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Unidentified state document in Arabic script. Mentions names/honorifics such as al-Muʾayyad and al-Mukhliṣ several times, as well as Iftikhār al-Dawla and possibly Jawhar. Needs further …
Letter from Musa b. Abi l-Hayy from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. Mentions details about changing coins and business between the two …
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כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא
ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכנדריה לד בקין מן אב ען חאל סלאמה ושוק אליך …
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Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The contents are formulaic, including blessings for prolonging the prestige (jāh) of the recipient.
Business letter in Arabic script from an unknown trader to another unknown trader regarding textiles: Siqillī, Ṭabarī, and Sūsī cloth. Second half of the eleventh …
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Upper fragment: Letter in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya (court scribe, active ca. 1181–1209). He is describing a marital dispute: "...four sessions... …
Fragment from a collection of legal formularies in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). The document on recto concerns the manumission of an …
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Letter from Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. Ḥusayn writes that he has received Uruwī's letter, delivered by Uruwī's slave …
Letter sent from Jerusalem to Egypt/Cairo. In Hebrew. Asking for support for the poor and the scholars of the community of Jerusalem. The sender describes …
Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. Mentions 'al-wilāya.' Reused on recto for a book list in …
Recto is an explanation of the difference between the principles of כלל ופרט וכלל vs רבוי ומיעוט ורבוי. Verso contains a note stating "this is …
Letter. Little preserved of content. Saffron, silk and copper mentioned.
Letter fragment in Ladino. Dated: 11 Elul 5501 AM = 23 August 1741 CE.
Calendar in Hebrew script. Needs examination.
Medical treatise in Arabic script. Agaric (al-ghāriqūn). . . Turbid (turpeth). . .
Legal document. The beginnings of ~9 lines are preserved. Referring to a gift and appointing an agent and "my son Manṣūr."
Small fragment of a Yemenite style marriage contract. See Friedman, JMP, I, p. 184, n. 109. AA
List of names. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably 17th–19th century. Entries include Mosseri, Ben Zakito, Elimelekh b. Eliyyahu, and about two dozen more. The text …
Verso: Syriac translation of Romans 16:25–26 and 1 Corinthians 13:12–13. The text is written in a distinctive western Syriac hand with most letters of the …
Guide to the graves of sages and saints. In Hebrew. Probably late. Of geographical interest.
Letter from Marduk b. Musa in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Contains details concerning a number of complex, but interesting, accounts between Nahray …
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Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: New Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 11 Ḥeshvan 1409 Seleucid = 20 October 1097 CE. Husband: Ṭahor b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen. Wife: Banāt …
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Letter from the Karaite David b. Ḥayyūn, in Jerusalem, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov, in Tripoli (Libya). Dating: Probably middle of the 11th century. The sender …
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Ladino literary work.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (Barakāt al-Muʿallim) to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd ('the father'—evidently an elder relative). The note accompanies a gift of wine for a banquet …
Recto: Fragment with faded accounts in Arabic, medieval-era. The paper was reused for a calendrical text in Judaeo-Arabic. MCD.
Recto (secondary use): Complete letter from ʿEzra to Seʿadya. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a thin strip of paper, with sharply upslanting lines. Dating: Perhaps 13th …
Receipt of some sort. For Sahl b. Saʿd? Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. There is a date and witness signatures. Refers to a sum of 5 1/2 dinars and a monthly payment schedule. …
Responsum (FGP)
Accounts or grocery list. Probably dated 1 Jumādā I 516 AH (the century is not totally clear). Mentions sumac, squash, eggplant, grapes. linseed oil.
Bottom of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: last decade of Adar 1441 Seleucid = March 1130 CE. Contains …
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). It seems that somebody submitted an account of liabilities (ḥujaj), apparently to be paid …
Secondary use: Rabbinica; discussion of various topics relevant to BT Bava Batra, ch. 9; with extensive Judaeo-Arabic marginalia, citing Hai Gaon. (Information in part from …
Bill of release (שטר פיצוי). In the hand of Yefet b. David? Dated: Ḥeshvan 1352 Seleucid = October/November 1040 CE. In which [..]āt bt. Yeshuʿa …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Upper right piece. The sender seems to be rebuking the addressee. Headed by Proverbs 1:7 (יראת ייי ראשית דעת …
Quittance from uncle named Yeshuʿa b. Avraham to his nephew, Saʿdān, after the latter returned a piece of land which had been taken illegally by …
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Legal record (#6) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 27 Sivan [5320] …
Bifolio from a ledger of accounts. This part concerns the sale of aloeswood (ʿūd), 44 dinars and 10 qirats. Cf. T-S K15.29. (Information from Goitein's …
IB I, 18a. Settlement (canceled draft) in the lawsuit between David ibn Sighmar, the representative of Moshe b. Labrat, against Yosef Lebdi. The final version …
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Late commercial letter from Yaʿaqov Za..a(?) to Isaac regarding the shipping of goat wool. Mentions a number of individuals, including Cosimo (קוזמו), Simon (סימון), Moshe …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Messy. Mentions names such as Shemuel, Makhlūf, and Ḥamza.
Legal document (deed of sale). In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Venue: The house of Shelomo b. Aharon Kohen Khāzinī. Dated: Thursday, 19 Heshvan 5527 AM, which …
Small fragment from the lower right corner of a legal document in Arabic script. Probably the same scribe as ENA 3924.7 (ID 10272). Needs further …
An opening of a legal query sent to Yehiel b. Elyaqim (Date: 1213-1238). Published by Glick, Seride Teshuvot: A Descriptive Catalogue of Responsa. Fragments from …
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Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). The cantor (Abū l-Majd?) is to give Ṭāhir the beadle (al-khādim) 2.5 dirhams. …