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Ketubba with an elaborate floral border (recto). Location: Salonica, the Hebrew/Aramaic names of the nearby rivers (?מגינות ובארוה) are unclear but there are several possibilities: …
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Recto (secondary use): Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment, left side only. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1361 Seleucid = 1049/50 CE. Signed [...] ha-Levi b. Yiṣḥaq and …
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Recto: End of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1451 Seleucid, which is 1140 CE. Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Also signed …
Document of sale dated Rabīʿ II 405 AH from the Fayyūm. Transaction between Rabābīl, the son of Mīnā, and Qarhīwah and Sariyya the daughters of …
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Notes on halakhic matters (lecture notes? draft of a treatise? responsa?). One side discusses a gentile converting to Judaism.
Mercantile letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Large, well-preserved, and essentially unstudied. Sender and addressee are unidentified; the sender is probably writing from Ifrīqiyya. …
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Letter of condolence to Avraham b. Berakaha. In Hebrew. Dating: Catalogued as 18th century. Several other people are named in the letter.
Letter from ʿAmmār b. [...] to al-Rayyis Bū l-Mufaḍḍal. In Arabic script. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. The writer reports on a particular course …
Kifāyat al-ʿĀbidīn by Avraham Maimonides. Information from FGP.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Mentions a suftaja.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Damaged, little preserved. Mentions wheat.
Digests of legal documents. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Document #1: Manṣūr/Elʿazar b. M[...] sells 1/8 of a house for 14 dinars. Specifies …
Image 4: Probably an account, using Arabic script for people's names and Hebrew script for the numbers. Image 5: A few words in Arabic including …
Unidentified text in Hebrew that appears to be signed by Avraham Monson (cf. T-S AS 204.256 (PGPID 32076) and T-S 18J3.24 (PGPID 17064)).
Small fragment from a letter to 'Moshe Hakohen the great Sar splendor of the kohanim ...' AA
Letter from Abū Zikrī to his father Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 12th or early 13th century. The letter conveys eloquent greetings for …
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Document in Arabic script. Mentions a wakīl. Reused for what looks like a Hebrew literary text.
Bifolio of well-preserved accounts in Arabic, probably state-issued. Medieval-era.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 12 Sivan 1532 Seleucid = 3 June 1221 CE. This bill of divorce is one of forty …
Official letter to a communal leader. In Judaeo-Arabic. Narrow page. Wide space between the lines. The sender asks the addressee to deliver an enclosed letter …
One line from the bottom of a petition containing the raʾy clause. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
الراي الاعلى [في ذلك] ان شا الله
A letter from the community of Luzki to Ishaq b. Shlomo
Small fragment with few Arabic words - needs examination.
Declaration of receipt of a quantity of barley. In Arabic script. Hiba b. Buqṭur b. […], companion of the amīr Dhakhīrat al-Dawla Ḥaydara b. Muḥammad …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
Hiba ibn Boqṭor ibn [ … ], the companion of the Amīr Dhakhīrat al-Dawla Ḥaydara ibn Muḥamm…
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Medical text dealing with lincti and ointments. CUDL
Legal record (#27) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Undated, neighboring …
Letter sent from Alexandria by Ismail b. Farah to a member of the Tāhartī Family in Fustat, containing details about goods and ships. Dated ca. …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning a variety of names, many of which may bear signs of Greek linguistic influence on ENA 3735.10. Early modern dating based …
Informal note to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm. The writer was amazed to learn of Abū Isḥāq's worry/fear (ḍuʿf al-qalb) and urges him not to worry so …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿAruṣ b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Some of the pages are crossed out with vertical lines.
Letter fragment (upper part of recto, address on verso). From the cantor Yefet b. ʿAmram Ibn al-Jāzfīnī to Shelomo b. Shela ha-Sar" On recto, the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
List of names (Seʿadya, Avraham, Yefet) and other things. Significance unclear.
Prognostications for the coming year in Judaeo-Arabic.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
First fragment: likely piyyut or prayer. Second fragment: tiny piece of a printed literary text, likely the bible.
Accounts, letter drafts, and miscellaneous jottings in Arabic script, Greek/Coptic numerals, and Judaeo-Arabic.
Private accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script listing amounts of money owed to and by various people (for items of clothing?). Barakāt owes 140 dirhams. …
One side: Legal document in Arabic script. Probably a deed of sale. Mentions [...] b. ʿUmar b. Muḥsin b. ʿAlī and the phrase "ʿalā iqrār …
Recto (secondary use): Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Excerpts: אעלם . . . . חבס אלקאצי פי חאגה . . . רחמתה . . . לם …
Letter in Hebrew script. Judaeo-Persian?
Marriage document. Long a narrow fragment from the left side of a ketubba, with only a few words surviving. The hand is by Mevorakh b. …
Small fragment of a legal document, bottom left corner. Extant torn sigantures include those of the two judges of Fustāt during the early 12th century …
Informal note of the court, likely in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to write out the will that has …
Receipt? - needs examination. Probably begins with "ṣaḥḥ ibn al-wazīr".
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. In Hebrew. Dated: 1 Tamuz 5569 AM = 15 June 1809 CE. Groom: Yaʿaqov ha-Levi Istanbuli b. Shemuel. Bride: Sara bt. Moshe …
Literary work in Hebrew. Dating: Probably late. Possibly horoscopes or prognostications based on given names, including Gedalya and Yeḥezqel.
Bill of sale in Arabic script, beginning only, probably Mamluk period. "Instead of the opening formula hādhā mā ishtarā X min Y ishtarā minhu ... …
Legal fragment. Dated: 4[..]3 AM, which just means prior to 1233 CE, but probably substantially earlier. Written in Hebrew, in a calligraphic script. Involves Mori …