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Unidentified text in Arabic script. Part or all of it looks like poetry. Ruling regarding bathing according to Islamic jurisprudence on verso.
No Scholarship Records
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Iyar 5602 AM, which is 1842 CE. This is a partnership agreement for a sarraflık business for …
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Difficult-to-read and very brief Arabic document, containing the common but mysterious glyph لے at the top of recto and phrases such as "mamlūkuhu", 'li l-sharṭ' …
Recto: Ketubba fragment. Groom: Yefet b. Maṣliaḥ. Bride: Zahr bt. Yosef ha-Kohen. Verso: Document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe after the couple had …
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Unidentified fragment; talks about the dying of different kind of clothes. (CUDL)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Account in Arabic. Formalized layout reminiscent of state documents rather than private accounts, although the contents seem much more consistent with private grocery accounts (e.g., …
Rabbinica; probably from the preface to a work of rabbinic literature, but can also be from a letter; the author mentions having consulted the Tosefta; …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script, regarding financial matters "innanī katabtu ilā marʾ(?) lahu ʿindahu danānīr", concerning a teacher (qad addanī muʿallim l-ṣabīyy). Also mentions Cairo. …
Legal record (#49) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 13v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 48-50) Folio 13v
Fragment from a legal document, possibly a trousseau list section of a ketuba. AA
Goitein's index card refers to a fragment containing a draft of a letter of appeal for charity to the Nagid, who has two sons. This …
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Small receipt of some kind, probably.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dated in the upper left corner of the recto: Shaʿbān 962 AH (1555 CE). The elegant scribal hand is distinct …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to a person in Alexandria. Mentions merchandise and textiles, along with books and various texts that someone is copying for …
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Business letter in Arabic script. The sender seems to be having problems with someone. He has purchased a camel and it or something else is …
Letter, apparently sent from Samannūd (in the Nile delta). The writer, who is apparently on his travels, is very worried about his children as he …
Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man seeking employment in the caliph’s service. Draft, opening only. Dating: ca. 427–87/1036–94. On the other pages is …
The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and most excellent greetings be upon our master and lord
the imām al-Musta…
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Accounting document issued by "al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s. In Arabic script. Dated: …
Bifolio of business accounts in Arabic script, probably of a clothier or dyer. Each entry seems to list a debt or payment owed by a …
Distribution list for communal expenses and alms, probably in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Names include: Isḥāq; al-Muwaffaq; Abū l-Riḍā al-Ḥarīrī; Abū l-Maʿālī; Hiba …
Bottom of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. With crude handwriting and spellings. The addressee is called 'my son' and rebuked for his obstinacy and urged …
Recto: Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimuni Nagid, though, it should be noted that he is not named directly among the many honorific titles. Written …
Dowry list (taqwim) in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, for the marriage of Natan b. Shabbetay and […] bt. Yeshūʿa. Marriage payments: 10 + …
Letter from [...] b. Yūsuf to Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl [...]. In Arabic script. (The addressee is confusingly called 'my father' in the body of the …
IB VII, 69. Draft of a deposition about a shipment of Indian Ocean merchandise carried by two merchants named Faraḥ and Abū Naṣr who were …
חצ̇רא אלשיך אבו אלפרג נ̇ט̇ ואלשיך ⟦אבו אסח⟧
אבו אסחק נ̇ט̇ ואדעא מ̇ ישוע מ̇ ישועה עלי ⟦עלי⟧
ר̇ אברהם דנן אנה כאן אבעת מע פרח ואבו נצר
נ̇ע̇ אל…
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Birth record. In Arabic script. "The birth of my son Abū l-Fakhr was Wednesday, the fourth hour of the night. . . the fifth hour. …
Court record mentioning Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Menaḥem and Ibn al-ʿAnbarī. Dated: Thursday, 18 Av 1536 Seleucid = 20 July 1225 CE, under the authority of Avraham …
State document, fragment of a petition. Contains the "shadd" formula.
Possibly a dedication or ownership page from a book. "Written in the name of the youth . . . ha-Levi ha-Yaqar the noble groom . …
List in Judaeo-Arabic, neat and well-preserved, with quantities of food items and materia medica on the recto. There are three columns from right to left …
Court record possibly in the hand of Ghalib ha-Kohen b. Moshe, August 1, 1038. In the court of the Jerusalem community in Fustat. Community members …
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Recto: document, possibly part of a letter, mentioning different kinds of silk cloth, quantities and prices, and the name Ibn Yosef. Verso: possibly part of …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions ʿAbd al-Khāliq; Abū l-Khayr b. Hiba. Manṣūr b. Efrayim.
Fiscal or commercial account. Ayyubid or Mamluk-era?
Letter. In Ladino, with the address in Hebrew. Needs examination.
Fragment of a literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, on recto and verso. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th-century or later. The verso is recorded …
Literary bifolio fragment with Arabic text on the margins - needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Maḥāsin b. [...]; Barakāt b. ʿAmmār. Verso has the glyph and geomancy dots.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman era.
Business letter from Mukhtār b. Yaʿaqov sent to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions previous correspondence and different business matters, and names such as Abū …
Legal record (#26) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
IB VII, 56. Letter from an India trader, probably in Yemen. In Judaeo-Arabic. He recently came from Kullam in Malabar (recto margin l. 15) and …
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Literary text having to do with the restoration of Jerusalem, in the hand of the secretary of Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaon. (Information from Goitein's index …
IB II, 16. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ben Yiju. Dating: 1133–40 CE. This is the scribe's copy of Maḍmūn's original …
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A letter from Shemuel Hariv
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely a letter.
Ketubba fragment (left side only). Dated: [13]77 Seleucid, which is 1065/66 CE. Groom: Yaʿaqov. Marriage payments: 5 + 10 = 15. No dowry. (Information from …