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Small fragment from the top of a ketubba.
No Scholarship Records
Damaged fragment of a legal deed regarding the assessment of Hillel Hakohen's wife's ketubah or dowry the text is not complete. Written by Halfon b. …
Verso (primary use): fragment of a legal document, mentioning the holy city (Jerusalem). Location: Egypt (on the Nile, probably Fustat). Date not preserved.
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Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Probably mentions daftar towards the end of recto. Needs examination.
Literary? Late and very faded
Letter fragment (from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) with elaborate praise and good wishes for the recipient Abū l-Faraj and his children.
Legal deed concerning the sale of a house (or likely rent, since a specified period is mentioned). The parties are Shelomo ha-Kohen and Yaḥyā. (Information …
Record of release granted by Yefet b. ʿEli al-Tinnīsī to his wife Turfa bt. Ṭoviyya whom he releases from all obligations. Only a fragment of …
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Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Probably late. Mentions someone who is in danger of being imprisoned by the Gentiles.
Letter from a certain Esther to her son. In Hebrew. Dating: Likely 16th century. Regards to and from various people, including Doña Miryam. Mentions wine …
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Legal record (#39) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (ll. 1-16 on f. 14v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 9 …
A letter of appeal to the community of Constantinople asking to help an orphan young lady. Written by Aharon b. Shelomo.
Minute preprinted document issued in August (Aoút) 1894 CE.
Fol. 1r: Legal record. Dated: Monday, 18 Av 1490 Seleucid = 19 July 1098 CE. Recording that the silk dealer Yaʿaqub al-Rūmī b. Yosef deposited …
Arabic script and Coptic alphanumerals, possibly part of an account. Paper looks late Mamluk or early Ottoman period.
Letter in which the judge Avraham b. Natan Av apologizes for being unable to attend a circumcision ceremony in Fustat because he had been scheduled …
Beginning of a letter of Neḥemya ha-Kohen b. Kohen Ṣedeq, a self-proclaimed gaon of Pumbedita, written before August 960. The letter is a polemic against …
Note to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Concerning the items that have gone missing from a female orphan’s inheritance (or …
Legal record (#97) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 32v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 24 Sivan 5326 …
Letter from a man, probably in al-Maḥalla, to a friend or family member, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. He asks if a certain commodity sold …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Listing names and sums. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th century, may be much later. Currency: fulūs. Mentions names such as R. …
Fragment of a state document. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved. Mentions the year 418 AH = 1027/28 CE. Reused on verso for piyyuṭ.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Natan ha-Kohen ha-Mumḥe b. Mevorakh (a.k.a. Wahb b. Barakāt), in Ashqelon, to the parnas ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (a.k.a. Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. …
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IB I, 43a. Diwan of the poetry of Yiṣḥaq b Khalfūn (active around 1000). There is a poem addressed to Abū l-Faraj Yehoshuaʿ Ibn al-Qamūdī; …
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Verso: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic letter. Legible phrases: "... with Sayyidnā... other than with a full heart... the entire congregation...according to... their gratitude …
IB II, 58. Letter. Memorandum from Abu Zikri Kohen to Mahruz. Alexandria, ca. 1136-1149.
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Letter from Yedutun ha-Levi, likely to his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Little of the content remains apart from blessings and formulae. He reports that …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic, arranged by the months of the Islamic calendar.
Page from a Hebrew medical treatise.
Shopping list in Hebrew, the heading states "I want to go to the market and get." Late medieval or early modern, 15th-17th centuries. One of …
Small fragment from the end of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Legal document in Arabic script. Might be about a marital dispute. Large and relatively well-preserved. Needs examination. On verso there is piyyut.
Part of a preliminary draft of a chancery document addressed to a government official. ". . . bi-l-shadd minka fī istikhrāj al-māl ʿalā l-kamāl ʿalā …
المشارفات المشارفات ويقضيك
بالشد منك في استخراج المال على الكمال
على الكمال والتمام وقصر يد من يدوم الاحتما
عليك والمنع من احداث رسم …
Magical fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Accounts listing names and corresponding numerical figures. Dating: ca. 13th–15th century. The recto includes a reference to the Lekh Lekha parsha reading, perhaps as part …
Recto: small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions Salmān al-ʿAsalī and "in Alexandria." Greetings to various people including 'the father' (mawlāy al-shaykh al-ajall …
Accounts in four columns containing names and dates of debtors. (Information from Goitein's index cards).
___________
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___________________________…
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Vaguely reminiscent of a block-printed amulet.
Partnership agreement between Avraham Yaʿabeṣ/Yuʿbaṣ and Shimʿon ʿEzrī, duration 24 months. Location: Cairo (מצרים). Dated Elul 5563 AM which is 1803 CE. The partnership is …
Late text in Hebrew beginning "I further heard from the perfect sage [...] ...." May not be documentary.
Arabic script (VMR)
Two or three different documents stuck together. One of the larger pieces is a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 …
Letter or petition (هذا الاعراض) addressed to an Ottoman official, apparently with the rank of Kethüda (l. 1). In Arabic script. Dating: Probably 18th or …