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Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 20 Sivan 5568 AM, which is 15 June 1808 CE. …
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Letter addressed to Yeshua b. Shabbetay in Alexandria from Elazar b. Ḥalfon in which the writer expresses his condolences, and those of his father, for …
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Small fragment from the bottom of a bill of release(?) for a widow. Her name may appear in l. 2. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe …
Accounts in Ladino.
List of materia medica and amounts, perhaps a prescription. On verso there is Arabic text in a different hand, but seems to be related.
Accounts with Coptic and Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Letter addressed to a certain Abū l-Faṭḥ (according to the internal address) or to the perfume/drug shop of Abū l-ʿIzz (according to the external address). …
Letter fragment, probably, in Arabic script. Extremely fragmentary.
Letter from Miryam to her brother, Moses Maimonides (active in Egypt ca. 1168-1204 CE). Miryam asks her brother to enquire after the whereabouts of her …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment apparently from Alexandria to a notable called Yesod ha-Yeshiva, reporting that a woman named ʿAdhbiyya bt. Avraham (or possibly ʿArabiyya) stood security for …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Large but fragmentary (only the ends of the lines are preserved). Deathbed …
List in Arabic script. Many of the entries are sums of money (e.g., dīnār wāḥid wa-[...]). There are elongated strokes within words so that each …
Letter from Eli ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli ha-Kohen b.Hayyim, Fustat, ca. 1055.
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Detailed trousseau of Bint Menahem (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, 403, and from Goitein's index cards)
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Abū Naṣr Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Zaqen was going to make a declaration, but …
Tables of Greek/Coptic numerals. Needs examination.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with a poetic Hebrew introduction, addressed to a certain Ḥaver. The address is located (unusually) at the bottom. The …
Verso: Letter fragment. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Mostly consists of pious references to repentance. Indirect join: Oded Zinger.
Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (mawlāya al-dayyān) is instructed to give 5 dinars to the bearer Abū l-ʿIzz on a certain date. …
Calendar.
Legal deed. The trader (tājir) Abū l-Murajjā S[ā]lim b. Natan he-Ḥaver gives 30 dirhams per month to his daughter Fakhr from his divorcee, the freedwoman …
Business letter to Mevorakh b. Avraham Ibn Sabra. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the margins of verso (the first page), there is a price list for commodities …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Headed "with (or: owed by) the elder Abū Saʿd." Quite faded.
Letter fragment, probably. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting looks very similar to that of the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov, however Shemuel's other documents …
Letter from Farah b. Isma’il from Busir, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: around 1053 (Gil). The writer returned from Dandir where he bought flax. …
[כתאבי יאסידי ומ]ולאי א[טאל אל]לה בקאך [ואד]אם תאירך וס[לאמתך וסעאדת]ך ונעמנתך מן אבוציר טאעה
[וצולי מ]ן דנדיל ליא [ב]קין מן כסליו ואלחאל …
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Two medical prescriptions, one on each page. In Arabic script. Both are headed by "lemon syrup" (sharāb laymūn) or begin with this item. The one …
Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
Verso: List of items in Arabic script together with numbers. All seem to be colors and/or adjectives and/or materia medica: azraq (blue) - 3/4; abyaḍ …
Liturgy. Dating: Catalogued as 14th century.
List or accounts. On parchment. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, to Yeshuaʿ b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. Mentions Abū Ibrāhīm (Isḥāq) b. Khalaf, who had written to tell al-Tāhartī that he …
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Letter in the hand of Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū Zikrī b. ʿAṭiyya. Dated: Kislev 1497 Seleucid, which is 1185 CE. With a …
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Ketubba. Dating: likely 11th century. Groom: ʿEli [b. ...]. Bride: Mubāraka bt. [...] ha-Levi, virgin. No further details preserved. Signed by Nissim b. Hillel, Harun …
List of accounts for the bread distribution. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the paternal aunt of the judge, the Shaykh Abū l-Faraj al-Dimyāṭī, and Maḥfūẓ the khādim …
Bifolio of a literary text containing a purchase note in both jotted Hebrew and beautifully written Judaeo-Arabic. The buyer is Adonim b. Avraham.
Accounts in Arabic and Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval era. The identifier "Yahūdīya" appears in line two and the name Muḥammad Rikā__ī[?] in line 4. (VMR)
Fragment of a dowry list, written on top margin of a literary text
Elegy for the Tustari brothers Ḥesed b. Yashar (Abū Naṣr b. Sahl) and Avraham b. Yashar (Abū Saʿd b. Sahl). Dating: ca. 1050 CE. There …
Folio from a communal register, late. See tag.
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: late 11th or early 12th century. Mentions pepper, sugar, musk; Maʿālī; oil …
Bifolio filled with accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: Likely ~13th century. Many names are mentioned, including many Muslim-sounding ones.
Legal document. Minute fragment from a legal document. Hebrew. AA
Arabic script (VMR). Or blank? Unless there's more hidden under the black sleeve in the image.
List of materia medica, or possibly prescriptions.
Quran fragment, in a beautiful and elegant Maghribī script with diacritical marks in red. The verses are from Sura al-Insān (76:7-14, 27-31).
Legal contract concerning the synagogue of the Mustaʿrib congregation in 1544 CE (Sivan 5304 AM).
Accounts with Greek/Coptic numerals expressing quantities or prices of goods, such as: coal and salt. The dating is late medieval or perhaps as late as …