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Verso (original use): Petition. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Concerning the synagogue at Dammūh and asking for orders/guidance (waṣāh). Perhaps having to do with …
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Accounts in Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably Ottoman-era.
Private accounts in a mixture of Judaeo Arabic and Arabic. Mentions Ibn al-Qābila. Needs examination.
Letter addressed to Yosef ha-Sar. In Judaeo-Arabic with an Arabic address. The writer requests that the addressee give the five dirhams nuqra that al-Rayyis Abū …
Book list including several talmudic tractates, commentaries on them by Moses ha-Kohen and Saʿd b. Hillel, and Shaykh al-Yahūd, a work by Judah b. Ḥalfon. …
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Late list of commodities, with one entry instead listing the name: Ibrahīm al-Fīlālī. The dating is likely 16th or 17th-century based on the paleography. Some …
Letter possibly from Abū l-Maḥāsin. In Arabic script. Dating: probably ca. 13th century. Mentions the ghulām of al-shaykh al-Muhadhdhab. Quite faded. Needs further examination. Excerpts: …
Minute fragment from a legal deed
Judaeo-Persian. Some of the sages are mentioned (Hillel ha-Zaqen, Yosef ha-Sadiq. ENA 2627.81-82 are part of same work. On ENA 2627.81 there are also some …
Nearly complete letter from Muḥammad al-Jamāʿī(?) to Muḥammad ʿĀbidīn. Late. Needs examination.
Letter from Abū Isḥāq b. Ṭayyib (same as in ENA NS 77.397 (PGPID 13697)?) to Abū [...]. Interestingly begins with the verse/motto הנה אל ישועתי. …
Accounts on recto and verso, some of which list the weights of goods. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions al-Mahdiyya and ʿAllān. In the hand …
Legal record in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Tuesday night, 27 Kislev 1471 = 9 December 1159 CE. The blind woman Sitt Ṣāfī …
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Business account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Neatly arranged in columns on two pages of a bifolio. Mentions goods such as saffron, galangal, pepper, …
Possibly a calendrical text. In Arabic script. Mentions the blessed month of Rajab and various days.
Receipt or affidavit signed by Shelomo ha-Rofe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century. Attesting that Meʾir and his son Yehuda Abū Shaʿra rented …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Faded and damaged letter written by Yefet b, Menashshe
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower left corner). Dating: [14]41 Seleucid = 1129/30 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen …
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Awaiting description
Table in Arabic script. Accounts? In the margin there is also a note in Judaeo-Arabic, likely unrelated: "...the wretched slave Abū ʿAlī wrote this..."
Late Hebrew letter. The writer described what he wrote in his former letters, to which he hasn't received any reply. AA
Short letter from Troki (today in Lithuania). From Shmuel b. Avraham
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Rudimentary hand. Mentions oaths and trying to get out of them. On verso there is a mysterious text in Arabic script …
Popular literature. The tale of Abraham and Nimrod. In Judaeo-Arabic. See FGP for further information.
Recto: responsa in the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic poem and dirge also written by Yosef. (Information from CUDL)
Letter probably from the office of the Nagid to the community of Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Deals with the …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Same hand as many of the surrounding fragments: probably Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ of Tyre, mid-11th century.
Communal letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: First half of the 11th century. Mentions Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn. Edited by Elinoar Bareket. Awaiting fuller description.
Verso: medical prescription in Arabic script for the treatment of fever(?). (Information from CUDL)
List or table with extremely faded text in Hebrew script, possibly documentary. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Receipt for a repayment of a debt. The creditor received half of the 9 dinars (in the six month installment), in the form 18.5 wariq …
Legal document. In Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: Likely 10th or early 11th century. Involves a guardian (apotropos) named Yefet. The portion of the document preserved …
Request from the World Zionist Organization to the Zionist Histadrut of Egypt for the revitalization of Herzl's thought – 1921CE – Museum of Islamic Art …
Letter fragment to the sage Ḥalfon. Only formulaic blessings are preserved. The hand looks Spanish. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal document. In Aramaic. Location: Fustat. Dating: Looks old, maybe 11th century, but that is a guess. Needs examination.
Recto: list of currencies and prices in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Verso: letter in a different hand and ink. (Information …
70 minute fragments (6 vellum; 64 paper) 47 of which are unidentified texts in Judaeo-Arabic (row 1, nos 1-2, 4, 6-8; row 2, nos 2- …
Petition from the Jewish community of Alexandria to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya (1140–59 CE). Complaining about oppressive and fraudulent collection of the capitation tax. …
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Booklist?
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in a town in the Rīf, to his father Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Shelomo's bad handwriting. He greets …
Letter from [...] b. Yūsuf to Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl [...]. In Arabic script. (The addressee is confusingly called 'my father' in the body of the …
Letter/petition in Arabic script from Isḥāq al-Qāriʾ. In Arabic script. Reporting that he is engaged in Hebrew studies and asking for material support. (Information in …
Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. Mentions 'al-wilāya.' Reused on recto for a book list in …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Crumpled and faded. Mentions a power of attorney (wikāla/wakāla), someone who signed something (saṭara ʿalā), "min al-ṭaraf," the number 24, …
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. On parchment. Dating: unknown but looks old, maybe 11th century or earlier.
Legal record (#44) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Location: Cairo, based on …
Small fragment of a petition or state document in Arabic script. One of the only phrases preserved is مراسمنا العالية. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. …