE. They have to do with properties owned by the Zawbaʿa ("Tempest") …
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Legal record (#113) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 37r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 20 Iyyar 5326 …
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Letter in Ladino to Efrayim ʿAdda (עדה) from David Mir. Dated: 1 Ṭevet [5]563 (5563 of the Era of Creation = 1802 CE). The letter …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Khalaf b. Ghālib the Jew, a druggist (ʿaṭṭār) and something else (jabbān? jazzār?) in Fustat for the year 504 …
Fragment of a legal query mentioning a woman and a daughter, the father having been absent 16 years.
A letter from Avraham Levi to Yosef b. Moshe Luzki
Fragment from the top of a ketubba in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Preserving part of the header with blessings for …
Fragment of a letter referring to real estate transactions, referring to specific landmarks and houses including the house of a Christian. In the margin there …
End of a dirge for a woman who had died a month earlier. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Fragment of correspondence in Arabic script, chancery hand, possibly an official report. The ends of four lines are preserved. Reused between the lines and on …
Legal document mentioning the late [Abū] Manṣūr, someones late father Thanāʾ, Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Naqlī b. Abū l-Faḍl known as Ibn al-Rabbāṭ. (Information from CUDL.) See …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Order of payment in dirhams. The addressee (al-shaykh) is to pay the bearer 53 wariq dirhams and 50(?) nuqra dirhams. Verso contains Arabic jottings including …
Fragment from a letter, mentioning a certain Yosef and Fusṭāṭ. Also mentions "finding khalwa," which could refer either to a mystical retreat or a beehive. …
Late Judaeo-Arabic dowry list, probably, since it is headed "be-siman tov ve-ʿosher ve-banim be-mazal ẓomeaḥ ve-ʿoleh." There follows a list of numerous items, mostly garments, …
Informal note addressed to "Rabbenu" asking him to pay Abū l-Faḍl the maintenance payments (mezonot) for the Shabbat of parshat Toldot.
Receipt.
Small fragment of a draft of a legal deed concerning the sale of a female slave. The space for her name has been left blank. …
ENA 4011.29: Record of payments of the qodesh in Cairo, ca. December 1181. The collector of the qodesh in Cairo, Kohen Abu al-Munajja, surnamed al-Zariz, …
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Karaite betrothal document. Date: 17 Tammuz 5519 AM (1759 CE). Location: Cairo. The previously married bride is Hana bt. Yeshūʿa b. Yosef and the groom …
Fiscal document, few lines of text, something to do with the release of funds. Probably dating to the Ayyubid period. Reused for Hebrew script. Needs …
Recto: "The remainder of an epistle to an important dignitary. The first four lines preserved are in verse but the metre is very faulty. . …
Two fragments of the same legal document, dated 1532/1220-1221. The physician Abū l-Maḥāsin Yefet b. Yoshiyya and the sugar merchant Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū l-Maʿānī …
Letter, two fragments of a single letter, in Arabic script.
Note from Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen Ibn Furāt. Dating: ca. 1054. Gil suggests that the letter was written when both Daniʾel …
List of names and money received, accounts for the state silk monopoly in Alexandria (which is confirmed by the term "Khazīna" in the fourth scan …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is distressed: "If the girl is alive, I wish you to send me the letters, and if she has died, …
Accounts in Arabic script, late.
Unidentified Arabic text, may be documentary.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Draft, with many corrections. Concerning someone's will. Mentions Abū l-Wafā "my sister's son."
Possibly an Arabic letter. Recto is quite damaged. Verso may contain the address: Mentions al-Shaykh al-Ajall Abū ʿAlī b. [...] and al-Shaykh Abū l-Khayr Dayyān. …
Late list of payment