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Legal record (#38) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (ll. 13-19 on f. 14r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Kislev …
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Marriage document. Two fragments of a Karaite ketubah of Ḥusn and David [?]. Early 11th century [?]. The smaller fragment, ENA NS 3. 27 was …
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Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic script. Probably commercial. ... wa-katabtu lak al-jawāb ʿalā yadih... fa-ammā mā dhakartah...
Two pages from an Arabic literary text on logic (manṭiq), pivoting around the theme of qiyās.
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: 1 Kislev 1[4]12 Seleucid (1100 CE). Signed by Ḥillel b. ʿEli and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Husband: Shela b. Yehuda. Wife: …
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Letter from Sedaqa b. Yiṣḥaq to Binyamin b. Yaʿaqov. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly concerning small business transactions. Mentions people including Abū Saʿīd Khalīfa; Abū l-Ḥasan b. …
State document in Arabic script. Chancery hand, huge space between the lines. Three lines are preserved. Probably a decree/order to a lower official : والحضرة …
Business letter in Arabic script. Addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEzra b. Ismāʿīl (or ʿAwda b. Ismāʿīl, according to Sabih Aodeh). The sender, writing from Ramla …
Accounts.
List of expenses regarding building according to date? ENA 4047.3 is related.
Ketubba (marriage contract). A four piece join from an early 11th century Palestinian style ketubba from Tinnīs. Groom: Mevasser b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Ḥasan. …
סט להד[ה עזיזה כלתה ברת חסאן ננ]
וחפ…
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Small fragment from a legal document. Abū l-Bahāʾ al-Kohen Ibn al-Naḥḥāl owes money to his nephew Moshe and gets another 4 weeks for installments on …
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Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 5 Cheshvan 1473 (27 October 1161). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …
IB IV, 56 (ח63). Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanel, in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Alexandria. The left side of the letter …
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Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to a power of attorney (wakāla) of …
Fragment of a business letter to ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn announcing the arrival of a large ship from Spain and two other ships from Mahdiyya and …
Fragment in Hebrew. Looks like a prayer, but conceivably could be an extremely deferential letter.
Interesting letter in Arabic script. Dating: likely Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Refers to a document with the signature of 'the king of the Turks' …
Legal document. Much damaged. A bill of release granted by a husband (named Sh[emarya]) to his wife Sitt al-Ḥusn. One document ends two-thirds of the …
IB IV, 53a (ח53). Letter from al-Andalus, sender and recipient not preserved. Apart from a request to know the recipient's travel plans, the letter contains …
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Letter from Abū l-Faraj to the scholar (al-talmid) Avraham al-Nafīs. Written in an elevated register. Dating: probably late 12th or early 13th century. The substance …
Letter of appeal for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Makārim b. Abū [...] and a ḥaver.
Much damaged fragment from a ketubah.
Letter from Herzl to Doctor M.I. Bodenheimer about their negotiations with von Richthofen – 1899CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 245) – in …
IB VI, 8. Letter from Yaḥyā b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī, in Fustat, to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs (aka Avraham?) b. Yosef, in Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1080 …
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Small fragment from an unidentified narrative text, mentioning Syria and "she said to him... get away from me...." (Information in part from CUDL)
One folio cut widthwise into two halves. Written by various Yemenite hands. As 3\1 One side (ab) of the folio, slightly missing from one edge. …
The beginning of a court record in the hand of Shemuel b. Saʿadya (1165-1203) of a settlement between the orphans of the secretary (kātib) Abū …
Letter in Arabic script. Doesn't seem to be mercantile; purpose and content unclear. Mentions 'my lord the Rayyis' in the second to last line. On …
Last line of a document in Arabic script. The empty space below has one column of Arabic script at 90 degrees to the main text, …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). It seems the daughter of a dead person asked the court to declare …
Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to a 'brother.' The sender has recently traveled from Damascus to Cairo (ll. 5–6 where he describes the journey and …
Verso: Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved. Contains phrases such as: "wa-l-kashf ʿammā . . . al-sharīfa …
Letter, probably. In Hebrew. Beginning only. Addressed to some dignitary.
Legal document, mentions ziqnei ha-yishmaelim. Deed of authorization of son to represent mother before her two brothers concerning the collection of debt at Efrayim b. …
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Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat, ca. 1060
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Brief note in Arabic script addressed to Abū l-Ṭāhir, asking him to 'go down with [...]' and do something as a favor. Reused on verso …
Letter from Faraj, the “freed” of Barhun (ha-Tāhartī?) from the Maghreb, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal and his sons, Fustat; ca. 1015. Regards a …
IB VII, 69. Draft of a deposition about a shipment of Indian Ocean merchandise carried by two merchants named Faraḥ and Abū Naṣr who were …
חצ̇רא אלשיך אבו אלפרג נ̇ט̇ ואלשיך ⟦אבו אסח⟧
אבו אסחק נ̇ט̇ ואדעא מ̇ ישוע מ̇ ישועה עלי ⟦עלי⟧
ר̇ אברהם דנן אנה כאן אבעת מע פרח ואבו נצר
נ̇ע̇ אל…
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and alphanumerical figures. On the verso there are clearly labeled entries that are common for the 16th-18th centuries yet on the recto …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Listing mainly foods.
Letter opening, fragmentary, from Natan b. Avraham to Shelomo b. Natan (Natanel ?), Fustat, approximately 1040. The main body was probably in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: only …
Letter from Musa b. Abu al-Hayy from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The writer mentions robbery by pirates on two ships carrying merchandise …
[כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי] אט[אל אללה בק]אך ואדאם סלאמתך [ועאפית]ך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן
[ ]יה לי בקין מן סיואן ען חאל סלאמה ונע…
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Letter from a man, in an unknown location, to his son Abū l-[Rabīʿ?] Sulaymān, in Fustat. To be delivered to the shop of Abū Naṣr …
Account of payments to officials and to the families of deceased officials during the sixteenth week of the liturgical year. R. Menashshe, so frequently mentioned …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.) Recto: "I consulted God …
Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Minute fragment. Dating: 1100–38. Someone will not sue someone. There is a remaining debt of …
Letter to (Eli ha-Kohen) b. Hayyim, a parnas in Fustat, 2nd half of 11th century.