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Small fragment of a letter in Arabic. Stating that a basket arrived.
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Legal record (#99) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 33v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 24 Tishrei 5327 …
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Document of legal import for a woman who has appointed a wakil. Composed in letter form and addressed to the community in Jerusalem. Probably late …
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Few lines, probably from opening verses of a letter. AA
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Bifolio with various pen trials in Arabic and Hebrew script and a drawing of a floral design. Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era. On recto some of …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On recto there are at least six items, divided into subsections. Mentions 13 qintars of something; a ḥammāl …
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Small fragment with a few words in Arabic script.
Legal document. Small piece from the end of a legal document. Probably from a draft. On verso only the validation phrase, in a different hand. …
Fragment of text in Hebrew, possibly legal. There is a small table on the verso in Hebrew with western Arabic numerals. Requires further examination.
Late accounts, mentioning Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ and an Aghion.
Fragment of a Maghrebi mercantile letter of the 11th century. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on parchment. Mentions that ʿAyyāsh b. Danūn is in Sicily. Other people …
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Legal agreement between spouses on the issue of second wife, in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel Ha-Ḥaver (fl. 1128-1164 CE). Location: Fustat. The groom, …
Letter to Abū l-Ḥusayn b. Abū l-Khayr al-ʿAkkāwī, Fustat, from his uncle (khāl) Ṣadoq b. Namir he-Ḥaver, Tiberias. "The imprisonment (and torture) of defaulting debtors …
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Recto: Official letter/report, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of ~5 lines are preserved. Verso: piyyuṭ and phrases praising a dignitary. (Information in part from …
Short note in Judaeo-Arabic from Yaʿaqov Yuʿbaṣ (like AIU VII.F.68). Dated D[hū] l-Ḥijja 1240 AH (1825 CE).
Verso: Letter, probably. Dated 4890 from the creation and 1441 of the Seleucid Era (= 1130 CE); at the end of the letter important Jewish …
Fragment of a petition addressed to the Nagid (Avraham Maimonides). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1544 Seleucid, which is 1232/33 CE. The names of four senders appear …
Letter addressed to a certain ʿIzz al-Dīn. In Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni origin. Dating: uncertain, likely no earlier than 13th century. Dealing mainly with details of shipments …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Mentions Abū l-Fakhr and Sittunā(?).
Karaite bills of debt on a bifolium. Dated 1 Shevat 5498 AM (1738 CE). Both documents deal with a qāʿa residence on Darb al-Furn, a …
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Business letter in Hebrew mentioning maritime shipping with Ragusa (Dubrovnik). 16th-17th-century based on the paleography. Only the left border of the letter is preserved but …
Letter mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan and the currency dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Order in Arabic script. Abū l-Ḥasan is to pay or hand over two dinars, 1 qirat, and 2 ḥabbas of "ḥawāʾij."
Accounts or some sort of list in a very unskilled hand. Mentions several quantities of dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Three lists of contributors, the first for the lighting (in the synagogue) with wax candles. Mostly in Arabic script. See Goitein's note cards and Med …
Numbers 7:89, calligraphic, with a doodle.
Small fragment in Hebrew. Late. Containing legal phrases בפנינו אנו . . חתומי מטה יודעים ומעידים עדות . . .
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen to his father-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge. He asks for a letter to be forwarded to Bilbays to Yosef b. Makārim; instructing …
Literary, on sheḥiṭa.
Magical prayer for protection (from every evil, evil eye and impious persons) written (by an unskilled, possibly Hebrew rather than Coptic) hand in the Bohairic …
Ownership notes: Tiqva b. [...]; Yosef b. Tiqva; Tiqva b. Yefet b. Yosef (and a b. Yehuda has been added after this in a different …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary hand previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Commodities seem to be mainly food …
The poetic introduction of a "Yemenite Ketubba" dated Nisan 1368 (=1057 CE?), see BL OR 10653.8 for transcription.
List of communal collection and expenses. Looks like a 13th century hand.
Deposition. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: Monday, 18 Sivan 1486 Seleucid = 9 June 1175 CE. In which two persons testify to the poverty of a …
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Probably from a notebook with accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Account ledger filled with Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic entries. Several pages. Merits examination. Includes on one page an Arabic poem transcribed into Hebrew characters (the …
Ketubba, small fragment. The hand may be known. Looks 13th century.
Letter from Moses גליפאפה, in Venice, to his teacher Shemuʾel ben Sīd, in "Alexandria or Cairo." In Hebrew. Dating: Late 17th century (per CUDL) or …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, the first line mentions al-Shaykh Bu-al-Farj. Late medieval or early modern, 14th-16th-centuries.
Recto: Magical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: A page of magical letters encompassed by an ouroboros. (Information in part from Goitein's index card)
The end of a late letter, signed with elaborate sigla. Dating: ca. 16th century according to CUDL, however the date is given in gematria as …
Letter from the people of Jerusalem, probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, ca. 1030.
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Magical text. Written in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic.
Fragment of a decorated ketubba, possibly. Requires further examination.
On recto, an eloquent appeal by Avraham b. Yitrō, a learned merchant from Damascus who had lost all his riches. The letter includes a length …
Letter from the Babylonian community in Fustat to Hayya Gaon, acknowledging a letter he had previously sent to Avraham (Avraham b. Sahlan). The community refer …
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