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Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer expresses his regret at the addressee's departure, and his distress at what the addressee will soon learn from ʿAfīf …
No Scholarship Records
Recto and verso seem to be two copies of the same document or related documents, one in Judaeo-Arabic and the other in Arabic script. Begins …
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. The Arabic document is the first page of a letter. The formulaic greetings extend to three lines from the bottom, …
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
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Private accounts according to days (Monday and Friday) listing commodities with an assigned numerical value (quantity? price?). Some commodities include milk, almonds, chicken, meat, raisins, …
Document in Arabic script, probably accounts. Formal letter or official correspondence on verso. Needs examination.
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly an appeal for help of some kind, but it seems more complex than the usual flattery and litany of …
Legal formularies. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Likely belongs with ENA 3755.6.
Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to Yosef b. Shabbetay al-Rūmī, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential, filled with language of patroange (e.g. li-l-mawlā ʿuluww al-ra'y fī …
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Medical recipes, probably. Mentions quantities of dirhams and objects such as pots and white lead from Iraq. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Listing goods and names.
Seven sides of elaborate accounts in form of a ledger, in Arabic Siyaket script. Dated Ramadan 1229 (1814 CE). Potential join to AIU VII.F.24 and …
Ownership note on a book acquired by Natan b. Yeshuʿa. There is also a date based on a biblical verse but hard to interpret.
List of names and quantities and possibly commodities. Names include Hiba b. Dāʾūd and Abū Isḥāq.
Perhaps three letters of recommendation for Yaʿaqov b. Yehuda. The first was written in Istanbul and signed by Nissim Yaʿaqov [...]. The second is difficult …
Letter of recommendation, sent to the community of al-Jazīra (it seems Algeciras, the Spanish port on the strait of Gibraltar). In the margin on verso …
Calligraphic letter by a community leader who found out that the son of a scholar had married four couples, writing their marriage contracts and performing …
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Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably late.
Document heading with three lines of Arabic in a striking thuluth calligraphic script. With multiple instances of ḥamdala and then a basmala/ḥamdala followed by a …
Small vertical slip containing some words in Hebrew script.
Literary text, maybe geʾonic.
Four pages of an Arabic medical textbook.
Accounts. Needs examination.
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer seem to explain why he had not paid anything to the addressee. He has also sent him some money to …
Document in Arabic script. Only a thin vertical sliver has survived. Probably magical, based on the stick-and-ball drawings. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Ownership note: Berakhot b. Yosef b. ḥalfon ha-Kohen.
A partial manuscript of the Latter Prophets, commissioned by Babshād b. David, a known qaraite dignitary in early 11th century Fusṭāṭ. His son David, also …
Deed of sale of a house. Large fragment. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: 1467 Seleucid, which is 1155/56 CE, under the reshut …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Cairo. Dated: 16 Tevet 1399 Seleucid, which is 31 December 1088 CE. This bill of divorce is one of forty …
Betrothal document, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 20 Sivan 5448 AM, which is 1688 CE. Groom: Yeshuʿa b. Avraham ha-Ḥakham ha-Rofe b. Aharon ha-Rofe ha-Ḥakham. …
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Accounts(?) in Arabic script.
Arabic script (VMR)
Recto: part of a poorly preserved letter, apparently from the first decade of the 11th century, to Joseph b. Berekhya, representative of the Jerusalem yeshiva …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a 'brother.' There are 4 lines of standard introductory material, then 3 lines of the sender's annoyance that the addressee …
Verso: note possibly in the hand of Ḥananʾel b. Shemuʾel. Order of payment, instructing al-Raṣuy to give 5 nuqra dirhams and 15 wariq dirhams to …
Recto, right side: Account of expenditures in Dammuh (ca. 1182-3) by Sayyid al-Ahl, consisting of a list of disbursements made at the plantation in Dammuh …
Record, as dictated by al-Shaykh Sayyid al-Ahl b. al- ....
of expenditures made by him on the account of the plantation at Da…
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Fragment of the siddur (prayerbook) of R. Natan al-Sijilmāsī. Shows evidence of having been preserved in a book binding (?)
Medical prescription, which includes ingredients such as crushed marsh mallow, liquorice, chicory seed, senna, and lemon juice. (CUDL). AA.
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. The sender refers to being consoled from a state of grief (...al-marḥūm wa-qalbī yatasallā min jihat aveli. On …
Letter from Shelomo ben Halafta, in Jerusalem, to the Nagid Natan Sholal, in Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: 1481/82 CE. - Mentioning events as far away …
A damaged bill of divorce (get). The top part is missing. The woman is Hilala d. Nathan. Signed by […] b. Avraham ha-haver, […] b. …
Legal document. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid (1089–1188 CE). The day of the month was left blank, so this is presumably a draft. In the hand of …
One line from the bottom of a petition containing the raʾy clause. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
الراي الاعلى [في ذلك] ان شا الله
Literary - Hebrew words listed in alphabetical tables. Reused for Hebrew poetry, possibly a panegyric.
Power of attorney appointing Yeshuʿa b. Ḥananya as agent. Dating: Probably ca. 11th century, but no date is legible. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small fragment of a legal document. Mentions a certain Avraham; depositing pledges; and approximately 16 pounds of something.
Secondary use (probably): Calendar in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū for the years 1463–68 Seleucid (=1151–57 CE). Resembling Ibn Yijū's other calendars but with …
Small note in Arabic script. Order of payment or receipt? Begins with the glyph, and then a name (Bū l-ʿIzz?).
Ledger of a synagogue beadle. No image.