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Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Could be a receipt.
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Two legal documents (or letters dealing with legal issues) each written in a different hand, probably 13th century. On verso seems to be a bill …
Account. Computation of sums handled by a Parnas, ca. 1151. An anonymous parnas apparently farmed out the revenue of a certain section of the estates …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Minute legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Part of an Arabic document. Likely a petition. Probably used at one point for a book binding. Portions of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions the …
Petition requesting that the addressee intervene on behalf of the writer, whose trees have been sold by an abusive ḍāmin named Karīm without permission. It …
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Verso: Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Likely notes for drawing up a will. The testator is a woman …
A fragmentary line of a widely spaced Arabic text (probably a decree) visible in the left margin; the document was recycled to copy a biblical …
Minute fragment of an Arabic document with Coptic numerals.
Fragment of a communal letter. Four lines preserved. Wide space between the lines. Refers to the presence of the shekhina when people gather to study, …
Legal fragment. This portion contains about a dozen witness signatures, including Shabbetay b. ʿAlīl; Ghālib b. Faraj (spelled גאליב); and two people with embellished signatures: …
Esther writes to her parents in law after having returned from Safed to Cairo, describing how she learned certain needle work and expressing thanks to …
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Ownership note: Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Dimyāṭī.
Announcement from a kosher butcher under the management of Alshomir Rafle Dāūd advertising the sale of kosher meats in bulk – undated – Museum of …
Letter in Ladino, nearly complete but with numerous lacunae, from a mother to her daughter, addressed to her son-in-law Yaʿaqov Reshit (?) in Saida. The …
[א]י די שאלוד [. . .] לאש קואליש נואיבש אוייגאמוש
[א]ינביאשטימי א . . . . קינו וינו . . לא קורטינא אי
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Beginning of a court record. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 17 Tishrei 1807 Seleucid = 5 October 1495 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Yehonatan …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Tinnīs. Mentions: the speaker wishing to will his or her money …
Megillat Miẓrayim, here called "Megillat ha-Saṭan ha-Yaduaʿ." Retelling the events of the rebellion of Ahmad Basha against Suleiman I of Turkey in 1524, and its …
Petition from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu requesting a payment (from the revenue of the dwelling of Imran b. al-Muzanjir) of 1/2 dirhem per week for the …
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Booklet of psalms and other liturgical text. On fol. 3v, righthand side, there are various jottings, including one phrase that looks like it is from …
Letter from Netanel b. Ḥalfon to Zakkay ha-Dayyan ha-Maskil Nezer ha-Maskilim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably the same sender as AIU V.B.48 (dated 1174 CE); this letter …
Minute fragment of an extremely faded text in Hebrew script on the recto and verso. Requires further examination.
IB VI, 47. Judge Elijah orders a white "burda", some handwriting exercises at the bottom
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Legal fragment, with release formulae. The party mentioned is Sitt [...].
Letter (fragment) from Daniel b. Azarya (ca. 1055) to Eli b. Amram, Fustat, 1052.
Informal note from Seʿadya to an unidentified addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking him to send a 'khidma' informing him whether it is the 3rd or the …
Calendar in Judaeo-Arabic. Including the date 4924 AM, which is 1163/64 CE.
Legal document from Minyat Ghamr concerning a debt; during the holiday of Passover 1537 sel., mid-April 1226 CE. Reshut of Abraham Maimonides. Ḥalfon b. Elazar …
IB IV, 1 (ח22). Account of Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq, Aden, written for Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Bharuch, and the only account that survived in the …
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List of names, under two columns מצר (Cairo) and בולאק (بولاق , Boulaq or Būlāq, the northern river port of early modern Cairo (Maṣr al-Qadīma/Fustat …
Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Lessor: "Shaykh al-Islām" ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad al-ʿIbādī(?). Lessee: Shemuel b. Mūsā al-Yahūdī al-Rūmī. The property is a first floor …
Small fragment from a legal deed, probably written by Hillel b. Eli (Date: 1066-1108)
Tax receipt. Needs examination.
Possibly legal document(s) in Judaeo-Arabic.
Private accounts, in Arabic script, for Thursday and Friday. Needs examination.
Elegy for a female slave (taʿziya li-jāriya) in the hand of (and signed by) Yehuda (b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen).
Receipt for Naʿīm. Sum: 68.5 (dirhams). At lower right (atypical position): bi-rasmihim(?).
On recto an account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Needs examination. On verso a Bible citation possibly written by Natan b. Avraham Av. At …
Small receipt or order for 1 raṭl of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday, 5 Nisan 5245, which is 1485 CE. Dealing with business matters, such as the trade …
Official letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left piece). The addressee is an amīr with various titles including [...] al-salāṭīn. ِA state official by the …
First fragment: likely piyyut or prayer. Second fragment: tiny piece of a printed literary text, likely the bible.
Letter fragment from Faraḥ b. Yosef al-Qābisī. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentions a legal case and a female …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a crude hand. Mentions several baked goods and associated items: bread (khubz), cake (kaʿk), raisins, taḥīna, qaṭāʾif.
IB VII, 38. Letter from a man, in Fustat, to his brother, probably in ʿAydhāb. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender urges him to return quickly; their …
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