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Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Iyar 5602 AM, which is 1842 CE. This is a partnership agreement for a sarraflık business for …
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IB V, 18. Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen, in Alexandria, to the well-known merchant Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Fragment of a poetic Hebrew letter. AA
No Scholarship Records
Letter in Arabic script. Small fragment. Written on parchment. Mentions "40 dirhams... every dinar... he said, 'I cannot be patient....'" On verso mentions someone called …
Probably a letter asking for assistance. The writer arrived from a land far away (גית מן בלאד אן בעיד) and he is lonely (אשב בדד). …
Small fragment of a letter to a Nasi. Mentions Arabic documents. (Information in part from CUDL)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fol. 1: Letter fragment, possibly. Mentions 3 dirhams. Accounts on verso. Needs examination.
Verso, with the address on recto: Top of a letter in Arabic script. Mercantile? Dated: 439 AH = 1047/48 CE. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic accounts (see …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mostly dealing with commercial activities of Ḥayyīm and Moshe Bibas. Dated halfway down the recto as Shaʿbān 1193 AH which is 1779 …
Excerpts from the Gospels, or possibly Toldot Yeshu (though the depiction of Jesus seems too positive and faithful to the New Testament accounts for this …
Legal query in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (found by Amir Ashur), with the responsum at the bottom signed by Shelomo b. Natan.
Karaite betrothal deed from Cairo. Dated 15 Sivan 5519 AM (1759). The betrothal involves the groom Yosef b. Gedalya b. Aharon aka Ṣaʿīr and the …
Letter from a mother to her daughter الست الجليلة بيننا ادام الله نعمتها, containing a taqbīl clause and mentioning their long-distance relationship. Written on parchment, …
من عندك(!)
والدتك
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
تقبل الارض بين يدي الست الجليلة بيننا ادام
الل…
Letter from Ṭahor b. Avraham to Ḥananel b. Shemuel the judge (and father-in-law of Avraham Maimonides). In Judaeo-Arabic. See his other letters T-S 8J26.8 and …
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List of many important people (e.g. a lineage of the heads of Yeshivat Gaon Yaʿaqov) with family trees. "This is the ʿitra of al-Rayyis Abū …
Document in Arabic on recto, possibly. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Poetry, most likely, in Arabic script. Hebrew script on recto and verso.
An amulet for Ṣadoq b. Hodaya, with the name Atniq Jalīl (אתניק גליל). Possibly also refers to Mevorakh and Abū ʿAlī as the person's enemies. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand (e.g. using the alef-lamed ligature to represent just alef). Discussing the purchase of skins (julūd). Mentions Abū Naṣr. Needs further …
Legal document, possibly, with two signatures at the bottom. The one on the right belongs to [illegible] Muḥammad b. ʿAmmār. The one on the left …
IB I, 37. Legal record (#9). Deposition in court. Bū Naṣr al-Kohen Ibn Mukhtār, Yūsuf al-ʿAṭṭār ('the perfumer in the alley of the candles'), Abū …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Small fragment. Mentions Saʿīd; Qudsī; Yahūdī; "Fulayfil"; and gold. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century.
Legal note in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Dated: Sunday, 7 Tishrei 1532 Seleucid = 6 September 1220 CE. (The scribe wrote …
Literary text, in Hebrew
P18: Unidentified fragment with several lines of Hebrew script on it. Maybe a letter, or maybe literary. Needs examination.
Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company, in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 3 Kislev 5569 AM, which is 22 November …
Some sort of receipt or legal documentation in Arabic. Dating: 1248 AH = 1832/33 CE. Mentions a building and various sums of money and bears …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: First decade of Ḥeshvan 1493 Seleucid, which is 1181 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. In …
Accounts of a ritual slaughterer (shoḥeṭ). The notes of a shoḥeṭ listing the sums paid by each butcher, their names, and the numbers of cattle. …
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Letter of condolence on the death of a woman. From an unidentified sender, probably in Qūṣ, to Abū l-Karam and his son Abū Isḥāq b. …
Accounts in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. Medieval-era. A variety of quantities are listed with the unit of weight raṭl. Requires further examination.
List of the Pesiqa, upper part of three pages containing the names of contributors, headed by Abu al-Mufaddal, who pledges 1/8 dinar. The others give …
5 pages of a late Hebrew literary composition that seems mostly about biblical subjects. For example, "Why was the name of Avraham changed as well …
List related to the communal "chest / ארגז" of the Maghrebi community (here written as "מערבים" in the heading). The list's structure and paleography help …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic, likely fiscal. Mentions fūl (fava beans) and jullabān (vetch) and shaʿīr (barley).
Medical prescription in Arabic script.
Address of a letter sent to Fustat to Eliyyahu the judge (beginning of 13th century). (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, with an elaborate introduction and quotations such as Isaiah 40:31 and Psalms 103:17. Dating: Likely 13th century. Handwriting of Berakhot …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document, likely a draft. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan 1548 Seleucid = October 1236 CE. (Also possible is …
Letter from Hillel b. Yeshuʿa ha-Ḥazzan, in Tiberias, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: End of 1034 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, …
ושלומו ואליו
Literary. Small fragment.
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Ḥayyim Bialobos among others.
Business letter in Arabic script. Somewhat crude hand. The sender urges the addressee to purchase 1/2 dinar's worth of Aleppan textiles and 1/4 dinar's worth …
Subsequent use: Draft of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, intended to be sent to Tunisia. Mentions payments for responsa; a complaint about the handling of …
Letter in Arabic, medieval-era. Seems to be dealing with various family and business affairs. Excerpts: وتخرج انت وزوجتك من . . . في يدك . …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Rayyis Abū l-Riḍā; the word pig (khinzir); and greetings. (Information in part from CUDL.)