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Legal testimony. Location: Fustat. Dated: Shevaṭ 1462 Seleucid = January/February 1151 CE, under the authority of Shemuel ha-Nagid. A woman named ʿAmāʾim bt. Abū l-Faraj …
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IB IV, 35 (ח44). Letter from the physician Yaʿaqov, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: between summer 1138 CE and March …
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Fragmentary legal document(s) in Arabic script. There are two distinct main documents, one on recto and one on verso. In the right margin of recto, …
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Possibly accounts. Late medieval? Mentions the son of the Qāʾid, porters, and "my paternal uncle Yosef."
Short memorandum by Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majjānī, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1052. Musa is interested in a small delivery that Nahray …
תדכרה למחבך מוסי בן יחיי אלמגאני
יאמולאי אלשיך אבי יחיי אראם אללה עזר
קד סאלתך פי וסק אלעלאוה אול אלמראכב
אין מא תראה וקד סאלת מולאי אל…
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Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Letter fragment (upper right piece) either to or from al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Rayyis Abū l-Manṣūr. In Judaeo-Arabic, with Hebrew citations (including Mishna Avot 2:4 …
Legal document. Location: somewhere in Egypt, probably Fustat. Dated: Kislev 1286 Seleucid = November/December 974 CE. The merchant Maṣliaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq b. David acquits another …
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Introduction to a literary treatise in Judaeo-Arabic, describing the number and the nature of the chapters.
Scribal exercises and signature practice. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th-century or later. On the recto the signature Yiṣḥaq b. Eliyahu Israel is …
Letter of request sent by the head of the yeshiva in Damascus, which was burdened with debts, to a notable in Fustat, who had pledged …
Court record in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu. Location: Bilbays. Dated: middle decade of Adar 1528 Seleucid = end of February 1217 CE. In …
Communal donation lists from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries (based on individuals mentioned). At least one of the headings is dated according to …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal fragment. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning "if the two of them provide for our funeral shroud/clothing" (fa-innahumā in kafanānā); also mentions the term istiḥlāf (making …
Dowry list (taqwīm). No names No muqaddam or me'uḥar. Among the goods is a female slave named Balgh al-Munā ('fulfillment of wishes'). (Information in part …
Letter from Salāma b. Ibrāhīm (aka Shelomo b. Avraham) to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: end of 11th century. Only the opening and greetings …
כתאבי אלי מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך ונעמאך
ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלאך מן אלמסתקר ען חאל סלאמה ושוק אליך שדיד
קרב אללה אל…
Informal note related to business matters. Probably sent from Fustat. In Arabic script. The sender instructs the addressee to acquire a blue Dustarī (=Tustarī) fabric …
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A book list arranged by genres written by Meir b. Hillel (See Frenkel, The compassionate, p. 146). Published Allony, The Jewish Library, p. 148-151. AA
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IB VII, 19. Court register, fragment. Upper left corner of a legal record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Dating: 1127-38, …
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Business letter from Moses Ḥadād to Shim'on Frances in Cairo, with European numerals. Dated Shevat 5567 AM (1807 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Recto: autograph medical recipe in the hand of Moses Maimonides, prescribing an emetic and other drugs. The ingredients used include sticky sugar, lemon juice, oxymel, …
Document in Arabic, maybe the bottom of a receipt.
Letter from Yosef כיטו(?), in Alexandria, to Yaʿaqov אלחנאצי (=al-Ḥanesī = "of Ḥanes (Damietta)"), in Fustat/Cairo. In Ladino. Dated: Monday, 17 Shevaṭ 5500 AM = …
Notification by the court concerning a legal decision. Dated: first decade of Av [1]549 Seleucid = July 1238 CE. Announcing that the collector of the …
Order of payment with a Hebrew 'emet' at the top. Abu l-Karam is to pay 1.5 dirhams to the bearer. See T-S AS 180.153 (PGPID …
Capitation tax receipt for Mūsā b. Futūḥ al-Yahūdī in Alexandria. Same cluster: T-S AS 178.69 (PGPID 36898) T-S AS 180.22 (PGPID 37373) T-S AS 182.312 …
Recto: Note from Abū l-Barakāt (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) to Abū l-Majd. Informing him that he sent three quires and hopes that there will be no …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quotes the Talmudic saying "a prisoner doesn't free himself" (אין חבוש מתיר). (Information from CUDL)
Part of a legal document, possibly a deed of sale. No names mentioned, only [...] אלשיך אבו [א]ל. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment. Wide space between the lines. Only a few words of blessings and honorifics are preserved, including the name Yosef ha-Levi ha-Ḥaver.
List of names and amounts, such as: (recto) Shemuʾel Ibn Shanjī, Shemuʾel Palīgī (verso) Musa Jalabi (Çelebi), Yeshūʿa Alfandari. Join with ENA 3730.3 + ENA …
Minute fragment with extremely faded text visible on the recto
Arabic Account from the Mamluk or Ottoman period (FGP) - needs examination.
Two lines in Hebrew mentioning the throne of glory, perhaps literary.
Letter signed by Shelomo, to his father Eliyyahu the judge, asking him to purchase something for the writer (perhaps some sort of covering (ghiṭāʾ)) and …
Letter from [...] b. Menahem to Elʿazar b. Meshullam ha-Kohen asking for assistance after losing 350 Nāṣirī dirhams (first minted under Saladin in 1187 CE) …
A list of names and corresponding sums of money e in a very crude hand. The usage of eastern Arabic numerals supports a dating estimate …
Legal document in Arabic script. Extremely faded.
Fragment of a short letter to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. It could be that a person from a Yeshiva in Iraq wrote the …
IB IV, 42 (ח45). Letter from Yaʿaqov the physician, possibly in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Almeria. Dating: 1138–39 CE. Same sender as T-S …
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Substantial, late acccount in Judaeo-Arabic, at least one part of which is headed "list of debts." People named include: Avraham Yerushalmi; Yehuda Leon; Yeshūʿa al-Ḥāmī; …
Tiny fragment from the end of a legal document, under the reshut of Shemuel ha-Nagid.
Recto: note written and signed by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū Saʿīd, asking to be sent sums of money paid by Abū l-Ḥasan. Verso: a …
Possibly the beginning of a letter to a notable (שרנו ונרנו...)
Letter from the physician Ibrahim to the physician Ya‘qub in Bilbays, whom he addresses as “my brother.” Ibrahim rebukes Ya‘qub for his failure to send …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: mid-12th century. Probably from an India trader. Mentions numerous business transactions, Maḥrūz, and Abū ʿUmar Ibn al-Baghdādī (who also appears …
Recto: Legal query for a qāḍī in Arabic script regarding a man "known for ḥujaj" (unpaid promissory notes?), and there are several testimonies against him, …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic on business matters. Dating: 18th or 19th century.