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Ketubba. Dated: 1[.]4[.] Seleucid. Groom: Surūr b. Ḥayyim. Bride: Ṣubḥ bt. Yehuda. It is not her first marriage (dower of 12.5 dirhams). Sums of 5 …
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Legal document, probably a form or copy, as there is no room for signatures. The parties are Yeḥezqel b. Avraham ha-Bavli and David b. Shaʿya. …
Letter in Arabic script. Related to the 12th-century India trade. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū Naṣr al-Isrāʾīlī al-Tājir (the trader) who arrived from Egypt this …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Probably a biblical tale, mentions the "قول شمويل".
Letter from Avraham b. Shemuel ha-Levi, Jerusalem, to Nissim ha-Kohen Ṣefanya b. ʿOvadya ha-Kohen, Fustat/Cairo. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dated: 6 Kislev 5439 AM …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Avraham Hakohen b. Shlomo. The bride is Esther known as 'Aziza d. Shmuel Halevi. AA
Late list of names, including many women.
Record of payment of rent, ca. 1186. A payment of 100 wariq dirhams (for a period of one year's rent) is received from Abu Ishaq …
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Letter in Arabic script. Written in large, calligraphic script. Containing a renunciation of a friendship. The details are left very vague. The sender refers to …
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Letter to a physician, with blessings for his sons Saʿadya and Abū Mansur Elʿazar, and mentioning the sender's longing for a third person. Also with …
A leaf of the astronomical tables devised for the years 900-1500 CE. Only two dates come into question for the year 631/1234 (Ayyubid period). Date …
Private accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. For the days Thurday the 8th of Rajab and Friday the 9th of Rajab. Possibly for different …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Arabic.
Accounts in Arabic, medieval-era. Probably recycled from the same document as the neighboring shelfmark ENA 2954.7.
Recto: Lower part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender places an order worth 16 dirhams, including for 1/2 ounce of Iraqi copper sulfate (zinjār). …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: 1563 Seleucid = 1251/52 CE. (The last digit of the year is quite faded but the letters ותל …
Two unidentified Arabic documents. The lefthand one looks late.
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Torn; only the right half is preserved. The term taṣāduq (settlement) appears in it. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or …
Seven sides of elaborate accounts in form of a ledger, in Arabic Siyaket script. Dated Ramadan 1229 (1814 CE). Potential join to AIU VII.F.24 and …
Letter from Qayrawan to Efrayim b. Shemarya in Fustat. 23 July 1035 AM (15 Av 1346 Sel.).
Accounts or perhaps solely mathematical calculations in Hebrew alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Perhaps an order of some kind. Very faded. Opens with "send it" (yusayyirhā) and ends with ושלומך יגדל נצח סלה.
Testimony in Arabic script probably meant to accompany an investiture petition from the gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda to the newly appointed caliph al-Mustanṣir billāh, listing …
(Having been requested,) we, all together and each separately,
(to deliver this testimony,) namely all those writing their witness and signing
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Legal document concerning financial matters, signed by Yosef Benyamin, and mentioning Yehuda Bunan and Yosef’s son Nissim. Dated 1 Shevat 5579 AM (= 1819 CE). …
Monograph; beginning of a work on kashrut, written at the request of a correspondent; the author states that he has already written a longer work …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions a certain Ṣedaqa.
Settlement agreement as part of which golden rings worth forty dinars were exchanged (one with a pearl) before the consummation of the marriage which was …
Accounts. Grocery list?
Letter from Ṭayyib b. Mūsā (or Ibn Majjānī according to Sabih Aodeh), possibly in Jerusalem, to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEzra b. Ismāʿīl (or ʿAwda b. Ismāʿīl …
Letter addressed to Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-ʿAfṣī ("the gallnut merchant") al-ʿAṭṭār, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The addressee is known …
Recipe for an amulet, beginning with 6 word-triangles based on angel names (תקפיאל, רחמיאל, etc), followed by (in Aramaic) 'You holy names... Heal NN (1b)... …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 16th century. From Yosef Ibn al-Ashqar (see T-S NS 304.1 (PGPID 24958)). Mentions a tarsīm, matters of money, and someone named …
Verso: Informal letter in Arabic script, apparently signed by Yūsuf Khalīl (per CUDL). Seems to be dealing with small business transactions. Needs examination.
Recto: Fragment of a literary text in Arabic. Verso: Fragment of a text in Hebrew. Needs further examination.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Very faded/rubbed. Seems to be describing a house.
Letter draft or notes in Arabic script, as yet unidentified. Written on the back of a letter in mixed Judaeo-Persian and Arabic (see PGPID 34816).
Communal ledger, late Ottoman, numerals in Arabic. Multiple pages, folded vertically and sewn.
Secondary use: Letter fragment or draft in Judaeo-Arabic. The portion on recto has an agitated tone, mentions a sum of money, Munajjā, swearing by God …
Bottom of a communal letter, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Goitein: "Signature of the future Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh ha-Nagid. Important. Mevorakh …
Header of a ketubba, with large colorful letters and fleurs-de-lis and micrography.
Letter from Moshe b. Elʿazar the teacher (ha-Melammed) to Elʿazar the scholar (ha-Talmid). In Hebrew (for the introduction and address) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). …
Accounts mentioning the receipt of payments in sherifi (שרפי= produced post-1425 CE) which, in combination with the paleography helps to date this fragment as 15th- …
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script and western Arabic numerals. Late. Currency: cedid. The Arabic script reads: "he has flour from the mill of the …
Small fragment of an Arabic legal deed, probably a Muslim marriage contract (...الصداق المذكور...).
Small fragment of legal document(s). Recto is in a square hand and verso appears to be a more cursive copy of it. Needs examination.
Bible. On verso one line with the name Ishaq b. Musa