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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with small business transactions. Regards to [Sitt] Naʿīm and her husband Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan.
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Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic ca.1800 CE from Nissim Masīs (?) to Karo y Frances & Co.
No Scholarship Records
Trousseau list, mentioning typical items such as mandīl. Tiny fragment containing only a couple words. (Information from CUDL)
Private accounts in a mixture of Judaeo Arabic and Arabic. Mentions Ibn al-Qābila. Needs examination.
Late accounts. Currency: qirsh. Mentions Yiṣḥaq Shāmī; Khalīfa Mosseri.
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Last two lines only, blessing the addressee's children and the enitre congregation with prosperity. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi.
Bifolio of a halakhic discussion about capital punishment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.
Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script, maybe a report or a decree. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ. Requires further examination.
Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal, instructing him to pay the bearer a sum of Kāmilī dirhams which is difficult …
Beautifully illuminated carpet page consisting of a menora and six-pointed stars, followed by alphabetical exercises from a children's Hebrew textbook. The consonants alef to he …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe? Mentions the price of the bees; and Abū l-Riḍā.
IB V, 43. Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen to Sulaymān. In Judaeo-Arabic. Less a letter—there are no opening or closing pleasantries—and more an order of …
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Official (tax?) receipt for Bū ʿAlī. Dated. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Avraham b. Rav Shelomo the Yemeni, in Jerusalem, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Written not long after T-S 8J16.3 (same sender, same …
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Rabbi Joshua ben Levi's vision of hell; see Perry, M. J. (2017). Jewish heaven, Christian hell: Rabbi Joshua ben Levi’s vision of the afterlife. Journal …
Upper part of a letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. He says he is doing well and thanks …
Accounts in Arabic and some sort of shorthand. On verso there are also a few lines in Hebrew script.
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
IB VI, 21. Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī (aka Abū Zikrī Kohen). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: first half …
Legal document(s). In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Recto may be a deathbed will. Mentions a house; a …
Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The lessee is named Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm al-Sāmirī (the Samaritan). In the upper margin, there …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, probably Ottoman era.
List of names with numbers. Very faded.
Bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: First decade of Iyyar 1438 Seleucid, which is 1127 CE. Little of …
Draft of a collection of mishnaic and biblical passages and commentary in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL.)
Magical fragment in Aramaic and perhaps some Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov called 'zaqen ha-gola' and rosh kalla. The sender may be Mufarrij b. Ṣāliḥ al-Baghdādī the tax farmer for the capitation …
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, in a rudimentary hand. Mentions a distressing matter ("and we are perishing..."). Asks for a thawb (garment).
List of some kind in a difficult early modern scribal hand, possibly accounts. The dating is likely 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. Some …
Recto: Bottom of a letter from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides. Dated: 15th day of the ʿOmer 1529 Seleucid, which is …
Recto: Document in Arabic script, probably an account. Verso: Hebrew Halakhic work.
Ownership note. "This pitaron (Interpretation of Dreams?) belongs to Nisan(?) ha-Ḥaver and his sons after him." Mentions Yehoshuaʿ ha-Haver (ZL).
Bifolio containing multiple documents. Dating: Unknown. Recto, right page: Acknowledgment (iqrār) of a debt of 400 dinars owed by the Jew Naṣr b. Abū Saʿd …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وصلت كتابك ايها الامير الموفق السعيد النجيب سعد الدولة وتوفقها
افتخار الدولة وسعدها جمال …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 514 AH = February/March 1121 CE. Mentions Fustat, ḥikr (ground rent), and repeated references to renting (ijāra, …
Letter addressed to the judge R. Yeshuʿa in Fustat. The sender's name may be legible: [...] al-[Iskan?]darānī b. Ibrāhīm. The sender asks the addressee "to …
Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender received Frankish kohl (kuḥl ifrānjī) from the addressee but does not know its price. There are also standard expressions …
Fragment, wide margin on the left, two sides of commercial accounts.
Letter from Yosef b. Khalfa from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1062. Regarding a large deal of pearls, which the writer has a …
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Epistolary introduction to a medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. "Your letter arrived, O brother, inquiring after the books of Galen... and the Alexandrians..."
Account ledger filled with Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic entries. Several pages. Merits examination. Includes on one page an Arabic poem transcribed into Hebrew characters (the …
The beginning of a letter written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to the communities of Egypt, through al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj. (Information from CUDL)
Book list with prices. (Information from CUDL)
Literary text in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic, narrating the mutual seduction between a Jewish man and a Christian (enslaved?) woman. There are a few lines in Arabic …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Many familiar names on the list. Mentions ʿIwāḍ; Ibn Samḥūn; Abū l-Surūr; Dāʾūd; Abū l-Barakāt; Zikrī; the …
Fragment of a Christian marriage contract written in Arabics on parchment and dated Muḥarram 554AH. The bottom half of the contract was reused as writing …
Legal document dated but much of the date is lost. Mentions Mukarram al-Kohen (on verso, not part of the document itself). (Information in part from …
Recto: List of names and numbers (written out in words) in Arabic script. Purpose unclear. On verso a list of names in Judaeo-Arabic: "The house …