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One side: Names in Judaeo-Arabic, including Isḥāq b. Bahā b. Bahā the uncle (ʿamm) of Manṣūr. The other side: Accounts in Arabic script, naming Rashīd …
No Scholarship Records
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic.
Very faded, can be determined. AA
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic from Musa to his brother Meir ha-Sar ha-Adir ha-Dayyan ha-Mufla. Only the upper part of recto and the address are preserved …
Poem in Hebrew in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. May address the city of Tyre and its sages.
Letter, possibly a draft. In Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part only). The sender may be a merchant writing from Qūṣ (l. 3) or describing his …
Draft of a court record. Location: Fustat. Mentions Mordekhai Ḥefeṣ, who was a ḥaver in the Bet Din of the Nagid in Egypt at the …
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Religious prayers and pardons – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 237) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …
Legal documents in Arabic script. Verso is dated: 705 H. There is an elaborate signature at the foot of recto. Needs examination.
Literary. Small fragment.
Recto: Upper part of a letter from Shelomo (b. Eliyyahu?) to "my honored father." In Hebrew (which is unusual for him). He reports that he …
Fiscal document concerning wheat. Dated: middle of Muḥarram 564(?) AH. Reused for piyyut on verso. Needs examination.
Letter, probably. Looks like a draft of a letter of appeal in Hebrew, with only formulaic phrases. In the margins and all over verso, there …
Unidentified document in Arabic script (accounts?). Used as structural support (part of the binding of the book?) for a bifolio containing piyyut.
Karaite betrothal deed, torn horizontally with the final few lines missing. Location: Cairo. Dated Tuesday, 11 Tammuz 5525 AM (1765 CE), The groom is Yosef …
Brief account in Arabic script, possibly concerning amounts owed by Maḥfūẓ. Lists sums in Greek/Coptic numerals and includes the phrase "through the end of Shaʿbān." …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 44.
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Nearly complete letter in Arabic, written by a Muslim scribe (concludes with a ṣalwala - prayers for the prophet Muhammad), sent to somebody close to …
Amulet in Hebrew.
A letter to Yoashiyahu b. Yehuda
Accounts of a druggist. In Arabic script. Items include tamarind, various pastilles (aqrāṣ), chebulic myrobalan (kābulī).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. For pepper, lac, etc., bought and sold in Fustat (the two sides are headed by מערפה שרא אלרחל and שרח מא אשתרי …
Judaeo-Arabic praises for God.
Calendar for the years 4962–4964 of the Era of Creation (= 1201-1202 to 1203-1204 CE), dated according to the Era of Creation, the Seleucid Era, …
A letter to Yosef Shlomo b. Moshe from Yosef Avraham b. Shmuel
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Refers to a woman who is 'perishing'; the government (al-sulṭān); someone …
Recto: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. For Jumādā I 5[.]2. Many names and households are mentioned. Verso looks like the beginning of an …
List, including several types of produce and herbs.
Family letter in Arabic, in Arabic script. There are a handful of Hebrew words, also in Arabic script. Dating: Likely 11th century, based on the …
Small fragment of a marriage document.
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Tiny fragment in Hebrew script.
Letter from Barakāt b. Sason to ʿImrān b. Benaya, in al-Maḥalla (אלמחללא). In Judaeo-Arabic, with some unusual orthography (including ש for ס and ת for …
Part of a ketubba, with no details preserved. Various jottings are added between the lines of recto and on verso. Ca. 13th century. Contains a …
Accounts. In Arabic script. Dated 6 Jumada I [12]35 AH which is 1820 CE. One of the entries toward the middle of the document mentions …
Table of some kind, with a grid and circles that appear sporadically throughout the cells. The table's purpose is unclear.
Recto: Draft of a formal letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a superior by ha-Qaṭan Shemuel. After a long string of honorifics, "sabab iṣdār hadhihi l-khidma. . …
Draft or copy of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with biblical citations in Hebrew. Concerning a communal conflict.
Original document (both sides): Several names in Arabic script, e.g. al-Shaykh Abū Manṣūr . . . Hilāl). Verso (around the original text): Greetings or address …
On of relations who are ineligible to serve as legal witnesses. F. 2v contains jottings and pen trials. (Information from CUDL)
Legal deed in Hebrew detailing a sarraflık partnership involving members in Cairo and Rashīd. Dated: Shevat 5562 AM, which is 1802 CE. The shared purse …
Letter in elegant Arabic script and style. The continuation seems to be praising the eloquence of the addressee, and it cites two lines of poetry …
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides, who bears the title Nagid (thus, post-1213). Reuven b. Yaʿaqov married a widow. He sickened and died, when she …
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Literary text in Ladino. Bible commentary.
Document about the shipment of a purse containing 113 dinars to Nahray b. Nissim and Yaʿaqov b. Ismāʿīl al-Andalusī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. …
רב סלם ברחמ[ת]ך ובלג
בקדרתך אלי אבי יחיי
נהרא<י> בן נסים ויעקב בן
אסמעיל סורה צחבת
יעקב בן עמנואל אלוזן
ק דינ> ודינארין גיר סודס
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IB IV, 57 (ח64). Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Alexandria, ten days after his previous …
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Fragment of a letter or petition. Layout is more like a letter, but does seem to mention "[...] al-karīma" and then "al-mamālīk" (recto, l. 5). …
Late commercial letter from Yaʿaqov Za..a(?) to Isaac regarding the shipping of goat wool. Mentions a number of individuals, including Cosimo (קוזמו), Simon (סימון), Moshe …
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Letter in which the recipient is asked to collect funds, even if only 5 dirhams, for the holiday. (Information from Goitein's index cards)