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Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11 January 1052 CE (according to Gil). Apart from business matters, …
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Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Shemuel b. Avraham (perhaps a Qaraite), to Abū Saʿd (i.e. Abū Saʿd b. Sahl al-Tustarī, also known as Avraham b. Yashar), …
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Drafts of documents, made by Mevorakh b. Natan b. Shemuel and other scribes. Dating: 1159 CE, based on the date mentioned in the first entry …
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Letter from an unknown woman to her 'brother' Shemuel. She also addresses her female cousin (yā bint ʿammatī). Consists largely but not entirely of greetings. …
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Recto: Lower left corner of a letter from a certain Menaḥem. This portion contains mainly the closing greetings and a reference to "Moshe Rabbenu the …
Letter of condolence/grief upon the death of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Dating: ca. 1195 CE (the precise date of death is not known). In …
Small receipt or order for a quantity of raṭls of something.
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto mentions a sum of 7.5 dinars and verso mentions someone sitting. It's possible that verso is a fragment of a …
Magical spells, 1 for arousing love (tahayyuj) and 1 for binding someone's tongue (ʿaqd lisān). Probably in the hand of Abū Sahl Levi (see tag). …
Ketubba fragment. See Goitein's index card.
Popular literature, probably. In partially rhymed Judaeo-Arabic. Narrates a painful parting from a friend ("I was left in a difficult state, like he who sits …
Small fragment from an unidentified narrative text, mentioning Syria and "she said to him... get away from me...." (Information in part from CUDL)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter about the tax guarantors (ḍummān) of Sandafā and the mushrif (fiscal supervisor), who received one and a half dinars per month. Dating: probably 12th …
Public prayer for Moshe ha-Kohen, representative of the merchants, containing a prayer for his ancestors and other deceased relatives and praising him for his munificence …
A few words in Arabic script: "by Ḥajjāj b. ʿAbdallāh under the supervision of [...]." Reused on verso for a Hebrew liturgical text.
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Letter(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. High register. Verso is addressed to Moshe b. Nissim and resembles the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Needs examination. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Legal fragment. In Aramaic. Portions of five lines are preserved, with abbreviations, indicating that this is a draft or formulary. On verso there are geomancy …
State document, administrative accounts. The right halves of 14 lines are preserved. Mentions someone's servants (wa-ghilmānuhū), half of something, and installments (aqsāṭ). The months Ramaḍān, …
Love and/or wine poetry in Judaeo-Arabic. The layout deceptively resembles a letter.
Possibly a letter, copy of a letter, or some sort of narrative. In Arabic script. The layout is most consistent with a literary text, and …
Two responsa written by Yosef Hakohen b. Ya'aqov from Tyre (Date 1011-1037). AA
Letter in Ladino, written probably in the first half of the 16h century. It mentions R. Abraham ibn Shoshan, whom Sambari lists amongst the exiles …
Legal record (#26) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 7r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 25-27) Folio 7r
Minute fragment from a ketubah written by Yosef b. Shelomo Halevi (date: ca. 1170-1210)
Letter from a son to a father. Same writer and recipient as T-S 10J7.3 and T-S 13J21.13 (addressed to Minyat al-Qa'id) and Stras. 4110/90 (see …
Letter in Arabic script. Very neatly written. Torn. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The tarjama at upper left appears to read "ʿabd min al-Maḥalla," …
Registration certificate for an Egyptian Jew in the schedule of the elections – December 1930CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 45) – in …
Hebrew liturgical text.
Letter from a man in debt and unable to meet his commitments, petitioning for help collecting charity promised by the nagid but not received, specifically …
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Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mentions Abū l-Surūr; Abū Saʿīd; and possibly a freedwoman named סלמה, but …
Letter in Arabic script, beautifully written in a chancery-esque hand with diacritical marks and dots. Dating: Fatimid period based on paleography and the ending formula. …
Legal document, fragment. In Hebrew. Mentions R. Eliyya and R. ʿAbde'el (=ʿAbdallāh) and possibly someone's wife.
Magical instructions.
Arabic document. Beginning with a date in Jumādā I and ending with a signature.
Medical recipes in Arabic script.
Poem in stanzas. In Ladino. There is also some different text in Hebrew.
Recto (secondary use): Letter of appeal for charity from Asʿad b. al-Ḥājj Ḥusām. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. He says that "I have nothing …
Karaite engagement deed. Dated on the night of Purim 14 Adar I, 5529 AM (1769 CE). Yiṣhaq b. Aharon Ḥakīm engages the previously unmarried Qamr …
Legal record (#33) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 12r-v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 13 Heshvan 5322 …
Original use: State decree from the Fatimid chancery, written under al-Ḥākim, al-Ẓāhir or al-Mustanṣir to an official in Egypt regarding a dispute over irrigation canals …
their signatures validated it... fifty dīnārs... except for the amount of the officials ...…
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Verso: Unidentified document mainly in Arabic script. Accounts? Mentions Abū l-Faḍl Sahl b. Manṣūr. Mentions the phrase "mutawāliyat al-ashur" followed by the name of the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in a neat scribal hand. Very faded. The sender seems to be a woman (based on "sākina" in l. 8). She seems …
Legal testimony. Location: Qalyūb. Dating: 1205–37 CE, as the document is intended to reach Avraham Maimonides. The community asks the Nagid to reappoint Tamīm b. …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The text in the margin reads ומא יגרי פיה מן צגירה וכבירה פי שי מן דלך וסואהא הדא אלשגל. (Information in …
Probably fragment from an opening of a letter.
Recto: Fragment possibly from the bottom of a petition to a royal woman: al-sulṭāna al-malika al-ṭāhira. Cf. ENA 3974.6, ENA 3974.3, and Bodl. MS heb. …