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Legal document in Hebrew. A damaged bill of gift, 11th century. Might be a join with ENA NS 3.16, but it is too hard to …
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Accounts on a small bifolio, mostly mathematical calculations without any headings or context provided. The verso includes a brief note mentioning the amount of funds …
Official-looking document in Arabic script. Mentions dīwān in the first line, fiscal-related. Needs examination.
Recto: Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 1 Av 1543 Seleucid = 19 July 1232 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. The young man …
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Legal document. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid, which is 988–1088 CE. Statement that the claims about the immoral behavior of Ḥisāna bt. Asmāʾ, the wife of Hilāl …
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Accounts in Hebrew alphanumerals in a unique scribal hand, many entries are crossed out. The word קרוש/kurush appears in one of the entries which helps …
Fol. 2v: Letter of appointment of Eli b. Yiṣḥaq Ha-Kohen Ghazal for a position of a beadle synagogue of the Babylonians in Fustat in Tammuz …
A letter from Avraham to Shlomo b. Aharon
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
List of foods and amounts: taro, egg, onion, chard and cilantro. Shopping list? Omelette recipe? ASE/MR
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Table of Judaeo-Arabic prognostications in a rough black grid. Possibly medieval.
A Karaite bill of divorce. Yosef b. Mordechai Levi is divorcing his wife Sultana d. Elya Kohen. In Haskoy, Istanbul. The date is given according …
Legal document. Fragment (lower left corner). In Hebrew rather than Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1 Av 48[24?] AM, which is (if correct) 1064 CE. Involves a woman …
Small fragment of an unknown nature. Very cursive hand and much faded. Dating: a partial Hijri date possibly appears in l. 6 of the recto: …
Legal formulary, including templates for a deathbed will and for a release (meḥila)
Deed of release. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1695 Seleucid = 1383/84 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid ʿAmram, for whom nine lines of titles and …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic - from the end of the 12th or first half of 13th century. Mentions "Sayyidnā may he live forever," which may be …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 9 Kislev 1473 Seleucid, which is 29 November 1161 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel b. …
Literary text, probably a prayer, in Arabic script. "الانعام توسل به" - "the beasts seek intercession through him".
Part of a preliminary draft of a chancery document addressed to a government official. ". . . bi-l-shadd minka fī istikhrāj al-māl ʿalā l-kamāl ʿalā …
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Piyyuṭ, calendar calculations, and draft of the opening lines of a letter/petition in Arabic script to Saʿīd al-Dawla.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). On parchment. Deed of sale for a property, or maybe a lease …
Accounts listing names and quanties on the recto and verso. Medieval era. Several names appear with the title "Ship Captain" (רייס) and one al-Somekh (סומך). …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Quite damaged. Mentions the phrase "taḥlil al-mizāj"; refers to al-Dimashqī; and Abū Isḥāq b. Maḥbūb.
Legal query concerning some property a man wants to sell or inhabit. The writer asks for some Arabic document establishing the man's rights to the …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Very faded. Headed by a basmala. Might be literary - one phrase reads "and the king said" (four lines from …
Receipt for a sum of wariq dirhams.
Book list written by Yosef b. Ya'aqov Rosh ha-Seder. Published by Allony, the Jewish LIbrary p. 396
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Fragment (middle vertical third) of a letter in Hebrew, mentioning al-Khawāja ʿUthmān and the sender's travels to Cairo or Egypt. A request for help (ולא …
Autograph fragments of Maimonides' epitomes of Galen’s περὶ τῶν πεπονθότων τόπων (De locis affectis), from the second and third treatises, in Judaeo-Arabic, in Maimonides’ own …
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Involving Bū l-Faḍl b. Hiba b. Faḍāʾil the Jewish banker (ṣayrafī).
Fragment, text on prognostications. Each prediction starts with a new point (al-bāb). Contains some Hebrew script interspersed. Verso conatins a note saying that this paper …
Prenuptial agreement. Dating: end of the 13th century. Fiancee: Shamsūn bt. Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq b. Yeshaʿya ha-Levi, the ex-wife of Avraham. Goitein describes it as …
Legal document. Bottom part only. Perhaps a marriage contract, as there is a note in between the document and the qiyyum making a statement about …
Recto: Legal query regarding a man who made many vows and repented of them. Verso: Appears to be the writer's notes more general notes to …
Scattered phrases having to do with marriage documents. Legible names include "Sarah bt. Avraham to the son of R. Yiṣḥaq," and "the daughter of David. …
Colophon of a codex, probably a Bible. Yosef b. Yaʿqov b. Yosef b. Shemarya b. Menahem (the latter three were all judges) buys the codex …
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Unidentified jottings in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The sender has been sick. Not much else is preserved.
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto of this fragment is so faded that only a …
Recto: letter, dated [.]3 of Kislev. Mentions ʿImrān and Musāfir. Dating: probably 11th century. Verso: part of the address, including [Nahray? b. Ni]ssim ZL. (Information …
Medical prescriptions in Arabic script.
Medical recipes and remedies in Ladino from an extensive chain of joins that suggest the existence of a broader compilation. On the recto there are …
Accounts in Ladino.
Fiscal document with at least three distinct sections. 1) The main text block concerns ships, requisitioning, ḍummān, and the officials charged with transporting crops from …
Letter from the Babylonian community of Jerusalem to Isḥak Mordechai tasked with recovering "Ya'ir Nērū" in Egypt – June 26 1930CE – Bassatine Cemetery – …
Bottom of a legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions a name Shākir b. Wahb(?).
Ketubba fragment (the beginning and the signatures are torn away). Groom: Yeshaʿya b. Yehuda (his own name appears in l.16 and his father's name in …