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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Me'ir ben Naʿim to his son David ben Naʿim, dated 16 June 1820 CE (4 Tammuz 5580 AM).
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Letter in Ladino dated 27 December 1803 (12 Tevet 5564 AM) from Moshe ha-Levi Karaso, Rashid, and Yaʿaqov ha-Levi to Yiṣḥaq de Curiel, Fustat/Cairo.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Nissim M[...] to Karo y Frances & Company. Dated 11 Adar [5]568 AM (1808 CE).
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Nissim M[...] to Karo y Frances & Company.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe ben Naʿim, Alexandria, to his brother David ben Naʿim, Cairo/Fustat. The copious blank space was reused for a literary …
98 pages of donations collected on the Shabbatot of the first years of the 19th century. Dated in some locations as 5560 AM (1799/1800 CE).
List of donations or communal payments in Judeo-Arabic for the Maghrebi congregation of Cairo (קק מערבים). The heading may be dated as [5]565 (1804-1805CE) but …
List of gabela kashrut tax collection for Shevat and Adar [5]600 AM = 1840 CE. Family names include Bibas and Mosseri and Ḥaqīm, among many …
List of donations collected for the year 5580 = 1819/20. Family names include Romano, Skandari, Palombo, Yuʿbaṣ, ʿAfīf, Pinto, Yagi, Mizraḥī, Mosseri. At 90 degrees …
List of donations Maghrebi congregation collected for the year 5590 = 1829/30 CE. The entries include recurring mention of "the little [daughter] of various community …
List of donations (?) collected for the first four months of 5583 = 1822/23 CE (or perhaps 5553 AM). All the entries refer to "the …
From a book containing records of donations collected on the Shabbatot of the first years of the 19th century. The first JRL image associated with …
Half of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Meir Ben-Naʿim to David Ben-Naʿim, appears to be dated August 1823 (Elul 5583).
Writing exercises in Arabic, helpfully giving the date: August-September 1822 CE (Dhu l-Hijja 1237 AH).
Accounts for trade between the ports of Beirut and Dimyāṭ in the name of the ship captain Muṣtafa al-Jamīl. Dated 27 [Ramada]n 1234 AH which …
Legal document in Arabic signed by three Muslim witnesses and dated 1823/4 CE (1239 Hijri). Merits further examination.
Legal document, late, running transaction sheet with (related?) sequential transactions, probably a bill or a receipt of goods and services. Mentions a wage - "ujra", …
Letter in Arabic script to unknown recipients from a certain Ibrāhīm mentioning a variety of Christian contacts such as Abū Adraūs and Abū Jirjis. Dated …
After [expressing our] most affectionate [?] longing [ ].
The abundance of your love is well-known [lit., ‘not hidden’], which was the reas…
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Letter in Arabic addressed to Ibrahim ʿAdda/ʿĀdāh in Cairo, from Yūsuf and Fransīs Zakkār. Dated 14 December 1802 (18 Sha'ban 1217). See AIU XII.82, another …
To his excellency, our dear friend, the most noble Muʿallim Ibrāhīm ʿĀdāh the revered, may God the exalted preserve and keep him.
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Leaf from the diwan of ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Akhras (1804–73), a Mosul-born poet who lived most of his life in Baghdad.
Legal document, ishhād, in Arabic, dated 1831 CE (18 Jumāda l-Awwal 1247 Hijri). Ibrāhim al-Yahūdī owes 700 Rūmī Kuruş and has to pay the Dīwān …
Ketubba for Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe ha-Levi known as ʿŪraybī and Sammūḥ bt. Yehuda Ḥaddād. Currency: medin. Dated: 7 October 1805 CE (14 Tishrei 5566 AM), …
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Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Iyar 5602 AM, which is 1842 CE. This is a partnership agreement for a sarraflık business for …
Marriage contract. Dated: Ḥeshvan 5570 AM = October/November 1809 CE. Elegantly decorated capitals, calligraphic script. Groom: Yosef b. Yehuda b. Shemuel. Bride: [...] bt. Yaʿaqov …
Legal document mentioning Yaʿaqōv Shalōm the legal guardian (apotropos) of the unmarried orphan Sitūt bt. Moshe Maṣliaḥ. Dated: Adar II 5608 AM which is March …
Beautiful calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576) with information about each month in a medallion set in a floral pattern.
