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Recto: Letter fragment. Very narrow. Handwriting of Avraham Maimonides? Verso: memorial list of the family of Sheʾerit b. Yefet. (Information in part from CUDL and …
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Small fragment of a prescription or account for materia medica in Arabic script. Mentions small quantities of saffron and camphor.
No Scholarship Records
Legal queries and responsa of Shelomo ibn Aderet. All having to do with marriage laws. Late.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Might mention the currency jadīd/cedid.
Letter concerning business affairs (cloth trade) in which the writer mentions people including al-Dimyāṭī, Thābit, and Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. Mentions a sum of 50 dinars corresponding …
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Decree? In Arabic script, chancery hand, large letters and huge space between the lines. One and a half lines are preserved. It is difficult to …
Document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). At the bottom there appear the names Mufarrij …
Formularies for a love (maḥabba) spell and a love (tahayyuj) potion (using סבנאדג, the brain of a colored pigeon, and some of your urine).
Minute fragment from a list of commodities
Prayer in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew ending "God the exalted is the one asked to lift the veil of ignorance from us, amen." …
Legal query requesting a ruling in a commercial disagreement between two merchants. The two parties settled and wrote out a power of attorney, but then …
A scorpion amulet based on the word אבליגמה. Includes the line "I have bound you with these names" אסרתיך באלו השמות
Recto: Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Ibn al-ʿAni; Ṭāhir. Verso: Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Bū ʿAlī, Hillel the blind (al-ḍarīr), Menaḥem, and …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document mentioning recurring payments of 12 dirhams for teaching or apprenticeship. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in …
(a) Draft of a dirge for a noble woman. (b) List of names ending with "the tailor and his travel companion." Including: Yosef b. Shemuel, …
Legal query concerning a business partnership, with autograph responsum by Yiṣḥaq b. Sason ha-Dayyan. Awaiting fuller description.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Many names listed.
Fatimid state document. Needs examination. Reused for a memorial list (see PGPID 19130).
Small official document of some kind. Resembles ENA NS 83.222.1 + ENA NS 83.222. Needs examination.
Letter from Abū l-Munā b. Yaʿaqov al-Isrāʾīlī al-Ḥāfiẓ al-[...], unknown location, to Abū ʿAlī b. ʿAṭāʾ al-Isrāʾīlī, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address …
Verso (original use): Fragment of official/state correspondence, probably. The ends of 3 lines are preserved and parts of 2 more lines. Mentions a village/estate (ḍayʿa) …
Documentary per FGP - communal enactment concerning the division of property. Not digitized?
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Some of the opening greetings are preserved and part of the address (...dukkān...). It seems to have been reused for …
Letter from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Natan b. Avraham. Dating: ca. 1034 CE (per Gil). Relates to the early stages of a conflict between Natan …
Unidentified text in Arabic, possibly a letter. Appears to mention a ship and ʿAydhāb (r2 and r3) but too damaged to be sure or to …
Margin of recto: Fragment of the Arabic portion of a marriage contract, discussing the groom's promises to the bride regarding her exemption from oaths; margin …
Page from a children’s Hebrew textbook consisting of the consonants alef to tet with the various different Tiberian vowels. (Information from CUDL) Leaf with letters …
IB II, 45. Letter from the scribe of the yeshiva to Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundar. Cairo, ca. 1128-39.
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Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: last decade of Elul 5500 = September 1740 CE. Involving the dissolution of a commercial partnership between Avraham Serrano, Moshe …
Arabic script (VMR). Small fragment containing the remnants of three lines of text. There are several other Arabic-script fragments in the series ENA 3399 that …
Accounts in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 12th century. The Judaeo-Arabic mentions names such as Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, Faraḥ, Sayyidunā, Nuṣayr, …
Historical or literary narrative in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Order of fruit (including lemons, apples, pomegranate, and rose lozenges) from the elder Abū l-Ḥasan, to be given to the bearer of the document. The …
Literary work in Hebrew. Dating: Probably late. Possibly horoscopes or prognostications based on given names, including Gedalya and Yeḥezqel.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th century or later. The paper is well-preserved, but almost all of the text is extremely faded; might be legible …
First fragment: likely piyyut or prayer. Second fragment: tiny piece of a printed literary text, likely the bible.
Decorated Karaite ketubba from Cairo. Dated: 18 Shevat 5557 AM (February 1797 CE). The groom is Nissim b. Avraham and the bride is Esther d. …
Arabic script (VMR)
Legal deed concerning the payment in monthly installments of the remaining five dinars minus one sixth of a debt of a total of seven dinars. …
Letter in which a physician traveling from Cairo to Damascus describes how he was honored by the Jewish judge of Bilbays. The addressee is Shemuel …
Recto: table of names and quantities of grain. Probably a distribution list for wheat. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Verso: Similar table in Arabic …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. In fact, one page is entirely filled with numerals.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Unclear if state or private.
Tax receipt (tadhkira) from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on a dyeworks (maṣbagha) in Sinnūris. Dated: 28 Shawwāl 401 (4 …
Draft of a letter to the 'the Rav' in Mahdiyya, in which the sender writes that he bought quires of books from the inheritance of …
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Minute fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi under the authority of Masliah Gaon, with a partial …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 11 Heshvan = Safar 699 AH = 7 November 1299 CE. Abū l-Bahā b. Mukram (Makārim?) Ibn al-Ṣūrī agrees not …
Legal document in Arabic script. Calligraphically written. Five lines preserved. Dating: probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Mentions an amīr(?) Yūsuf, summoning somebody (to …