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Colophon for מסכת דרך ארץ זעירא. Written for himself by Berakhot ha-Levi ha-Mumḥe Ner ha-Ḥazzanim b. Yosef ha-Ḥazzan on Wednesday, 1 Elul 1487 Seleucid = …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From a certain Farajallāh. Dating: ca. 15th–17th century, based on handwriting and reference to the currency "bunduqīs"/Venetian (ducats). Needs examination.
List, representing notes of an official, probably in a small locality, about doles handed out to him on Passover. Part I, Pesiqat Pesah ('pledge drive …
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Recto: Legal document in Arabic script, probably a deed of sale. Mentions other landmarks including the house of Bū ʿAlī al-Urjuwānī and that of Fāris …
Colophon in a commentary to the book of Isaiah, mentioning that the book had formerly belonged to Yaʿaqov he-haver b. Ayyub and was purchased from …
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Prayers in Arabic script. Contains verses from the Qurʾān, precisely the verse 48:3.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Opens with greetings to the mother. Mentions Naṣr al-Dīn. The address on verso is written in a different hand: to …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fasi, Fustat. Around 1055. Regarding trading in iron and coins, especially Byzantine dinar-quarters. …
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Recto: deed of transfer, in which Abū l-Ẓāhir and Abū ʿAmr give a sixth of a house to Hillel ha-Baḥur. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4992 AM …
Minute fragment from the top part of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), who is named …
Minute fragment from a the end of a legal signed by Shelomo and David Halevi b. Ya'aqov. AA
Legal document concerning the long dispute between Avraham b. Shemual al-Andalusi and the gaurdians who executed the will of his father - Yosef b. Binyamin …
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Verso: Legal document recorded on the back of an eighteenth-century letter. Dated 1727 CE (Kislev 5488 AM) in line 13. The document deals with the …
Text in Spanish and Hebrew. There are numerous tiny pieces from the same text or even the same page in the span of shelfmarks JRL …
Upper fragment: Letter. Only the first eight lines (in poetic Hebrew) and the last 10 lines (mainly in Judaeo-Arabic) are preserved. Ismāʿīl sends his regards. …
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment (upper left corner). The addressee is greeted with many respectful titles. Mentions Abū l-Bayān al-Ṭabīb (the physician). AA. …
A few lines from a Hebrew letter in a large, square script. Mentions a certain Ṣemaḥ and the speaker's love for him (בלשון ידיות . …
Letter from Yedutun ha-Levi to somebody he calls 'brother.' In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The letter consists mainly of poetical greetings and blessings for the upcoming …
חזק ואמץ אל תערץ ואל תחת כי
עמך ייי אלהיך בכל אשר תלך
קחה שירים מיופים מתוקים מדבש ונופת צופים
מעם אח ואב בחבה אוהבם נדבה
וברכו…
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Draft of a note written on the back of a page of Hebrew poetry. Begins with the glyph. Then, "Know that from the day I …
Bill of lading. Hayyim b. 'Ammar b. Medini sends textiles with Abu Zikri Yehuda b. Menashshe b. Da'ud Sayrafi. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Late accounts in Arabic.
Recto: lower part of a ketubba. Verso: writing exercises of biblical verses in various hands. (Information from CUDL)
Beginning of a petition from Yosef b. Moshe asking the addressee, his lord and master (mawla and sayyid) for a favour, describing himself as modest, …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
List of donations collected on various Shabbatot probably. Judaeo-Arabic, late hand.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Dhahabī; and al-Naṣrānī.
Recto (secondary use): Another document is written in the lower margin, upside-down in relation to the list, in which Avraham b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi sues Mubārak …
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Legal document, in Arabic script. Late, Ottoman era. Probably a waqf document with five signatures at the bottom in swirls. A marginal note says two …
Legal document (wakkāla) concerning payment to Fāṭimah. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "Procuration officielle de Fatma a Sefi Togan ibn Abdalla el Allani" …
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 …
Small fragment of a legal document. Refers to "his wife Sitt al-Maʿānī."
Small fragment of text possibly from the address of a letter. הבחור החכם וה . . . . . . נצח סלה
Deed regarding the endowment of a small house in Fusṭāṭ, mentioning the Babylonian synagogue. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from CUDL)
[In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone. He is sufficient His blessings be upon his servants, whom he has cho…
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, very faded. The writer sends regards to his father and paternal uncle.
Table of contents for an eclectic literary work in Hebrew, perhaps on divination with stones? Not typical geomancy, as the patterns consist solely of arrangements …
Ownership notes: Tiqva b. [...]; Yosef b. Tiqva; Tiqva b. Yefet b. Yosef (and a b. Yehuda has been added after this in a different …
Arabic, literary. Maybe astrology.
Mercantile letter. Dating: probably 11th century. On verso vocalized piyyut. Needs further examination.
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Table in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Presumably accounts of some kind. Needs examination.
Recto: Small fragment with some mirror-image text in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and a couple words in Judaeo-Arabic on verso.
Letter from a woman in Fustat to her sons. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic written in an elegant scribal hand. The writer reports …
Names in Arabic and Hebrew written on the back of Esther 1:17.
Magical recipe in Coptic (information from FGP). Applied curse to bind the tongue of Ḫarip, son of Sit el-Khoul for Thējir, daughter of N. See …
Document containing signatures, including those of Yiṣḥaq b. Mevorakh, Avraham b. Maṣliaḥ ha-Talmid, Subah ha-Kohen the cantor, Shelomo b. Ṭuviyya b. Binyamin, Hiba ha-Kohen b. …
Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Mentions Damietta (ENA 3598.1, third line from the bottom); a qalʿa (ENA 3598.2, line 7 and again …
Literary fragment with Psalms 9:8-11 on the recto, the verso requires further examination.
Minute fragment from a financial account. Late.
Medical treatise in Arabic script. Including a section on diseases of the brain.