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Letter from Masʿūd b. Mawhūb to his brother Sābiq b. Mawhūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is agitated about the news he heard from Umm Subayʿ …
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Mercantile accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. A commodity is specified as "coarse" ghalīẓ) vs "fine" (rafīʿ). Mentions robes (thiyāb).
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Letter fragment, very damaged and written in a very cursive hand. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Addressing itself to 'sayyidnā' and making some …
Legal document. (Information from CUDL.) No details preserved.
Legal document. Small fragment (upper right corner). Mentions the name Yosef [b. ...] Elʿazar. On verso there are quotations from Zechariah 8:19–23, Obadiah 1:21; Jonah …
Legal document likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. Concerning a man and his wife who was the daughter of the late …
Document concerning a shiddukh (matchmaking) for a first-time bride in Dammuh, Egypt. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (Gil; Ashur disagrees). Records a fine for the …
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Possibly a fiscal account. Only a few lines are preserved on each side, with relatively wide space between them.
Letter addressed to a community. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Dating: Probably 11th century. The addressees are instructed to honor, assist, and raise money for (or …
Verso: Letter from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Natan b. Avraham. Quotes Psalms 45:16 as a greeting. Mentions a deceased Abū l-Surūr. Dating: ca 1007–1055 CE, …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment of a legal document; ‘this Joseph ha-Kohen’ is crossed out and replaced above the line with ‘Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen his father’. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment of a letter to 'he-ḥaver ha-meʿulle.' Handwriting of Shelomo b. Yehuda?
Letter fragment addressed to Abū l-Ḥajjāj. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is to send something the moment he reads this letter: אלשיך אבו אלחגאג חפצה אללה …
Medical treatise in Arabic script.
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, to Abu al-Faraj Yeshu'a b. Ismail, Upper Egypt. The recipient is buying goods. Nahray writes with the news of …
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Announcement from the educational committee about the morning and evening classes for the summer of 1953, and a chart naming the teachers and the children …
Fragmentary court record, apparently settling or recording accounts between partners. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 20 Tammuz 1404 = 17 July 1093 CE. Mentioning the title …
1בחמשה בשבה דהוא עשרה יומין בירח
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Verso: Account, maybe state/official. Mentions "al-mablagh" and "al-ʿamāla," and numbers are written both in words and in Greek/Coptic numerals.
Commercial account in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century, or possibly 12th. Mentions flax.
Very cryptic document in Arabic script. Contains phrases such as "al-aqlāmī al-mālikī al-nāṣirī," wa-l-salām," and a reference to "al-azmān." Several phrases are repeated multiple times; …
Arabic script (VMR)
Family or business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part only). Addresses somebody named Abū l-Riḍā and exhorts him to help somebody, "first because he is …
Query and answer about capital punishment.
End of a letter or document - needs examination.
Beginning of a settlement in court in Fustat between Wāfī b. ʿAmram al-Iskandarānī and [...] b. Yefet Tifʾeret ha-Qahal. Dated: Monday, 23 Sivan 4856 AM …
Recto: order of payment addressed to the collectors (jubāt) of the compound of the Jerusalmites (גבאה רבע אלמקאדסה) over 9 dirhams to be given to …
Letter fragment (lower right corner). In Judaeo-Arabic. The scribe has large lameds. Mentions lamps (qanādīl), the phrase "wa-anta ʿalā ʿayn [mā tarā]" (cf. T-S 10J20.12), …
Fragment from a legal document in Hebrew. Dating: probably ca. 16th century. Involves a sum of money (המעות הנז), a certain Meʾir and a certain …
Verso (original use): Fragment from a Fatimid decree of investiture for Abū l-Bayān Mūsā and another person, appointed rightfully (بما يقتضيه العدل ويوجبه الحق) to …
Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL) Dating: likely ca. 13th century or later.
State document, in Arabic script. Wide line spacing in a chancery hand beginning with a basmala. Reused for Arabic text and Coptic numerals. Needs examination.
Fragment from an opening of a letter to Perahyahu the Judge - Perahya b. Yosef, of the Ben Yiju family who was the muqaddam of …
Approximately 13 verses of poetry from the poem of the renowned Arabic poet al-Mutanabbī (d. 354/955) "حاشا الرقيب فخانته ضمائره * وغيض الدمع فأنهلت بوادره".
Poem of friendship written by Shemuʾel the cantor b. Avraham ha-sefaradi. On the back the holiday of sukkot is mentioned, which may have served as …
Personal letter from Jerusalem – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 269) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq …
Official correspondence. 7 lines are preserved. Catalogued as a decree concerning tax payment, but needs further examination. Mentions "the release of these seed advances" (khalāṣ …
Mercantile accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Probably a legal document. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlā Ibn al-Sh[...]. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Messier than usual (which is saying a lot). Dating: late 11th or early 12th century. Mentions Abū …
Record of a birth, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic (in two different hands) and Arabic script. The date is given according to multiple calendars, including 13 Iyyar …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Alexandria.
Legal document. Fragment: upper left corner. In Hebrew. Ḥasan b. Sulaymān makes a declaration of some kind, with clauses attesting to his clarity of mind …
Series of (copies of) letters sent from Hebron to Egypt, mainly asking for financial assistance. First half of the 17th century. Information from FGP.
Letter in Ladino, possibly from Moshe Levi to Shemuel Sidi. Reused for halakhic text. Needs examination.
Fatimid petition, top left side only, preserving the tarjama. Dates to the period of al-Ḥākim based on the reuse on verso. This makes it not …
روائح(؟) بن جوشن (جريس؟) واصحابه
العبقلين(؟)
بسم الله الرحمن الـ]ـرحيم
مماليك الحضرة السامـ]ـية العلية ال . . . ية والسعيدة السيدية ال…
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Minute fragment of accounts, 16th-century or later based on the paleography. These accounts are related to the neighboring shelfmark JRL SERIES C 147.
Fragment from a prayerbook headed "siddur ṣalawāt al-yaḥid mukhtaṣar" (abbreviated book of prayers for an individual).
Official letter in Arabic script. Beautiful handwriting. Wide space between the lines. Ḥamdala and ḥasbala at bottom. Needs examination.
Receipt.