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Colophon of Saʿadya Gaon’s book on the laws of evidence and documents (Kitāb al-Shahadāt wa-l-Wathāʾiq) belonging to Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq, a judge in Ṣoʿan (= …
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Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 42.
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Trousseau list. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. Bride: Munā bt. Yosef. Groom: Ṭayyib b. Yosef. Some interesting details. Marriage payments: 5 + 30 = 35. Dowry: …
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Accounts, mentioning Muslim month names. Associated with T-S 147.174. (Information from CUDL)
No Scholarship Records
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 …
Business letter from Farah b. Yosef in Alexandria to Yehuda b. Menashshe in Fustat concerning the delivery of goods, namely items of silver, olive oil, …
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Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic to a dignitary. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions Wuhayb b. Avraham and Saʿīd b. [...]. Fragment.
Recipe in Arabic script. Likely a medical prescription: لسان تور شامي وعرق سوس . . . من كل واحد . . . . . . …
Literary text in Ladino. Many pages. At least part of it is a version of Toldot Yeshu (clearly antagonistic, as יש״ו is defined as an …
An IOU specifying a sum owed to al-Ḥājj al-Fawwāl.
Fragment from a Karaite betrothal deed. The witnesses to the appointment of the bride’s agent are […] b. Khalaf and Naḥum b. Naḥum. Ca. 11th …
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Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya by Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Fustat, dealing with trade in the Maghreb and fiscal matters. Dated …
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Some Arabic words on the bottom of a piyyut - needs examination.
Part of the beginning of a ketubba, dated 13[..] (10th-11th century CE) in Fusṭāṭ. (Information from CUDL)
The main block of writing is a folktale in Judaeo-Arabic about a very poor man ("who worked for two dirhams each day") who came home …
Poetry. Extract from Abu l-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Sulaymān al-Maʿarrī’s (d. 449/1058) al-Luzūmiyyāt.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document/testimony within a letter (from one judge to another?). Introduced by Psalms 40:12. The witnesses are David b. Yosef, Abū l-Faḍl, and Abū l-ʿIzz. …
Fragment of document(s) in Arabic script. Verso contains the beginnings of two lines in an elegant hand: ḥasala ʿalā . . . Recto is in …
Letter from Thābit(?) b. Ibrāhīm, in Fustat, to Abū Isḥāq Ibāhīm al-Kohen b. Yūsuf, in Alexandria. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Written in Judaeo-Arabic with …
Minute fragment with a few partial words visible in Hebrew script on the recto, possibly documentary.
Magical text in Hebrew script.
List in Hebrew with at least one Ladino word (פיקוס), mentioning a diwan and sums of money. The exact meaning of the term "fico/pico" is …
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and Hiba al-Kohen and a wife.
IB III, 15. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yijū in Jurbattan (Srikandapuram), dated Elul 1458 Sel. (August 1147). Written in …
In Your name, O Merciful.
You will walk, without breaking stride; when you run, you will not stumble.
And Shaddai be your treasure, and p…
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Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company, in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 7 Nisan 5568 AM, which is 4 April …
Letter fragment in Arabic script.
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Account in Arabic script (information from Marina Rustow). On recto there is Sa'adia Gaon's translation of the Pentateuch, Leviticus 11:13-20 (information from Penn Catalog).
Legal query to Hodayahu ha-Nasi. See parallel in ENA 4045.19 (PGPID 15920).
Document(s) in Hebrew. Possibly a letter of appeal for charity. Prefaced with biblical verses and ornate praises. On the side that also has Arabic script, …
Petition from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī to Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin). In Arabic script. Has a tarjama at the upper left; 4 lines of introductory blessings; …
Legal document, probably, but in an uncommon formulary with multiple first-person clauses. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. In Hebrew. The only full …
Book list. Dating: Probably 13th century, as the latest book mentioned is Sefer ha-Madaʿ (from the Mishneh Torah) by Maimonides. (Information from Allony.)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Many names are mentioned, including Qāsim and Ibn al-ʿAṣṣām.
Letter addressed to ʿEli the Parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender petitions on behalf of a divorcee who came to him "complaining and crying" that her …
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Legal testimony declaring that Hassun of Ascalon was the father of Abū Saʿd, the illegitimate son of Wuhsha the Broker. Mentions Abū ʿAlī al-Parnas Yefet …
The elder Abū ‘Alā Japheth, the …,
the son of the elder Maslī’aḥ—may he rest in Eden—appeared before us and made the following deposition, while …
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Legal document. In Aramaic. Location: Fustat. Dating: Looks old, maybe 11th century, but that is a guess. Needs examination.
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script. Damaged and faded.
Legal record (#51) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 18r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated in Tishrei 5323 …
Letter from Eliyyahu Ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon to David Nasi b. Hizqiyyahu. Ca. mid-11th century.
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Minute fragment, a remnant of writing/ink is visible on the recto possibly in Hebrew script.
Cryptic fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems literary.
Informal note from Yeshuʿa (or from a communal leader with the ʿalāma "Yeshuʿa"). In Judaeo-Arabic. It says that Abu Saʿīd should report to the court …
Megillat Miẓrayim, here called "Megillat ha-Saṭan ha-Yaduaʿ." Retelling the events of the rebellion of Ahmad Basha against Suleiman I of Turkey in 1524, and its …
Unidentified text(s) in Arabic script, may be documentary.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Involves Abū l-Faraj Netanel, who dies; the sister of Shela ha-Kohen; Hiba Ibn al-Shāmī; …
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably 11th century. Mentions Maymūn.
Bifolio from a Judaeo-Arabic copy of the Aqrābādhīn of Ibn al-Tilmīdh.
Letter by Israel Gaon b. Shemuel b. Hophni to an unknown community.