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Legal document. Fragmentary (lower left corner). Mentions a shop and a sum of 55[.] (dirhams? dinars?). Perhaps in the hand of [Shelomo] b. Eliyyahu whose …
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Letter from "Sāsī" to R. D[...]. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: After 1517 CE (uses the term 'basha' twice), but not long after (Avraham Castro appears in …
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Fragment from the bottom of a ketubba. Groom: Ṣemaḥ ha-Levi ha-Parnas. The bride's name is missing; this is not her first marriage. Part of the …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Medical treatise in Arabic script.
Fiscal document in Arabic script. Mentions al-aʿmāl al-madkhūra in the main text block. Possibly a receipt with a signature at the bottom. Needs examination.
Legal document fragment, mentioning the elder Abū [...]. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Deed of release, in which Mufarrij releases Yehuda b. Moshe ('beḥir ha-yeshiva'), likely Yehuda b. Moshe Ibn Sughmār. Verso: legal document concerning a complicated …
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Recto: Probably a draft of a poetic letter in Hebrew. Verso: Unidentified table in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter from Tiberias, containing a legal document recording their estate in the Muslim registration of Tiberias, dated 940. Ca. 1020
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State document, most probably a draft, in Arabic script with scribal practice. Begins with the regular honorifics and mentions longing towards the august presence "shawq …
Document in Arabic, maybe the bottom of a receipt.
Letter in Arabic script. From a (Muslim) spiritual authority who is firing a would-be disciple. The sender originally thought that this man was genuinely seeking …
Accounts in Arabic script. Two sections are headed 'ḥānūt.'
Letter concerning the dispatch of gold from the congregation in Bilbays, to be delivered in Jerusalem to 'the synagogue of the Yemenite' and to 'the …
Verso: Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era.
Bifolio of literary text (אלו הן הקרובין from Mishna Sanhedrin 3:4). On a blank page there is a draft of a legal summons: Abū l-Faḍl …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe administrative. Mentions the name ʿAmmār b. Riḍwān. On verso there are some Greek/Coptic numerals.
Possibly a receipt for the ḥikr (ground rent). Dated: 568 AH (=1172/73 CE). Mentions "one dirham" and "Dīwān al-Aḥbās." On verso there is a note …
Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic The first three lines are mostly preserved. The sender refers to a prior letter addressed to al-Mumḥe, concerning …
Letter in Ladino dated 19 April 1785 (9 Iyyar 5545), from Rubi[?] Mores to Avraham Crespin in Cairo/Fustat "Miẓrayim". Two other individuals are mentioned within …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. In two different hands, with the two text blocks oriented at 180 degrees to each other. Apparently a Friday …
Letter of questions and demands that was sent by R. Elhanan b. Shemarya to R. Sherira and to R. Hai, ca. 1001 CE. Elḥanan seeks …
Two lines of an unidentified document in Arabic script.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). The names of husband and/or wife may be preserved in the first two lines, which are difficult to read. Location and …
Letter in the hand of Shemuel b. Natan to a circuit judge (Goitein's index cards). Nine persons mentioned by name acting as a board of …
Agreement that the physician Abū l-Ḥasan Yosef b. Yoshiyya(?) al-Tinnīsī will pay 14 dinars to Hilāl b. Sahl al-Ṣahrajtī, the silk merchant. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: document, mentioning Hillel and Elʿazar. Verso: Arabic document; possibly a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Two copies of letters. (1) From Sherira Gaon and his son Hayye to the Palestinian gaon Shemuʾel b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Little of substance is preserved. …
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Some sort of list in Arabic script. Seems to include names of people and locations. On verso there are a few words in Hebrew script.
Possibly a contribution or distribution list. Many names are listed.
Legal document in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Signed by Pinḥas b. Sheʾerit ha-Kohen. Dating: probably Wednesday, 17 Adar 1536 Seleucid = 26 February …
Minute fragments, few from legal deeds.
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fragment (upper left corner of recto). (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī to Nahray b. Nissim, ca. 1045-1096. Contains details regarding flax shipments that were arranged in partnership with Nahray. The …
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Letter sent from the Egyptian capital by a man to his brother in the countryside, reporting that their mother is well and praying for him …
Possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. On the other side there is an unidentified text in Arabic script.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Ḥasan b. Ṣadaqa in Fustat.
Beginning of a settlement in court in Fustat between Wāfī b. ʿAmram al-Iskandarānī and [...] b. Yefet Tifʾeret ha-Qahal. Dated: Monday, 23 Sivan 4856 AM …
Legal document. Fragment from a Hebrew bill of release, 10-11th century. Contains reference to A Muslim legal document and which is invalid and can not …
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Bayān b. Barakāt buys for his wife (name not preserved) one-half out of twenty-four shares of a house, …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be [to God alone.]
This is what Abū al-Bayān ibn Barakāt the Jew [ … ] bought [ ……
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Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Mentions Damietta (ENA 3598.1, third line from the bottom); a qalʿa (ENA 3598.2, line 7 and again …
Letter fragment (lower left of recto, upper right of verso). The writing is legible and the script distinctive, but so few words have remained that …
Order of one pound of meat from al-muʿallim Ṣadaqa (cf. T-S AS 177.468).