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Legal document (iqrār) concerning receiving payments for crops. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "contrat du prince Saragah Mache (mamelouk) avec les cultivateurs"]. Loss …
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100–1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: accounts in Arabic script, probably concerning debts and expenses, with Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Abū ʿAlī. (Information from CUDL.)
Unidentified text in Arabic script, probably literary.
Tax receipt?
Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā (Alexandria) to Yosef b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī (Fustat), ca. 1065. In the hand of the sender’s son, Mūsā b. Mardūk. …
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Minute fragment from a list mentioning al-Tilimsani, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138). AA
Small fragment from an unidentified narrative text, mentioning Syria and "she said to him... get away from me...." (Information in part from CUDL)
(d) Legal testimony. Crossed out. Dated: Tuesday, 15 Sivan 1494 Seleucid, which is 1183 CE, under the reshut of Sar Shalom ha-Levi. Ghulayb b. Ṣadaqa …
IB IV, 51 (ח43). A letter from Ibn al-Fakhar to Halfon b. Netanel Halevi, asking for assistance and sending regards to R. Yosef Ibn Migash …
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Letter from Elḥanan b. Shemarya to [Sahlān] b. Avraham ha-Mumḥe. Reused on verso for various poems of praise, including one addressing Judah and his son …
A letter to Ya'aqov Kohen the cantor from Guzlawa from Ishaq b. Yosef
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 27 Nisan 1581 Seleucid = 20 April 1270 CE. Husband: ʿAzīz b. Ghanāʾim ha-Levi from [...]. …
State document, probably a decree. In Arabic script, in a chancery hand. Huge letters and wide space between the lines. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic literary …
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Accounts for the week of Bamidbar. Listing various names with numbers underneath.
Draft of a letter or petition. In the hand of Shelomo b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active until c.1231). The first page is missing. Verso …
Verso: two different letters, glued together to create a rotulus for the calendar on recto. Both are mercantile letters from the mid-11th century. (I) The …
Accounts in Arabic script, with some interesting details, e.g., mentioning a ḥaver and possibly food items such as mulūkhiyya and zirbāj (a type of stew) …
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A begging letter addressed to Yeshuʿa. The writer hasn’t eaten and requests bread. (Information from CUDL)
Informal note addressed to Abū Naṣr written on a piece of scrap paper. (The earlier use looks official, and one side refers to al-mamlūk Sayf …
Several fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to 'al-Segula' and a court case; having enclosed additional letters; refers to the addressee as חמדת לבינו …
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Literary text. Mentioning the caliph and Muʿāwiya.
List of names with sums organized in two colums, the first is "the house of Joseph the transporter" and the second "the house of the …
Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Elisha b. Yosef. The bride is Esther known as 'Aziza d. Eliyyahu the cantor.
Bottom of a legal document signed by Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq, Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE), Munajjā b. Shelomo and Yeshuʿa b. Yaʾir. An addendum …
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Legal document. Left part from a late legal document, in which שלמה [...] כ"ר תשובה בדוסי take upon himself to deliver the remains of five …
Part of a ketubba for Abū l-Munā Ṭiqva b. Berakhot (groom), who is remarrying his divorcee. Dated 14[..] (12th century CE) in Fusṭāṭ, invoking the …
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Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda. Mainly in Hebrew with some Judaeo-Arabic (isolated words throughout and a block of text in the middle of verso). …
Writing exercises based on a business letter. "I have sent you with Abū l-Faraj.... use it to buy 20 dinars of cinnamon... a dinar of …
IB IV, 26–27 (ח26). Partnership/investment (ʿisqa) agreement from Fez, dated to the last decade of Ṭevet 4898 AM (January 1138 CE), between Ḥalfon b. Netanel …
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Two leaves from a book of interesting medical remedies, in Judaeo-Arabic. The remedies preserved here are topicals, e.g., for skin lesions and ulcers, cosmetics for …
Top of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108) or Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Concerning arrangements upon somebody's death, probably …
Engagement agreements. Two sides of what appears to be a page from the court notebook from the 1330s. On recto, there are two engagement agreements, …
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Jottings in Judaeo-Arabic. Accounts? Some names and numbers are faintly legible: Abū l-ʿAlā al-Ḥājj, Ramaḍān, 101; Shelomo Eliyya Maḥbūb. VMR. ASE
Recto: Legal deed in Judaeo-Arabic about a partnership in a perfume/drug shop. Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: Probably [15]22 Seleucid = 1210/11 CE …
Short letter on vellum from Palermo by a Baghdadi, mentioning a trip to Sicily and referring to merchandise sent to Damascus by one Harun b. …
Legal document, laying out the genealogy and relationships within a family. Names mentioned include Mubāraka, Yiṣḥaq, and Yosef. Signed by Avraham b. Natan Av, Ṣadoq …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Describing the sender's unfortunate dealings with a government bureau (דיואן). Apparently Ibn al-Farārījī tried to shake him down for money, claiming …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Expenditures for a funeral and the meals after the funeral or during the mourning. Goitein suggests that it …
Legal record (#51) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 14r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 50-52) Folio 14r
List of haftaras.
Genealogical lists of Levites. According to Alan Elbaum, in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi (late 12th–early 13th century), and part of a cluster with T-S …
Legal deed, minute fragment, very damaged. This identification is uncertain.
Account and agreement between the Qodesh and a partner, ca. 1156. A certain al-Nadiv, otherwise known as the perfume maker, tenant of a compound partly …
The honorable elders declare that they
settled the account of al-Nādīv, the result
of the account being that there is a balance to his …
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Letter or letter draft, preserving only the copious opening praises for the addressee. Probably from the archive of Moshe b. Yehuda. Dating: last quarter of …