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Unidentified text in brown ink with a vocabulary list from Isaiah 48:13-58:13 in black ink and marginal notes. FGP
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Letter, fragmentary, from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Ḥaver b. Amram in Fustat written in his own hand. Eli Ha-Kohen expresses his anxiety …
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Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a skilled hand and with either colloquial spellings or spelling errors due to writing quickly. Mentions Abū …
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Letter sent from Alexandria by Ibrahim b. Farah to Yehuda b. Musa b. Sighmar in Fustat, dealing with merchandise sent to Sicily, describing the itineraries …
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Bill of sale for a slave. Location: Fustat. Dated: Last third of Tammuz 1505 Seleucid, which is June/July 1194 CE, under the reshut of Sar …
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See also BL OR 5547.2. Recto: technical instructions in Arabic. Verso: the upper block of text appears to be technical instructions in Arabic for an …
Request for aid from Jerusalem to Cairo. Undated but likely late 19th or 20th-century based on the paleography and the findsite (the Bassatine Cemetery). The …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Colophon in the handwriting of Evyatar Ha-Kohen b. Eliyyahu Gaon.
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Letter sent to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: probably 11th century, or possibly 12th. Reporting that some merchants perished when their ships were …
End of a document in Arabic script: وصلواته على سيدنا محمد . . . الطاهرين وسلامه الله . . .
Bill of divorce. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 14 Tammuz 1335 Seleucid, which is 24 June 1024 CE. Husband: ʿAmram b. Khalaf b. Aharon Ibn Asqawī ha-Levi. …
IB IV, 55 (ח60). Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanel ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: …
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Bifolio of a literary work on astrology in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–1138 CE).
Upper part of a deathbed will. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Many names are mentioned with missing context: Barakāt b. Ḥadīd(?); a woman who …
State document in Arabic script with a large ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lillāh ʿalā niʿmatih wa-[........]). There are several different text blocks. One of them on verso …
Fragment of a state document, fragmentary lines preserved. The word "al-Nawāḥī" is visible. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic fragment. . Probably a letter. The name Eliyyahu …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On recto mentions the name Bū l-Mufaḍḍal b. [...] and commodities such as rhubarb, turpeth, beleric myrobalan (balīlaj), …
Karaite documents on bifolium regarding ownership of real estate shares in a house and a shop. Dated in the first document as Monday, Iyyar 2nd, …
Bottom of a formal letter (petition?) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter from David b. Daniel asking to arrange a short meeting. (See Gil, Palestine, volume 1, sec. 905.)
Small receipt or order for 4 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
Minute list fragment in Judaeo-Arabic with a column of figures expressed in Hebrew alphanumerals. Medieval-era.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On verso, a few words in Hebrew added later.
Legal records in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–38 CE) written at various different angles. Many fragments. On verso there are also fragments …
Qurʾan. Kufic calligraphy. 2 x 8 lines from Sura 11, beginning at the end of verse 46. See T-S Ar.38.8. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Part of a letter, from Sivan 1508 (= 1197 CE), from a businessman-scholar in Raqqa (Kalneh) on the Euphrates, replying to the recipient’s letter that …
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Literary work. Ethical exhortations arranged as answers to queries.
Forms of excommunication in Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, 332) VMR
Prayer for Moses Montefiore, composed by Shabbetay Elḥanan טריויש in 1840/41 CE. Printed in Trieste in 1845/46 CE. There are many additional names in the …
Verso (original use): Bottom of a legal document dated 8 Dhū l-Ḥijja 5[4?]7 AH, which would be 1153 CE. One signature preserved. Recto: (secondary use): …
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Expenses like couriers (raqqāṣīn) and trash disposal; mentions Mūsā al-ṢB[...]
Geṭ. Location: Egypt, somewhere on the Nile. Dated: probably Ṭevet [13]4[.] Seleucid = 1029–39 CE. The father of one of the parties is Ḥusayn. Signed …
Several torn fragments, which seem to belong together, all containing magical instructions.
Late accounts, it seems mainly or entirely in Ladino. Terms mentioned: מונידא ,דוקתי ,שולדי ,אשקודי. Merits examination.
Poetic work in Judaeo Persian with the title שחר והשכים. ENA 2627.63-64 are part of the same work
Letter from Khumsa (כומסה) with a postscript from Yaʿaqov Shalom. Mentions David Bibas and Alexandria. Dating: 18th or 19th century. (Information from CUDL)
Calendrical information for the 19-year cycle 259 (beginning in 1142 CE) and 261 (beginning in 1180 CE). Jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script. Jottings in …
Letter dealing with religious matters – circa 1912CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 69) – in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein …
Fragment from a legal document, probably. Written in large letters. Between the lines and on recto, reused for unidentified literary text. (Information in part from …
Letter from a woman, in Qayrawān, to a benefactor, unknown location. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. The beginning is missing. Her children have nothing …
Writing exercises in Judaeo-Arabic in a 13th-century hand.
Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning a man who had a debt to the heqdesh. He pawned his wife's property against her well, promising her that …
Possibly part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Isma’il b. Ishaq al-Andalusi, Aleppo, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: mid-11th century. Details about sending letters. The writer is about to travel …
כתאבי יאמולאי חרס אלל[ה חיא]תך וטול עמרך ואדאם עזך
מן חלב ואן כאן יאמולאי ל[ם] תתקדם כלטה ולא מק<ר>ה ולא
צחבה חקיקה פענדי מן [ט]יב שימך ס…
Verso: Legal document, on the back of the ketubba. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Last third of Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid, which is …
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Legal document(s) in Arabic script. One side: Legal document. Bottom part only. Written on vellum, so the text follows the curve of the fragment. There …
Karaite Ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Nahum Halevi b. Aharon. The deflowered bride is Esther Dona d. Elya Halevi.