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A torn fragment probably from a legal deed regarding the amount of 4 ducats owed by a woman to her husband Avraham b. Ṣāliḥ. AA
Recto: Holiday greetings to the Nasi Shelomo. Dating: ca. 1240 according to Goitein.
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Accounts in a medieval-era scribal hand on recto. Although the verso was not reused in this case, the shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of …
Much faded mercantile list of items (e.g. nushādir, sal ammoniac), names (e.g. Ṣāfī), and prices. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. In the hand of …
beginning of a proclamation of the Exilarch Daniel, mentioning the so-called Gaon Samuel b. Eli; written, according to Scheiber, by Joseph Rosh Ha-Seder (data from …
Literary: Talmud. There is a note at the bottom: "Of Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham b. Daniel b. Yiṣḥaq known as Ibn al-Baqra(?)."
Fragment of a legal document from Fustat concerning a shop and a house, and mentioning Efrayim b. [...], Ḥasan and Thābit. Dated: Kislev 1344 Seleucid …
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Accounts in Arabic on recto with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. The text on the verso appears to be one large sequence of Greek/Coptic numerals (perhaps calculations). …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan from Jerusalem to Ismail b. Yitzhak al-Andalusi from Fustat. Yisrael b. Natan expresses his worries because of the absence in …
Letter probably in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel (active early 13th century); not immediately clear if he is writing for himself or as a …
List of commodities and prices. Mainly textiles, but also mentions potash (ushnān).
Family letter sent from Qal'at Ja'bar on the Euphrates River Syria, by a man to his brother, saying that he had learned about the death …
List of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Medieval era. Mentions quantities prices throughout the entries as well as the unit of weight ʿidl. Requires further examination.
Excerpts from the Gospels, or possibly Toldot Yeshu (though the depiction of Jesus seems too positive and faithful to the New Testament accounts for this …
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Beginning of a letter containing a request for a book to be made for the forthcoming holiday. Note on Goitein index card: Shelomo b. Eliyya. …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). AA
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee may be Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Moshe.The sender reports that he paid the 'tarsīm' (fee for house arrest) and …
Interesting letter with a conspiratorial tone, apparently from a father to a son. The writer reports that he has heard that Barakat the son of …
Verso: Bottom of an iqrār, dated 457 or 459 AH in the first line of the verso (1064/65 or 1066/67 CE). Witness is Hibatallāh b. …
Magic Recipes (info by Gidi Bohak FGP)
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment from the right side of recto. The scribe has a distinctive notched ב. Mentions Muslims; many worries; and greetings …
Panegyric (madḥ) in the hand of Sahlān b. Avraham. Addressed to Abū Saʿīd al-Dāʾūdī (a Nasi). In Hebrew with the heading in Arabic script. Calligraphic. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions names such as the wife of אלקרקשנתי(??), Hārūn, his brother Makhlūf, Abū Manṣūr, and Ibn Thanāʾ.
Letter fragment mentioning the servants (ghilmān) of the amīr, going to Caesarea, a ḥaver, and a broker. Also mentions "I brought it/him to the Morning …
Commercial list/account. Probably 11th century. Mentions names such as Nissim and Barhūn.
Letter fragment, possibly. Contains only blessings for a certain elder in Hebrew.
Jewish communal letter in Arabic script. Mostly in Arabic language, with at least one word in Hebrew (اليشوعا, v8). Opens with blessings for the caliph …
Arabic script (VMR)
Small fragment containing Hebrew literary text.
Late accounts in Arabic, resembles AIU VII.F.57 but the writing is neater. Dated 1237 AH which is 1821/22 CE.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk or early Ottoman-era.
A practice run and the final version of an inscription mentioning the qodesh of the community of ʿAbbāsiyya and the name Isaac Sāhayl (סאהיל). Late. …
Small fragments of a letter in Arabic (اذا اطرح...).
Recto: letter from a father to his son. Verso: jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script, which includes names such as ‘the leader Abū l-Mufaḍḍal’ - …
Will of a dyer, before going on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 12 Iyyar, 4975 AM = 1526 Seleucid, which …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Hefez to Merkado Karo and Shimʿon Frances, of Karo y Frances & Company (see tags). Dated …
Contract of lease. In Arabic script. Involves Ismāʿīl b. Ḥasan b. al-Ḥāmī and his three sons, the 13-year-old Bū ʿAlī, the 12-year-old Ṭāhir, and the …
Recto: Letter fragment from Khalaf b. Mubārak al-Ḥazzān or al-Jazzār. In Arabic script. Only the basmala, tarjama, and part of the first line are preserved. …
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Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic ca.1800 CE from Nissim Masīs (?) to Karo y Frances & Co.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic whose paleography helps to date this fragment as sixteenth- or seventeenth-century. In the opening lines a Muslim qadi (אלקאצי) is mentioned but …
Fragment of an account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Ḥakīm. Probably 11th century. The hand is known from other similar fragments (e.g. ENA 3731.8 (PGPID 40518)).
Small piece of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE).. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document or documents. Very faded. Dated: 4[..]4 AM, which only narrows it down to 1234 CE at the latest (likely 11th or 12th century). …
Recto (secondary use): Informal note from Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) to ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen ("al-Parnas al-Neʾeman Raṣuy ha-Yeshiva"). In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking him …
Order of payment, or accounts, extremely fragmentary. Mentions "yatafaḍḍal".
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower part only). Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century, based on handwriting. Addressed to a woman. The sender mentions the number …
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū Sahl al-Ṣāyigh. Very little of the subject matter is discernible without a join.