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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. There are also several lines in Arabic script, which are in a …
The image doesn't fit with the description. Karaite ketuba from Cairo.
Two fragments of a legal document concerning the rent for a property located in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. The lessor is al-Shaykh al-Raḍiyy. The lessee (al-mustaʾjir) is …
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State document(s) in Arabic script. Most likely a fiscal account because of the phrase "mablagh jārī" in v.1. However, it has the petition-like phrase "iḥsānuhu …
Top of a document in Arabic script, very faded/damaged.
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment from near the beginning. Probably regarding the rent of a house or its sale. The beneficiary is ʿAlī b. …
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Torn late letter. The writer informs the recipient of his "his sadness and afflictions... in the land of Egypt." Later in the letter, the sender …
Accounts. (Information from Goitein's index card)
Bifolio (subsequently folded into thirds) of an eclectic selection of incomplete state-related documents. Perhaps the writing exercises or drafting of a chancery scribe, or else …
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Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, likely sent from Alexandria. Very faded. Concerns a dispute between groups within the community and mentions the synagogue. One group turned …
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Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to an unknown person. Around 1060. The addressee is not Nahray, as Nahray’s name is mentioned in …
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Letter of condolence/grief upon the death of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Dating: ca. 1195 CE (the precise date of death is not known). In …
Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Concerning sale of a property or a dispute related to it. Mentions the benefactor's daughter, the clause "during his …
Philosophical work comparing the prophecy of Moshe to other prophets. Information from Sarah Stroumsa's transcription and notes.
Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal [b. al-Dayyān?], instructing him to pay the bearer, the qāḍī Naṣr al-Dīn, 1000 Kāmilī …
Unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts for the sale of tin (qaṣṭīr). Mentioning Nahray b. Nissim. A total number of 3,500 (a weight?) is mentioned. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Account in Arabic script. All words, no numerals. "I have / there is owed to me from the remainder of the mill (al-raḥā) 10 dirhams...."
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Sahlan b. Avraham, end of 1042. Detailing "the peace" and the settlement between the Shelomo and Natan b. Avraham …
Literary text, probably medical, in Arabic script. New chapters written in red ink, sneeze "al-ʿiṭās".
The main text is a long list of greetings, probably originally appended to a letter: Recto, left side: Rabbenu Moshe (this is Maimonides); his brother …
Accounts in a rudimentary scribal hand, medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Opening few words of a letter and part of the address: to mawlāy al-ḥazzan (my master the cantor) al-[...] from ואדה ושאכרה (the one who …
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (with motto) to the cantor Faraj Allah urging him to collect the jibāya for Yom Kippur. Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides' …
A letter of recommendation from the office of the Nagid Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE), for a poor man Shelomo to be read in …
Accounts related to the Must'arabi community of Cairo in the year 5556 which is 1795/1796CE. In the remnant of the recto's heading the communal "chest …
Literary, Hebrew.
Autograph letter from Maimonides to al-Dayyan al-Maskil (i.e., Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi). Dating: ca. 1168–1204, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. …
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Magical text in Hebrew script.
Legal fragment, probably. In Arabic script. Concerning rental arrangements. On verso there is Hebrew piyyut.
Copy of a Karaite ketubah. Dated 8 Adar 5400 AM (1640 CE).
Literary anecdote (khabar) in the name of Ḥammād al-Rāwiya, conveying an account he heard from ʿUmar b. Abī Rabīʿa in Mecca about an ʿUdhrī poet …
Letter to Shalom b. Zekharya, mostly on family matters.
Memorial list or lists. In several different hands. There is also the draft of the beginning of a legal document, in Fustat, dated 24 Nisan …
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1025 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the …
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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. …
Notes for a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). "From that: the property of Sitt al-Munā... Nāshiya... [the dīwān …
Short note in Arabic script. There is a name at upper left. The addressee is asked to report to the 'funduq al-yahūd' for some reason …
Legal document (headed zikhron ʿedut). In which Khalaf b. Tammām(?) "rents himself" (אגר נפסה) to ʿIwāḍ b. Elʿazar for 7 dirhams every month in order …
Possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. On the other side there is an unidentified text in Arabic script.
Accounts
Family letter. In Arabic script. Begins like a state document with the taqbīl clause. Nearly complete, but faded in places. Perhaps addressed to a 'paternal …
Hebrew poetry.
Recto: geṭ for [...] b. Menaḥem (husband), Dated 1 Iyyar [...]3 in Egypt. It might be possible to calculate an exact date for this document …