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Recto: Accounts in Arabic script. Perhaps a state/fiscal document, since it's written in a chancery hand with wide space between the lines. There are date …
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Two words in Arabic script.
Legal queries addressed to Shemarya b. Elḥanan regarding marital laws. One in Hebrew and one in Judaeo-Arabic (this one crossed out)
Jottings related to the laws of Neziqin. Notable for jottings possibly copied from a legal document (והכל שריר ובריר וקים) including the names of witnesses: …
Fragment of a will in which a gift is given to Abū l-Faraj, the brother, and to Abū Saʿd, of a part of a house …
Fatimid decree. Two lines in huge script with wide spaces between the lines; faded and difficult to decipher. Reused for a text in Judaeo-Arabic that …
Letter in which the sender relates about some letters that reached him, discussing financial matters, among others some account books of different people and a …
אכרגת מן אלדאר ודלך עלא ופאה סלאמה(?) [ ] פיה [ ]
מותה ואעצם מא עלי רחל אלנאס ואמא [ ]
[ ] אלאעדאל אלדי תקדמת כתב אליה [ ]ל לל…
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Letter in Spanish with columns of numerical calculations at bottom that appears to be dated 5 Tamuz 5437 or July 5 1677CE (the "4" is …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Large but very faded. The writer asks the addressee to have Abū l-ʿIzz write something; perhaps the copies whose price is mentioned …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Arabic state document, reused for Hebrew literary text. Needs examination. Join: Joseph Yahalom.
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script. Mentions al-ṣabiyy al-malikī.
Bifolio of mercantile accounts in Arabic script. Many entries are crossed out. Mentions people such as Abū l-Barakāt al-Kohen (الكوهان). Mentions commodities such as buckthorn …
Informal note addressed to 'the father.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking him to send with the bearer the 100 dirhams that are with Maymūn for the construction …
Fragment of an opening to a letter to Yusuf b. Ya’aqub b. Awkal. The letter was written in Jerusalem. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, …
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Letter sent from Damietta to Khalīfa [...], in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand. Dating: Late. Written in six columns, with text from top to bottom and from bottom to top. Many foods are …
Verso (original use): End of a letter in Arabic script. With many formal blessings and phrases of deference for the addressee. Needs further examination.
A register copy containing accounts of three arrests. The first detainee is Faẓāʾil (Naẓāʾir?) b. Ismaʿīl who was arrested by Sayyid al-Ahl, Riḍwān, and al-Muẓaffar …
Minute fragment with two Hebrew letters visible on the recto, ...]דכ .
Petition from the Jewish physician Sulaymān b. Mūsā. In Arabic script. He reports that he "was raised among the physicians of the hospital (māristān) in …
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Arabic, literary.
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a woman (ואלרזמה אן כנתי מא ודיתיהא...). Written in an odd format with only one or two words per …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentions Abū Manṣūr and Abū Jaʿfar.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly addressed to the physician Abū l-Faḍl (אבו אל]פצל אלחכים אלסד[יד). Dating: ca. late 12th or early 13th century. The sender mentions …
Letter by Raḥamim b. Nissim to ʿArūs b. Yosef about dealing in purple and indigo.
Possibly a business account in Arabic script. Looks late. May also mention Hippocrates (Buqrāṭ).
State document, probably a decree of appointment, in Arabic script. Beginning of three fragmentary lines - "يتصرف فيه...وما معها يعمل...". Needs examination.
Business accounts in Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Late. Needs examination.
Receipt related to ḥikr (ground rent) for a specific waqf in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated (on verso): 1235 AH, which is 1819/20 CE. The …
Halakhic commentary. On recto commercial (or astronomical) note in Arabic.
end of a legal document signed by: [...] Mevorakh, Hillel b. Zadoq, Hiyya b. Ishaq, Frihuna b. Yeshu'a Probably from 1150–1160.
Fragment of a late legal document in Hebrew detailing financial transactions. Mentions 181 peraḥim that were detained with the consul; a certain Hayyim; a total …
Fragment (bottom) of a document, possibly a legal testimony. Two lines at the bottom of the document indicate witness signatures. The first one reads "shahida …
Fragment of official correspondence. In Arabic script, chancery hand, wide space between the lines. Portions of ~5 lines are preserved from near the beginning, mainly …
Small, official-looking receipt. Needs examination.
Minute fragment from a ketubah.
Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. There is the end of one poem (an elegy) and the beginning of another one "for …
Recipe in Arabic script. "Take the black myrtle and take the chard, and tear apart... take salt, a half measure..."
Bottom part of a legal or official document, dated to the month of Dhū l-Qaʿda 606 H.
Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 13th–14th century. Maybe a recommendation for the bearer. Mentions 250 dirh[ams]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Engagement contract. Bride: the widow Rashīda bt. Yiṣḥaq b. Sheʾerit. Groom: the widower Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe. Location: Minyat Ghamr. Dated: Wednesday, 3 Tishrei 1627 Seleucid …
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Report on the financial activities of an association – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 22, 23) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein …
Legal document. Witness statement of the wife of Abū l-Ḥasan, concerning dowry payments. Mentions the name Yehuda. In the handwriting of Yosef b. Shemuel b. …
Text is too damaged to identify, possibly a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, written in wide spacing. Torn and damaged. Legible phrases: ואנהא לדאת אללה תע ואלאחד . . . . ענהם . . …
Draft of the opening of a petition to 'al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-mawlawī. . . al-malikī al-muʿaẓẓamī al-muʿizzī al-manṣūrī..." This is found among various other jottings …