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Four letter fragments in Judaeo-Arabic. At least two of them (fols. 1 and 4) are probably from the same letter, but the other two fragments …
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Conditional divorce agreement between a betrothed couple. Dated Tuesday, 8th Elul 5549 AM (1789 CE). Yosef b. David known Fayrūz b. Ṣemah is taking upon …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, in Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on …
Letter to a brother. In Judaeo-Arabic, with phonetic orthography (Goitein: "very low class"). Dating: likely 11th century. Repeatedly reminding the addressee to send various items …
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Unidentified document in Arabic script. Looks late.
Table of names in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals.
Betrothal document, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 23 Tevet 5414 AM, which is 1654 CE. Groom: Yosef ha-Kohen b. Avraham b. Yosef. Bride: Badra bt. …
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Abū Makārim 3 dinars. …
List of names and sums. On the back, list of names and weights of a commodity. Names on recto include Sulaymān; Yefet; Manṣūr al-Raqqāq; [...] …
Court record bearing the signature of judge Shelomo b. Yosef, late Head of the court of the Academy,' Fustat, Kislev 1405/December 1093 (date and day …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sephardi hand. Small fragment. Dating: Perhaps 15th or 16th century, but that is a guess. Mentions Christians, Venice, an ounce of …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Location: Cairo. None of the content is preserved.
Ketubba fragment (perhaps Palestinian) mentioning a payment of 12 zuz (in keeping with the Palestinian tradition). Signed by Elʿazar b. Yosef. Not mentioned in the …
Account of a Parnas ca. 1200. Upper part of a leaf in very deteriorated condition. It contains notes made by a parnas, recording the collection …
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Letter from a certain Menaḥem to Anaṭoli b. Yosef. In Hebrew. Dated: 22 Kislev 1524 Seleucid = 18 November 1212 CE. Reminding him of a …
Very unusual account, written in large letters, likely fiscal. Perhaps wages for soldiers/mercenaries? Recto, upper section: -people's names such Masʿūd b. Manṣūr b. Sabʿ(?) and …
Receipt.
Exegetical text in Hebrew. Probably late. Not a letter.
Letter addressed to Avraham b. Natan Av Beit Din. In Hebrew. The first 28 lines of the introduction are preserved. Written in an elegant style. …
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Late accounts. The name Avraham Serano (סראנו) is listed on the verso but many other names are badly damaged and less legible. An Avraham Serano …
List in Arabic of unclear significance, needs examination.
Receipt (for tax?) for Abū l-Faḍl b. Ibrāhīm. There is a curious hexagonal medallion on the back that may say "al-Imām al-Ḥākim." Needs further examination.
Letter from Abū ʿUmar b. Hilāl to Abū l-Faraj b. Ibrāhīm, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address both in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: …
Verso: list of contributions in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter in Ottoman Turkish. Needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew alphanumerical figures. At least one currency is listed as "בנדוק / bunduq", which is the Venetian gold ducat, and based …
Printed Haggada in Ladino and Hebrew.
Deed regarding the endowment of two houses in Fusṭāṭ as a pious foundation: ‘the little house’ and ‘the cattle house’. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God [alone … ]
This is what [ … ] bestowed and granted as a pious foundation …
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Scribal exercises and copious jottings in Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. In the margin of verso there is the draft of an informal note in …
Letter by Ḥusayn b. Suwayd to Yiṣḥaq b. Ṣadaqa. On papyrus. Erratic spelling and style. Requesting that the addressee send peeled grain (dashīsh) on wheat …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the town of Sumbāṭ and unemployment (baṭāla), then concludes with greetings.
Small document(s) in Arabic script, legal or official. Note that these are not actual joins, but they are all from the same genre of document …
Account in Arabic script.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Trousseau list recording a washed skullcap worth one dinar and a secondhand kerchief worth one-half dinar, amongst other items. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. …
Small fragment of accounts.
Small piece from the beginning of what must have been a large letter or other document. The basmala and part of the first line are …
Recto: Marriage document (ketubba) in Palestinian style. Dated: [47]40 AM = 979/80 CE. Groom: Efrayim b. [...]. Bride: Khuzayr bt. Ḥusayn. (Information from Friedman, Jewish …
Capitation tax receipt. Beginning "tadhkira bism..." Needs examination.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Large. Elegantly written, with moderately wide spaces between the lines. The lines initially descend and then sharply ascend at the …
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State document in Arabic script. Two lines, huge space between them. ...ḥukmahu wa-qālat lahu mā shi'ta... Reused for piyyutim.
Poem. A Hebrew lament for a prominent dead person. It seems like a blank space was left empty in the middle where the name would …
Petition in Arabic script. Begins with a taqbīl and praises for "al-majlis al-ʿālī... khallada allāh ayyām sulṭānahu....). Concerning "my father Abū Zikrī al-Ṭabīb (the physician)." …
Fragment of a partnership contract regarding the sale of wine. Upper, lower, and right side are torn away and no signatures are extant. (Information from …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and perhaps a Romance language. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 16th century. Needs further examination.
Marriage contract (ketubba) probably from Tinnis, Egypt, early eleventh century.
Minute fragment of a legal deed dated 1443 Seleucid = 1131/32 CE. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.
Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Barakāt b. Ziz al-Tujjār and Abū l-Faraj b. Moshe ha-Kohen addressed to R. Avraham (possibly Avraham Maimonides). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. …