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Letter from Daniel Levi Mondolfo to Avraham Krispin. In Ladino. Dating: 18th or 19th century. The sender signs his name in both Hebrew script and …
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. What remains is deferential greetings and praises. Verso: Jottings including the name Shelomo (probably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) and Yūsuf b. Moshe.
Fragment from a bill of divorce (get). AA
Verso: Colophon with an embellished signature by the scribe Yehosef b. Ṣedaqa. Written on Monday, 1 Elul. There are writing exercises in Arabic in a …
IB II, 4. Letter from Amram b. Yosef to Nahray b. Nissim requesting to forward a letter to Hassan b. Bundar. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 1094–97 …
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Letter of appeal, probably. In Hebrew. Mentions the addressee's brother who married a wife. Goes on to complain about the hardships of fate.
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Declaration by al-Masīḥī al-ʿAmīd Abū l-Faḍl b. Abī l-Majd b. Bishāra al-Naṣrānī acknowledges a debt that he owes to …
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Late letter in Hebrew addressed to a certain Avraham, in Egypt (perhaps by his brother given the usage of "אחי" in the adress). In line …
List of precious ornaments and other metalware. Needs examination.
Letter from a certain Simḥa, who was in charge of a building. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1200 CE. He reports that the upper floor (the …
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Long and narrow strip from the right side of items belonging to Dalāl - probably a dowry list. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (Date: …
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Recto: Magical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: A page of magical letters encompassed by an ouroboros. (Information in part from Goitein's index card)
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). …
Document in Arabic script, opening with debt acknowledgment formula (اقر ااعترف). Wide space between the lines. Miniature طs above certain words (=ihmāl). May simply be …
Legal document concerning a husband who wanted to travel to see his mother and relatives and his wife took him to court for it. He …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a basket or container (qafaṣ), 550 dirhams, and balances (mawāzīn). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Magical instructions, probably. Involving sex with a woman (fulāna bt. fulāna, ll.5–6). Needs further examination.
List of food and other items with values in Greek/Coptic numerals underneath. E.g., sesame oil, linseed oil, olive oil, soap, lemon, onion, chickpea, leek, mastic, …
Fragment of a letter from Efrayim b. Shemarya, around 1030 CE. Writes about the recent events in Mount of Olives (communal dispute of Hoshaʿna Rabba …
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Communal/legal record. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Ṭevet 1493 Seleucid, which is December 1181, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Abū l-Munajjā al-Kohen, surnamed …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Letter from Yiṣḥāq ʿAmmānī (i.e. from the Ibn al-ʿAmmānī family), who calls himself "the small" (קטן) to Elʿazar ha-Levi ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (righthand side). The sender may be Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd (from the Arabic-script address). Mentions the congregation; controversy; Hiba b. Faraj; Abū …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script: الذي عند الشيخ بو ال . . .
Accounts, mentioning names such as Abū l-Faraj and al-Naṣrānī (‘the Christian’). In the hand of the scribe previously misidentified as ʿArūs. (Information in part from …
State document(s), likely Ayyubid. Recto might be headed "tawqīʿ" and may grant someone the right to engage in business with the price of shipping something …
Tax receipt issued to the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: (Khan reads 3 Ramaḍān 402). Written by …
[يثبت] نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف
ان شا الله
[اثبت و]المبلغ دينار واحد
[سوا]
والحمد لله على نعمه
[Let it be registered] on behalf of the Bureau of (Tax) Supervision,
if God wills.
[It has been registered, and] the amount…
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Colophon by Berakhot b. Eliyyahu b. Zekharya (aka Shelomo b. Eliyyahu). On the other side of the page are some pen trials.
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Tax receipt for the capitation of Bū l-ʿAlā b. Afḍal yahūdī for the year 500H.
Legal record (#4) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 2v-3r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 10 Sivan 5320 …
Accounts in Arabic script. Written on the back of a literary text in Arabic script.
Four sides of a medical text in a beautiful calligraphic hand with diacritical marks. Needs examination for identifying the work.
Letters of the gaʾon of Baghdad Shemuʾel b. ʿEli. See description under Yevr. III B 1131, and see ENA 4011.74.
Marriage document. A torn and damaged Karaite ketubah. Although no complete sentences have survived, from the remaining words and phrases we can be sure that …
Note/order addressed to Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Instructing him to collect four dirhams from the bearer, the 'boy' (ṣabiyy) of the sender. The note …
Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 15 Sivan 1368 Seleucid, which is 1057 CE. Groom: …
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Two different text blocks in Arabic script, on a bifolio that looks like it was reused for a book binding. One of them opens with …
Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Alexandria, to Azhar b. Avraham, the judge. Around 1063. Regarding the selling of cedar resin, birch resin, and …
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תקדם כתאבי לחצרה מולאי אלשופט אלגליל אטאל אללה
בקאה ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה עלי יד צאחב
אלשיך אבי עמראן מוסי בן כלוף אלצאיג וכ…
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Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, to Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, in Būṣīr. Providing instructions about purchases to be made in …
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A folio from the commentary (sharḥ) of ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq b. Ibrāhīm al-Andalusī al-Muznī's "risālat al-sabʿīn" or a folio from another work that refers to his …
List of commodities, all typical trousseau items, with Hebrew numerals, mentioning items such as a veil of white silk and headscarves. Jottings, especially on f. …
Receipt for the capitation tax of [...] in Fustat.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment. Contains part of the dowry list. Written by the cantor Yefet b. David. AA
Fragment of a legal document, likely a dowry list related to a marriage agreement. In a rudimentary hand, likely Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya (though …
State document in Arabic script. Refers to "the noble order" (al-amr al-ajall) and possibly the year 45[.] AH (=1058–67 CE). Needs examination.
Medical treatise arranged in a question and answer format.
Recto: Letter to the Gaon in Cairo (al-Muʿizziyya). In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer explains that he has not yet been able to find a riding animal …