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8 pages from an alphabetically-organized index of a Spanish medical textbook.
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Recto: State document, in Arabic script. Probably a report or petition. Dating: Mamluk-era, probably. A state official by the name Sanī al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj is …
Document in Arabic script. Reused for Targum of Exodus 29:25–46.
Decorated Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Yosef Hakohen b. Barukh. The bride is Esther known as Rachel d. Avraham Halevi.
Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating (Gil): ca. 1060. The letter deals with shipments of goods that arrived …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך לו כלון מן תמוז
ואלחאל סלאמה תקדמת כתבי אליך עדה קבל וצול כתאבך ובאלאמס ביד אל
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Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded.
Remnants of two lines of an Arabic-script chancery document, or possibly a mercantile letter (وما عليه من قماش(؟) يخصه ويخص سيدنا(؟)). In between, at ninety …
Fragment of a late letter in Hebrew signed by Seʿadya b. Moshe ha-Dayyan. See Arad, D. (2008). Syria’s links with the Jews of Cairo in …
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Small fragment of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi
Colophon by 'the Baghdādī cantor'; ביד אלחזן אלבגדאדי AA
Literary, Hebrew.
Deed of sale (שטר זביני). Very damaged. Dating: early 11th century. One of the parties is David. The deed is signed by Yosef b. [...], …
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Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century, based on the locations (e.g. al-Mahdiyya and Sicily) and people named. Fragment: Right side of recto and right …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand looks like that of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (early 13th century). Refers to something shameful (al-ʿār), "what people say" (kalām …
Seems like a list of prices, but only little text is preserved. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138).
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 25 Ramaḍān 405. Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd …
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Talmud, apparently in a 14th or 15th-century Byzantine hand. See folio 26 for the probable dating.
Legal document. Fragment of a prenuptial agreement written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). The wife is permitted to leave her house only with …
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Unidentified document or text in Arabic script written on blue cloth. The format looks literary.
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals.
Legal entries in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Entry at upper right: mentions the 17th of Jumādā, the name of a witness …
Literary. Fragment of a haggada.
Recto: Letter in the handwriting of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably from Qalyub to his father in Fustat, consisting almost in its entirely of good …
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Part of a ketubba. Bride: Muʾnisa bt. [...] (מונסה) and [...]danan b. Abraham. Marriage payment 5+10. Dowry items preserved =22 dinars (but clearly a lot …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom half only). The sender is planning to travel to al-Shām the next day and he asks for money to cover …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part). Asking for help from the addressee. Mentions R. Avraham; being in great distress (wa-l-sāʿa al-shidda ʿaẓīma); lack of clothing …
Minute fragment- opening words of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
Recto: unidentified Judaeo-Arabic text; probably a contributors list. Mentions [Abū l]-Faḍl; [Abū l-]Karam Ibn al-Mūrid; Futūḥ; and Ibn Nufayʿ. Verso: unidentified Arabic text; probably from …
A letter from Yeshu'a Yosef b. Moshe to Avraham b. Moshe
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Dāwūd b. Yehuda ha-Kohen asking him to read out a letter of condolence—enclosed with the present letter—to Moshe ha-Kohen …
לך יי הוחלתי אתה תענה יי אלהי
אלממלוך שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין ס'ט
אל הדרת יקרת צפירת כגק מרנא ורבנא דוד הכבן החבר
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, etc.
But for thee, O Lord, do I wait; it is thou, O Lord my God, who wilt answer.
The sl…
Ketubba. Early. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, in the same hand as the nearby fragments: probably Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ of Tyre, mid-11th century. Needs examination for content.
Letter describing the wanton destruction of a community and the ransoming of captives. It talks of Palestine (ארץ הצבי) and Byzantium (אדום). (Information from CUDL)
Beginning of a letter. Only the blessings have survived.
Letter from Yeshu'a b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmuri, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Mentions the safe arrival of (probably) relatives to Fustat; a female slave who …
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תקדמת כתבי לחצרה מולאי גדול החברים אטאל אללה
בק[א]ה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמתה אעלמת מא וצל
אלי מן שדה אלוחשה אסל אללה קרב אלגמע עלי…
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Contributors' list. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. 3 columns, 34 contributions. 27 give 1/4 (probably of a dirham) and 7 give 1/2. Two persons …
Writing exercises in Hebrew with the signature of a certain Shemuʾel b. Yiṣḥaq Bahlūl. The dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. MCD.
Recto and two lines on verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning 'the collector' (al-jābī), 'the tax collector' (al-ḥāshir), and someone named Salmūn. Also on verso: Accounts …
Letter in Ladino sent from Salonica to Yaʿaqov Hanoko (? חאנוקו) possibly in Monastir (modern-day Bitola, North Macedonia) where there was a large Ladino-speaking community …
Small fragment from a marriage contract.
Bifolio of private accounts. Mentions Saʿīd, Faḍʾil, ṣāhib al-rahn(?). Needs examination.
Letters in Ladino that from Shem Tov b. Mozeo (Moshe?) and another individual with a distinct signature and hand. The letter on the fourth scan …
Responsum concerning a problematic partnership, with an excursus on valid and invalid partnerships. (Information from CUDL)
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Receipt from the committee of Jewish pious endowments in Egypt for the value of rent on a residence in the qodesh of the Jewish quarter …
IB III, 42. List of Ibn Yiju's deposits and expenditures after arriving in Fustat. Mentions large quantities of jewelry, money, and goods that Ibn Yijū …
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Literary account in Judaeo-Arabic of the episode of the Toledo Qaraites who arrived in Cairo in 1465 CE. There are at least three other versions, …