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Fragment of a court record (upper left corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–38). Concerning the inheritance of Abū Isḥāq Avraham ha-Levi, …
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Discussion on the use of the Era of Documents - needs examination. Image not available
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl, in Fustat, to Khallūf b. Mūsā, in Palermo. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמאך מן אל
פצטאט לה איאם מצת מן אייר ערפך אללה ברכתה וסעאדה מא יליה ברחמתה
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Marriage contract containing details of a dowry and written at the time of the Nagid ʿAmram (1378-1383). The name Avraham is preserved. (Information from Goitein's …
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Letter addressed to the judge Moshe. The sender asks him to approve a certain Iṣḥāq as kosher slaughterer (shoḥeṭ), "because his like are few." The …
List of payments (recto and verso). Names include Ṣadaqa b. Mīnā. Quantities expressed in words and dirhams.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Yosef ha-Talmud b. Yishay ha-Sar. In Hebrew. Complaining that the addressee has not fulfilled his vow to give Yosef sum of money in …
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Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Official-looking. Dating: Probably Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. Reused in the margins and on recto for writing exercises.
Recipe or prescription, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic involving a skinny woman and a fat woman. One is "thin of waist, great of buttocks, sweet of bosom." Possibly in …
Accounts.
Bifolio of accounts, very detailed and well-preserved. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Some sort of legal or state receipt, maybe after a sale. Needs examination.
Deed of sale. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. Ṣemaḥ Alanj (? אלנג׳) sells Shemuel Cordoba 19 pounds of a particular kind of coral …
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The text of a sermon for parshat Aharey Mot, late.
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Legal document in the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Small vertical strip from the left side. On parchment. Possibly concerning the manumission and …
Recto (secondary use): Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic, likely documentary.
Epistle of R. Sherira Gaon
Jottings including quantities of dinars in Arabic with Coptic alphanumerals. Written on the verso of a letter from Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya regarding trade, merchandise and …
IB ח91. Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Ibn Ghyyāth, in al-Andalus, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. Dating: ca. 1138/39 CE. The letter mostly consists of …
Deed of lease (istiʾjar). An Iqrār. In Arabic. Mentions a date in the body of the text: 12 Dhū l-Qaʿda 531 AH = 1 August …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. From Waliyy(?) to his 'father' ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (named on recto). The address is made out to Makīn(?) b. Waliyy al-[...] …
Receipt.
Literary text in Arabic script. Faded.
Late Judaeo-Arabic dowry list, probably, since it is headed "be-siman tov ve-ʿosher ve-banim be-mazal ẓomeaḥ ve-ʿoleh." There follows a list of numerous items, mostly garments, …
Probably a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions transactions, numbers, and people such as Avraham and Shemuʾel.
Business letter to ʿArūs b. Yosef, probably in Alexandria, since he is asked about prices in Alexandria in line 21. Aodeh thinks the author of …
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Letter; recto is in Hebrew, headed Rosh ha-Seder and mentioning Yaʿaqov the elder. Address on verso in Arabic script: to Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. [...] …
Legal document dated Monday 14th Iyyar (no year but probably late 12th or early 13th century), about the gift of half a house which Khibāʾ …
Fragment of an official report, or perhaps a legal document with particularly wide line spacing. Sparse on details but is describing some situation involving a …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, including dates and names. Late.
Accounts in Ladino with a wide variety of detailed entries, which based on the numerical flow may be monetary gains and some expenses. At the …
Verso: Legal note in Arabic script. The one who appoints the agent: Abū l-Faraj Shūʿā b. [...]. The agent: Zuhayr b. Ibrāhīm. Purpose: the sale …
Possibly a letter fragment but too faded/damaged to read. ותנהג כמנהגותיה would fit with a letter of appeal for assistance.
Recto: 1) Draft of the opening of a letter to a dignitary (al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-jamālī) 2) Accounts (table of names with numbers). Verso: Arabic …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Menahem b. Yosef is named in the first line. ASE.
Report of the general association of the Ashkenazi Community in Cairo – 1943CE and concerning the accounts of income and expenses in 1942CE and the …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Perhaps to Peraḥya, since Abū Saʿīd (probably Ḥalfon) is greeted at the bottom. Fragment …
Formularies for divorce-related documents. The one on recto is clearly based on a real document and a real case, but gives "peloni" for the month …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated Shevaṭ 1356 Seleucid = December 1044 / January 1045 CE. In which 3 sisters, Badr (בדר), Ḍiyāʾ (ציא) and Sittūna …
Letter from Yosef b. Mathāb(?) to Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Rayyis al-Iskandarānī (=Eliyyahu the Judge). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address partially in Arabic script. The orthography …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1433 Seleucid = July/August 1122 CE. Written in the hand of Avraham b. Shemaʿya (or rather Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?), …
Hebrew poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Mentions Yefet Rosh Qehillot, Avraham Sar [...], Yiṣḥaq, Yehuda, and Moshe. Perhaps a poem of gratitude …