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Three drafts of a testimony concerning the qualifications and good conduct of the physician Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū Sahl b. Ibrāhīm (=Yedutun ha-Levi?). The witnesses …
شهد من اثبت شهادته اخر هذا المحضر شهدوا
جميعا وفرادى انهم يعرفون فلان منتجزه معرفة
صحيحة جامعة بعينه واسمه ونسبه ويخبرون
حاله…
The people whose names occur at the end of this court record, they being free,
honourable and good Muslim men, testified,
together …
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Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Organized by parshiyot. Mentions Barakāt al-Qazzāz b. Sulaymān; Sukkot …
No Scholarship Records
Letter in Arabic script. Opens with expressions of longing and regret for how the sender did not stay with the addressee. The sender reports that …
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Letter from a physician in Arabic script giving detailed instructions for the care of a sick man, especially about diet, baths, and regimen. It concludes …
Recto: Lower part of an incomplete letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Isḥāq and then describes a quiet apartment which has been obtained for the addressee: …
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Court record in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Refers to a sick person whose will is invalid (...מרצה בטלת וציתה...) …
P12 + P13: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves: silk merchandise, some of it in the form of …
Minutes fragment, one of which is from the top of a legal deed.
Minute fragment from a financial account. Late.
Letter from the cantor Elazar ha-Hazzan b. Avraham to Mevorakh b. Saadya, before he became Nagid (thus, before 1078). Informing that three pieces of copper, …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions people such as Jamāl al-Dīn and Ismāʿīl al-Ḥalabī. Mentions commodities such as pepper, lac, and sumac.
IB II, 40. Three poems by Avraham Ibn Yiju in honor of Madmun b. Ḥasan, Aden, ca. 1140, who was expecting his third son.
[ל]ה קול איצא תאני ימרח פיה אלשיך מצמון בן חסן נע[ג]
IB V, 41d. Tiny fragment containing an order for an ounce of ʿaqīd (a dense sugar syrup). In Judaeo-Arabic. From Abū Zikrī Kohen? There is …
Legal record (#50) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 17v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated in Tishrei, but …
Mysterious table in Hebrew. Lists the various tribes of Israel and gives the date of birth and age at death.
Small fragment from a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi
On recto two drafts of a letter reporting about Yiṣḥaq Perdonel, likely a recommendation. Late. In Hebrew. On verso accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (possibly with some …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Likely a fragment of a fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). One line preserved mentioning the month of Rabīʿ …
Accounts in Arabic script. Repeatedly mentions shahr al-aʿyād (presumably Tishrei), al-faṭīr (Passover), and al-ʿanṣara (Shavuʿot). Mentions Abū ʿAlī b. Isḥāq. Needs further examination.
Marriage contract (ketubba), Palestinian-style. Bride: Dalāl bt. Yefet. The groom's name is lost. Location: Tinnīs, Egypt. Dating: probably 1085 or 985 CE.
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IB II, 3. Letter from Amram b. Yosef to Nahray b. Nissim inquiring about a letter sent to Aden Alexandria. Dating: 1094–97. The first 27 …
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Letter to a dignitary ("the head of the Yeshiva of the Torah") in Judaeo-Arabic, reporting that Yosef Ibn al-Salamantī(?) came to al-muʿallim Farajallāh complaining to …
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script.
Part of a state or legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a community or group (al-jamāʿa) and the middle of Shawwāl. Reused on recto for …
Colophon for an unknown work dated Shawwāl 896 Hijri, which is 1491 CE. "This work and its companion were written in the name of (=by?) …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic, badly damaged. Medieval-era. Entries begin with quantities owed by different people: bi-yad Masʿūd... bi-yad Makārim.... Reused for piyyūṭ (Information in part …
Torn fragment of a business account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
List of "requested (funds) for R. Pitro" collected dated 1820/21 CE (5581 AM). Surnames include Pinto, Yagi, Rosano, Ergas, among others.
Letter in Ladino dated 19 April 1785 (9 Iyyar 5545), from Rubi[?] Mores to Avraham Crespin in Cairo/Fustat "Miẓrayim". Two other individuals are mentioned within …
A short, but complete note to Nahray from one of his brothers-in-law, ca. 1045-1096.
Account including list of names in two separate columns (FGP)
Legal fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning inheritance and mentioning Yeshuʿa (possibly the deceased). (Information in …
Mostly private accounts, or fiscal.
Legal document concerning a sale, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No details preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a legal document. Verso mentions [Abū l-Fa]raj al-Kohen and his son. Recto mentions 100 of something.
Fragment of a text or document with the layout of a letter, but the main portion of which is entirely a biblical citation about Levites. …
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a business letter; mentions goods (al-baḍā'iʿ) and something being sent to Alexandria (irsāluhu ilā thaghr al-Skandariyya). Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era.
Probably writing exercises in Arabic script.
Legal document(s). This fragment contains the bottom two lines of one document and the entirety of a second document (though a vertical strip from the …
Letter from ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. ʿAyyāsh buys goods in Alexandria for Nahray. The …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא
ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכריה לי כלון מן סיון אערפך אללה בר[כת]ה וכתמה עלינא
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr is Murhaf b. Fāris al-Dawla Nushtakīn "one of the greats of the Ḥāfiẓī regiment" (احد الحافظية …
Document in Arabic script. On top there is Hebrew literary text. The same scribe reused numerous Arabic-script documents (see Joins Suggestions).
Order. In Judaeo-Arabic. Zakkāy requests "1/4 of eggs."
Mostly destroyed fragment of power of attorney given to Yaʿaqov ha-Sar b. Moshe to represent the daughters of the late Avraham b. Shelomo in connection …
Letter from Meḥmed Çavuş (Muḥammad Jāwīsh) to an unidentified Jewish tax farmer (ʿāmil) in Old Cairo. In Arabic script. Dating: late sixteenth or early seventeenth …
Letter from the Maghreb regarding business and family matters. Unfinished. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. At the bottom of recto, the writer says that he …