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Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh. Only formulaic content is preserved. (Information from CUDL)
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. A woman is making arrangements for after her death, including provisions for rental income and a …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.
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Latin-script list, difficult medieval paleography. Dated perhaps in the upper lines of the recto: anno/annum[?] xx__[?]. The list continues on the verso but is extremely …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions jewelry changing hands and the court in Cairo, and legal formulae typical …
Part of a memorial list (דוכרן טב). "The woman: [..] bt. ʿUlla. Her husband: Evyatar b. Elʿazar." Underneath, names mention include the well-known mid-12th-century judge …
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Account of expenditure for the distribution of bread (100 pounds costing 31 1/2 dirhams) and for payments to a nasi, to teachers, and other officials …
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Fragment from an originally large codex of correspondence and poetry by Judah ha-Levi. This fragment consists of a copy of a letter by Judah ha-Levi …
Verso (original use): Note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (he signs Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān) to al-shaykh al-rashīd Abū l-Faḍl. In Arabic script, with the last line …
Letter, possibly from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, in which the nagid asks the community in Fustat to take up a charity collection for a …
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Receipt for the capitation tax of Maḥfūẓ b. Eliyya(?), a Jewish silk trader (qazzāz), in Fustat.
Letter. None of the content is preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment from a list of debts. Late
Verso: Legal testimony in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Reporting on the fulfillment of the orders of the Gaon. The witnesses …
Verso: Two distinct text blocks in Arabic script. (1) The names of the months of the Coptic calendar. (2) Accounts, recording credits and debits and …
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The upper part of recto is a Hebrew panegyric in praise of a scholar named Yiṣḥaq. The other text blocks are all drafts of a …
Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: a letter from 1644 regarding the death of a judge. AA
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. This is a very long vertical strip from the middle of the letter. It was partially cut up, and the beginning of …
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Recto: collection of notes on astral medicine, connecting the human body, physiognomy, hair colour and various bodily functions to the rising of a particular star. …
Will of a woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). She gives 1/2 dinar to her sister Mukhaddara bt. Khalaf if …
Small fragment of an Arabic letter or official report mentioning mawlāy al-amir. The ends of ~3 lines are preserved. On verso there are jottings (possibly …
Legal record (#6) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 27 Sivan [5320] …
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Release document in which three partners release their fourth partner, Abū l-Waḥsh b. Saʿadya, (Information from Goitein's index cards) It appears to be Ḥalfon's hand. …
Letter drafts. See join for preliminary description. Needs further examination.
Record of a state document in Arabic script, codex format. It must have spanned at least three folios in its original form; only one folio …
Note in Arabic script from Hārūn b. Nissim to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Bū l-Majd. Instructing the addressee to immediately deliver a half raṭl of …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded.
Letter in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Dating: Ca. 1026 CE (per Gil). Referring to a speech made by Abū Isḥāq …
Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Regarding the sale of an enslaved woman. Nāṣir b. ʿAlī b. Salmān is the buyer. Fragment (upper right corner). …
The wife of Ṣedaqa b. ʿEzra gives to her husband reshut over a house (which was part of her ketubba from her father's inheritance) after …
Letter of epitaph by Shelomo b. Yehuda. The verso of the paper medium has some intriguing material features. There are a couple fibrous locations where …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic: names, numbers, some crossed out. Names: Makīn; Abū Saʿd; Abū l-Faḍl; Moshe; Abū l-Majd; Abū l-Riḍā. Dating: probably late 12th or 13th …
On verso a small fragment with a list of jewelries, possibly from a dowry list. On recto a list in Arabic, probably by the same …
Responsa of Hai b. Sherira Gaon, Baghdad, to Qayrawan, Tunisia, concerning music. (Information from Don Harrán, “What Does Halakhah Say about Music? Two Early Rabbinic …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Perhaps a release granted from a man to a woman.
Small fragment in Hebrew, possibly a legal formulary or dealing with legal issues: e.g. "הולד שלקיימה" on recto. Requires further examination.
Letter from Natan Ha-Kohen Ha-Ḥaver b. Yoshiyyahu, in the name of "the two sides" (communities?) in Tiberias, to Eli Ha-Ḥaver Ha-Me'ulle (b. Amram ?) in …
Narrative literary work in Arabic script.
Recto and verso might be two drafts of distinct petitions written in different hands. Recto: Mentions "the evil ones from among the Jews" (al-ashrār min …
Digest of a legal document. Probably in the cursive hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. For a partnership in a shop in Cairo. One partner …
Verses of poetry penned by al-Mutanabbī followed by a commentary or elaboration. Mentions two key figures he wrote panegyrics for - Sayf al-Dawla and Kāfūr.
Legal query requesting a ruling in a commercial disagreement between two merchants. The two parties settled and wrote out a power of attorney, but then …
Tax receipt. Mentions the mustakhdim al-jawālī in Damietta. Dated: 601 AH. Amount: 1.25 dinars. ʿAlāma: الحمد لله وبه استعين. Endorsed across the text rather than …
Small receipt or order for 8 raṭls (according to the numerals at the top) or 6 raṭls (according to the Arabic at the bottom) of …
Literary. A beautiful and very large (30cm) page from a diwan of R. Moshe ibn 'Ezra. Among the poems preserved: on pens, on a candle, …
Letter in Ladino, sent from Salonica (שילאניקי) to Cairo (spelled erratically as מישרייאם). To be delivered to ("en mano de") Yiṣḥaq Qatin[?] (אין מאנו די …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a mercantile letter of the 11th century. The name "Yūsuf" appears in the address, but the rest is very faded. Needs …
Verso: Legal memorandum submitted by Avraham b. Shemaʿya to Avraham (b. Natan) ("Foundation of the Yeshiva"). He reports that Yosef and his wife appeared before …
Legal record (#7) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 11 Tammuz 5320 …
On recto a poem. On verso a letter in another hand. Barely legible. AA