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Printed treatise in Ladino and Hebrew. Commentary on Genesis.
No Scholarship Records
Caligraphic Hebrew script. Probably literary
Narrative account of commercial expenditures written in a mixture of Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. Recto lists an expenditure on Friday the 15th of Ṭevet (written in …
Letter from Abū Saʿīd al-Bazzāz, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Barakāt b. Yefet, at the shop of Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Mashshāṭī (better known as Ibn al-Amshāṭī), …
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Draft of a marriage contract (ketubba) under the authority of Avraham Maimonides, who is referred to as "Nagid" (therefore post-1213 CE). There are numerous other …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the voice of a woman. "I am crying and our tears [do not dry]." (מן אלשדה(?) ואלקטעה ובלגני אן . …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Amulet in purple and yellow ink. Very late. Ashkenazi hand.
Literary
Official correspondence or petition, in Arabic script. Probably Mamlūk era. Fragmentary to glean proper context but a preliminary reading is as follows: المرجو من الله …
Business letter from Yaʿqūb b. Salāma (aka Yaʿaqov b. Shelomo) to his brother Shemuel b. Shelomo. The phrase "the Maghribī scribe" also appears in the …
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Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Shela to Yaʿīsh al-Ḥaddād (the smith). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Possibly 11th century. The addressee is asked to pay the money he …
Hebrew piyyut.
Calendar in Hebrew, 3 folios with many details of holidays. No specific year appears but it may be possible to ascertain its occurrence because many …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning the sale of property. There is writing on both recto and …
Letter fragment (the end only) from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya, referring to a debt. Dating: ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, quite damaged. Hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Refers to a rescript from the government (tawqīʿ al-sulṭān, verso l. 3).
Poetry in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Vocalized.
Letter from Farajallāh to the judge al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Naṣrallāh. In Judaeo-Arabic with occasional Hebrew and with the address in Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably no …
Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355), bearing his motto and in the hand of his clerk. Regarding a certain …
Family letter in both Arabic and Hebrew (specifically for the יברך את הנערים blessing, cf. BL OR 5566C.13). Mainly the concluding blessings/greetings are preserved.
Divorce document in Arabic script. Wife: ʿAzīza the freedwoman (mawlāt) of ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAllān. Husband: Ismāʿīl b. [...] al-Iskandarānī. Dated: 20 Jumādā I …
Tax receipt(s)?
Accounts in Judeo-Arabic from a broader ledger attested within the nearby join: JRL SERIES C 92. Like its join, where an Ottoman Ağa, this fragment …
Letter-writing formulary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium, containing many letter samples. There are also two lines in Arabic script.
Recto, with the address on verso: Letter from Abū ʿAlī, apparently in Fustat, to (his father) Abū l-ʿIzz al-Sharābī, also in Fustat, specifically Sūq al-Kabīr. …
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Small fragment from a financial account. Probably 11th or 12th century.
Letter to Abu Yaʿaqov Yosef the Dyer, from Perahya b. Yosef informing him that he arrived in Alexandria and found Yosef’s wife and children to …
List of names, roughly alphabetized. It is unclear for what purpose (a community census?). Dating: 11th century. Names include: Wahbān b. Isḥāq ʿAkkāwī; Wahbān b. …
Recto (secondary use): Note of gratitude to a notable. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee's father the ḥaver graciously met with the sender and said, "Open your …
Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Detailing financial arrangements. Handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Verso: The beginnings of the lines of an official document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyut (same scribe as T-S NS 111.63 and others?). …
Official correspondence. Possibly alluding to a need for financial assistance in a district. The ends of 4 lines are preserved: هذه الناحية . . . …
Letter perhaps addressed to a Nagid. Poetical. Praising the Levites. Contains decorative elements at the end of the widely spaced lines. (Information from Goitein's index …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Location: Fustat. Concerns one sixth of the equipment (? ʿudda) of …
Account. Containing one word in Arabic and many lines of Coptic numerals.
Letter from Shelomo ben Halafta, in Jerusalem, to the Nagid Natan Sholal, in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: 1481/82 CE. - Mentioning events as far away …
Small booklet made of parchment containing the Birkat ha-Mazon with marginal decorations. The cover page states "belonging to the good youth Shemuʾel b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Rav …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Legal? Late?
Recto: Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Verso: Small piece of an Arabic document, mentioning Cairo (من كل بد فقال له …
Manuscript fragment of the calendrical work and chronicle ʿIbur Shanim: Tīqūn Issakhar by the sixteenth-century Moroccan Jewish scholar Issakhar Ben Susan. This book first appeared …
Possibly the bottom of a poetic Hebrew letter.
Pen trials. Mentions "ʿabd mawlānā". Hebrew alphabets written in the order of their numerical value order "abjad, hawwaz......"
Letter from Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fasi, from Busir to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. The writer deals with purchasing flax. He approves that he received …
עלקת הדה אלרקעה יאמולאי
אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאיך
מן אבו ציר סלך תשרי וקד תקדם <כתאבי<
למולאי אעלמה באן אלצרתין קד
וצלו וצחה אלעדה …
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Legal record (#30). Trousseau list. Groom: Bū l-Barakāt al-ʿAṭṭār. Bride: Sitt at-Dār bt. Yefet ha-Kohen b. Menashshe ha-Dayyan. See Goitein's notes for the items enumerated. …
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Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper half only). The addressee is greeted as ḥaḍrat mawlāya al-raʾīs al-jalīl. The sender reports that Abū l-Ḥusayn told …
Ketubba fragment with an elaborate floral border pattern. Dated [5]5[..] AM, thus 1739-1839 CE. Based on the dating the location is likely "[Cairo near] Fustat …
State document, fragment of a petition. Contains the "shadd" formula.
Mercantile letter. The sender is in Asyūṭ or near there and mentions goods which are in demand there. Mentions waiting for a caravan. Needs further …