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Legal document dealing with inheritance issues (a gift followed by a release). The parties are Eliyya b. Shelaḥya and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Shelomo ha-Levi. …
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Poem in Hebrew ending with a couplet in Arabic (written once in Hebrew script and again in Arabic script). There is an additional note in …
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Colophon for a Torah. The scribe is Yeshuʿa b. Yiṣḥaq. Dedicated to ʿAmram ha-Kohen b. She'erit ha-Kohen Paqid ha-Soḥarim.
Copies of letter(s) in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Abū Manṣūr al-Munajjim and al-Rayyis al-Fāḍil Abū Isḥāq and communal affairs. Dating: ca. 12th or 13th century.
Ownership notes stating that the codex (מצחף) belongs to Shelomo b. Mevasser b. Sahl ha-ʿAnī. A later ownership note added below the original text states …
Commercial accounts, 16th-century. Many names are listed, first and foremost: R. Yiṣḥaq Luria, who appears with the correct honorifics (כמה׳׳ר) for this to be the …
Letter from a husband, probably a merchant belonging to the elite, to his wife of a second marriage. In Judaeo-Arabic. He expresses his yearning and …
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Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is rebuking the addressee for something (אלנאס . . . גהל . . . …
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Only a few words. The phrase "wa-l-ḥāl salāma" ("all is well") is legible.
Possibly a letter or collection of formulae. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from the bottom left of a legal document in Hebrew. One of the parties is Pinḥas and the other is [...]f.
Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer urges the addressee to help him again with money for rent for the qāʿa where he lives, because his …
Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Abī l-Ḥayy, from Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā. Around 1075. The writer is worried about their sister, Jarba, who is about …
כתאבי יאכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך
וסעאדתך וסלאמתך מן אסכנדריה ליב כלת מן שהר אייר ען סלאמה
ונעמה ושוק אליך קרב …
Recto: Unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe the bottom of a letter. Verso: Probably a prescription. In Arabic script.
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Looks late.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th- of 19th-century based on the paleography. The section on the right bears the heading: "Record of the purchase of etrogim." …
Small piece of a marriage contract (ketubba) containing the diaspora custom.
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Letter mentioning Damascus and possibly Ramla (though Goitein subsequently read this word differently). Very faded. (Information from Goitein's attached notes.)
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Probably literary. Description of a banquet in Arabic.
Minute fragment from the end of a letter.
Recto: legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), dealing with business matters. Contains some interesting phrases, maybe regarding a …
Letter from an unknown merchant from the Maghreb, probably to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat, regarding a shipment of oil. Around 1015. Also mentions …
Legal document likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. Concerning a man and his wife who was the daughter of the late …
Late Judaeo-Arabic dowry list, probably, since it is headed "be-siman tov ve-ʿosher ve-banim be-mazal ẓomeaḥ ve-ʿoleh." There follows a list of numerous items, mostly garments, …
List of donations or communal payments in Judeo-Arabic for the Maghrebi congregation of Cairo (קק מערבים). The heading may be dated as [5]565 (1804-1805CE) but …
Long and narrow damaged fragment written by Efraim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Probably court records. Not much text has survived (two entries on recto, …
Table of contents for a volume of responsa, including one about a marital problem of people in Toledo.
Accounts or distribution list. Four columns per side. In Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Coptic numerals. Well preserved. Dating: Looks late, perhaps no earlier than 14th …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary hand previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Commodities seem to be mainly food …
Order of payment from David ha-Nasi. The communal officials Sālim and Maḥfūẓ are to pay 1/6 dinar to the bearer for the meal of the …
Family letter sent to New Cairo. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 14th–15th century if not later. Starting with biblical quotations and containing greetings to various …
Letter from Mardūkh b. Mūsā in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. (c. July 1048 CE). Mardūkh expresses outrage as he reports on the …
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Letter from Binyām (druggist of Rashīd), probably in Alexandria, to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr (al-ʿAfṣī), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. He has sent 20 pounds …
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Beautiful fragment of a legal document from Alexandria in the hand of the court clerk Mawhub. A father gives an entire house to his son …
Letter from a father to a son. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper half only). Recto contains only the formulaic opening greetings. Verso contains closing greetings …
Bifolio containing two lists of names with eastern Arabic numerals (contributors to charity?). Dating: 18th or 19th century. The righthand page is all women: Simḥa …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a Maghribī business letter of the 11th century. Fragment (lower half of recto). Mentions the qāḍī Ibn al-[...] and someone called …
Legal fragment. Dating: ca. 13th or 14th century based on handwriting. Mentioning [Reuven?] al-Kohen, [...] b. Yosef, and maybe Abū l-Bahāʾ. (Information in part from …
Letter from Avraham b. Faraḥ from Alexandria, to ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa, Fustat. Around 1050. Regarding shipping fabrics and sending dinars to Fustat for exchange. Also …
בסם אללה אלעטים
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה מקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ונעמאך מן אלאסכנרריה סלך
תשרי ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה ואלח…
Later to Dov Ber Hakohen
Minute fragment of text in Hebrew, possibly recorded on vellum. The recto and verso are in different scribal hands. Recto mentions a fast, and verso …
Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures, ca. 1040. List of expenses, beautifully written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Materials for the construction of a …
dirhem. Paid for 7 bundles of twigs, 14 dir. Paid for a bundle
of ropes, 5 dir. Paid for 6 bundles of palm branches, 3/4 dinar.
For saw…
Legal document. Cut roughly into the shape of an octagon ("perhaps to make a sign or an amulet"). Dated: Ṭevet 1529 Seleucid, which is 1217 …
Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef b. Faraḥ to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Sahl Sukkarī. The two also corresponded in T-S 8J27.13 (PGPID 3747), ca. 1056 …
Ketubba fragment with an elaborate floral border pattern. Dated [5]5[..] AM, thus 1739-1839 CE. Based on the dating the location is likely "[Cairo near] Fustat …
Memorial lists.
Literary. In Hebrew. Dream interpretation. Late.
Small fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Lists many calendar dates, but possibly not the year. A ḥamām is mentioned in the third entry on …
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