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Book list. Most items are volumes of the Talmud. E.g., a commentary on most of Seder Moed by the Ẓarfatiyyim z"l, an Arabic commentary on …
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List of books of the bible.
Strange composition in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic prose. A maqāma? Less likely a letter. Probably in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu or his father Eliyyahu. May …
Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
2 Samuel ch. 5 with Targum.
Genealogical list of the family of Avraham Maimonides' mother (the wife of Moshe Maimonides), a family in which nearly every member is described as "he-Ḥasid" …
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Popular literature. Animal fable in rhyming Judaeo-Arabic. 9 folios.
Large (private) account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. The name Abū Isḥāq appears at the top of verso.
Several legal attestations in Hebrew, perhaps from a court ledger, in multiple handwritints, regarding the dispute between Yosef Kalido (?) and David Leon, who were …
Lists in Judeo-Arabic of monetary contributions for children that were recorded in 5576 which is 1815/16CE. The contents of this shelfmark may be related to …
Literary text, poetry, in Arabic script.
Poetry. Alternating verses in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic, elevated register. Small fragment only. Mentions the government. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment containing copies of two different legal documents. The second involves a loan from Abūl-Maʿālī to a certain Yeshaʿya.
Small receipt or order. For Ḥusayn b. Ḥaramī. For 100 dirhams precisely. Needs examination.
Order of payment or receipt for Eliyya concerning bread. In the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). On verso (original use) there is a …
Possibly documentary. Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined.
Draft/jottings of another document on a Hebrew literary text. "المولا الشيخ الاجل ابو منصور".
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (left side only). In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Location: Fustat. Dated: [14]66 Seleucid, which is 1144/45 CE. Groom: Avraham …
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Document in Arabic script. Reused for Targum of Exodus 29:25–46.
Letter from Yehoshuaʿ Azulay. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably 17th–19th century. Currency: grossos (גרושש), a generic term for non-Ottoman silver coins. The letter mentions various …
Bottom of a letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Netanʾel b. Shelomo al-Zajjāj. Very faded. Greetings to several people.
Late letter in Ladino written to Shemuʾel b. Soshan, dated 1st of Ḥeshvan. Mentions various business dealings including in indigo (אנייל) and something called אבראג̇יל …
Legal record (#120) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 39r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 7 Sivan 5333 …
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century. Mentioning sending things with different people, including cheese. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Crude handwriting and spellings. Mentions "the runner (raqqās) of the capitation tax, for/from Makhlūf" and then "Manṣūr the collector …
Hebrew poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.
A late letter from Yosef, asking to addressee to write a bill of permission to give a loan (שטר עסקא). In Hebrew. On recto pen …
Deathbed will. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Minyat Ashna. Dated: Monday, last decade of Shevaṭ 1461 Seleucid, which is January 1150 CE, under the authority of the …
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Recto is a literary text in Arabic in red and blank ink, vocalized and beautifully written. Verso is an account in Arabic, maybe of collaterals …
Legal document issued by a beit din likely under the direction of Rabbi David Ibn Abi Zimra (lived ca. 1479-1573 CE). In Hebrew. Dated: 10 …
State document, one line. "خارجا عما حمل للدار وسلم بحر". Needs examination.
Very faded and damaged Hebrew letter addressed to a community. Most of the text preserved contains poetic Hebrew verses. On verso only part of the …
Paper stuck on a cardboard for bookbinding, or a wooden plank. Literary text in Hebrew script, some of the words read as "סוד הדבר". Script …
Recto: piyyut. Verso: writing exercises in Hebrew characters, featuring a lot of alephs, the words shalom and al-hamdu, and the first verse of Psalms. ASE.
Legal record (#22) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 9r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 27 Tevet [5321] …
Petition or report. Fragment, three lines preserved. Requests intervention in a dispute between someone and ʿImrān b. Lāwī (ʿImrān b. Levi, possibly Abū ʿImrān Moshe …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a chest of coral (3 lines from bottom). Very close to the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū, although does not …
Letter in the hand of Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq b. Bundār but possibly written on behalf of somebody else, possibly from Aden, to Zayn b. Yosef …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender asks the recipient to represent him in kissing the ground before the Nagid (Sayyidnā Rayyis al-Zaman wa-Qudwat al-Inas). He asks …
Religious litanies – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 14) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Letter from the mother of Dā'ūd, in a provincial town, to her son Sulaymān al-Jamal, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. She complains about a lack of …
Copy of a letter sent from one of the Syrian communities to Damascus. In Hebrew. Conveying their distress at the imminent arrival and encampment of …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Musāfir b. Yūsuf in Fustat for the year 509. Dated: 2 (or 6?) Dhū l-Ḥijja 509 AH = April …
Small fragment of a legal document. Involving Siwār (unless this word is "siwāhu"), Yosef, and a Torah codex. Refers to a period beginning with the …
Small fragment of an unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Might be a letter. Refers to a man killing his wife.
Recto: Poem in honor of the wedding of a dignitary
Small fragment with Judaeo-Arabic text, likely from a letter. Late? Mentions the synagogue or synagogues (?אלכניסיין).
Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to an unknown person. Around 1060. The addressee is not Nahray, as Nahray’s name is mentioned in …
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Letter fragment (from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) with elaborate praise and good wishes for the recipient Abū l-Faraj and his children.