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Partnership agreement, likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides, involving a certain [...] b. Sulaymān known as al-Ashyāfī (seller of ophthalmics) and …
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List of parshiyot, holidays, and dates, each followed by a number.
Karaite legal document regarding payment received by a widow, possibly via inheritance or her business activities. Dated 18 Elul 5480 AM (1720 CE). Rivqa the …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Some space between the lines. The sender expresses his great distress upon hearing bad news; even "packages of paper" would not …
Document in Arabic on verso, perhaps state. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter from a merchant, who had been out of work for a year and a half and suffered heavy losses, to an unnamed individual into …
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Accounts in Arabic script, likely fiscal.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. The letters are very elongated.
Letter of recommendation in German for Rabbi Barukh Löb Alpern, mid-19th-century. The place name appears to be Agram, which turns out to be the German …
Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Addressed to 'my brother' ʿAbd al-Salām (r3). The sender reports that he or she obtained a maymūn (a kind of …
Top line from a ketubah contains blessings.
Accounting in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Quite damaged. Verso and recto are written at 90 degrees. Verso mentions firewood and alum and wool …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Ibrāhīm who has not yet completed the aqāwīl, also mentioning boats arriving from all over the place and …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Only formulaic text is preserved on recto, and only partial words from the address on verso (apart …
Right fragment: Letter addressed to Eliyyahu b. Zekharya the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the introductory blessings are preserved here. Handwriting of Ṭahor b. Avraham.
Colophon in the hand of Masliaḥ b. Nissim, in Cairo. Dating: 2 Tammuz, 1505 Seleucid (Friedman and Ashur). Attached to an unknown manuscript copied by …
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Three legal queries to Yiṣḥaq b. Sason with his responsa. At least one of the cases concerns the maintenance of children
Literary text. Written in a mixture of Arabic script and Hebrew (for biblical quotations).
Accounts of a druggist or merchant. In Arabic script. Listing dozens of different kinds of materia medica and other godos.
Legal declaration. After the death in Sicily of Abū l-Surūr b. Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥibrī, his brother Futūḥ claimed his inheritance and the court establishes that …
Fragment of a late letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the first two line the writer addresses the letter to their father Ḥananel "אלואלד אלעזיז כה׳׳ר חננאל …
(a) List of names and sums. Probably an alms distribution list. Entries include "the dyer"; "and her daughter"; Ṣedaqa; Umm Labwa; Ibrāhīm. The hand is …
Work written by Isma'il b. Isra'il X the physician dealing with medicine. Opening page.
Recipe in Arabic script, likely medical. Written on the back of an earlier document (petition?) in Arabic script in a different hand.
Small fragment from the upper part of a letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides, in the hand of his clerk and bearing his ʿalāma.
Minute account fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Medieval-era. Mentions "the shamash" in one of the entries (אלשמאש). Requires further examination.
Fragment of a calligraphic letter from the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva in Tyre (located there in 1090 CE), to the dignitary Shemuel b. Yehuda …
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Letter written by [Joseph b.] Elʿazar in Palestine, mentioning various individuals including Abū l-Faraji, Elʿazar the doctor, Joseph the doctor, ʿAbd al-Karam, Sulayman b. ʿAbd …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Many entries crossed out.
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. A few lines are preserved, with large letters and wide line spacing: بالافراح(؟) لها . . . . .مما …
Letter from the Mosul Nasi whom Gil refers to as Jalāl al-Dawla. Dated: Ḥannuka 1548 Seleucid = 1237 CE. Concerns in part a negotiation between …
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Legal document in Hebrew and some Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Extremely faded and damaged. Involves Hārūn b. Avraham Tāhertī (תיהרתי). Dating: 11th century?
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Rudimentary hand. Mentions oaths and trying to get out of them. On verso there is a mysterious text in Arabic script …
Recto: Legal document, probably 11th-century, attesting to the sale of half of a vineyard to a certain Sha'ul. The other half of the vineyard belongs …
Letter from an unidentified sender (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. The addressee is asked to "give this paper" (another letter that was originally enclosed?) …
Accounts in Ladino dated 22 Heshvan [5]590 = 1829 CE.
Letter in Arabic script. Rudimentary hand. Mentions small business transactions.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Testimony made by unknown members of the Jewish community (the signatures are either cut off or were never added). Location: Fustat. Dated: First decade of …
Piyyuṭ. Might be in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi.
Letter from [...] b. Aharon, in Ramla, to Abū Saʿīd Yaʿqūb, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf and Abū Sahl Saʿīd, sons of Yisrael (Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf and …
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Small fragment in Arabic script (and some Hebrew script?). The name Abū Naṣr b. al-[...] appears. Needs examination.
Letter from Shelomo Barukh, in Damietta (Kapotakia), to a certain Me'ir, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 20 Tevet 5561 AM, which is 1801 CE. Needs …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Abū Zikrī and [Abū l-]Faḍl b. Abū l-Najm. Dating: likely late 12th or early 13th century. On verso there is a …
Fiscal document, few lines of text, something to do with the release of funds. Probably dating to the Ayyubid period. Reused for Hebrew script. Needs …
Mercantile accounts.
Formulary for Hebrew letters. One of them is introduced "ṣadr kitāb." Originally from a larger volume, probably. The join was identified by Goitein.
Letter or letters from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (early 13th century). Many greetings at the bottom of verso, including to 'your paternal aunt Umm Abū l-Surūr,' …