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Secondary document: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions a small qāʿa and a large qāʿa, perhaps also a ṭabaqa. For primary document, see …
No Scholarship Records
Recto: elegant Judaeo-Arabic rhymed prose on the theme of memento mori, interspersed with verses from Job in Hebrew (21:32: 'For he is borne to the …
Three different literary fragments, though the top two may be from the same source.
Fragment of a bifolio. Probably a contributors list. Late.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Ibn al-Rayyis (spelled אבן אלרייץ).
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100–38). Regarding a partnership. Mentions Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and [...]n ha-Kohen. Written on a Wednesday.
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Mysterious fragment mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with some Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 16th century. Recto might be a collection of pen trials …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso of a literary text. Mentions Yaʿqūb several times.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower left corner). Probably a will (al-waṣiyya). The year is just …
Poem in Hebrew. 17 lines in praise of a dignitary, then 2 lines of blessing in Judaeo-Arabic, then it ends. "From your grateful slave, Shemuel." …
Account ledger filled with Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic entries. Several pages. Merits examination. Includes on one page an Arabic poem transcribed into Hebrew characters (the …
Minute blank fragment.
Recto (secondary use): List of distribution of meat to/by some named individuals including the prices and amounts. The hand is probably known. Many names listed, …
Accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from ʿAwāḍ b. Ḥananel from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060. In the handwriting of Avraham b. Abi al-Hayy and concerning business …
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Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Recto mentions: what Abū l-Faḍl is owed by Sitt Abū l-Surūr (two raṭls of lāsīn); silk; Ibn …
Geonic responsa. Published by Marmorstein, p. 10-12. The scribe is the one known to write many such rotolus for the owner known as Ibn al-Baqra …
Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto refers to Abū l-Rabīʿ al-Levi "my friend, the ascetic (al-zāhid)"; Rabbenu Yosef b. Menaḥem; and a commentary on …
Letter containing a dirge on the death of Mevorakh b. Saʿadya the Nagid. Unpublished.
Legal document with testimony concerning orphans and Isaac Horoshban (הורושבן), who died. Mentions various people including Isaac Shanji (שאנגו). Originally dated 1586 CE in FGP …
Small fragment from a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from a marriage contract or a ketubah. Part from the monogamy clause is preserved. AA
Receipt.
Letter from the copyist Shemuel to the notable Yeshuʿa. In Hebrew. Asking for a gift. During the six months in which Shemuel has stayed “here,” …
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Letter of appeal for charity or assistance. Addressed to Peraḥya ha-Kohen. The sender came down with an illness (wa-thāra ʿalā ʿabdih al-maraḍ) and he has …
Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased was an adult (kāmil) woman Ḥusn bt. Mūsā, and she was survived …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slaves report the death of Ḥusn, the Jewess, an adult woman, the daughter of Mūsā,
the …
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Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 4 Ṭevet 1378 Seleucid = 25 December 1066 CE. In which Shela b. Yefet Ibn al-Sukkarī acknowledges having receiving …
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Awaiting description
Verso: various jottings, including the draft of the opening of a letter to Abū Saʿd b. Moshe in Judaeo-Arabic. Expressing the writer’s desire to see …
Late bifolium, with two pages of prose followed by verses of a kinnah, concluding with an interesting illustration containing Arabic letters and the scribe's signature: …
Fragment of a legal document. In Hebrew. Mentions Yehuda, a sale, and an oath. Dating: probably ca. 16th century.
Deed of sale of a part of a house. Location: Alexandria. Dated: last decade of Ḥeshvan 4965 AM = October 1204 CE. Three shares of …
Calendar.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dated: 1444 Seleucid = 1132/33 CE. Groom: Shemuel aka Ismāʿīl b. Yosef. …
Minute fragment. Damaged. Probably a list or accounts, mentioning names, such as Isḥaq. (Information from CUDL)
Original document: Petition from a woman (al-mamlūka), probably in Tinnīs (المقيمة بمدينة تنيس حماها الله تعالى) to a dignitary with the title al-Juyūshī. The addressee …
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Letter in Ladino. Small fragment. From a certain Shelomo.
Court record. In Hebrew. Written and signed by Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim (active 1213–33). "When the orphan went out... the craftsmen will examine him... what is …
Arabic script (VMR)
Accounts. Mentions fruits "apples" and "pomegranates". Needs examination.
Fragment in Ottoman Turkish. Only the second half of the text after the basmala is fairly clear in meaning with an invocation for success/divine grace …
Poetry – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 294) – in Italian. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / …
Formulary or draft of a get-well-soon card. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th–17th century. Very florid.
Recto: Brief note in Judaeo-Arabic concerning attendance somewhere and asking the addressee to do some favor. Verso: Jotted accounts mentionining Mūsā and sums of money. …
Legal document concerned with claims in connection with a certain Nissim, a warning (hādhihi al-hatraʾa), and a certain Yiṣḥaq. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fiscal account. Needs examination.
Official confirmation at court of a debt of 60 dinars contracted three months earlier before a notary, Ab 1417/ July 1106. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. …