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Fragmentary record of testimony (left half missing). Dated: [..]68 Seleucid, so probably 1056/57 CE or 1156/57 CE. Signed by Moshe b. Shelomo and [...] b. …
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Medical treatise in Arabic script. Pinholes at the margin ~4mm apart.
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Fragment of a letter from Yosef b. Berekhya from Qayrawan (Ifrīqiya) to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #147) …
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A court clerk's notes for drawing up a legal document. It involves a payment of 4 dinars. The witnesses are Abū Isḥāq al-Tawwazī (אלתווזי); Yosef …
Business letter from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Ḥefez (חפז) to Merkado Karo and Shim'on Frances. Dated: 1797 CE, looks like 7 Adar II 5557 AM, …
Draft of the beginning of a letter to a notable. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century.
Amulet for Ḥalfōn b. Ghāliya desiring the effect that his wife Sitt al-Ahl Hilāla bt. Malīḥa should keep her love for him. Also that he …
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Letter from the Nasi Zakkay b. Yedidyahu to the doctor Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen the doctor. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Consists of poetic praises and …
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One line from the opening of a legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). AA
Letter from Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl al-Jawharī, Alexandria, to Yosef b. ʿAwkal.
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Mentions receipt of two of something from someone with the surname Ben-Hini (ן׳ היני) …
Petition from Cairo to Gaon Sar Shalom (ca. 1177–95) in which the wife of Abū l-Ḥasan the miller (al-Ṭaḥḥān) Ibn alMaghāzilī requests that he not …
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Small receipt or order, for Maʿālī, for 6 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral …
Minute fragment of a legal document: שטרי . . . דלא כאסמכתא. . .
Small fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic in a hand reminiscent of the 11th century Maghribī merchants. One legible phrase: ולם תצל רקאעה. Little …
Judaeo-Arabic poetry. Panegyric?
Original use: Petition for charity from a woman, with reference to her poverty and hunger, her brother, the Levant (al-diyār al-Shām[iyya]), and 11 dinars. Also …
Letter addressed to al-Asʿad Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-Munajjā, in Fustat. Only the address remains, which is in Arabic script. Dating: likely late 12th or …
Arabic love poetry and aphorisms and maybe some prayers. Large. Needs further examination. On verso there is a piyyut in Hebrew for Simḥat Torah.
Accounts in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Fragment of a ketubba. Dated: 24 Sivan 1313 Seleucid = 7 June 1002 CE. Groom: ʿAmram b. Maymūn. Bride: Zahra bt. Elishamaʿ. This fragment was …
Ketubba fragment. In the hand of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (c.1181–1209).
On recto a commentary responsa to Bavli Zevahim 118a. On verso a responsa on Bavli Nedarim 32b. Probably Geonic. AA
Document in Arabic script. Two very narrow vertical strips filled with rudimentary Arabic script. Likely magical, but this is based entirely on appearance rather than …
Fragment (bottom part) of a power of attorney. Dating: ca. 1229/30 CE. In which al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab Abū l-Thanāʾ Netanʾel b. Berakhot known as Ibn ʿAmmār …
Recto: Excerpts from Ecclesiastes. Verso: A list of books that the writer was asked to prepare (or obtain?) for somebody. The Talmud, printed in Salonica …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning quantities of different kinds of sugar, mastic, pepper, and raisins, among other things.
It is unclear which shelfmark is meant. The only current shelfmark that might be documentary is M53 (alt: 19), which does not have images on …
Letter drafts by Barukh ha-Levi, or perhaps writing exercises from an anonymous student who repeatedly copied the original version. The letter is brief but mentions …
Halakhic text (the subject is not clear) as well as Judaeo-Arabic practical instructions for dealing with copper and iron (possibly alchemy or metallurgy). 12th-13th century. …
Letter sent to Sitt al-Ghazal, wife of the judge Eliyyahu b. Zechariah (?), by her elder son (?), Abu Zikri, asking her to put up …
Lower part of a legal document in Arabic script. These appear to be 3 witness clauses. The document itself is lost.
Accounts with many names listed under subheadings dated according to the succession of weekly parashot. In Hebrew. Dating: 18th or 19th century. Possibly contributors to …
Accounting in Judaeo-Arabic, Hebrew numerals, and western Arabic numerals. Dating: Ottoman-era. Mentioning several ships. May belong with T-S AS 206.102 (PGPID 18213) and ENA NS …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 16th-century based on the paleography. Al-Sharqiyya is mentioned in one of the entries, possibly the region/district of Egypt. One of …
Secondary use: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentioning sugar and names such as Abū ʿImrān and Abū l-Majd.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Legal deed in the hand of Eliyyahu ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaʾon; he also signed the validation. Location: Damascus. Dated: 10 Iyyar 4791 AM = 5 …
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Biblical.
(d) Legal testimony. Crossed out. Dated: Tuesday, 15 Sivan 1494 Seleucid, which is 1183 CE, under the reshut of Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Ghulayb b. Ṣadaqa …
Ketubba, probably. Small fragment. Very damaged. Reused for an alphabetical (divination?) table on verso.
Legal record (#12). Claim of money owed. Dated: Thursday, 18 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Faraj b. Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān brings a claim on behalf of …
Order of payment. In Arabic script. Bū l-Najm al-Firnās (the parnas) is to pay the bearer a sum of money (10 nuqra dirhams?). Ends with …
Accounts with calculations via long sequences of Hebrew alphanumerals. The subheading lists a day of the week. Dating: late, probably late Mamluk or Ottoman era. …
Deed of sale of a part of a house. Location: Alexandria. Dated: last decade of Ḥeshvan 4965 AM = October 1204 CE. Three shares of …
Fragment with 4 lines of Arabic script. Quite faded. Needs examination. There is also Hebrew literary text in two different hands.
Fatimid fiscal document, in Arabic script. Mentions two different bureaus: dīwan al-jihād al-miṣrī (line 2) and dīwān al-ḥubūs al-miṣriyya (line 7), probably mentioning a transfer …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a letter from Nehemya ha-Kohen, the Pumbedita Gaʾon, to one of the heads of the Babylonian community in Fustat. Dating: …
Court record from the Karaite community of Lithuania concerning the division of the poll tax between the Karaite and the Rabbinate communities. Non-Geniza.