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Letter addressed to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Salāma b. Hilāl al-Ḥalabī. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Fragmentary (upper left corner of recto). The sender …
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Verso: Maimonides’ reply is gracious but firm: he is exhausted, frail, and ill, and has no time or energy to meet with the writer. He …
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Damaged list, probably contribution to the poor. Late.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic possibly related to funerary burials. Probably from the same ledger as ENA NS 35.22 (PGPID 12611). Dating: 16th-century based on the paleography …
Letter fragment, or maybe drafts/formularies. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Almost the entirety of what is preserved consists of flattery and blessings.
Fragment from a responsum dealing with matters of betrothal. The fragment was written by the same scribe who wrote AIU D 75 which is a …
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Provides minimal information on the calendar. Perhaps intended as a aid for those who were already knowledgable about calendar calculations. Includes the Palestinian calendar rule …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
List of piyyutim, probably.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, very faded. The writer sends regards to his father and paternal uncle.
Upper right corner of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In the name of Rafīq(?) b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad. Reused for accounts.
Bill of divorce. Small fragment. Wife: Ghāliya bt. Yaḥyā.
Psalms in Hebrew written in Arabic script. The beginning of the text on the verso is to be found at the end of the leaf …
Literary text in Arabic.
Letter in both Ladino and Spanish. Dating: possibly 15th or 16th century. The addressee is likely Señor Don Elyaqim, though there is also another name …
Formulas for letters
Small fragment, probably from a ketubah. Only small part from the dowry list preserved. AA
Capitation tax receipt for the Jewish man Sālim b. Bū l-Faḍl for the year 621(?) AH. Landscape format. Needs further examination.
Small fragment possibly from an official letter/report. Mentions "waṣala al-nāṣiḥ/al-nāḍij(?) Masʿūd(?)...."
Betrothal register (53b according to Friedman) between Manṣur b. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq b. Saʿīd b. Pinḥas to Zahara bt. Yaʿaqov haKohen the scribe. One of …
Accounts in Arabic on recto, medieval-era. The scribe made use of Coptic numerals. The neighboring shelfmark ENA 3256.16v was reused for the same vocalized piyyut …
Legal deed. Iqrār mentioning Aḥmad b. ʻAbdallāh, dated 500 H. (?) [1106]. Verso is blank. Needs examination.
Fragment of a dirge, possibly for a relation of a Gaʾon (ינחם לב גאון...)
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Rajab 1244 AH, which is January 1829 CE. In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: …
ghurūsh
[ghurūsh in ṣiyāqāt script]
15,000 .3
Only fifteen thousand ghurūsh, nothing else.
The reason for its [the document’s] compos…
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Leaf from a Judaeo-Arabic manual for pharaonic treasure hunters, this section focusing on the area around Dahshur. Contains topographical descriptions paired with magical acts & …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged and faded. Dating: Likely late 12th or 13th century, based on layout and handwriting. Only scattered words and phrases …
Cryptic document in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly a letter or fragments of two letters. Discusses liturgy and the reading of the Torah. Mentions asking R. Seʿadya b. …
Enigmatic fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic describing what happened to the writer in front of the addressee's house; how people were appealing for help …
Small receipt or order. Needs examination. Mentions X al-Dallāl.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals. Medieval-era. The paper was recycled for pen trials on the recto.
Fragment of a memorial list. Mentions Elʿazar b. [...]; a woman [...] bt. Moshe; [...] b. Yīṣḥaq.
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Minute fragment from an opening of a legal deed. AA
Letter from Benaya b. Mūsā, from Tinnis, to Nissim b. Ḥalfon, Fustat. Around 1060. Regarding a shipment of scarlet for the Byzantines that was sold …
באסם אל[לה]
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה
וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן תניס ען סלאמה תתם בבקאך ואלחמד ללה רב אל
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Fragment of a letter from Ismāʿīl b. Yūsuf b. Benaya. Sent to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Dating: No later than …
Letter from Moshe b. Abidirham. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. Concerning philanthropic activities for the benefit of the rabbis of Egypt. …
List of names, including al-Ḥakīm Hārūn, Ṣadaqa Ibn [...], ʿAfīf (or ʿUfayf) Ibn [...]. Probably late.
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 …
Recto: Beginning of a letter or sermon in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a group of people: "yā aṣḥābnā!" Exhorting them that (false?) accusations are bad and …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic, with some Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Mentions a kerchief; the owner of the veil (miqnaʿa), an old woman and a robe; …
Small fragment with Hebrew script. Mentions Shabbat and Sunday.
Verso: Syriac translation of Romans 16:25–26 and 1 Corinthians 13:12–13. The text is written in a distinctive western Syriac hand with most letters of the …
Responsum on the type of vellum used for writing tefilin. Glick attributing the hand erroneously to Yosef b. Ya'aqov Rosh Haseder, but it is clearly …
List of donations received arranged according to parshiyot and possibly some commercial accounts (given the mention of shops). Dating: late 18th- or early 19th-century based …
Order of payment, in late Arabic script with a seal. ʿĀzar (=Ezra) al-Yahūdī al-Ṣayrafī is to pay the bearer (Nāṣif) 20 and half silvers. Contains …
Late accounts with Hebrew numerals. Mentions names such as Sirāj al-Dīn (שראג אלדין); ʿUbayd b. Abū ʿUbayd; Masʿūd; ʿAbd al-Qādir. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin vertical strip). Dating: probably 11th century. Quotes Proverbs 6:19 (משלח מדנים...). Mentions Nahray, ʿEli he-Ḥaver, a qāḍī, the Qaraites (contrasted …
On one of the four pages: two lists of materia medica in Arabic, each headed by a basmala, perhaps medical prescriptions. Ingredients include sarcocolla (anzarūt) …