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two specimen contracts for unequal partnerships (FGP)
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Communal list of kosher meat tax (gabela) payments received from dozens of men and families and some calculations. Arranged by months and parshiyot, and many …
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a sale.
Unidentified text, in Hebrew script.
Letter from Avraham b. Natan in Tyre to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1090–93. During these years, Avraham b. Natan had to flee Tyre due …
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Deed of sale for the sale of half a house in Fusṭāṭ, in the ‘Fortress of the Greeks’ (qaṣr al-Rūm known as the qaṣr al-shamʿ). …
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبیه وسـ]ـلامه
[هذا ما ا]شترى منه صفقة واحدة وعقدا واحدا جميع الحصة التي مبل…
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Letter to Avraham Maimuni (ha-Nagid) from Yehuda Melammed b. Aharon ha-Rofe. Avraham Maimonides' years of service as Nagid support an inferred date range estimate of …
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Account for sales of flax. A calligraphic copy on parchment, ca. 1025. The account was sent from Ifrīqiya to Egypt and provides exact details about …
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Verso: Small fragment of a faded text in Arabic, likely a letter.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: After 1425 CE, as the ashrafī currency is used.
Letter from Khalīfa Ḥāmī to Yaʿaqov. In Hebrew with some Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 16th century. The sender heard the addressee was in prison and sent …
Cryptic document in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly a letter or fragments of two letters. Discusses liturgy and the reading of the Torah. Mentions asking R. Seʿadya b. …
Bottom of a legal document signed by Menaḥem b. Berakhot and Mevorakh b. [...]. There are two undeciphered lines in Arabic script underneath. (Information in …
Ownership note on a folio that came from a volume containing texts by Yehuda Ḥayyūj; Ibn Gikatilla (d. after 1305); and Kitāb al-Tajnīs by Yehuda …
Hannanel b. Samuel ספר המצוות, autograph. AA
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: Likely Mamluk-era, based on typical names and titles. Needs further examination. Pinholes, but in conservation …
Fragment of a calendar in a red grid, mentioning Shavuot and the 17th of Tammuz. See Goitein's notes attached to BL OR 10578C.1 (PGPID 6310).
A cantor orders a religious poem in which each stanza concludes with a biblical quotation which has as its last word "God," such as Numbers …
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Love poetry in Arabic script.
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Husband: [...] of Malīj. Wife: [...] bt. Yosef of Malīj.
Memorandum by the merchant Faraḥ b. ʿAyyāsh, it seems addressed to his agent "my master the Parnas," explaining the details of a lawsuit which the …
Legal document. It seems a bill of sale for a male slave (ghulām) possibly named Jarīr. A (low) sum of 6 dinars is named. The …
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Partnership agreement between Avraham Yaʿabeṣ/Yuʿbaṣ and Shimʿon ʿEzrī, duration 24 months. Location: Cairo (מצרים). Dated Elul 5563 AM which is 1803 CE. The partnership is …
Bifolium from a court notebook. Fol. 1a: End of a legal query (ll. 1–4) and complete answer/responsum (ll. 5–19) in the case of Hilāl the …
Tax receipt?
Legal document, 12 lines, in Arabic script, dated 4th Muḥarram al-Ḥarām of an undecipherable year [8..?]. Concerning [...] b. al-Muʿallim Ṣadaqa the Samaritan Jew, a …
Legal document regulating the share of profit and loss to a traveling party of four to Syria after one of them is prevented from traveling …
Unidentified text in Arabic: غاب الامير(؟) وغاب الخبر عن بلد . . ..
Letter from Sulaymān to his brother Abū l-Manṣūr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with a blistering rebuke for the lack of letters and the failure to inquire …
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Including names, provisions(?) and some numerals often preceded by the word "wa-ʿindahu," arranged in two columns. Mentions …
Danzig in his catalogue identifies this fragment as a responsa, but there is no sign for it. On recto the order of reading in Hanukah …
Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE), to be read in the synagogue, on behalf of a pregnant woman …
Very little text remains; possibly accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Polemical letter addressed to 'the congregation of Fustat/Egypt.' Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Maybe ca. 13th or 14th century, but this is uncertain. The senders describe …
Letter from a file of Avraham Maimonides' court, written to the Dayyan Nissim in al-Maḥalla, written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Instructing the addressee not to …
Karaite bill of divorce. Date: 3 Iyyar 5437 AM (1677 CE). Location: Cairo. The husband Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon b. Mordekhay Rofe issues the get to …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning 20 irdabb of wheat that the writer has stored in an apartment in his house, and how he got a …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Mentions al-Asʿad al-Ṣayrafī among other names.
Fragment of a letter on behalf of the lepers of Tiberias.
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Recto: Accounts (or prescription?) in Arabic script. Sepiolite (zabad al-baḥr), 2.5 dirhams; rock salt (milḥ andarānī); white lead (isfīdāj); pepper (filfil); long pepper (dār filfil); …
Legal document concerning money owed by Avraham ha-Levi to Meshullam (EMS). Likely also a join with T-S 8J4.10. Joins by Oded Zinger.
Literary text, faded. Mentions "qalb", "ʿawīl" and "aʿḍāʾ". Needs examination.
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Mentions myrobalan (halīlaj) and animal drivers (mukāriyyīn). Needs examination.
Fiscal accounting. Seems to regard a construction project for a government building (Dār al-Malik and maybe al-ḥujra al-saʿīda are mentioned on recto) and quantities of …
Order of payment from Ibn al-Rayyis: Abū l-Ḥasan is to pay 26 dirhams to the bearer.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Mentions Rabbenu [...], a request for news, an excuse for not coming in person, something …
Bottom of a legal document. Location: Might be Palermo (פלרם), but this word is very faded. Dated: Elul 4904 AM = August 1144 CE. Settlement …
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