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Verso (original use): Distribution list for cash and wheat for the poor of the Rabbanites, administered by the ḥaver (al-ḥibr) [...] and Yaʿqūb al-[...]. Written …
No Scholarship Records
Recto (verso as catalogued): Accounts in Arabic, including the line "[...] that went with the fleet." Verso: Magical instructions in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic.
Fragment of a letter from [...] b. Yaʿaqov to [...] b. Natan, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address partially in Arabic script. Dating: likely …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Deed of sale for an enslaved woman named Sahar. One of the parties …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning commodities such as spikenard (sunbul) and cardamom (al-hāl al-qāqullī), and moringa (al-bān). Mentions Jamāl al-Dīn Abū l-Jāj[...] …
A leaf from Kalīla wa-Dimna, including an illumination of the raven and the rat (but not the tortoise) in the story.
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End of a petition from someone identifying himself as a certified hazzan to two people in Cairo requesting their assistance. The writer refers to someone, …
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Multifragment. 25 tiny fragments.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter issued by the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 75) – in Judeo-Arabic. (information …
List of Mishna tractates and chapters, together with pen exercises. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged.
Fragment (a strip) of a legal deed concerning real estate (al-dār al-madhkūra). Mentions a ladder, a Muslim legal deed (kitāb al-'arabī). The remaining legal text …
Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Dated: [14]57 Seleucid, which is 1145/46 CE. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ gives to his wife Sitt al-[...] …
Verso (original use): Account in Arabic script, maybe a fiscal document. Mentions ʿĪsā b. Naṣr and ʿĪsā b. Sālim. There is a partial date (5 …
Letter sent by the Adath Sefardim congregation of Safed to Avraham b.(?) David Naḥmias in Alexandria. Dated 22 Elul 5685 AM (1925 CE). At first …
Legal document in Arabic script.
Probably literary - seems to be a discussion of legal procedure in Judaeo-Arabic with some Aramaic.
Fragment of an Arabic translation of a Greek ethical treatise of unknown authorship published by A.R. Badawi as “Maqāla fī al-madkhal ilā ʿilm al-akhlāq” in …
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. A - Accounts, in Arabic script.
Mysterious fragment with a variety of drafted texts and writing exercises. Both in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The dating is early modern (post-1500 CE) and there …
6 leaves containing Geonic responsa on Sukka followed by a long responsum about giving a herd of sheeps to a shepherd on Shabbat. The first …
Legal document, tiny fragment. Probably from a ketubba. Mentions 5 dinars.
Recto: Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: [4]84[.] AM = 1079–89 CE. Husband: Tamīm b. Shelomo. Wife: Nafīsa bt. David. Signed by the ḥaver Yosef b. …
Letter written in Fustat on 6 Ṭevet (no year) from a son to his mother (l. 17, yā wālidatī). Very emotional. Mentions Alexandria and flax, …
Letter from Mevasser b. David in Damsis to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, ca. 1053. The main issue discussed in the letter is an argument …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וכלאיתך מן
דמסיס יום ערובה סכות אעאדה אללה עליה אעואם כתירה תזכה לביאת גואל
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A family letter written by Meir b. Hillel b. Sadoq to his three brothers. He objects to the marriage of Abu al-Mufadal, one of his …
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Arabic accounts.
Accounts in Arabic script.
IB II, 27. Copy of a letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: 1136–39 or 1145–49. Written by one of …
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Small letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen.
Letter from the wife of Baṣīr (or rather Nuṣayr) the bell-maker (al-jalājilī) to the Nagid David II Maimonides, asking him to help return her husband, …
In your name, You Merciful.
To the high Seat of our Lord the Nagid, may his splendor be exalted and his honor great.
The maidservant
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. This is the last leaf of a longer letter, as it is headed "tamām …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Crude hand known from many similar fragments.
Fragment of an official letter from Fustat addressed to a certain town in the Rīf (or perhaps a circular), exhorting them to be generous and …
Fragment in Arabic script. Possibly astronomical/calendrical (mawḍiʿ al-shams...) describing different positions of the Sun in the sky, especially its ascension. Needs examination.
Small fragment of a legal note in the hand of ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Involves [...]ān b. M[...] and includes phrases such as בחכם אן …
Fragment of an official document, probably. (Tax receipt?) Little is preserved beyond the date: 12 Ramaḍān 634 AH = 9 May 1237 CE.
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions the name Maḥfūẓa and possibly the terms of …
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat. Discusses the matter of the 18 dinars owed to the poor of …
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Magical remedies, written on parchment.
Fragment of an amulet in Judaeo-Arabic, probably for a certain Asaf b. Berakhya.
Much damaged. Poetical Hebrew, might be from a beginning of a letter.
Draft or record of legal deed(s) in a court notebook. Concerning the dissolution of a partnership at the death of one of the partners. Names: …
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Accounts in Arabic (VMR). Late.
Literary text. Recipes or medical. Mentions peeled almonds.
Fragment of a writing exercise. On the verso: the signature of a Shemuel b. Yiṣḥaq in Hebrew script followed on the second line by the …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Yerushalmi to Abu al-Mansur Elazar the scribe from whom the writer asks a favor. The letter opens with six lines …