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Letter from a certain Ibrāhīm concerning business matters in which the writer mentions silk and asks the addressee for further trade-related instructions to be sent …
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Letter from the mother of Dā'ūd, in a provincial town, to her son Sulaymān al-Jamal, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. She complains about a lack of …
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Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman-era. Needs examination for content.
No Scholarship Records
Letter to a court clerk or judge. "Please draw up a power of attorney for Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Avraham Segulat ha-Yeshiva my sister.... for Abū …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, damaged and fragmentary. Dating: probably late, no earlier than 14th century, based on format and formulae. Mostly sending regards to various people. …
Letter from Shimʿon b. Binyamin to a number of communal leaders in the city of גלא (somewhere in Kurdistan?). Concerning the qualifications of Moshe b. …
On recto a dirge in Hebrew. On verso probably from book of Josiphon. AA
Hebrew poetry.
Letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. He reports that 'your mother and sisters' are well. He sends regards to …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. There is a name preserved (Abū something), possibly in reference to a debt owed, but not much else is preserved. …
Letter from the nephew of a Ḥaver (whose eldest son is Abū l-Maʿānī), mentioning the 13th-century judge Anatoli. (Information from CUDL.) The sender might be …
Letter fragment from the cantor Khalfa Ibn al-Qafṣī (i.e., from Qafṣa/Gafsa, in Tunisia; Abramson and Golb incorrectly read "al-Qifṭī," from Qifṭ in Upper Egypt). The …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as Abū ʿAlī; [...] al-Bukhtaj; Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Pinḥas; [...] al-Sharābī; Abū l-Faraj; a parnas; and Aharon. …
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Recto: Much effaced list of donors to charity. With one exception all called by their first names. Nineteen pledges of at least twenty-two persons. (Information …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document mentioning an elder, Abū Yaʿqūb the parnas and Ibn al-Qaḥṭ[ānī?]. (Information from CUDL)
Possibly a damaged order of payment: [...] lā ghayr yawm al-[...]
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic in rudimentary handwriting.
Short, faded note to 'al-melammed' telling the addressee to take a 'dast' (a certain quantity) from 'this paper,' for the writer is without employment.
Legal record (#17) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be from Natan b. Shemuel to [Abū l-Ḥa]san b. Rabbenu Shemuel. Mentions the capitation tax several times. Mentions al-Maḥalla, but …
On recto there are three brief legal records: (I) The first concerns the selling of jewels owed to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Fakhr. Dated: Shevaṭ …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals, with some Arabic script. Mentions names such as Yūsuf Ibn al-Khādim; [...] al-Rīfī; al-Shaykh al-Saʿīd; Bū Naṣr al-Shammash; and …
Document, probably a letter, concerned with trade. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Yosef Ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon, Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1050 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the …
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Unidentified Arabic, likely documentary.
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender complains that Sayyidnā al-Rayyis and Abū Man[ṣūr?] al-ʿAfīf have cut off the payments with which they …
List of contributors. Dating: From the time of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides (1205–37). Four pages of names, largely identical with those in contemporary lists, with …
Mysterious fragment, possibly a letter fragment. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 17th–19th century based on the paleography. A signature appears at the bottom that …
Damaged letter. Recto is in Judaeo-Arabic, much faded. Mentions dār al-mushārif in the last line. Verso is in Hebrew. The writer is addressing אדוננו ירום …
Bottom part of a deed of indemnity. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 13 Sivan 1351 Seleucid = 28 May 1040 CE. In which Ḥasan b. ʿAllūn …
Legal discussion on the collection of the ketubah money - needs examination. Image not available
Letter from Avraham Karyo, Hayyim Moshe Pianti, Rahamim Shelomo ha-Levi, and a second Pianti, in Hebrew, recommending a certain poor man for charity. There is …
Calendar(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). T-S Ar.29.102 covers the years 1434–37 Seleucid = 1122–26 CE. T-S K2.59 covers the …
Letter in which the writer complains about his financial state. The sender gives advice to the addressee about leaving some place and taking his childrens' …
Minute fragment of legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Mentions the phrase אלמדכורה בעד הדא; the year 1440 Seleucid = 1128/20 …
Deed of lease in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Lessee: ʿAlī b. Yūsuf b. ʿAlī al-Shawwāʾ. Lessor: al-faqīr ilā llāh taʿālā …
Letter. Commercial letter from Murjī to his son, Meʾir b. Murjī, listing repayments from various individuals, including Moses [...] and David [...]. Address on verso. …
Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto is mostly extended expressions of deference and flattery. Starting about halfway through verso, it appears that the sender is asking for …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 28 Sivan '85, probably 5585, corresponding to 14 June 1825 CE. The writer is Nissim Sabbāḥ and the addressee is Yaʿaqov …
State document, in Arabic script. Drafts of two petitions, oriented at 180˚ to each other. The one at the top begins with a taqbīl and …
List of commodities, such as dishes and veils, probably part of a trousseau list. Includes a white head scarf, black and white cloth, embroidered sleeves, …
Guide to the numerical value of the Arabic letters.
Small fragment of an Arabic document. Only a few words preserved.
Legal record (#35). Loan contract, outline. Stating that a contract shall be written regarding a loan of 6 5/6 dinars to be paid back in …
Fragment of a private letter, sending regards to a certain man and his son Yosef.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, complaining about his bad fortune. Mentions al-Shaykh al-Thiqa and Ibn al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Abū l-Faḍl b. Nuʿmān. AA