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Verso: Some sort of note in Arabic script, maybe an order of payment. Headed by the glyph. Recto is covered with later jottings in Hebrew …
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List or table in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (these might be two different documents).
Letter from Ayash b. Ṣedaqa, Alexandria, to an unknown addressee. Dating: January 1051. Lists of goods that were bought or sold. Some details about the …
ואשתרית רבע ח שכאיר צוף לי פיהא אלרבע ואלרבע לנהראי בן נסים
ואלרבע לאבי אלכיר אלצירפי ואלרבע לאבי זכרי בן קיומה ואלרבע אלדי לי אנא
הו בינ…
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IB V, 6. Letter apparently from Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fusṭāṭ, to an unidentified addressee, apparently in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing news about Aden. Commodities …
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A small fragment from a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic (wa-mā yajūz an... wa-l-ʿudwān).
Business memorandum or bifolio from a merchant's ledger, giving prices and weights. In Judaeo-Arabic, very neatly written. The hand is probably known. Dating: 11th or …
Margins of recto, and upper part of verso: Draft of a letter written by Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi, the father of Yosef b. Shemuel, the …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Very faded. The sender reports that he is sick.
Bifolium written in Arabic script in black and red ink, with diacritics. Contains a version of the famous ḥadīth in which the true jihad is …
Table of Greek/Coptic numerals. In the hundreds.
An exceptionally angry letter, complaining that the artisan, instead of returning the finished product, began to haggle about the price. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, …
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Letter from Alexandria to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat, requesting donation for the ransom of prisoners of the Byzantines, 11th century. On verso are Hebrew rhymed …
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Three different literary fragments, though the top two may be from the same source.
Orders of payment, one each on recto and verso. Recto is from Shelomo (b. Eliyyahu) and addressed to Abū l-Munajjā. The content is very faded.
Letter from ʿOvadya מוגאן to one of the communal leaders in Egypt. In Hebrew. Late. (FGP)
IB VII, 63. Letter of recommendation for charity for the judge Avraham b. Yosef. The addressee is on a boat and about to set out …
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl al-Makhmūrī (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim, ca. 1060. The writer tells Nahray b. Nissim about the news in Alexandria and …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר גדול הישיבה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמאה מן אל
אסכנדריה בעד וצול כתאבה אעזה אללה ידכר סלאמתה אדאמהא אללה ברחמתה …
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Small piece of a marriage contract (ketubba) containing the diaspora custom.
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Legal text or responsum about parental custody and child-rearing. (EK)
תאכדהא אליהא לאנהא מחוט לה וצולי
בתקוימה ואקום בתעלימה ותאדיבה
ומנעה ממא יצר בה ואהלה פאן
אנקסעת ולאיה אלאם במהצהא או
בארתדאדהא או בתזויגהא בגיר …
Recto and verso (secondary use): polemical story in Judaeo-Arabic featuring a discussion between a Jew, Muslim and Christian, possibly set in Baghdad, mentioning viziers. In …
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Autograph leaves of Maimonides, Treatise on sexual intercourse. (Information from CUDL)
Likely a letter, or possibly a literary narrative, in which a person is describing their tribulations in rhymed Hebrew: אדוני תשורה נאה והדורה . . …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment of a document in Hebrew, probably late, mentioning someone who betrothed a woman (erusin).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a certain Ḥalfon to his cousin Menashshe ha-Ḥazzan b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Ḥazzan. Not a great deal of the content remains. Ḥalfon wishes …
Letter from Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā, in Egypt, to his father Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Jarīdī, in Dhamār, Yemen. Dating: probably 19th century. Needs examination.
Legal document (זכרון עדות). Dating: likely early 13th century. Involves Abū Manṣūr al-Shā[...], Ṭāhir b. [...], something being certified for a woman, and a sum …
Decorated Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groomm [...] Halevi b. Avaraham Halevi Yerushalmi. The groom is Esther known as Mas'uda d. Yosef Halevi.
Small fragment of a ketubba, probably. Dating: ca. 11th century.
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 …
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay on account of the household of Amīn …
Tax receipt for Nuṣayr b. Saʿīd. Dated: 5[..] AH (~12th century CE).
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner). Asking a dignitary for help on behalf of a group of people, by loaning them money or …
Badly faded and damaged minute fragment contains list of items such as cloves.
A list from a greengrocer or druggist? Or a shopping list? In Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a crude or at least hasty hand. Many names of …
Account in a late hand.
Writ of agency written in Tyre, dated 18 Shevat 4771 (25 January 1011). Ḥalfon b. Moses b. Aaron (Ibn Abī Qīda), the "representative of the …
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Accounts in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Greek/Coptic numerals, written in multiple hands.Mentions: Mufaḍḍal b. [...]; a half qinṭār of myrrh; Abū l-Faḍl …
Letter from a son to his father. He complains about difficult circumstances. To make matters worse, ʿIwāḍ al-Bazzāz (the clothier) died owing the sender 60 …
Vocabulary list referring to Mishnah Shabbat 1-6 (approx.) (Information from Niessen/Shivtiel.)
Small fragment from a late list, might belong to a dowry (the word מהר can be read)
Recto: Lower part of an incomplete letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Isḥāq and then describes a quiet apartment which has been obtained for the addressee: …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 14th–17th century. Mainly the closing greetings are preserved. In a postscript, a woman named Muʾnisa (מונסה) asks the …
Probably official correspondence. Small fragment. The last few words of one line are preserved.
Fol. 1 verso: List of names in two columns, accompanied by various sums. Fol. 2 verso: accounts of the elder Shalom Ṣughayyir. Fol. 2 recto: …
ذ אסחקסקטר.. הרט? אסוד
Receipt for the capitation tax of Yehuda b. Sulaymān.
Fiscal document, probably. Entries in multiple hands, some of them beginning with ṣaḥḥa, some of them mentioning a mablagh (sum) of money.
Recto: Arabic poetry transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic (helpfully headed "this is poetry"). Verso: An obscure incantation (?) in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs further examination. ASE.