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Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company, in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 9 Tishrei 5569 AM, which is 30 September …
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Unidentified text in Arabic script, possibly a letter, possibly poetry. Mentions "dafātirī" and "al-qirṭās." Needs examination.
Letter. Hebrew verses praising an official connected to the government. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
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Legal agreement between spouses on the issue of second wife, in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel Ha-Ḥaver (fl. 1128-1164 CE). Location: Fustat. The groom, …
Verso: Fragment of a large document in Arabic, a minute portion of three lines is visible. Medieval-era. The recto was reused for liturgy/berakhot in Hebrew …
Recto: Biblical verses in Hebrew language written in Arabic script (ṭov lehodot...), headed by a basmala, presumably for liturgical use. A Karaite version of the …
Letter addressed to Ismail Al-Lawi al-Andalusi. VMR
Lower fragment, recto: Document in calligraphic Arabic script. Maybe a state document. Phrases: وبيعه بالسعر المستوفي . . . حق(؟) فقد سير الغلة صحبته مملوكه …
Book list.
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Part of a longer legal document, probably describing a gift or series of gifts made by a father, David, to his daughter. He is formally …
Fragment from the bottom of a petition. With a raʾy clause (...al-raʾy al-sāmī fīhi lā zāla ʿāliyan...). Dated Jumādā I 5[.]7 H, corresponding to 1113–1171 …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From Yemen. May be late. ENA 3504.2(?), ENA 3504.3, and ENA 3504.5 may all be from the same letter. Needs examination.
Fragmentary legal record drafted in Fustat and including an incomplete date (Sivan 14[..] Seleucid). Involves Abū l-Surūr and Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon. Written and signed by …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves a settlement related to an inheritance divided into three shares; one of …
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Petition from a woman to a high dignitary or perhaps to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil himself (one reigned 1200–18 and another reigned 1238–40) in a rudimentary hand. …
Ketubba fragment. Groom: ʿEli ha-Kohen ("ʿEli Kahna"). Dated: 1357 Seleucid, which is 1045/46 CE.
Apparently an invitation to a hesped. Information (and transcription) from Goitein's notes attached to BL OR 10578C.1 (PGPID 6310).
Medical treatise in Arabic script.
Probably calendrical calculations. AA
Bottom part of a legal document, on vellum, only the signature of Avraham ha-Levi b. Ḥārith Zaqen ha-Qehilot is preserved. This Avraham is known from …
Distribution list for public charity. In Judaeo-Arabic, transitioning to Arabic script on verso. Dating: Perhaps ca. 13th century, but that is a guess. There are …
List of commodities and prices. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter from Elazar b. Shem[uel?], unknown location, to his 'brother' Abū l-Faraj ʿImrān b. Ḥasan, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Deals mainly with matters of correspondence—who …
Legal declaration in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Involves a story of Abū l-Bayān (the brother of one of the other parties) and Abū l-Baqāʾ and Abū l-Mufaḍḍal …
Small receipt or order for 3 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic with a few rows of writing exercises (?) in the margin. There are also a few words in Arabic.
Work written by Isma'il b. Isra'il X the physician dealing with medicine. Opening page.
A letter to Moshe b. Yosef in Luzk from Mordechai b. Shemuel b. Yeshu'a in Helitz
Recto: Accounts, listing names of people and amounts of money. Verso: A sum of money is requested from Avraham Dayyan. (An Avraham Dayyan is named …
Late accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Receipt, probably. For Mūsā?
Beginning of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Iyar 1510–29 Seleucid = 1199–1218 CE. Left incomplete. On the other side there is a poetical letter …
Verso: Three fragments of a letter from from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he fulfilled the …
Calendar in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi.
Calendar, beg. מחזר ר̇ס̇א̇, continued on Bodl. MS heb. f 56/4–5. There is also the text of Exodus xx. 12-26 in shorthand writing. (Information from …
Bill of release. Dated: Tammuz 1411 Seleucid = June/July 1100 CE. On parchment. Written by Hillel b. ʿEli, who signed the document together with Yiṣḥaq …
Letter addressed to an important person (perhaps Eliyyahu ha-Kohen Av Bet Din, who is greeted 3 lines from the bottom). In the hand of Yefet …
Recto: Legal testimony. Stating that Yeshuʿa Peʾer ha-Qahal and Bunyām b. Sibāʿ and his mother and Ḥāzim appeared and fought over 1.5 dinars that Sibāʿ …
Late letter in a cursive script, very faded with extensive liquid damage. The address lists the recipient as the sender's father: wālidī Ḥ... .... Shoshān. …
Marriage contract. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 15 Sivan 5566 AM, which is 1806 CE. Groom: David Karo b. Binyamin. Bride; Malīḥa bt. Yaʿaqov Romano. Sum …
Fragment containing only the imprint of the text of T-S AS 184.235, which seems to be a state document mentioning a rescript (tawqīʿ).
Recto: Trousseau list. Mentions the elder Abū l-Faḍl, the groom. Goitein dates it to the late 12th or early 13th century.
List or table listing a bunch of names on both sides. Needs examination.
List in the hand of the scribe of App. B 25, part 2, and App. B 33, part 1. Distribution of 23 jukhaniyyas to thirteen …
Letter from a certain Barakāt. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner of recto, left side of the address on verso). Very little of the …
Accounts. (Information from CUDL)