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Verso: state document. Legible words: on line 1, مـ]ـستخدمين في الدواوين]; on line 2: ان شا الله. (MR)
No Scholarship Records
Lower fragment: Letter from an unidentified man, in Damascus, to a female family member, in Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. On recto, there are elaborate instructions for …
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a legal query ("mā yaqūl sayyidunā. . . ").
Bifolium from a halakhic work on shehitah
Ketubba with an elaborate floral border (recto). Location: Salonica, the Hebrew/Aramaic names of the nearby rivers (?מגינות ובארוה) are unclear but there are several possibilities: …
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Ladino Talmudic work.
A story in Judaeo-Arabic, involving Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Meir and a woman who tries to sate her desire with the latter while he remains …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Quotes several statements from Hippocrates starting with "qāla Buqrāṭ" pertaining to pregnancy and child birth.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions white lead (isfīdāj) and saffron.
Legal record (#40) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Document #40) Folio 10r
Letter to the judge Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel the Spaniard of Fustat asking him to induce the Nagid to approach the wali (head of police) and …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Document of sale dated 447 AH. There are many parties to this sale. The buyers are Marqūrah and Buṭrus, the two sons of Rabābīl, who …
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Legal document in Arabic script. May be a deed of sale (hādhā mā ishtarā....). One of the parties is Jewish. Reused in the upper margins …
Letter sent from Alexandria to Avraham ha-Rav ha-Sefaradi. (Perhaps the same Avraham ha-Sefaradi as in ENA 2558.13, who corresponded with the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides in …
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Legal record (#24) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 3v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Undated, neighboring …
:Right side of bifolio 3v (Documents 23-24)
Deed of partnership. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century, based on the names and the hand of the scribe (who was prolific …
Note from a bookseller stating that he had kept a volume but the interested future buyer had not paid money, and he could not let …
Letter. Commercial letter from Rashid (Rosetta) to Damietta, mentioning Christian Italian merchants (e.g., גירונימו/Geronimo), and a French consul. The text has a number of European …
Verso: Two distinct text blocks in Arabic script. (1) The names of the months of the Coptic calendar. (2) Accounts, recording credits and debits and …
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Personal letter from Jerusalem to Cairo – 28 May 1930 – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 212) in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …
Order(s) of payment? Mentions the name Sulaymān. Written in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. On recto there is an "emet" followed by the …
Recto: notes or draft of a treatise, stating ‘he created the world with everything in it’, and mentioning infinite power (jabarūt), the epithet ḏū l-jalāl; …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to "our master" with regards to "our master David." Dating: likely late 12th or early 13th century (paleographic dating). Much of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Late. Dated: Looks like 5334 AM, which would be 1573/74 CE but the third digit is not clear (alternate …
Letter from Berakha, the wife of Marwān b. Zikrī/Zekharya, to her brother Avraham b. Peraḥya Mahdawī (Ben Yiju). In Judaeo-Arabic. It is unclear if this …
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Probably a copy of a letter to leaders of a community, from Avraham Maimuni or one of his contemporaries. The scribe is known from two …
List in Arabic script mentioning people (Abū Muḥammad, Dāʾūd, al-shaykh) and also 'the bathhouse and chickens" (ḥammām wa-farārīj).
Letter addressed to "my son," in Fustat. In Arabic script. Probably from his mother, since "your father" is mentioned in the third person several times. …
Marriage contract. Dating: first half of the 13th century, on paleographic grounds. The handwriting is similar to that of ʿImanuel b. Yeḥiel (also compare T-S …
Legal record in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Tuesday night, 27 Kislev 1471 = 9 December 1159 CE. The blind woman Sitt Ṣāfī …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Describing the sender's unfortunate dealings with a government bureau (דיואן). Apparently Ibn al-Farārījī tried to shake him down for money, claiming …
Bottom left corner fragment of a legal contract, late. Deed of sale. Three signatures in the form of cartouches at the bottom. Second fragment of …
List of donations, qa’imat al-nedava (Hebrew), recording around forty-five names and the sums of their contributions. The reverse side contains an account of collections made, …
Accounts and mathematical calculations with Eastern Arabic numerals. 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
Legal testimony. In Arabic script. Dated: First decade of Rabīʿ I 486 AH = April 1093 CE. Apparently concerning some confusion over shipments of produce …
Entry in court notebook (#53). List of expenditures. The occasion is not clear; Goitein's notes suggest that it could have been a funeral.
Letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat regarding an inheritance of a widow and her orphans. Dating: ca. 1080 CE. The local Jewish judge (Heb. dayyan) …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Thin horizontal strip from the middle. Mentions sending things and letters. May mention someone called Ahuv in the margin. (Information in …
Unidentified text in Arabic, maybe documentary. The word "nāshif" seems to appear several times. Medical recipes?
Document in Arabic script, likely a petition or official correspondence. Dating: late Ayyubid or Mamlūk era based on paleography.
Bill of sale for an enslaved woman, probably. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from CUDL and from …
Small fragment of accounts in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Verso has mirror image text only.
Lease document, in Arabic script, for a house in Alexandria. The leasee may be Yuḥanna (needs further examination). On fols. 1v–2r and margins, there is …
Instructions to open a torah scroll. Contains large Arabic script on verso, perhaps of original use but difficult to follow. "وبالله التوفيق وانك مولاي".
Prayer in Hebrew, possibly an amulet.
no image available. According to Mosseri Catalogue a fragment of a court record. AA
Letter discussing the liturgy, specifically the different siddurim of R. Shelomo (who must be Shelomo b. Natan of Sijilmāsa), the seder moʿed included in the …