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Fol. 2: Letter in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active ca. 1181–1209) addressed to [...] b. Seʿadya ha-Kohen, a member of …
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Accounts and calculations in Ladino, sixteenth-century (based on the paleography and post-1497 coinage). The coinage types listed are the Spanish corona (קורונה) and the copper …
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Verso: Megillat Miṣrayim
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Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Writing exercises in Arabic on recto and verso. The recto is dated 2 November (نوڤمبر) 1856 CE and the verso, 3 November 1856 CE. It …
Legal document, disintegrated and shredded. Probably related to divorce.
The widow of the Cairene judge Avraham b. Natan confirms having received from her son-in-law everything that was owed to her from the estate of …
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Recto: End of a legal document, written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Shevaṭ 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133/1134 CE.
Recto: Text of an oath to be taken in court. There are several distinct text blocks. Merits examination. Verso: Halakhic discussion on inheritance and divorce, …
Deed of engagement (shiddukhin). In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver. Dated: Monday evening, 30 Kislev 1460 Seleucid, which is 1148 CE, under the …
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Fragment of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe. Mentions transactions in flour; someone called Sammān; a trip to Sicily; kamala (qinbīl); and belts (zanānīr). There …
Document of a full-fledged barāʾa (release of spouse from obligations upon divorce) in which a husband (Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Faraj) and wife (Maʿālī bt. …
Accounts in Arabic, 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Requires further examination.
Arabic, literary. Very faded.
Recto: Note from a sick man to a physician, it seems beseeching him to assist an older family member who is also sick. "By the …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: the month Rajab is mentioned in one of the subheadings, which do not mention any year(s). The paleography supports an estimate …
IB II, 2. Letter from ʿAmram b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, asking Nahray to intervene with Ḥasan b. Bundār. Dating: 1094–97 CE. …
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Lots of magic squares of all different sizes, using both Arabic and Hebrew letters. There is some text, too, which is either very difficult to …
Yiddish translation of the siddur, including ʿAl ha-Nissim and Asher Heni' for Purim. Dated on paleographic grounds to the 15th century, making it the oldest …
List of donations collected on various Shabbats of 1795/6 CE (5556 AM).
Accounts, probably. In Arabic script.
IB V, 21. Verso: List in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions: saffron; mazāwir; minshafa in a blue kerchief; arjīs (=narjīs?); "swords" (suyūf); and …
Bill of sale for a female slave, probably a draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd Seʿadya sells a Nubian female slave ([...]da) and her daughter …
Two tiny fragments, the larger one has remnants of text on the recto and verso. Hebrew letters may be visible, with Tiberian vowels. The recto …
State document, in large oversized chancery script, two words. From a gigantic decree.
Letter from Yeshuʿa [...]. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably 16th–18th century. Mentions the currency גורושוש; Yiṣḥaq ben Ḥabīb; regards to Yeshuʿa Azulay in the margin. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and some Arabic. Mainly organized by parshiyot. Also mentioning some names such as Abū l-ʿAlāʾ.
Legal fragment. Mentions various precious goods (aʿlāq) and amounts of money. No names.
Contributors list, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. The parnas and shammash Elʿazar b. Hillel comes before the court with an unbound Torah codex, and Yosef b. Yefet known …
Badly damaged late letter in Arabic.
Draft of a legal query regarding a woman who was betrothed by a person who raped her. Her fiancee was later held captive in Malta …
List of weeks (shin = shabbat) of the year, by weekly readings from the Torah, with a number in Coptic numerals for each, representing revenues, …
Late proclamation, on vellum, ornate, in flowery Hebrew, with remnants of a black and red illumination at the top of the page. It opens with …
The unique papyrus codex in the Taylor-Schechter collection. "The late Professor Ezra Fleischer identified the fragments as a collection of liturgical poems by the Palestinian …
The activity of Elḥanan b. Shemarya as a judge, a holograph: warns someone that he will be banished unless he appears in court the following …
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State document: End of a Fatimid petition or report from the period of al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or earlier.
IB II, 71. Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab on behalf of the court, in Aden, to the druggist Hillel b. Naḥman (aka Sayyid al-Kull), in …
[lines 1-18 contain a poem, not translated in Goitein/Friedman]
Your distinguished letter, my lord, arriv…
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Fragment (upper half only). In Arabic script. Parties are Sālim b. Abū l-Faraj and Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān al-Yahūdī. Needs examination for …
Document concerning the sale of a female slave named Ḍiyāʾ. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 1 Nisan 1537 Seleucid, which is 31 March 1226 CE, under …
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Recto: Hebrew Bible (Psalms). Verso: letter. (Information from CUDL)
Folio of an alchemical work. The present fragment mentions the usage of mercury, and lead, and some discovery attributed to Hermes. Needs further examination.
Letter from Yosef b. Sahl al-Baradānī in Tripoli, Lebanon, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, ca. 1060.
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Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 5462 AM =1701/02 CE. Regarding a transaction between Shabbetay b. Masʿūd ____(?) and his father-in-law Yiṣḥaq Fer[..]ez. Both …
Verso: Fragment from the beginning of a letter/petition addressed to the Nagid. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century. None of the substance is preserved. Reused …
Letter fragment (lower right corner). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions someone who went to live in "the city" ("al-madīna" = specifically Palermo?). It will be difficult to …
Beginning of a letter to an unidentified scholar. On the verso there is some writing in large Arabic script, but unrelated to text on verso.
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment from a letter. Mentions young men (ṣibyān) and livelihood (maʿīsha).