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Capitation tax receipt for Ṣadaqa b. Bū l-Ḥasan(?) the Jew. Contains registration marks.
Fragment on vellum listing communal officials and needy families in receipt of loaves of bread; ca. early twelfth century. (S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, …
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Much damaged and faded letter by Yefet b. Menashshe, Halfon's brother.
Part of an official/communal letter. Opens with blessings in Hebrew, then changes to Judaeo-Arabic for the body. Moderately wide spaces between the lines. It begins …
Note in Judaeo-Arabic. Calligraphic. The sender excuses himself for cutting himself off from the addressee by offering a cryptic excuse (כאן אלשיך חנבאץ? ענדה פי …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems to be mainly construction expenses.
Legal document. In the hand of Shemeul b. Seʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1480 Seleucid, which is April/May 1169 CE, under the authority of …
Letter/petition to a certain David ha-Sar in which the writer asks him to intercede on his behalf with al-Sadīd. Dating: late 12th or early 13th …
Accounts in the hand of a prolific scribe (previously misidentified as ʿArūs). Mentions Abū Isḥaq b. Nuṣayr and Avraham.
Secondary use: Bifolio of private accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, for general expenditures, monthly payments to a wife, for a house and qāʿa, and for sales. (Information …
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Four lines in a mysterious script, perhaps a shorthand or numerical notation. On parchment. Contains a floral motif, perhaps for embroidery. Needs examination.
Very damaged fragment, probably contains letter
Letter of appeal for charity from Yeḥezqel b. Ibrāhīm (the writer) and the former judge Moshe b. Shemarya to Abū ʿImran Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, …
Draft of legal document; the merchant Nahrir b. Mawhub appears before the rabbinical court of Fustat on 23 Ḥeshvan (Shawwāl) 521 AH = October/November 1127 …
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Ottoman-era accounts.
Letter from Naḥum b. Manṣūr, in Malīj, to the parnas Abū Kathīr, in Fustat. The scribe is the cantor Ibn al-Jāzfīnī, who adds messages of …
In Your name, Oh Merciful,
Peace and peace again from the Lord of Peace and from Him who makes in heaven peace. The Creator of All knows
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Recto: Letter in Arabic script. This is a long, dense, and well-preserved family/mercantile letter. Mentions grains and produce in large quantities: 400 irdab wheat, and …
Religious topics – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 98) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Letter addressed to Abū Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf al-Fāsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. The writer's name may be preserved as well, but the conservators have …
Letter from Kanz al-Dawla to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. Introduces the bearer, "the qāʾid Ḥasan, son of the qāʾid Shujāʿ al-Dawla (Courage of …
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Hebrew-Ladino glossary.
Legal record. Dated Friday, 3 Av or July 4, 1231. Scribal notes for a draft of a partnership contract. The notes state that Abū Sa‘d …
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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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One side: lower left corner of a deed of sale in Arabic script. Dated: Ramaḍān [...]. The other side: upper left corner of a letter …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) for Maḥāsin b. Saʿīd b. Hilāl al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār, first five …
End of a document recording a sale, in which an unnamed male is released from obligations concerning some goods he offered his uncle for sale …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. The sender complains that people are “opposing me by submitting responsa to the head of the …
Note in Polish dated 27 August 1841. The words "Starozakonny" (Orthodox) and "Karaim" appear in the first line. Signed by Zelaw[..]. ASE.
Testimony, in Arabic script, on parchment, written in paragraphs of two lines which is a common feature of some marriage documents. Begins هذا ما شهد …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (left side only). Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. Bride: Malika/Milka (מלכה). Groom: ʿAllūn b. Ṣeda[qa]. The dowry includes a house …
Court notebook in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fol. 2r, bottom text block: Outline of an employment agreement. Dated: Tuesday, 17 Tammuz 1438 …
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Ff. 1v-2r: calendrical work on the 259th lunar cycle (= 1142–61 CE) written for the cantor ʿOvadya b. Aharon he-ḥaver. The work is in Hebrew …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th or 19th century. The sender's surname is Karo but their first name is unclear, perhaps Aṣl__? (Aṣlān?, from Turkish).
Ketubba fragment (left side only). Dated: [13]77 Seleucid, which is 1065/66 CE. Groom: Yaʿaqov. Marriage payments: 5 + 10 = 15. No dowry. (Information from …
Index of biblical quotations starting with ve-Lo.
Poetical letter of greetings in Aramaic addressed to Rabbi Shemuel and mentioning the 'Nasi and Gaon of Tiberias.' On verso a poem is written in …
Accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Containing names of people and their whereabouts and status(?). Dating: 18th or 19th century.
Extensive accounts in Ladino with at least one full date on ENA 3306.8r in the upper left corner: ״27 תשרי [הת]קסח״ which is 27 Tishrei …
On recto there is the beginning of Fuṣūl Ibuqrāṭ (Hippocrates) in Arabic script. It is not clear whether verso is part of the same text, …
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Signed by Eliyyahu b. Zekharya and Yaʿaqov b. ʿAmram. Dating: Avraham Maimonides is called Nagid, so 1213–37 CE. Quite faded. Quittance …
Lower part of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated 5 Jumādā I 556 AH = 2 May 1161 CE. Mentions Aḥmad the agent (al-wakīl); …
State-issued receipt related to silk processing in Alexandria. In Arabic script. Dated: 12 Jumād[a] 1236 AH (1821 CE). (MCD with information from JRL catalogue.) Needs …
Legal agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: 4754 AM, which is 993/94 CE. Two cantors, Naḥum b. Yosef al-Baradānī and Palṭiel b. Efrayim, divide up liturgical and …
Verso: Two damaged lines of text in Arabic, perhaps documentary. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter from Rawḥ Ha-Kohen he-ḥazzan (the cantor) al-Baghdādī b. Pinḥas, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: end of 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 …
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Legal document, probably. Small fragment. Listing various items. Marriage-related?