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Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Only formulaic text is preserved on recto, and only partial words from the address on verso (apart …
No Scholarship Records
Verso: Jottings in Judaeo-Arabic about people fighting and/or playing. "Abū l-Munā and Barakāt were quarreling. . . Abū l-Faraj the dyer of red was playing …
Small fragment of a personal letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions ‘one of my (deceased) brothers’ and gives an excuse for why the sender didn't write earlier. …
Accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Late.
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Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions transactions in different kinds of silk (maftūl, laʿāliʿ). Mentions a debt of …
Copy (?) of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts, with unusual spelling, mentioning different sums in dinars and dirhams, measures, such as raṭl and the name Ibn Surūr. (Information from CUDL)
Family letter. In Arabic script. Likely from a woman. The sender and "the girl" (al-ṣaghīra) have arrived safely in the Fayyūm (l. 5). They are …
Probably a literary fragment describing legal procedure. Mentions the high court (Bet Din ha-Gadol).
Halkhic discussion regarding sending-away the nest . Image not available.
Deathbed will of Khalaf b. Yeshu'a, the envoy of the lepers in Tiberias (and a leper himself), Elul 1345/August 1034.
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Business letter to a certain Abū l-Munā. In Arabic script with one word in Judaeo-Arabic.
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Bifolium of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, including for the years 1760–62 CE (1174–75 Hijri).
Legal document. Fragment (bottom only). Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dating: Uncertain, but it has to be a year in which 2 Elul …
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Fragment of a document in Arabic, medieval-era. The paper was recycled for a copy of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. Requires further examination.
Bill of exchange pledged for the rental of river floodland in which the amount paid is to the Jewish owner of the land – 18 …
Fragment of an account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Ḥakīm. Probably 11th century. The hand is known from other similar fragments (e.g. ENA 3731.8 (PGPID 40518)).
Late commercial list
Commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. 16th-century, pre-1573 CE based on mention of the Radba''z (d. 1573). The accounts mention domestic and international currency: Spanish qorona, Ottoman …
List of seliḥot.
Letter from Avraham b. Ṣedaqa, in Ashqelon, to Abū Saʿīd Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa al-ʿAṭṭār, in Fustat. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic …
Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Refers to the qāḍī Zayn al-Dīn; a plan to go out on Tuesday the 3rd of Ṣafar; that the …
Small fragment, probably of accounts or a list. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer, Yiftaḥ, 7.5 dirhams to cover a …
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Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise with headers in red ink and certain terms translated into Latin (?).
Verso: order of payment to give the bearer items such as mastic, maḥlab and coriander, with accounts (mentioning mercury) underneath. Needs further examination.
Commercial accounts with names, monetary figures, and calculations on the recto and verso. Most of the entries appear to be crossed out. Dating: 11th or …
Accounts in Arabic script. Late.
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: March 1062 CE. Among other matters, Yisrael reports that he is in bad …
Accounts, mentioning divisions of cash. "Nuqra" and "mufarraq" seem to be the two categories. Coptic numerals. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal query in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel with the responsum of Menahem b. Yiṣḥaq. The question deals with a woman who had permitted …
Verso: Legal document, on the back of the ketubba. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Last third of Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid, which is …
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Minute Bible fragment, with part of Genesis 1:28 visible on the recto and Genesis 2:10 on the verso.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a Maghribī business letter of the 11th century. From Yaʿaqov b. [...]. Mentions Abū Saʿīd and Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf. Very damaged.
Informal note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Abū l-Ḥasan asking him for the favor of speaking to Abū Saʿd, "because he תגייר (converted?) and will enter …
Legal fragment. No names preserved. Refers to collecting rent.
List of several dozen donors to the public appeal (pesiqa) for the kharāj (here probably meaning capitation tax). Last line contains a reference to Abū …
Outstanding Pledges for the Poll Tax [of the Poor]—Paid.
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Recto (probably secondary use): Prognostications or advice in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from the cantor Yedutun ha-Levi, Fustat, to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub. Narrow strips were torn from both the left and right …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Relatively large and complete, but faded, and there is no address on verso. The sender has sent 8 dinars and 15 …
Letter mentioning sums of money, the qāḍī, the qayyim, and Sulayman the khādim. Dating: After 1425 CE, as the ashrafī currency is used. The handwriting …
Recto: Fragment from the top of a letter or draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions silver and sending something (עלי אלפצה אלדי לל . . . שי …
Polemic against the house of the exilarch. Dating: 1040–41 CE. After a disagreement between Kafnai, Bustanay's father, and his father in law, the head of …
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Recto: fragment from a Judaeo-Arabic letter, mentioning previous shipments and lamps. In the hand of Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211). Refers to something 'standing in …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Note from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100–38 CE) to 'my master the diadem (al-Nezer).' He needs to write a validation for a legal document and …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Table of names with numbers underneath. Names include Nāṣir, Abū l-Riḍā, Ibrāhīm, "a Jew" (yahūdī), ʿAlam(?), Hiba, …
Recto: One of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu's many small notes in which he orders small quantities of materia medica to be given to the bearer. In …
Literary fragment.