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Colophon in Judaeo-Arabic. The work (...ʿalā madhhab al-[???]...) was completed in Rabīʿ I 1023 AH, which is 1614 CE, in the synagogue of al-Ḥakham ʿAṭiyya. …
No Scholarship Records
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. 1046. The writer describes his conflict with an Iraqi named Ibn al-Wāsiṭī. The …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמתה מן תניס יום אלערובה אעאד אללה עליה האדה אלאוקאת
אלמבארכה סנין בכתרה ואעוא…
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Small, official receipt for ʿImrān Ibn al-Riṣāfī(?). Landscape format. Trigger: afrada... Seems to be for the large sum of 30 dinars. T-S AS 176.437, T-S …
End of a decree with ḥamdala and ḥasbala in large letters (2 cm alif), recycled into a Jewish prayerbook with five bifolios. At least three …
Lists of payments and possibly other financial data in Judaeo-Arabic. The evidence of payment structure is clearest on the recto when the author notes on …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Small fragment (upper right corner of recto). Cut into an unusual shape, with long slits made and the paper removed. …
Accounts. Mentions al-Jaʿfarī and al-Naṣrānī. Verso may mention the rent of a warehouse.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Looks like an account mentioining fabric goods (mandīl, shuqqa, and fūṭa) and also Alexandria, but at the bottom "wa-l-nāʾib(?) bi-smī …
Guide to the graves of sages and saints. In Hebrew. Probably late. Of geographical interest.
Multifragment shelfmark. The lower fragment on the recto includes a minute amount of text in Arabic, perhaps from a state document.
Much damaged and faded, might be from a court record, but the identification is uncertain.
Small fragment in Hebrew. Late. Containing legal phrases בפנינו אנו . . חתומי מטה יודעים ומעידים עדות . . .
Engagement (shiddukhin) agreeement between Efrayim b. Shemuel and כואנדה bt. Eliyyahu Sūsī, in a beautifully illuminated frame. The prospective bride's name is also listed as …
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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 …
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Yosef Ibn Alqāsh, in Alexandria, to Yehuda ibn Sighmar, in Fustat. The letter was written during the reign of Yehuda b. …
Fol. 4: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning travel to Baghdad, Mordekhay Hāno(?) (האנו), Moshe ʿAbsayyid(?) (עבסייד), and at least one fragment of another name. Fol. …
Minute fragment containing the name Shelomo. Andalusi hand?
Letter in Arabic script. Probably commercial. Needs examination. Reused on verso for Megillat Esther-related text in Hebrew.
Petition to Shelomo ha-Nasi from a man whose name is missing, reporting that a pesiqa (pledge drive) in his favor had brought a substantial sum, …
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Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Five lines, well preserved. Written in an elevated register. May begin with a reference to the Torah …
Letter from Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq (Tripoli al-Gharb) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), August 1051. Written a short time after the sinking of the ship of …
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Probably a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, but too faded to read. Phrases: פי אלסבת . . . עלי הדה אלמדינה . . . פלמא . . …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Legal query to [... ha-Rav] ha-Gadol be-Yisraʾel concerning a mercantile transaction. Mentions the Dār al-Wakāla; a deal betwen two merchants; and how the merchandise was …
Letter fragment describing the visit of the Nasi in the Babylonian synagogue. (Information from E. Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, 25)
A Maimonides autograph of the Guide for the Perplexed. Information from FGP.
Account. 20th century. Contains names, with numbers expressed in Indo-Arabic numerals. Written in blue pen on ledger paper. Not connected with Moss. IXa,3.27.
Kharāj receipt. T-S AS 183.155 and T-S AS 183.156 are related (same payer). His name looks like Māḍī b. Fakhr الحىىي but this is tentative. …
Letter or official correspondence, probably Ikhshidid, in Arabic script. Mentions two officials, Abū l-Faḍāʾil and Abū Bakr ʿAlī b. Sulḥ, and other people. Also mentions …
Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Ibn ʿUbayd, Bū l-Fakhr, and Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Maṣmūdī. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl. MS …
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Geʾonic responsa. (Information from CUDL)
Business letter from Mūsā b. Dāwūd / Moshe b. David al-Levi al-Miṣrī to Mubārak/Mevorakh b. Avraham Ibn Sabrā. In Arabic script, with the address in …
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Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Wide line spacing. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a document in Judaeo-Arabic narrating the situation of communal leadership in Minyat Zifta and Minyat Ghamr. "R. Moshe. . . on marriage and …
Official correspondence. Possibly alluding to a need for financial assistance in a district. The ends of 4 lines are preserved: هذه الناحية . . . …
Accounts in Arabic and Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval era. The verso mentions "the sister of Um ʿAbdallah" (اخت ام عبدفالله). (VMR)
Petition to David al-haver al-kohen son of the judge in Judaeo-Arabic. no content has been preserved.
Letter to Yehuda b. Elya to Egypt (FGP). Image not available.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Ibn ʿAlī b. Raḥmūn al-Bazzāz, Abū Yiṣḥaq b. Sughmār, the brokers (dallālīn), and many other matters. Needs further …
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Extremely damaged texts in Arabic script on recto and verso, possibly documentary. Requires further examination.
Deed of sale for real estate (يحد هذه الدار وحدودها وارضها) in Arabic script. Quite faded. The price is 12 dinars (العين الجيد المصري المحقق …
Medical prescriptions for "the little one" (al-ṣaghīra) Sitt al-Bayt(?) and for her son. In Arabic script. There is a section at the top for what …
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, maybe an order or receipt. At upper right a number appears. The text begins with the name …
A draft of a pre-nuptial agreement between husband and wife, contains most of the known stipulations found in marriage documents during the 12th century such …
List of names and sums, some are related to different houses. See also ENA 2591.14–15 (PGPID 662).
Undeciphered note in Arabic script.