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ENA 4011.16a (upper fragment): Communal accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written and signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. Very faded. There are at least two distinct entries. …
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Fol. 5v: Letter in Arabic script with two Hebrew words mixed in (סתום in l. 2 and המעשה in the margin). Wide line spacing. May …
Letter from קלדה the wife of Meir Ṭaras(?) to דייצה the wife of Avraham Ḥalafta(?). In Ladino. Needs examination.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday, 23 Rajab 1244 AH, which is January 1829 CE. In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: …
ghurūsh
[ghurūsh in ṣiyāqāt script]
15,000 .3
Only fifteen thousand ghurūsh, nothing else.
The reason for its [the document’s] compos…
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Account of the Qodesh: payments to building workers, ca. 1045. Two fragments written in Arabic script, on vellum, the verso of a letter. Apparently, this …
In the Name of God, the merciful:
Record of the work done by the special masons….
.......... Monday, 13 Dhūʾl-ḥijja,
the 3rd day of…
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Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Verso: Letter in Arabic script. The Arabic document is the first page of a letter. The formulaic greetings extend to three lines from the bottom, …
Legal document from the high court (al-Bāb al-ʿĀlī) in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 4 Rabīʿ II 1106 AH = 22 November 1694 CE. Judge: …
Legal record (#88) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 30v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 11 Kislev 5325 …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Rabīʿ I 984 AH in the upper left corner of the recto (1576 CE). Among the names mentioned are: (recto) Yahuda …
Letter from a certain Meʾir to his 'friend and brother' Abū ʿImrān ('ha-talmid ha-navon'). In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender's hand is familiar from other documents (distinctive …
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Legal deed. Location: Qūṣ. Dated: Shevaṭ 1527 Seleucid, which is 1216 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. In which the physician Abū l-Manṣūr Elʿazar …
Short letter to 'the in-law' Yosef and 'the daughter Esther Yāqūta, also mentioning Khuḍayr,' in a crude hand and extremely colloquial language. Dating: ca. 15th-16th …
Notes for a legal query or responsum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. Regarding Reuven who willed a house to his grandson. After …
Address (אלשיך אלאגל) and jottings. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th or 19th century.
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 20 Shawwāl 741 AH = 8 April 1341 CE. Seems to be a debt contract in which two people …
One side: Legal document in Arabic script. Probably a deed of sale. Mentions [...] b. ʿUmar b. Muḥsin b. ʿAlī and the phrase "ʿalā iqrār …
Verso: State document, in Arabic script. Almost three lines preserved. Probably a report. Mentions land tax "kharāj zarʿ". Part of the document reads as "فان …
Formulary of legal documents, with פֿבֿפֿ written in place of the names. The types of document are given above the text of each, and they …
Small fragment of an Arabic document. The number 500 appears (part of a date?). Verso may mention the phrase "ilā mawlānā"
Late letter from Avraham Hamān and Gabriel Ḥefez addressed to Merkado Karo and Shim'on Frances. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 26 Shevat 5567 AM (1807 CE). Information …
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Probably an account of state properties (amlāk). Contains an ʿalāma "Allāh Ḥawlī". The accounts are organized with …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Abū l-Surrī. Transactions mainly in rubāʿīs.
Personal letter to the writer’s father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper half only). Same sender as many other letters, such as T-S 10J7.3, T-S 13J21.13, and …
Verso: Letter in the hand of Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli referring to how the qāḍī ʿĪsā [..]l al-Mulk Ṣāḥib al-Tartīb known as Ibn Hārūn kisses the …
Accounts in Arabic script. Al-Shaykh Bū Saʿd.... al-jumla....
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic. Dated: 432 AH = 1040/41 CE. Merits further examination.
Bifolio with a list of names and numerical figures in the upper right corner of the recto. Medieval-era. Names such as Barakāt and ʿAbd al-Karīm. …
Bill of release in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 19 Elul 1400 Seleucid = 28 August 1089 CE. Release given …
Letter from a woman named Harja, somewhere in Syria, to her brother ʿAbd al-Dā'im Ibn Fayrūz, in Cairo. See tag for other letters by her.
Literary text in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic, narrating the mutual seduction between a Jewish man and a Christian (enslaved?) woman. There are a few lines in Arabic …
Literary: a Hebrew maqāma. Identified by Miriam Frenkel and Oded Zinger as Ne'um Ṭuviyya b. Ṣidqiyya composed by Yosef Ibn Shimʿon. Compare T-S AS 117.69 …
Magical remedies, written on parchment.
Accounts, probably for wine sent to the castle (burj), with sums of money in silver of good quality and mentioning the names of Yaʿaqov Ṭayyib …
Letter written by Nissim b. Ḥalfon on behalf of Mardūkh b. Ṣalaḥ Tāhartī (Gil) and sent from Alexandria to Abu Isḥāq Barhūn b. Ṣalaḥ Tāhartī …
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Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions Ibrāhīm b. Jaʿfar الحوفي and Salām b. Manṣur. Needs further examination.
Legal document. Partnership record (shirka). Location: Fustat. Dated Sunday, 5 Adar 1403 Seleucid (February 1092 CE), with the signatures delayed until 27 Adar 1403 (8 …
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Tax receipt, Fatimid.
A letter to Moshe b. Yosef in Luzk from Mordechai b. Shemuel b. Yeshu'a in Helitz
Personal letter. In Arabic script. After complaining about the lack of responses, the substance of the letter begins around line 10. Al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm sent something …
Bill of divorce. Incomplete. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 9 Ṭevet 1562 Seleucid, which is December 1250 CE. Husband: Avraham b. David ha-Kohen of the city …
State document, in Arabic script, calligraphic, with diacritics and vowels. Late. "We have looked into these matters. . ." Needs examination.
] الله تعالى لما ارتضا]ه
الشريفة بشمول اليمن شملا ويميـ[
بسطة وتمكينا
الينا نظرنا في احوال اهـ[
ووفائهم بما عليهم م…
Declaration about five generations of males and females related by ramified family connections. Dated to the 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 286)
Document in Arabic script. Reused for jottings. Needs examination.
Account of repairs of a house, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A previous version of this shelfmark description listed the date range …
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Qiddush for passover and calendrical mnemonics.
The recto begins with citations from 2 Kings 23:30 and 24:6, noting the deaths of the kings of Judah, Josiah and Jehoiakim. This is followed …
Upper half of a letter in which the writer expresses his gratitude to his father-in-law, the 'sar' Yehoshuaʿ, for treating him well, and mentions his …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Very faded. Sent from Jerusalem to Cairo, based on the damaged address on the verso: מירושלם למצרים.