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Accounts of sales to individuals on various dates in the month of Ramadan 1241 AH which is 1826 CE. The accounts were recorded on a …
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Bifolium from a rabbinic literary work in Judaeo-Arabic.
Printed treatise in Ladino and Hebrew. Commentary on Genesis (parashat Noah).
A scorpion amulet based on the word אבליגמה. Includes the line "I have bound you with these names" אסרתיך באלו השמות
Ketubba. Dating: Drawn up under the authority of the Nagid Yiṣḥaq Sholal (d. 1524). Groom: Yaʿaqov b. Yosef b. Yaʿqov. Bride: Raḥma/Ruḥama bt. Yosef, a …
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Bifolium from a literary work.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan and various sums of money and exchange rates. On verso accounts in Arabic script, also mentioning an …
Aphorisms attributed to al-Shāfiʿī and others.
Petition or legal document from a Jew on behalf of the Jewish community to the government. The petitioner's name appears in the lower right margin. …
يقبلون الارض
الايام متع لله بوجوده (الايام؟)
ويهود وبينهم وبين جماعة دعاوي شرعية و
لهم خلاص الا باللباب (=بالباب) العالي وسمو الهم من الصـ[د…
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Verso: In a script different from recto, a page from a magical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic, with a colophon, dated: last decade of Iyyar 4906 AM …
Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century. In which someone acknowledges a debt of 100 dinars to another person. The. names …
Booklet of four pages, listing contributions in dinars or fractions of a dinar. About seventy-two numbers preserved. The list is headed by the Nagid, who …
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Recto: Commercial document in Arabic, cut up and reused for communal register. Dated 14 Shawwal 1193 AH (October 1779 CE). Requires further examination.
Accounts, in Arabic script. Dated to the 8th/14th century.
State document, in Arabic script. Maybe a decree issued in response to a petition. Wide space between the lines. Mentions a masjid in al-aʿmāl al-gharbiyya …
Letter fragment. Only a small part of the first few lines of recto are preserved—addressing Sayyidnā al-Rayyis al-Ajall Ra's al-Kull (Rosh Kallah)—along with 4 full …
Recto: Fatimid state document, in a chancery hand. Difficult to establish the genre because the text is written in a highly prosaic register. Maybe a …
IB I, 30. In this incompletely preserved contract written by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), Yosef Lebdi provided merchandise worth 460 dinars with which …
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Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Names: [...] b. Natan and …
Letter to Shemuʾel al-Jibālī from his cousin. Dating: ca. 15th or 16th century. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: a mainly grammatical commentary on Ruth 3:15–4:8. In the following colophon, the text is referred to as Alfāẓ Megillat Rut and the scribe’s name …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr: Muḥammad [......]. Part of the date is visible Dhū l-Ḥijja xx4. Needs examination.
Document heading with three lines of Arabic in a striking thuluth calligraphic script. With multiple instances of ḥamdala and then a basmala/ḥamdala followed by a …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script, likely mercantile.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal fragment written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Deed of sale with provisions about the right to buy back a house …
Bifolio of commercial accounts. Mainly in Arabic script with a sideways jotting in Judaeo-Arabic, potentially in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. The Arabic text …
List in Arabic script written in a formal style. One line has the name Bū l-Maʿālī, and the rest are months (al-Muḥarram, Ṣafar, Rabīʿ I, …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā and silk. (Information in part from CUDL)
From a ledger of donations arranged by the parshiyot of the year 1803/1804 (5564); most of the ledger ended up in Paris, but this fragment …
Request for help sent by Ya'ish b. Sahl of Nahrawan the cantor to Avraham ha-Kohen b. Haggai Hasid, mentioning the addressee's son (Abu 'Ali Ḥasan), …
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Bottom of a private letter in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Ledger of accounts and letter drafts/copies. Perhaps some writing exercises, too. In Judaeo-Arabic with at least one Spanish word thrown in (אלסלאם עלה גמיע אלפאמילייה). …
Fiscal document. Needs examination.
Letter addressed to a dignitary with a long introduction in Hebrew and the body in Judaeo-Arabic (what remains of this is in the margin). Hand …
Part of a ketubba with no details preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Bū l-Majd b. Thābit (=Meir b. Yakhin) to Bū l-Manṣūr al-Mutaṭabbib Ibn al-Kharazī. This fragment contains only the address (in both Judaeo-Arabic and …
Probably a partnership agreement, less likely a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Mentions the names Shaʾul Ibn al-Najera and his son Yosef b. Shaʾul, …
Recto: Letter in the hand of Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli. In Judaeo-Arabic. Presumably addressed to Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, Ṭoviyya's main correspondent and the person who …
Possibly a communal letter or legal query in rhymed Hebrew. Needs examination.
Letter from the influential Karaite scholar R. Simḥah Yiṣḥaq Luzki (b.1716-d.1760/1766 CE) to the Karaite community of Cairo or perhaps the Karaite Jews of Egypt …
Communal enactment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1516 Seleucid = March/April 1205 CE. Supporting the authority …
Letter to Abī Sālim (?) b. Efrayim and Yaḥyā b. Efrayim, replying to previous correspondence, explaining the writer’s bad situation and asking for support. In …
Fragment of a Maghribī business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th-century. The handwriting looks like that of Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tahartī. Mentions obtaining 'ḥashīsha' from the …
Fiscal account, fragment from a bifolio. Items include names (Yūsuf [...], Faḍāʾil [...]) and quantities of dinars expressed in words.