Tabular calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576), probably connected to the previous shelfmark.
Partnership agreement. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Av 5579 AM = 23 July 1819 CE. Between Gedalya Mujnājī and Shabbetay Vidal. The partnership is to begin …
Letter in Ladino signed by David Levi Mondolfo, who may be identical with the relatively well-documented man of the same name who was born in …
Ketubba, illuminated, from 1840/41 CE ([5]601), left half only. Signed by David b. Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm.
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Legal document from Cairo, from the first third of Heshvan 556[.] AM (1799-1808 CE). Me'ir Ṣevi and his partner Raḥamim Ḥamīs acknowledge an investment of …
Letter of appeal for assistance. In Judaeo-Arabic, with many phrases in Hebrew. Dated Nisan 5562 AM which is 1802 CE (= the 9th of the …
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Legal document from Cairo, dated March of 1810 CE (17 Adar II 5570 AM), in which Moshe Shtiwi acknowledges an investment of 15,000 מכ (medin …
Ketubba with an elaborate floral border (recto). Location: Salonica, the Hebrew/Aramaic names of the nearby rivers (?מגינות ובארוה) are unclear but there are several possibilities: …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with a wide variety of coinage types and quantities. Dated 28 Kislev 5567 AM (9 December 1806 CE). There is an explanation …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: End of Sivan, 5578 AM, which is July 1818 CE. Apprentice contract for Avraham Fuerte, the student, and …
1. בע׳׳ה
2. בפעח׳׳מ באו היקר נשא ונע׳ יאודה בונאן יצ׳׳ו והבחור ונחמד אברהם פוירטי יצ׳׳ו והודו שניהם הודאה
3. גמו׳ …
Marriage contract. Dated: 5579 AM, which is 1818/19 CE. Groom: Raḥamim ואפה(?). Bride: Marḥaba bt. Yaʿaqov Manīṣar (מניצר). Currencies: real, medin. The border of the …
Letter from the community of Jerusalem to the gabbay and treasurer of כארכוך (=Kirkuk?). In Hebrew. Dated: Adar 5603 AM, which is 1843 CE. This …
Marriage contract. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 15 Sivan 5566 AM, which is 1806 CE. Groom: David Karo b. Binyamin. Bride; Malīḥa bt. Yaʿaqov Romano. Sum …
Letter in Hebrew and some Judaeo-Arabic in a Yemenite scribal hand, perhaps issued by a beit din in Ṣanaʿa. Dated [21]50 Seleucid which is 1839 …
Ketubba, the signatures section is torn away. Dated: Thursday, 1 Nisan 5583 AM = 13 March 1823 CE. Location: Cairo. Groom: Yosef b. Moshe Shtiwī. …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a certain Yehuda Pinṭo and Moshe Ḥadād to Karo y Frances & Company. Dated: 1807 CE (17 Heshvan 5568 AM). …
Legal document dated 20 October 1800 (1 Heshvan 5561 AM), Cairo, in which Me'ir ben Naʿim acknowledges an investment of 60 reales, each equivalent to …
Short business letter in Ladino that appears to be dated 25 Shevat 5582 AM (16 February 1822 CE), but this was a Shabbat, so perhaps …
State receipt, in Arabic script. Emanating from the anwāl al-ḥarīr (bureau of silk looms) in Alexandria. Needs examination.
Short letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Berakha Goren, probably in Cairo, to David Ben-Naʿim, probably in Alexandria. Dated 9 November 1820 (3 Kislev 5581). Goren recounts …
Engagement document for Yiṣḥaq Goren (?) b. Shelomo and Sitt al-Bayt bt. Avraham Dayyan, dated July 1804 (middle third of Av 5564).
Receipt confirming that Me'ir Ben-Naʿim paid the rent for a qāʿah related to "Argaz Sefaradim" (the communal chest of the Sephardi congregation) from 26 August …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to ha-Dayyan ha-Meẓuyan, Me'ir Ben-Naʿim, dated Aug/Sept 1824 CE (Elul 5584).
Receipt issued by the silk monopoly administration in Alexandria that was signed and stamped by the overseer ʿUmr Agha. Dated 14 Shawwal 1239 AH which …