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Legal document or letter, fragment, probably written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Involves Barakāt and [...] b. Mubārak. (Information in part from CUDL) Might belong with …
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Verso: Legal document (bill of sale?) involving a Nubian female slave and the daughter of R. Yosef and someone's wife. Very faded. Dated: 1 Elul …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (b. 1310-d. 1355) seeking to bring peace to the community and also urging them to be charitable and …
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Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Headed by the name "al-Ḥājj Dāʾūd(?)." Dating: maybe ca. 13th century or later.
Bifolium from Mitzrayim, 1790–92 CE, apparently from a ledger of betrothal and marriage contracts. About nine are preserved, complete with names, and trousseau lists, and …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, very deferential. The addressee is asked to send the price of the basket of costus to New Cairo, to the shop of …
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Two double pages. Copy of a letter from Se’adya b. Yosef to Eli b. Tavnai’s sons in Fustat. Original letter was written in January 3, …
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Bifolio of business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Notable for the use of red ink (or ink that has turned red over …
Unusual accounts(?) in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentioning the word اقلودة (uqlūda?) many times as well as risāla. Needs further examination.
Accounts of a shopkeeper, it seems describing the proceeds of the sale of 9 out of 15 thawbs, living 6 in the shop.
Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. On a reused piece of parchment. Dating: probably late 12th or early 13th century. The addressee's name is mostly scraped …
Letter from Yehuda b. Moshe referring to the addressee's fame and stature, expressing a wish to see him, and promising to pronounce the prayer for …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late. Currency: banādiqa (=Venetian coins).
Small fragment with Hebrew script. Unidentified. Could be documentary.
Literary. Eshkol ha-Kofer by Yehuda Hadasi. Dating: Possibly 15th or 16th c. Information from NLI.
Account including list of names and numerals arranged in four columns
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Recto: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated indirectly by the year mentioned in the verso, 1434 Seleucid (1122/1123 CE). Concerning the …
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Halakhic text or notes (הארות האלו) in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu.
Rotulus. 4 Arabic-script fragments were pasted together to form a long rotulus for a Hebrew literary text on verso. Text 1 is a decree (wide …
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides. Concerning a certain Kohen who is seeking a restraining order against his divorcee and to prohibit her from entering …
Small fragment from an Arabic document - needs examination. See PGPID 23984 for join.
Legal record (#3). Loan contract. Crossed out with four vertical lines. Dated: Monday, 8 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Sayyid al-Kull al-Zayyāt Ibn al-Makḥūl (joine later by …
Letter/petition from Asher, Yisachar, and Dan, three Jewish converts in Malīj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 13th century and probably later. They express their …
Letter from Shabbetay b. Avraham to a notable, mentioning prayers made in his name. Identification of the writer based on handwriting. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Abū l-Faḍl to his father Abū l-ʿIzz. In Judaeo-Arabic. He opens with the verse Psalms 16:8 followed by three verses of Judaeo-Arabic poetry …
Letter from Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū l-Munā to Elishaʿ ha-Sar ha-Levi. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably late 12th or early 13th century. The sender has …
Recto: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Verso: Undeciphered text in Arabic script.
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the bearer 4 dinars and a half …
Legal record (#25) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Shevat [5321] …
Legal document: bill of sale for a slave. See also Perry's annotated edition of T-S18J1.17.
Unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe an account, maybe official. Mentions the phrase "....ʿalā ḥukm al-muqaddam...."
Table of gravesites in Tiberias, Sidon, Jerusalem, and Hebron. A description of gravesites in Tiberias references the resting place of Maimonides. This fragment may be …
Petition in Arabic script. Fragment (the beginnings of 4 lines from the bottom). Mentions al-Shaykh Ḥamīd and the Jewish m an Khalaf who lives in …
Notification by the court concerning a legal decision. Dated: first decade of Av [1]549 Seleucid = July 1238 CE. Announcing that the collector of the …
Deathbed declaration of a physician who includes in his will a gift to his wife in addition to the money owed to her as written …
Top of a legal declaration drawn up in Fustat in the middle of Iyyar 15[..], under the authority of the Avraham Maimonides. One of the …
One side: four ethical (?) principles in Judaeo-Arabic written over the remains of a few lines in Arabic. The other side: a legal query and …
Lists of names and numbers, e.g., Shemaʿya, at least two women, and 3.5 dinars. In Judaeo-Arabic. More should be legible if this is unfolded/conserved.
Letter? Fragment with text in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded.
Document in Arabic script. Moderately wide space between the lines. On verso there are readings for Shavuʿot. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Bifolio from a court ledger. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Three records at least: 1) Settlement of a complex marriage dispute involving …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic that mention Ottoman-era jadid coinage. 16th- or 17th-century. Along the recto's upper border the name Yosef appears with a possible surname: שוריפה …
Mamlūk-era tax (kharāj) register for the town of Minyat Khamīs. The document is probably dated 11 Jumādā l-Ākhar 706 H. Mentions names of some state …
Recto: Note in Arabic script, possibly a miniature petition or report ("yunhī," l. 2). Mentions a jahbadh (end of l. 3). Needs further examination. In …
Accounts of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. "Detailed and important" according to Goitein's index card. See also ENA NS 22.21 (PGPID 6940). ( Recto, right …