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Torn court record, probably a bill of release, between Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf (Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef) al-Ḥarīrī and Abū l-Barakāt Yehoshuaʿ regarding a missing shipment of …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Writing practice. Ottoman-era. Needs examination.
Probably a legal document, mentioning the elder Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad Tifʾeret ha-Qahal. Crossed out. Verso is probably a distinct document. (Information in part from …
Part of a letter or document in Arabic script (might mention al-Ramla and a date). Reused for writing exercises in Hebrew and for piyyuṭ on …
Possibly a promissory note. In Arabic script. "I owe the shayh [...] X dinars... in the year...." Needs further examination.
Hebrew literary work, including the penultimate verse of Ecclesiastes (sof davar...).
Poems (each called 'qaṣīd') in honor of a certain R. Yaʿaqov b. Abī l-Ḥaḍram (recto). In Hebrew. The poem on each side is for a …
Legal document or record. Quotes a ketubba verbatim (but is not the ketubba itself). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 17 Sivan 1475 Seleucid, which is 1164 …
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Halakhic treatise (possibly a responsum) with citations from various sources. Verso is blank (CUDL)
Recto: probably a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: unidentified. (Information from CUDL)
Account in Judaeo-Arabic (מחסבא מברכא) for Rashīd/Rosetta (עאן ראשיד אלמחרוסה) for the period Dhū l-Qaʿda 946 AH – Shawwāl 947 AH = 1541/42 CE. Contains …
Karaite ketubba from Cairo. The groom is Ya'aqov b. Moshe. The name of the bride is not preserved. Dated Sivan 5388 AM (1628 CE).
Legal query or responsum in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning witnesses and oaths.
Secondary use: Inventory of possessions in Judaeo-Arabic, for legal purposes. The lists are arranged in columns on each side. Mentions "with his deceased brother." On …
Minute fragment in Hebrew script, medieval-era. Possibly documentary. Requires further examination.
Late literary work.
Fragment of a letter from Yusuf b. Eli Kohen Fasi, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Mentions dinars that should be exchanged, and that several …
סיידי ומולאי [אטאל א]ללה [בקאך] ואדאם תאיידך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ונעמתך מן אלאסכנדריה לט בקין מן תמוז ואל<חאל>
סלאמה ואלחמד ללה רב [אלעאלמין] ת…
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Letter by Yisrael [b. Shemuel b. Hofni?]. See Mann, Texts and Studies, I, 165–66. Date is given, possibly Elul [1]315 = 1004 CE. Information from …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Moderately wide space between the lines. Quite faded. Reports on something that occurred after exiting the synagogue with the congregation. There is …
Several diminutive notes in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals - receipts? orders? The notable feature is that they are pierced and threaded together, and the …
Small fragment from the beginning of a ketubba from Fustat. No identifying information remains.
Responsum, dealing with purchases; quoting Leviticus 25:14. (Information from CUDL)
No image in Ktiv
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Mentions a sum of 66 dinars and travel. Needs examination.
Acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 14th–16th century on paleographic grounds and based on the mention of the Dār Simḥa synagogue. A precise date …
Announcement regarding the program of ceremonies for the Ibn Yuḥay Institute for Culture and Righteousness in which the Minister of Social Affairs, the Chief Rabbi …
Geṭ (bill of divorce). On parchment. Location: al-Maḥalla ha-Gedola (al-Kubrā). Dated: Monday, 16 Tammuz 1458 Seleucid = 16 June 1147 CE. Husband: Abū l-Fakhr b. …
Official-looking small receipt. ENA 3968.21 and ENA 3968.23 appear to be in the name of the same person (Ḥusayn b. [...]). Needs examination.
Perhaps accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso was not photographed.
Prescription in Judaeo-Arabic, it seems for hemorrhoids (arwāḥ, see Blau's dictionary, p. 264).
Recto: Legal deed (part) for the sale of a house with an orchard on the Jazīra, "between the two rivers and the two bridges." Sold …
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Verso (original use): Three distinct document in Arabic script, which have been cut and glued together for the sake of reuse on recto. (1) T-S …
IB IV, 41 (ח55). Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham Ibn ʿEzra, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: after 1 Nisan 1139 …
Legal document dated but much of the date is lost. Mentions Mukarram al-Kohen (on verso, not part of the document itself). (Information in part from …
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1011 CE. Mentions the deaths of Shemarya b. Elḥanan and the cantor Palṭiel, as well as the …
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Legal document signed by Yaʿaqov b. Shelomo. One of the parties is Ṣadaqa. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Khiyār b. Yaʿaqov to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. Yefet (aka Hibatallāh b. Ḥusayn and Netanʾel b. Yefet). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1090s CE. …
Small fragment of a legal document. Dating: probably 13th–15th century. Mentions various sums of thousands of dinars (4000 and 7000 and 3000), [...] b. Yaʿqūb …
Deed of compensation from the court of Efrayim b. Shemarya and in his handwriting. Concerning people from Tyre and a partnership, starting with an Arabic …
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Letter addressed to Moshe Levi b. Zakkār. (Same addressee as in T-S NS 31.16.) In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th–17th century. Mentions Messina in recto, …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, in Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on …
Verso: Letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Possibly 11th century. Beginning only. The writer reports on previous letters that he had sent with the fayj to …
Unidentified text in Arabic script, likely literary.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Sālim, Ṣafiyy, Hiba, Abū l-Ḥasan, Abū l-Murajjā, and Khalaf. Reused for piyyuṭ on recto.
Letter from Efrayim b. ʿAzaryahu to an unnamed addressee. There are 13 lines of eloquent Hebrew blessings and flattery ("my soul is tied up with …
A letter contains mostly discussion on the calendar from Ishaq b. Shlomo
Note in Arabic script beginning "yā mawlānā." Everything is crossed out but might still be legible.