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Ketubba for Mubāraka bt. Binyamin (מבארכה) and [...] b. Aharon. Witnessed by Yosef b. Shemuel, Shelomo b. Yosef, Avraham b. Menaḥem, ʿEli b. David, Yehuyda …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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Legal record (#125) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 41r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 14 Av 5329 …
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Fragment of a Ladino letter (left half).
Legal record (#26) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4r of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated in …
:Right side of bifolio 4r (Documents 26-27)
Drafts of a note addressed to a certain Abū l-Faraj. It's not clear what the precise request is. The scribe spells אתפצל as אטפצל.
Letter from an unknown writer, in Jerusalem, to his in-law (גיס) Saʿīd Bardaʿ, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dated: Thursday 28th Maṭmonim (=the Omer), which is …
Recto: Legal query concerning a husband and wife and business and property arrangements. Possibly in the hand of Yosef b. Shemeul b. Seʿadya. Very faded. …
Legal document, concerning a house. In Arabic script. One of the parties is the daughter of Saʿīd b. ʿAllūn al-Ṣaydalānī ('the pharmacist') al-Yahūdī. Concerns a …
Recto (secondary use): Letter containing a poem addressed a dignitary. In Hebrew. Possibly a token of gratitude for help that the sender received. The letter's …
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Letter requesting aid for the poor of Palestine, 11th century. Recto: Fully vocalised poetry in a very crude (almost unreadable) hand. (Information from CUDL)
List of donations received arranged according to parshiyot and possibly some commercial accounts (given the mention of shops). Dating: late 18th- or early 19th-century based …
List of donors of wheat to charity. See also ENA NS 77.107.
Construction accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated on verso, 21 [Dhū] l-Qaʿda 967 AH (חסץ) – 9 Muḥarram 968 (חסץ). Neatly written and with many details. Some …
Small fragment of a legal document. On parchment. No details preserved.
Karaite Ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Nahum Halevi b. Aharon. The deflowered bride is Esther Dona d. Elya Halevi.
Business letter describing dire market conditions where prices are high and an environmental catastrophe destroyed most of the crops. In Arabic script. Mentions cotton and …
ويكون جواب كتابي هذا الى بلبيس باخباره واحواله والعارض من حاجاته فانه يسرني بذلك
وساير البضايع غلت واقفة من السقط وغيره وسرت عن خلت(؟) و…
Unidentified text in Hebrew. Small fragment. Likely literary.
Exposition of a halakhic point (taʿlīq ʿal sefer Nezaqim) which the writer says he heard from Avraham Maimonides.
Legal record (#17a). Alimony owed. Pertaining to the first record on the facing page (Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.11, recto, a). "The maintenance (mezonot) incumbent on Bū …
Document in Arabic script, likely a petition or official correspondence. Dating: late Ayyubid or Mamlūk era based on paleography.
Part of a ketubba for Yefet b. Yosef (groom). (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, in Būṣīr, to Abū Isḥāq Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī and his cousin Barhun b. Mūsā, in Fustat. Dated Friday 1 …
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Translation of a letter delivered by Kẖawaja Nissim ʿAsīf in March 1952 for welcoming the chief rabbi of the Jews in Cairo [R. Ḥayyim Naḥūm …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions a sum of Malikī dinars (the gold coins of Yemen in …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Monday, 26 Ḥeshvan 5342 AM, which is 1581 CE. In which Budayrī acknowledges that he owes ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn …
Letter (possibly a halakhic question) by Shelomo b. Elijah, with jottings on verso. (Information from CUDL)
Document in Arabic script, in a calligraphic hand, without wide space between the lines. Likely a letter. Five lines are preserved, but they are very …
Minute fragment of accounts.
Large account in Arabic script, likely fiscal given the handwriting and the wasteful layout. One of the entries mentions Ḥāmid b. Ḥamīd. Needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, one of which mentions Rashid on the recto (perhaps the port city). Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Maybe a draft of a deed (or deeds) of sale. …
Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Somewhat unusual contents. Beginning on verso: Mentions books including Tehillim, the Torah, the Targum, and …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
List of items of clothing with their prices. Including many turbans (ʿamāma) and cloaks (mulāʾa). Mentions the towns of Damīra and Damsīs. (Information from Goitein's …
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Poetry: a leaf from a diwan of Hebrew poetry, with Judaeo-Arabic headers giving the occasions.
Poetic Hebrew. Might be piyyut or opening of a letter. Too dark
Literary treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Soteriological: recounting the wars heralding the messianic era, involving Mashiaḥ ben David and Mashiaḥ ben Efrayim. Mentions the Byzantines, the Franks, …
Accounts in Arabic script, with Hebrew pen trials.
Sums on lined paper and in purple ink. Dating: Probably 19th century.
Letter from Yeḥiʾel b. Yiṣḥaq ha-̣̣Ṣarfati, in Jerusalem, to an unknown addressee, in Alexandria. The letter consists of a halakhic discussion, mostly in Aramaic, perhaps …
Bottom of a petition. In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Ayyubid-era, based on the titles. The addressee (the caliph or vizier?) is asked to issue (or …
Ketubba fragment. The groom is named Ghālib.
Fragment of a letter or responsum. This portion consists entirely of citing and expounding biblical verses.
Power of attorney. Location: Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya, Tunisia. Monday, 1 Av [4]833 AM, which is July 1073 CE. In which the Qaraite Abū Saʿd Isḥāq b. …
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Fragment from the top of an enormous ketubba. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Illuminated in various colors and decorated with flowers. Location: …
Love poetry (3 lines), starting with: "amūtu wa-lā tadrī". [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Poeme d'un amoureux" ; on a separate small piece of …
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Qalyūb, to his father Eliyyahu the judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with various small business matters and ordering …